Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1858-10-31

other side, they hailed the yswl men
and aGked them Whist they would
charge them TO take them over. They |
answered. flour bite apiece" Not nm
demanding = we'll the meaning Of
''bit" ~ they did that Of . shilling, |
they misconstsusd the meaning. When
they had got = little ways out into the
"drink," toll wss demanded. They
then said that they could not pay till
they got over, - they carried NO liquor
with them. This brought ont an ex-
PLANTATION. The travellers thought the
oarsman had said that they wouh take
them over for . "driok" apiece, and
refused to pay four bits. The conse-
quenee was they were rowed back
again and emptied out in knee deep
water near the shore. They will know
more about our coin after they are .
little while in our country.
A few days since man named ellis,
1t M'Gregor, who has sawed wood and
done chores about that town for sever
al months, took it into his head to try
an experiment. He procured small
gate placed it on his bead and march
ed up the north side.of Main street, stop
ping at Ill tho unprotected windows
and humping one, two or three lights
Of glass out Of each. There we're some
large show windows on his route and
not being protected with shutters they
suffered extensively. ellis does not
drink, but his head is not quite level
and this accounts for the freak. Lie
came from near Monmouth, Illinois.
G. w. Haislet, Esq, Of DEBORAH, in
forms the Dubuque Times that two
prisoners escaped from their new Jail
last week-the door was incautiously
left open by the jailor. One Of the
men has been re-taken.
Notice is given in the Muscstine
papers that sealed proposals will be
received at the banking house of Green
h Stone, in the City Of Muscatine, un-
til the 9th day Of November, at noon,
for the grading, bridging and furnish.
ing of ties for the Muscatine branch of
the Upton Railroad, extending from
Wilton Junction to Upton, distance
of fourteen and half miles.
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Bsigham nnd Osson tho two head POlyga.
mtses.
The army correspondent Of the New
Orleans Picayune made call upon q
couple of distinguished Mormons, about
the 18th ult., and he thus talks about
them. He speaks Of Brother Brigham
Young:
We found him surrounded by quite
a retinuc of his own people, holding
various subordinate positions in the
Mormon organization. He is hale,
hearty, and, in some senses Of the word,
rather good looking man, with light
hair and eyes. His face indicates in
telligent shrewdness, GOODNESS, conceit
and unbounded self-reliance. A close,
calculating, Vermont Yankee, with
very little of the enthusiast about him.
If he is really the fanatic he pretends
to be, there is certainly the most admi-
rable method in his madness. He
makes every edge cut. Everything in
Mormondom is tributary to him. He
lives in afflucnce and luxury, he dimes
sumptnously every day; while it is a
common thing among his people for
families to 60 for weeks aud months
without an ounce of meat, and to see
women bare footed working in the
fields, one fifth of whose harvests are
gathered into the granaries Of the
Church.
l likewise had the honor. while in
the city, of seeing Orson Hyde, the
President Of the Twelve Apostles
big, burly, broad-shouldcred, red-faced
looking customer, with so little of the
apostolic in his mein, that you would
naturally exclaim, on having him poin-
ted out to you, "Hs's bound to be a
butcher, by jabers!"
Ofthis apostolic Jakcy Keyser, Brig
ham is said to be very jealous, as he
regards him as q formidable aspirant
to the prophetic mantle when death,
who is no respecter of persons, shall
uuclasp it from his own shoulders.
Now, Brigham intends that a success
sor to the mantle aforesaid shall rise up
from his own seed, and hence looks
askance at the apostolic Orson, and
gives him . dig in the fifth rib, once
in . while, as occasion serves. Perhaps
s'the most unklndest cut of all" is this
Brigham says that the Twelve Apos-
ties of the Church Of Latter Day Saints
are each descended in . direct line
from ono of the original twelve, and
that It has been revealed to him that
Brother Orson has the blood of Judas
in him.
Boots and Shess.
The u. s. Economist has collected
some interesting statistics on the man
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