Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1857-02-14

u Havana.
News 1se0s.
A car factory has been established
it Beaver Dam, Wis.
In 1890 the number Of post officers
in the U. s. WAS IS.
The Boston lumber trade amounts
to l3l 100000 feet.
Lieut.. w. +. Jones, Of the Mounted
Rifle-men, has resigned.
There are 1880 miles Of Railroad
in process Of construction in the UNI
ted States.
The expenses ofthe Railroads in the
United States last year were $4,000
600.
The Erie canal is to be excavated so
AS to contain FIVE feet Of water west OF
Syracuse, by the opening Of navigation
in the spring.
The duties ACQUIRING to the I. 5. on
imports for the past thirty years, are
put down at 81 ,OOO,OOO,o00.
A bill has been passed by Congress
for the relief Of the heirs Of Gen. ST.
Clair.
Adam Good has bell foundry in
Buffalo. Pious people are scandalized
10y slowly reading his sign, "A dam
| Good Bell foundry"
There are now living in Gardner,
Mass, 81 farmers between 80 and 90
years Of age.
The Burlington folks are putting
! in strong for the State capital Of Yer
mont.
The rush of foreign small coins to
the mint is represented As being very
great.
The receipts Of the Railroad in the
United States last year are put down at
$llO,OOO,OOO.
The New York Legislature has ahol'
ished 8 days ofgrace on sight, drafts.
Niagara Falls are represented as
being grandly magnificent in their win
ter habiliments.
Counterfeit SOS on the Bank Of
Kentucky are in circulation.
The Rockford gas works went into
operation last week.
4 horse thief society has recently
been organized at Mt. Pleasant, Wis.
Two hundred AMI sevcnty-two bull
dings were erected in Winona last
year.
There were G2O persons injured by
railroad accidents in the United States
last year.
The capital Of the Michigan South
crn Railroad is sl4,OOO,OOO, with 453
miles Of road.
Seneca Lake has frozen for the first
time within three generations.
The revenue Of the British Govern
ment in 1856, was x72,2ls,o8a.
Bishop Scott estimates the popula'
ton of Oregon at $4,000.
A bill is before the New York Leg.
islature reducing official fees to deci-
NAL currency.
Lake Erie is now one vast field Of
ice, it is stated, as far as the eye can
see.
The Illinois Central Railroad sold
4,622 acres Of land during the third
week of JAM. for So, 1890.
A concert has been originated il
Cincinnati for the relief OF the poor
to which the price Of admission is ont
ready-made garment, either new OIL
secondhand.
Connecticut and Long Island arr
now connected with a bridge ofic'
for the first time in the memory o
man.
A writer in the southern part Of Iii
nois, in speaking Of the Chinese cane
ventures the opinion that in 1885,
,, planters will End NO sale for them "a
gar in Illinois.
The spirit thermometer ct Franco
, MIA, N. H. Jan. gath, was 40 belov
zero. The mercury in the theomome
: ter was frozen solid!
Two persons were picked up Il re
lately, BY Capt Barrow, Of the bar
n Cambridge, belonging to the loe
r Syonnais. They were floating ON
> raft.
A $500 buoquet was displayed 4
n one Of the fashionable fooleries, calle
> parties, in New York, the other day.
y There have been passhassd by tn
United States. Of indians sisses Marc
Ath, 1853, l74,ls4,4lo scsss Of lans
q On the lst Of January, Louisian
i had . balance in the state treasury I
! $9O2,4l4.
!. The Register Of the Land Office ,
!. Saltwater Minnesota, has decided thu
negroes cannot prsempt land-ne
being citisens.
The River St. Lawrence 10 said to
. completely ftossn - far down - th
parish of St. lichal about thirtss
nilss below Quebec.
h The Ohio River i Atee and clear {
. ica below the falls ct Louisville.
Q TAa PRxss IN SwxpEx.-lt was pr,
J. posed in Sweden 70 strike ftom the O.
Q tsblished Constitution an article b
which the liberty Of the press y,
n nuarantaed. When The vota oamA I