Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1858-02-02
SUMMARY.

The Boston Herald says that Know Moth
ingisrn once more shows sighs Of life in Mas.
ssehusets.
The Newark Evening .Jovrna! has seen .
magnificent circular pearl, five inches in
circumference, taken from q Peterson oys-
ter.
The city of Wheeling, Va, has asked the
commonwealth to purchase her stock in the
Baltimore and Ohio X. r. Co.
A western paper says the only two class
es Of travellers on our Railroads this winter,
are those who are running away and those
who are running after them.
On New Years morning, the employees
in Nolte 4 McClure's pork packing house, Of
Beardstown, ILL.,, slaughtered esq hogs in 4
hours and later in the day they slaughter
ed ,l34 hogs in seven hours and thirty min
utes.
A correspondent from Main, speaking Of
the miidness Of the seaFon says that "the
spruce and hemlock exhibit the greatest YER
dure, and..the crows and grey squirrels are
abunda.t in the woods"
The chipping in the port had their flags
at half mast on Tuesday, as a mark Of mourn.
ing for the heroic Gen. Havelock. Such an
unusual honor TO the memory ola British
office unconnected with this country. indi-
cate the high respect his Christian soldiery
qualities have earned for him in this CON-
munity.
Four large school boys in Eddineton, Me.
endeavoured to put their teacher from the
school room, when three young ladies, two
Of whom had taught school, came to the
rescue, and with the help Of y billet Of wood.
which they used to good purpose upon the
r%ufiians. laid them out straight upon the
floor, and caused them to give in beat.
Mr.. Schoolcraft says he has never yet
heard Indians swear They have terms to
indicate cheat, liar, thief, murderer, coward,
fool. lazy man, drunkard, babbler but
have never heard Of an imprecation OF oath.
California papers state that onions grow
ing wild have been discovered in that State
an inch in diameter, covered with a thick
husk like the soap root.
Elder Knapp, the revivalist, is making a
general shaking amongst the sinners Of st
Louis by his fervid eloguence.
SrroY VICTIMS ly E~xCLALp-The Medical
r. mes says:
1T has been the fashion for certain wri
tiers to throw doubts upon the truth of tn,
reports Of the atrocities committed by the
Sepoy mutineers upon our coantrymen IN
India. 1t is said that these reports have
come through native spies, have been colo
red by the Indian Press, ard have rot beer
authenticated by European testimony. How
far these arguments are worthy OF credit
our readers may Judge from the following
statements:
We have been assured by amedical FRIEND
that he has been consulted by a lady who
has recently arrived at B%ayswater, from In
dia, whose nose has been cut of. Her child
three years old, has neither hands nor feet
they were all cut off by the mutlneers.-
How the child survived is a mystery tn,
governess to this family escaped with til.
loss of her ears, which were cut off as al
easy way of getting her ear rings. Another
friend is attending a lady whose nose hal
been slit open, and her ears have been GU
off. She has brought home to England
TIN e young children, all blind. Their eye
have all been gouged cut BY Sepoys. W
have heard from anothere source, quite tie.
yond question, "a lady who speaks from
personal knowledge,) that there are severa
ladies how in Calcutta who have undergone
such unspeakable degradation that they oh
s~tinately refused to give their names. They
prefer to be thought of by their reletions il
England as dead. There are also in { alcut
Ia several young children whose names ar
quite unknown. One little creature say,
she is Mammals pet and that is all ",
are ever likely to know of her past history.