Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1858-08-29

IN default OF bail. The bills
Of the bank have been thrown out IN
New York. Mr.. kingsbury, its Presl-
says the Journal, will secure the hold
ers OF it's i.sue against loss, being able
and willing to do so.
The village of Knightstown, lnd''
was thrown into great excitement some
DAYS since, on the discovery that
young lady named Miss Ann hegah,,
daughter OF a widow Of that place. had
been murdered by come unknown per-
.on who attempted TO produce an
abortion upon her by mechanical
means.
In New York, one evening last week,
. Young German painter, named Philip
Manchenheimer, in fit Of jealousy,
went to the house OF his sweetheart,
named Valentine Guiger, and shot her
dead. lie then hurried back TO his
boarding house in another part OF the
CITY. aud committed suicide BY blow
inc his brains out. Miss Guiger was
handsome and respectable lady, aged
10 wears. Her desperate lover and
murderer was % years Of age, and Of
temperate and industrious habits.
John Lawrence Forrest, one Of Ire
lands sweetest poets. died at Cincln-
natl Lent week. He was 43 years OF
age. Mr.. F. was q contributor to the
Irish press during the stirring times
OF AZ. During the year 1857, many
of his pieces appeared in the P'lot,
over the signature Of "One OF lIeIands
Ballad Poets"
A private letter received in England
from Calcutta, and communicated to
the public by Major General Tullock,
states that Nena Sahlb, the execution
or of Lucknow, has been captured.
Parson Blownlow has had an attack
Of bronchitis which has nearly destroy
cd his voice. He says, however, that
he shall be in Philadelphia on the 7,h
Of September to participate in the anti
slavery debate with the Rev. Mr..
Pryne.
Elgin, Illinois, is infested with a
gang Of thieves. On Wednesday night,
of last week, the house OF Mr. W. w.
Merrill Was entered, but some of the
inmates being awaken, and noise being
made, the rogues took alarm and etiec-
ted an escape. On the following night
four houses were entered and two
stores From Il. Ryan's store WAS sto
len more than $500 worth OF goods.
The Richmond Inquirer shows that
Virginia has seats enough iu hel
eliurchea ior her whole white popnla
ton, and u hundred Thousand vacant
seats to spare, and that even her blaet
Foundation have the use OF her meeting
houses u portion OF the Sabbath day
This IL quite a contrast with the aboll
, ten States OF Vermont aud Massachu
sets
The se, eniy odd niles OF cable LET
9 on board the Niagara will lie reshippe,
: to England to be used in completing
: new cable which il is reported vii
be soon put undor contract to be la',
across the same route
A few days since, a yonng daughte
of George s. Underhill, Of Chester, \
j.. H., while picking blackberries was bit
ten by spider on her Zig toe. TIL
foot swe!lcd, extending up her leg
! erysipeias set in and she died.
a man named Robert Campbell, re
siding in Affirm n. IT,, hung himself o
10 Thursday Of last week. III health an
i II fear of coming to want arc tho sur
posed causes of this self murder. II
was about forty five years OF age an
unmarried.
Several Irish families, nnmberln
:. twenty seven persons, who have res
@ ded in Lowell nearly twenty years, al
about to return TO Ireland to spend tn
remaider of their DAYS.
7 \ difficulty occurred between yer
: respectable parties, James Van Blars
8 cum, and his son-in-law, Edwin Bate,
4 occurred IN the outskirts Of Indianopli
Q on the 18th, which may result in th
. death OF the former, who was st.uc
twice ia the hoad with brick, au
o shot IN the shoulder with pistol bal
Tie fight grew out Of the division ,
I" field Of wheat which they were hal
q vesting.
Mr.. Winans, Of Baltimore, the loco
% motive builder, is said to be building
No steamer in Baltimore upon plan e,
tirelv his own, which is to cross th
Atlantic in six days.
;. The Western Railway Company
10 France received $4,000 letters askin
a for free-passcs on the railway to 60
- CLerbourg, and they admitted 1000
,e OF the applicants. This eclipses by fl
v the deadhcad system in this countr
! a neatly dressed Young woman, Q
: stepping ashore from steam vessel
q the Thames, at London. made such a
q enormous display of crinoIine that SD
"a was handed over to female searcht
q who dislodged 23A lbs Of cigars frol
her pe,ticoat. The magistrate CAV
i, the fashionable lady the option Of pay
=. ing $500 or spending six mouths i
G Jail.
d Miners arc still actively engaged i
d digging for gold at Worcester, NORTH
: field, and Woodbury. Vermont. Dul
: ing the past week two Californian
B. have been engaged in digging in
70 stream in Mortified, aud at the clos
I. Of the week sent to New York thre
n ounces, the result OF their weeks labo
J. valued at about sixty-six dollars.
n A Montreal paper states that col
10 has been found eighty miles mp tn
O. Chaudiere river. The liscoyerer. la,
in ing none of the usual applicances ft
m obtaining II, got it at the rate of do
SC lars worth per hour. The metal
. ! said 10 he very miro