Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1858-08-14
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A serious accident happened to the
eleven o'clock K. |. train Thursday
night. The engine ran oil the track
in passing over bridge about thee
miles west Of Peru, breaking through
the bridge to the bottom OF the creek,
killing the engineer and dangerously
wounding the fireman. The car I'M
medlaiey behind the engine went over
killing horse valued at 81 900. The
engine lies bottom side up. Addition
al particulars will be found IN another
column.
AS the Wednesday morning inward
bound passenger tram on the Chicago,
Alton and st. Louis Railroad was pas
slug the city limits OF Chicago at - 4.
NJ, newsboy named Cornelius Barry
attempted to leap on the cars while
they were running at reduced speed.
and missing his footing, was thrown
across the rail, the wheels passing over
him, shocLlngIy crushing AN nang-
ling hlm, killing him instantly. De
ceased was sixteen years Of age, and
resided with brother at 26l Clinton
street, in the West division. An in
quest was held by Coroner Haus-n,
aud the verdict Of accidental death was
rendered. Tie warning N one often
repeated, that it Is dangerous to at
tempt to get upon cars in motion.
On Monday afternoon at Chicago
an elderly man, a German, named Fer
dnand Crttendcn, was drowned, of
the foot Of twelfth street, in the !. {.
X. /. basin. He had gone in bathing
with two others, aud had challenged
them to swim with him, and it is
supposed was taken with sudden cramp.
His body had not been recovered
A little glrl named Elizabeth Hast
ings, daughter of William Hastings of
Chicago died a day or two since from
the effects of eating toadstoos. Sew
cral families in the North Division
have been taken sick lately from the
same cause.
Recent advices from the Frazer Riv-
er gold regions contradict the gloomy
description gwen by the London
Times Of the repulsive barrenness, dcs-
olation and Siberian irigiditi of the
great valley of the Saskatchewan is
false and imaginary. Instead of a
blank and bowling wilderness, as the
Times has described it, this vast ant
heretofore generally unknown region
according to the evidence 'of one o
the earliest travellers" an experienced
poya1ear and practical man" Is an ex
ceeding beautiful, attractive and desira
bic country. This experienced roya
ee,r and practical man says that tn
Saskatchewan, except that Its water
are "turbld and whitsh,' lis one of TIA
grandest rivers rivers in the world :;
that "the banks are perfectly charm
ing, and offer in many place, seem
the fairest, the most smiling and tn
best diversified that can be beheld o
imagined alleys agreeably embower
ed and embrowned at evening and a
morning by the prolonged shadows o
the hills and of the woods which adorl
them"-in word, picture Of beauty
purity and salubrty which "pour
contentment and Joy into the soul o
the enchanted spectator.
Recent adviccs from Europe stat,
that the spectators in the stock Of th,
Submarine Cable Company have mad
handsome thing out of it.
Persons who bought the stock a
the rate of thirty per cent on It's nom
lnal value-on account of the inclem
ency Of the weather have mad
quite nice operation. We Shout
not wonder If, among the earliest new
transmitted over the line, it should b
announced that the stock was at
pretty high premium. That is YER
good beginning of the influence of tn
Atlantic telegraph on the stock ma
ket.
The determination of the Engli.
government to leave the chastisemc
Of the Jiddah assasins entirely to Il
forces of the Porte created some SUI
prise in Paris.
The return of the Emperor of Russ
to ST. Petersburg from Archangel W
accompanied by the publication of
ukase restoring the Bible societies Il
privileges they formerly possessed, b
of which they deprived of by the la
Emperor Nicholas.
Accounts from Tegernsee speak
vorably of the improved health of
King Of Prussia, but hold out no no
of his Majesty being able to resume t
reins Of power. -
The China adyiess dated at Ho
Kong on the 7th Of June, report I
already announced succsss Of the all
at the mouth Pei-He. President E
th6uan's letter had been received