Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1858-07-23

HON. WIN. Z. L%EFrINGWELL,
THE NEWS

At Grand Rapids, Mich, on Friday
last, q well caved in, and covered with
curbing and gravel two men named
Bush and Richmond, thirty feet from
the surface. They we're thus kept
down thirty hours and yet were got
out safely, after a hard day and nights
work. At least a thousand people
congregated about the spot, and sent
up aloud shout when the men were
rescued.
The London commercial corrcspon-
dent Of the Liverpool Mercury, writing
on the 23d ult., says " tina scheme for
raising the additional sum Of E220,00o
for the finishing Of the Lcviathan, Is SAID
to have failed, and it is supposed that
some other plan will have to be tried.
About one hundred Swedish emf
grants, men, women and children,
reached Boston a few days since in
the bark Minona, and Immediately left
yia the Worcester and western rail
roads for their new home in the West.
Their destination is the State of Wis
consin.
The only living heir of the late
President Monroe is Samuel l.. Cover
neur, a clerk in the Treasury Depart
ment. His mother was the Presidents
youngest daughter.
In the account of the execution Of
Isaac l.. Wood, at Genessc, ". y, for
the murder of his brothers wife, as
published in the Rochester Union, we
find the following paragraph As
the drop fell, Mr.. Barnard, who mar
ricd a neice of Wood, and who stood
near him, shriekcd, ooh dear" aud
that wa the only human sound utter
ed at the moment. The baud .oitho"t
by a signal, played a solemn dirge, and
otherwise silence reigned around"
Mr.. John Jones, "a married man and
the father of three small children, lost
his life at Piqua, Ohio, on ThurIay last,
while in the act of rescuing two small
boys who, while bathing, had vcntured
beyond their dcbth. lie rushed into
the water when he saw tier danger,
and carried Que of them to shore, and
then returned to savc the other. lie
was met by Mr.. Evans and relieved
Of his burden; but, when looked for, he
had disappeared-had gone under.
On the night of the I'd inst, while
two young gentlemen, in company
with a couple OF young ladies, were
~promenading in New Orleans, the party
encountered a huge alligator, out for a
promenade, too. The monster was
killed with crowbars, though not be-
fore he had sent one of the young men
q kiting some dozen feet or more, by a
blow from his tail.
At the late state ball of the English
Queen, the Marquis of Westminster,
the richest man in England, wore four
splendid jewels, among which was the
famous diamond, valued at $4,000,
in the hilt of his sword.
A lady, not long since, commenced
suit in the Common Pleas Court at
Ravenna, Ohio, for $1,000 damages,
for a breach of marriage contract. The
defendant answered that he had agreed
to marry, that he never refused, and
was willing to comply with his COM
tract. He got a license and a Justice
Of the peace, and then went to the
lady's residence and rendered himself.
She wanted time to think the matter
over, and finally concluded to dismiss
the case and pay all the costs.
A remarkable phenomenon was de-
veloped last week on the farm of Hon.
g. Cavis, near Montezuma, Indiana
Two large springs have burst forth
from the earth, where there was no
appearance of the kind before, and they
continue to throw off such large vol
umes of water that large fields in the
neighborhood have been covered with
standing pools and ponds.
A writer in the National Mtelliqen-
Ger says that the spirits of hartshorn
10 = certain remedy for the bite Of a
mad dog. The wound should be con-
stantly bathed with it, and three or
four doses, diluted, taken inwardlv
during the day. The writer tried it
in Brazil for the bite of a scorpion, and
found it to relieve pain and inflammation
almost Immediately.
An eastern editor having published
. long leader on " Hogs" a rival pa
per In the same village upbraids him
for obttuding his family matters upon
the public.
We learn that on the 18th inst, a
school house at Waterloo, Iowa, was
struck BY lightning, and an Irish bow
was killed instantly in his seat. Hi
was found stone dead with a book il
his hand. The teacher, Miss Mary
Harrison, and about 0 of the scholars
were stunned and knocked down, aat
wsse found lying ont in the road
where they had rolled under the i'm
preosion that the house was on fire
M HAsrison's back was badly hur
hlietersd, and her shoes were tori
Ak1eSA nha 0irscls that Oh,
OfIA Aee M She b now o.
1oneA The family living = u,
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