Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1858-03-05


rH-An honest man il believed without
an oath, for his reputation swears for him.
BIt is reported that Mr.. Dallas will be
offered the Federal judgeship. vacated by
the death Of Judge Kane.
eH-What is the difference between Noah's
ark and down east coasterf One was
made Of gophar wood, and the other was
made to 90 for wood.
Mr.. Scranton, the Know Nothing
candidate for Governor Of Connecticut, de-
clines the nomination.
tK-Ferukh Khan, the Persian ambassa-
dor, has ordered from Paris manufacturer
the apparatus necessary for the establish
msnt Of an electric telegraph in Persia.
cH-"Doctor, pray how long can a man
live without brains? = asked Chicago ex-
qusite Of the City Physician, who had been
commenting ON the case OF an idiot that had
recently died.
Couldn't say. exactly" was the Doctors
reply; "but if you will tell me your age,
can make rough guess.
eK-The consolidated debt of New Or
leans, La, was on the 2lst ult., 1921, 1876,
reduction during the year of Sl46.95O.
Dartmouth College is nearly deserted
in the Winter, because the students are
away engaged in school-teaching
n.Io nntr %haro ma OF .nhool, &c II
grades in the city, taught by 80 teachers, at
salaries ranging from $3.50 to $500 per an
mum. The total number of scholars who
have received instruction during the past
year is estimated at $500.
eFThe maidens of Straubing, in Bavar-
ia. are the victims Of a terrible conspiracy.
The young men Of the place have pledged
themselves not to dance with any girl, dur
ing the Carnival, who wears "crinoline."
eHWe are glad to learn from head
quarters at Paris that bonnets are rapidly
growing much larger.
eEThe Alton Democrat of Thursday,
says:
1--WE regret to learn that the peach crop
in this locality is probably partly cut of,
by the late "cold snap" Some of our city
residents have examined buds on the trees
in their yards, and they report most Of them
black at the heart and dead"
eBA bill to suppress the issue and circu.
lation of small notes, has passed to its third
reading in the New Jersey Senate, with an
amendment that the bill shall no: become
operative until similar acts are passed in
New York, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and
Delaware.
tFThe Dunlieth advertiser says an en-
gneer on the Illinois Central Railroad,
named Smith, in looking over the papers
belonging to his wife, recently, discovered
that she is the lawful heir to property in the
city of Vincennes. Ind, amounting to up
wards Of 100000. Not bad to take for a
poor man.
cF Mahmond Efendt, Turk, has been
baptised at Stoke, England, and last month
married there the daughter of an English
army officer. The rector who baptised and
married him is prosecuted by his curate in
the ecclesiastical courts.
TThe Hon. jefferson Davis, who has
been confined to his house ten or twelve
days by an illness which at one time assum-
ed AN alraming aspect, has, according to
the National htelliyencer, experienced so
favorable a change as now TO be considered
out Of danger.
MrSSEsorA.-The only news Of Importance
is the existence Of very general feeling on
the railroad loan bill. Meetings are held
two or three times week and the discuss
ions are very animated. The proposition is
that the State shall pledge its creditors for
a loan of S5,ooo,ooO. The popular voice is
about equally divided
New POSTAGE REGuLATIoNs,-It ia an.
nounced by the Postmaster General that
the British rate of postage upon letters
dispatched from or brought to any part of
the United Kingdom by q private ship,
whether steamer or sailing vessel had been
reduced to uniform rate Of pence q 2 eents)
the halfounce. All letters. thereto. mailed
in the United States, and transmitted to
Great Britain for conveyance thence by pri-
vate ship to any British colony or foreign
country beyond the sea must be prepaid %
cents, the single rate of half ounce or under