Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1858-09-02
0UAMARY

A grand muster of III the uniformed yol-
unteer military companies Of Vermont 10 10
be held ct BrsDdoa on the let and I'd Sept
Many of the companiss have attained great
proficiency in company drill, bat are unex-
| perienced in battalion movements.
The farmers Of Glove Hill, Chesterfield
county, Va, derlore sadly the lack Of rain
/ in that section, where not shower Of two
/ minutes duration has fallen for ninety days.
/ Within q radius Of five miles Of Glover Hill
7 the corn fields are completely burnt up ma
uy having been scorched By the raging sun
of June, when scarcely of one third growth.
! To some ten or twelve farmers In the vicin-
ity the crop has consequently proved
| dead failure
In . county Of central Mississippi party
Of nine men contributed to purchase bar
rel Of whisky, for their use during the tern
| Of the court. In three We Ks eight Of the
nine were dead. while the ninth made ma
row escape. No wonder that the hogs have
the cholera after feeding Oh distilleIy swill.
The Albany Journal publishes a list of
| lO3 sudden deaths, suicides and murders,
occupying nearly three columns, collected
from exchanges received Oh Fr.day nirht
ana saturday uOrniHy.
In the Grecian navy there is Just about
| one officer to every two and half men IN
the army, which numbers nine thousand. al
told, there are no less than seventy gen1r-
ais. The royal palace at Athens cost Two
millions Of dollars, for which the Greeks
have an immense, ugly pile OF Pentelic
marble, as large rs Buckingham.
In the United States the consumpt1 ~
| coffee is eight times rs great a. in Great
Britain, and probably the consunption Of
beer in Great Britain is eight times a. great
as in the United States
| There is very remarkable case 81 lon
gevity in one family il Nelson county, Va.
| There are five married sisters whose ota.re-
| gate ages amount to Asa years; on the first
of January last the eldest was SO, tta sec
ond 81, the third So, the fourth e. and the
| fifth 50.
A diamond breast pin worth s 900 was
| stolen from New York gentleman one
evening last week in the Troy steamboat
| ticket Office, while he was paving for his
ticket The thief has not YET been found.
In the Mobile Tribune We mi the an
nouncement of the marriage Of NJ Weaver
and Miss Salie J. Houston, oa the lown-
ward train of the Mobile and OHIO ra -oad
while under full Roadway, passing Tough
| Wayne CO., Miss"
Men of all sorts of occupatiors meet in
society As they go there to unbeni ID ii
minds, and escape from the iettegs @ hl.si-
ness, you shonld never in a.. ce niag spe i
to man about his profession 10 not Xix
of politics to an editor, of fe, ers TO & ph -
ician, of stocks to broker Talk to /. 10
Their about her children. Women m, e.er
| tired of hearing of themselves and i ir
children.
Mr. Truman Judd, Of Claremcnt. r H.,
was instantly killed on the track u tle Sui
| Ivan Railroad on Saturday last lie vas
walking on the track, and beins nat
| deaf, probably did not hear the W .l .. or
noise Of the approaching train. II 70
years old
A freight train on the Newlurr branch
road was stopped by grasshoppera i few
days since. Large numbers hsd ati-lted
upon the track, literally covering lie rail-
| The train passed over great number of
them, which made the track so slippery
that the wheels turned round without going
forward. Sand was procured and poured
upon the rail, when the train resumed its
accustomed motion and went OF It's rao.
| Robert Dale Owen, the American Mlnis-
ter at Naples. writes letter to he n ork
freeman's Jcumai denying it report at
he had become a Catholic Nilhout he
longing to any religious body ne holds to
the nitarian doctrine, aud sa>s that Ae is
writing a work which, thnngh not on the
subject Of religion will satisfy his readers
what his religious views are.
The Boston Ledger tells Of vouGe nan
residing in one of the suburban towns. who
has Just received notification that BY the
| death Of cousin whom he never saw. he
has become heir at law TO betweeu $50, 900
and $4,000 He is a Scotchmaa hy birth,
and recently married Yariee girl, who
thus becomes participant OF Lis good for
! tune.
| How JAKoRI THE AcCus.a MuaDERDR, MADE
| lis EscArE.-lt was q mate which 0cea-
stoned no little surprise among officers. rs
| to @o,e the alleged murdefer who was pur-
sued from the city to Blue Island, and then
oN1rtaken by the pursuers. sue. eeded in ma
| KING his escape. Since his arrest, he has
made statement. which shows that he was
more sharply on the lookout for the officers
than they were for him. He says that
when lac left Chicago to 90 to Blue Island
he knew rothng of his being suspected !;
but while eating breakfast a., HE hotel he
saw III the German National i,ellokrat an
account OF the affair, which alarmed him.
lie at once rose from the table autl s, mt to
the barn, where he placed himself N y oosi
ton so as to be able to reconuoiire he road
approaching the village AZ length he -4w
the landlord of the house at which he had
stopped in Chicago, accompa,ied oy anot i er
man ,apprt aching. Instinctively Surprising
the other man to be an officer, We aeJ N
ter going short distance he stood by tie
roadside watching to see what wa done,
when boy came him to him ami told him
that there were two men in the tavern who
wished to SEQ him. He thenr,a :. Good
earnest He first made a circsit around
the village, at safe distance, and coming
back into town, sat down in a shoerns ker's
shop. While here. q person came ia aud
told the owner of the shop the Cause Of the
hue and cry. This rendered certain What
the fugitive had before only gu .pected.-
Watching a favorable oppor.unity he vent
out at the back door and mads .Iirect
break for piece of woods near by near By.
His flight was seen, and body Of his pur.
suers gave chase; he ran but a little way
into the edge of the timber, when placing
himself close to the body of a tree, rs al
lowed the crowd to pass him, and imme-
diately took his back track. lie went but
a little way, and concealing himself by the
side Of fallen log, he lay still until dark.
After dark he started Oft in a southerly
direction. but could not cross the stream
without swimming, and not being able to
this, did not succeed in getting acros. until
nearly daylight, when he determined TO try
the bridge. and was successful in getting
over unseen. By the time he had walked
q couple OF miles, II was too light TO travel
safely, and ne sought out place where
some men had been making hay. and crew.