Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1857-12-30
SUMMARY.

There are BOW ever 100 female practi.
tioners. regularly educated phydeians. in
the U. q
NJ. Arthur 7. EAwar3s, late Of the krm
Of Dix 4 Edwards. publishers, N. Y. died
ct Dubuque on the 18th inst. aged twenty.
nine years.
Mr.. Cunningham and daughter, instead
Of being in Paris, as stated in some Of the
papers. are still in the city Of N. Y, living
In very retired manner, and are said TO be
quite reduced.
A HISr FOR CrSuySAn-A humanitarian
butcher, in Punch proposes the use of chic
reform ia the business Of killing piga Al
it has been introduced into hospitals, he
thinks the same motives should cause its
adoption in buchers' shops.
The Pawtueket Manufacturing Company
started part Of their machinery on Mon
day last. and will be in full operation in q
few daya
Ex-Presidsnt Pierce having been named
for L. S Senator for N. H.. the Concord
Patriot announces that he would not accept
the Office even if he could receive the votes
Of every member Of the Legislature.
Hofx1 SrRrxk-Ninety members Of the
Va. Legislature, boarding at the Exchange
Hotel, Richmond, signed call to the pro-
prletor 10 reduce his board charges-$l4
per week. He declined, after considera-
ton.
We learn with pleasure that the lady who
was said to be the innocent cause Of the
Holl IL A. h. - -
ago. 70 far from having the consumption. ~
spprehended by some Of her medical friends
ct that time, 10 now "a we'll - could be sx-
peetsd Dos. Post.
1t appears from an official report that du.
ring the past year the recei pts Of the State
Treasury Of Pennsylvania, including pre-
yious balance, amounted to 5,o76.4l5 90,
and the expenditure to t5.4O7,276 70
leaving on hand t569,l3S Al, of which
Sal ,032 is in deprecated funds
A young man belonging to Indianapolis
wanted to marry pretty girl Of that city,
but parental authority prevented it. They
had tried all kinds Of expedients without
success-an elopement to Cincinnati proved
TO be fruitless-for cautioned by the parents
the officers refused to issue license. An
effort to get license at Newport, KY, alEo
failed. In this extremity, they chartered
magistrate, got him on q ferry boat. and
thus, midway between two States, that IL,
in no State, they were plunged into the
married state.
Husbands are secure and valuable down
in Rhode Island. In the court Of common
pleas at Providence lately, the jury found
damages in $4,000 for Ellen Ainscough
against Daniel Smith, for breach Of promise
Of marriage.
The cotton factories Of Messrs. Sprague,
at Natick, Arctic and Quidnick, in this State,
recommended operations last Wednesday
morning. We hear that some of the mills
in our Blackstone Valley'will resume in Jan
Patriot.
Paper is now made in Belgium from re-
fuse tanned leather After the tanning is
washed from the leather, about twenty per
cent. of old hemp rope il mixed with the
scrapse, and the whole is cut up and reduc-
ed to pulp, from which fair3quality of
paper is made by the usual process.
The Albany Knickerbocker denies the
received statement that the sculp-
tor, Crawford, was motive American, and
says:
1--WE know that he was native of Ireland,
and emigrated with his parents at an early
age (about seven years. from Bally shannon,
in the county of Donegal, and the writer OF
this was we'll acquainted with his father in
the city of New York thirty years ago.
Give old Ireland her due"