Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1858-06-11

and idsneiasd - the BODY q . John
! Douahus Who ~ rspoeted 70 have
f.llen 6um The Qaeen City q Lyons
.osme toe wssln sinos. The body hes
hecn exbumed and on examination the
skuI : found broken in such way -
70 leave little doubt Of violence. Sus-
picion was Immediately fixed upon two
individuals who were with him on the
boat and reported that he fell into the
river.iu state of,nsensibility following
Aft Of iutoxicaaion. One Of the parties
has been arrested, the other il not to
BE- found. Ii appeass thae Doeahue
and the man nov under arrest, were
At variance on account Of An sttach-
ment both entertained for . fair
daughter Of Erin. This fact has led TO
hn arrest, but his guilt remains to be
proved.
At . recent FIRE in Boston, Q woman
appeared ut one Of the third story win
dsws Of the burning building, frantic
and Departing. Thereupon the per-
sons called on her TO take courage and
observe their directions, and they
would ave her. They then, - many
a. could join, formed . circle each man
extending his arms horizontally and
grasping with his right hand the right
hand. and with his left the left hand of
the man opposite, their arms crossing.
They then told her kneel upon the
window sill and incline her body in
such . way - 10 free her head from
the wall and to fall sideways. All
being ready, she threw herself from
the third story window Not . man
drew .back-all stood firm, and the
poor woman was received in safety on
the platform of human hands and arms
arms nerved by noble hearts! She
supposed, at first, that they we're friends,
but found herself in the arms of strang-
ers.
The Montrose, Pa, Republican says:
The Rev. Joseph Barlow, Presbyto-
rian clergyman of Franklin, this
county, lost his life in . shocking man.
ner on Saturday night last. The fam
lily we're aroused about midnight, and
found the house was on fire. APP
preaching the kitchen, where the fire
appeared to have originated, Mr.. Bar
low opened the door, when the flames
burst upon him, and he probably inhs-
led portion of the flame, a. he immc-
diately sank down and scarcely show
cd sign Of life afterwards. His wife
and daughters, the only persons pres
ent, after attempting in vain to loosen
his death grasp Of his hand upon the
door, at length, to save themselves,
were compelled to leave him to be con-
sumed where he lay. The house was
destroyed with almost every article Of
property it contained. Mr.. Barlow
was an Englishman, about sixty years
of age, and much respected.
Thirteen lottery and gift enterprises,
purporting to be located in Rocking
ham County, New Hampshire, whose
circulars have been distributed
throughout the country for some time
past, and whose advertisements have
appeared in great numbers of country
papers, and which held forth the most
extraordinary inducements to their
victims, have been broken up through
the fundamentally of Mayor Tiemanr,
Of New York, who dispatched Sergeant
Bcrney, of the Metropolitan Police, to
the scene of action. The officer spent
four days in searching them out, but
was unable to capture but four of them,
the remaining contriving to escape.
A correspondent writing from
Whitewater, Wis.,, says that Mr.. Birgc,
Of that village, has discovered Salt
Spring on his farm. Capt Jesse
Pease, an experienced geologist, has
made an investigation, and gives his
opinion that by proper boring an in
exhaustible supply can be obtained.
Mr.. Birge thinks Of making the exper-
iment Of manufacturing salt from it.
The Indiana State Journal says that
the wife Of Henry William Herbert,
while at Indianapolis, prosecuting her
divorce, attended a public festival with
q gentleman, who, until q few days
previous, was an entire stranger to
her, on the evening of the very day
that she received the intelligence Of
her husbands melancholy suicide.
On Thursday night, when the east
crn freight train on the Ohio and Mis-
sissippi r. II. Was about half mile
east Of the Shoals Station, the track
suddenly gave way, capsizing the en-
CINE, and instantly killing the engineer
and fireman. The Engineer was named
Kellogg, and he formerly resided in
Selbyville, Ind. The fireman wa
Temple. who came from Ohio, but
more recently lived at Madison, Ind
They were both young men, and were
both married.
The Macomb (Ill.) Eagle states thai
on the 22d ult., the upper burr stone
Of Mr.. Turner'S mill, in that county,
was blown to pieces, instantly killing
Joseph Richie, and seriously wounding
J. L. Turner and Joseph Rabbit
On Friday night the jury in the case
Of Philip Nash, on trial at Kcokuk, for
murder, brought in q verdict Of guilty.
The circumstancesofthe murder were ~
follows:
On the night Of April I'd, when Mr..
Gibbons WAS attending . political
meeting, some persona burglarously en-
tered the premises Of Harrison : Glib