Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1858-09-16

st. Louis, . Young man was hunting
last Friday evening, wien suddenly be
came upon A object which 1t first
sight completely Mortified him. It
was the skeleton Of man lying in .
lonely tllicket Of oaks, dressed in . full
suit Of clothes. The Coroner was sum-
monsd and yesterday held an inquest.
The astrological specimen WAS found
~ described, and on shaking the bun
die Of clothes the whole of the human
skeleton dropped piece by piece in sue
cession on the ground. The bones
were dry and whitened, SO much so
that it was the opinion Of the jury that
the man to whom they belonged must
have been dead over three months. A
lock Of hair still attached to remnant
Of the paschmentous scalp, WAS of .
light color, fine and silky. The skele-
ton was habited in black frock coat,
pretty well worn, blue hickory under
shirt, blue checked shirt outside, two
pairs of blue cotton psntaloons, and a
vest Of common brown check. A razor
was found in one Of the pockets. No
boots nor shoes could be found in the
vicinity. The body seems to have been
dragged BY hogs from the place where
it had first lain. The verdict was that
he had come to his death by some
means unknown TO the jury.
A little girl seven years Of age,
daughter Of William l.. Kidd, who re-
sides IN st. Louis. died Saturday night
at about o'clock, after several hours
of the most intense suffering. At noon
she was playing in an alley, separating
two rows Of houses, with some other
children who had built fires for their
amusement, and by some means her
dress caught on fire. Her play fel-
lows were so frightened that they ran,
leaving the little girl to the mercy Of
the flames. A servant girl for neigh
boring family hearing the child's fran
tic cries ran to the spot, extihguished
the fire as best she could and carried
the sufferer home. Her parents were
not at home, and did not arrive until
an hour afterwards, by which time
physician who was called in had dress
ed the wounds. The poor girl was
awfully burned and died, as above
stated.
A man named Schrump, was on Sun
day seen to throw his pocket book into
the river from the hurricane deck of
the Hannibal City, at the Keokuk land
ing, and Immediately Jumped over
board in the same direction. His wife
was on the boat quite sick, and was
subsequently taken to the Hospital by
officer Finch, who did his best to com
fort the forlorn woman in her afiliction.
The cause of the mans rash act was
unknown.
Five persons were arrested in Dun
leith On the goth, on the charge Of
arson. The Herald gives their names
as Jacob Smith, George Shafer, Chris
tian King, George Henges. They
were brought before Justice Wheeler
and held to bail. The charge against
them is for setting fire to buildings
consumed in that town last month.
David L. Mill has invented a
machine embracing the three princi-
Piles of the wedge, lever and screw,
with which workman at the Norris
Locomotive W orks, Philadelphia, weigh
ing l56 pounds, lifted the enormous
weight of 1882 pounds-more than
eighteen tons-mcrely by the applica-
ton of his strength through his hands
TO the lever.
The Mobile advertiser of the 31st
ult. publishes a queer story about
tee In that city, the bark of which
was gnawed by mad dog in one of
his paroxyisms. 1t was not percepti-
bly, affected until the first rain came,
when it burst into a thousand peices.
Thirteen hogs which were standing
near, were wounded by the fragments,
and together with foolish man who
made tcothpick out of one of the
'plinters have since died of hydropho-
ohobia.
On Tuesday forenoon, the wife of Mr..
!. Stoddard of Brooklinc, Mass, hav-
ng a violent headache, took dose of
Morphine in the hope Of obtaining re-
lief. She soon became aware that she
lad taken an overdose, but she feared
10 serious i'll effects, and medical aid
Vas not called until it was of no avail.
She gradually sank and died in the