Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1858-10-28
THE NEWS.

THE NEWS
1t is calculated that the clergy costs
the United States six millions Of dollars an
nually, the criminals nineteen, the lawyers
thirty five, tobacco forty. and rum one hun
dred millions.
The Hartford Times suggests that
those who cannot obtain q cable charm to
wear, might take. as a substitute, four
pound weight. a string Of sausages, or some
other similar trife
Peter Cooper, of New York, and
others, are attempting to consolidate all the
telegraph lines Of the country under the
management Of one company.
1t is reported that Gen. Robes, Mex
lean Minister, is to be married to Wash
ington belle upon his return to the United
States. At present he is lowering about the
edges of Mexico, not having been able, on
account Of internal troubles. to make his
way to the capital.
The London correspondent of the
New York Express says:
Looking into . parish school the other
day. curiosity led me to take up the 0eoera-
ply the pupils were studying. Six or eight
pages only were devoted to the United
States, and the population was named at
100000! New York. 100000! Phila-
delphia, 100000 Boston, 9O,OeOi IL it
surprising that the people are ignorant, with
such sort Of instruction!
The partnership between Messrs. Ra-
rey Il Goodenough has been severed; "and
while the latter" says the Illustrated Lon
don Necs, "hss returned to Canada with q
cool ten thousand as his moiety. after de-
Quoting his expenses. the master spirit has
taken . journey to Sweden, and purposes
seeing Lapland before he returns. 1t is sur
prising how the system takes everywhere
A Washington dispatch states that
lO.s7O passports have been issued since Gen.
Cass was appointed Secretary. Allowing
each to cover three members of family,
the aggregate made must exceed 32.OOO.-
Taking the expenditure to be 1000 each,
We find that in this way $4,000, 900 have
been carried out of the country. This esti-
mate does not include the old passports used
or those procured from the American Lega.
ton in the British dominions
The editor Of the Boone County
News has been shown bird of the plover
species, full grown, which had neither feet
nor legs nor the least sign of ever having
had any. Naturalists tell US of quadrupeds
and bipeds. but what will they call this an
imal without any feet at all Sure not
reptile. for it had wings and could fly.
At a camp meeting of the United
Brethren Church, recently held near West
Baltimore. Montgomery county, Ohio, Bish
op Russell forbid any one with hoops on to
partske Of the sacrament, affirming that they
would not be welcome 1T the table of the
Lord.
Mr.. Howe, the inventor of the loop
stitch used by all the best sewing machines,
derives an annual income of 100000 from
his invention
A Miss Mary Edsen, of GAINESVILLE,
Ohio, was last week killed by lightning
bolt. while child in her arms was unin-
jured.
The tide rose to an unusual hight at
New York on Monday morning Cellars on
South. Front and West streets, and on
Broadway, were filled with water, doing
much damage to merchandise. Large guam
titles Of -four were also damaged.
Mr.. J. B. Cough is suffering under
an attack OF illness at Orkney. in England,
and ha' been advised to proceed to Edin.
burg and put himself under medical treat.
ment
Stewart, the proprietor of the .Mar.
BILE Halls" in Broadway. New York, en-
ploys in that establishment. two hundred
and sixty.thres clerksl
The "fancy" appear to be deeply in
tersstsd in the female pedeatrian match nov
going on between hra Lambert of Boston.
alias Flora Temple" and Miss Buckley. Of
Lynn, alias Prioress" Flora holds . aort
Of championship over her sex, but Prioress
now disputes her laursls, The present match
10 therefore TO settle the great question by
seeding who gives ont first Both have mn.
dergone . regular system Of training Tor six
weeks. to bring them 81 into condition.
Irotting. horses. walking women, rot killing
and prize -fgnting. "mark the age We live
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