Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1858-01-26
81 MMARY.


death in Grundy county this winter.
1t is stated that upwards of seventy-Gve
thousand dollars have already been raised
and put out ct interest. Of the sum required
for the purchase of Mount Vernon. Two
hundred thousand dollars Is the sum de-
manded for the land and buildings.
A seven column paper is to be started at
Vernon Springs, Howard county. Any
printer out Unemployment, steady and ca
pable. may get into business by addressing
WIN. Il. Mead at that place.
On Wednesday night q colored man nam
ed Jas. Roberts fell dead near the steps Of
the Aston House, New York. On examin-
ing his body it was found that he was stab
bed. No clue to his murderer has been dis
covered.
A Sevastopol correspondent of the Boston
Courier eay.:
ut might possible shock the sensibilities
Of an American lady to DO told that, during
the recess Of n ball, the ladies retire to their
apartment, where no gentleman dares enter .
light their paper cigars and o5at away mer
r,ly. Also, at the dinner table, after tho
desert, ladies, as we'll A. gentlemen, smoke
their cigars and take their glass of wine,
and while the smoke is curling up, their
beautiful black eyes shine with additional
~lustre."
a young man-say his name was Jones,
courted q damsel (Julia) in st. Louis, whose
parents forbid him coming to the house /;
they wished her to marry Brown who was
sick. Brown and Jones were friends, so
Brown visited the lady, and under pretsnce
Of escorting her 20 theatres, &C., used to
carry her to the house of her cousin-a fair
lady named Martha here Jones used to
meet her. Brown, by way of giving the
lovers a fair opportunity, began to devote
himself to Martha, and finally became en-.
gagged to her. Marths's parents discussed
the matter and ordered Brown away. A
double slopement was the consequence,
which by the aid of a hook and ladder com.
pany was safely executed.
Under the new law they have a double
currency in Canada. Pounds, dollars, shil-
lings, pence, cents, mills, are all legal tend
er, and regiments to the Government. the
Banks, the Law Courts, or individuals, may
be legally made in either.
BEaurIruL--The following lines are from
the pen Of Geo. d. Prentice:
why is it that the rainbow and the
clouds come over us with a beauty that is
not on earth, and then pass away, and
leave us to muse on faded loveliness? Why
ia it that the stars that hol I their nightly
festival around the midnight throne, are
pluced above the reach Of our limited facul-
ties, forever mocking US with their unap-
proacbabls glory. And Why is it that the
bright froms of human beauty are present
cd to our view and then taken from us.
leaving the thousand streams OF affection to
flow back in almighty torrents upon the
humanAearti W. are born for a higher
destiny than that of earth. There ia a land
where the stars viii be set out before u,
like Islands that slumber in the ocean. and
where the beautiful beings that pass before
us like = meteor. will stay in our presence
forever.
INVESTIGATING Committee In THE Hor.r or
RKrREsESrXnvn.-Hr. Speaker Orr appoin.
ted - aCommittee of investigation on the al.
legged expenditures Of Lawrence, Stone d Co..
procure the tariff modification of last SEES
sion:
Messrs. Benjamin Stanton Of Ohio, Repub.
lican. eSpdenham Moore of Alabama. Dem.
John G. Cunkel Of Penna.. Rep; Augustus
r. Wright of G., Dem; William F. Russell
Of N. Y, Dem.