Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1858-09-08

Ne Joosb III - Pine Bla4, ~
nns6a, kdp6sdmk tdat ~ gentle-
men just >lsGtsd = the LaGisIsturs d
| that HtaGs from Calhoun county, died
~ Day aAer the election. Il is sa,d
thae he W. in the habit Of remaskin1
in Ill u biz speeches, that il he could
b elected to the Legislature Of Ar.
kansss, he was ready to die.
We zee il stated that General Aber.
crombie, late . member Of Congress
from Alsbema, varying very i'll last
week q Columbus, in that State, il
consequence Of fearful disorder caus.
ed by eating the meat Of IN animal =.
certsined 70 have been diseased with
the black tongu. epidemic, which has
Of late 70 ragged among tho cattle Of
those regions.
A correspondent of the Providence
Journal says that in niuety-uine cases
out Of every hundred, Cranberriea ap.
piled as . poultice will effectually cure
| the erysipelaA There il not an in.
stance known where it had failed to
effect . cure, when faithfully applied
before the sufferer was 10 dying state
Two or three applications generally do
the work.
Bill Jones, notorious in consequence
Of having been tried twice for the muir
der Of Samuel Fl. White, snd who 10 4
brother Of Charlotte JoneA one of the
Wilson murderer, was lodged in the
Pittsburgh Peuitentiary on Monday,
where be has been sentenced by Judge
Gilmore, Of Washington county, fol
attempting, some two years ago, Ia
kill boy named Archer, by poison.
DIR. Getty, an old and we'll known
physician residing at Bloody Run,
Fulton county, Pa committed suicide
by hanging himself with his neckhand-
kerchief, on Friday morning last. The
deceaaed was at one time prominent
and successful man in the community
in which he lived, but having become
much reduced in circumstances, it is
supposed that it 80 preysd upon his
mind ~ TO induce him to commit the
rash act.
Miss. Margaret Linden, a young girl
Of seventeen, fell overheard on Sunday,
whilst going aboard q flatboat in the
canal near Gretna, near New Orleans,
and was drowned. Her father was
about removing Ter and the rest Of
the family, on the fatboat alluded to,
t. Lake Salvador, in order to get them
beyond the reach Of the yellow fever
and it was in walking a plank to the
boat that the melancholy accident
happened to the young lady.
Memphis, Tennessee, Is fast place
and no mistake. The other day,
Judge Z. w. NJ. Ring was arraigned
before the Recorder for carrying con
cealed weapons. He pleaded in de-
fence that he had no concealed weapons
they were all outside his clothes, The
Recorder then fined him $40 for disor.
derby conduct, in appearing on'the streets
with weapons exposed about his person.
DeForrest Smith, a young man resi-
ding in Marion, Linn county, in this
State, accidentally shot himself while
hunting on the Goth Of August. His
body was discovered in field close BY
fence which he had undertaken ia
climb. and in the act accidentally dis
charged his gun, the contents taking
effect in his mouth, killing him in.
stantly.
The case of Stephen II. Branch, who
was sent to the penitentiary for libel.
ing Mayor Teman, was brought uF
again Friday, upon an application te
permit the defendant to give bail te
appear at the general term of the Su
preme Court pending the writ of or
ror TO the judgment and rulings Of Re
corder Barnard. After argument by
counsel in support Of the application
and remarks in opposition by the As.
sistant District Attorney, the Judge
stated that it seemed to him impossi.
ble to sustain the judgment of the
Court of Sessions, and his impression
was that the Supreme Court must re-
verse it; he could not in conscience
refuse to admit the defendant to bail
pending the decision of the suit of er.
ror, when he believed that it was i'm.
possible to sustain the conviction on
legal principles. He accordingly lib.
Grated Branch on bail in the sum o.
$4,000 for his appearance at the gen
eral term Of the court.