Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1858-10-30
THE NEWS.

Among the latest novelties are Hcc-
nan hats and Piccolomini cigars.
Mayor Tiemann, Of New York, is at
ter the fortune tellers, and has had eleven OF
them arrested.
Judge Bigelow decreed thirteen d.
vorce. in the Supreme Court at Boston, on
Friday.
A Buffalo lawyer, while defending a
negro for petit larceny, had his pocket
picked OF his watch and handkerchief by his
colored client.
William Carragsn, Of Saratoga, has
discovered fine mineral spring on his farm
about Two miles south of Saratoga Springs,
on the direct road to Ballston Spa.
Three brothers-Andrew j., Will
liam, and Upton Sliger-have been arrested
in Sullivan Co., Ind. on a charge of murder
of the wife of Andrew.
The Supreme Court Of Michigan
has decided that the proprietors of steam
boat are not obliged to give colored per-
son cabin passage, If such be the regula-
tons of the boat.
Two men, named Nathaniel and
Dennis Butler, brothers, and Peter Lyons,
lost their lives on Tuesday by suffocation, in
the vaults of the rosin oil distillery at Pine
Island, Roxbury, Mass.
On Friday night, the store of }. IL.
Dodd Il Co., commission merchants, Lafay-
cite, Ind, was entered by burglars through
| a window in the rear, and three thousand
dollars worth of goods stolen, chiefly jewel
ry, fine cutlery. and fancy articles.
The people of New Orleans are look
ing anxiously for frost, as its appearance
they believe, from past experience, will be
the signal for the disappearance OF the vel
low fever. 1t has appeared at Port Gibson,
Vickaburg. and other Mississippi towns.
A letter from Geauga county, Ohio,
states that an epidemic dysentery has ragged
among young children in that section, rava'
ging every home and proving generally IA
tai. In the town of Chester, it is stated but
few infants have been spared by the pesti-
lence
DIR. w. w. Hall, of New York, re-
Gently advanced some new ideas in regard
to sleep. He advocates going to bed early
but does not advocate early rising, wher
ones natural sleep is disturbed by it. lie
thinks no one should jump out of bed imme
diately on waking. but should be quiet un
til the sense of WEAKNESS passes from hi:
limbe.
Sunday afternoon, Eugene Wellcby,
. lad aged fifteen. residing in ST. Louis, wa:
accidentally shot in the right cheek, by The
discharge of a gun loaded with shot. The
whole load lodged in the upper part OF thu
boys cheek. mangling the other cheek alst
and the left eye, and scattering several o
his teeth upon the floor. The sufferer lin
gered in much agony until about 2 O'Clock
; Monday, when he died The Coroner wa'
notified, but in view of the facts, iconsiderec
it unnecessary to hold an inquest.
Henry Mccoy, a blind fiddler, living
in st. Louis, on Monday employed one Jno
Simonds to conduct him to the Keokul
wharfboat, and gave him half a dollar fol
the service. Instead of leading him to thu
desired spot, Simonds took him to an out o
the way place on the Levee, where he rob
bed him of his fiddle ard carpet-sack, which
property he at once put in pledge at pawn
!. articles, but was unable to arrest the con
summate villain who had perpetrated tn
infamous deed
A singular crime was perpctratcd il
Detroit on Saturday. A colored boy min
years of age, named Charles Points, who ha'
Just served out term in Jail for theft. meet
! ing a little boy named Drew, hardly fiv
r years of age, told him to hold up his hea'
. and he would cut it off. The unsuspectin
child obeyed, when Points irnmediatel
drew a knife across his throat inflicting
cash about four inches in length. The dull
dess of the knife alone prevented fatal cor
5 sequences. The deed appears to have bee
done out of pure mischief, and the youn
, rascal has been sentenced to the House {
, Correction during his minority.