Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1858-08-03

resenting that il was > profitable con-
corn and thst be was able 70 pay any
debts contracted for it. while he was
in reality insoIvent.
Sam. Brown, late General Superin-
tendent of the Michigan Southern and
Northern Indiana Indiana, died at
Adrinia at l o'clock this morning.
The steamer Falls City broke her
piston and drove out her cylinder head.
FIVE deck passengers were scalded aud
two drowned. The accident occurring
thirty miles below Memphis, while on
her downward trip on Monday.
Another fearful case Of hydropho-
bia has occurred in the vicinity OF
Mount HawIey, III. The former case
occurring few days s;n:c, it will be re-
membcred was child who had been
bitten by cat. A little girl
of Mr.. Tigh, of Mt. Hawley,
came home from school CON-
planning of severe pain in the head,
which at the time was attributed by the
mother to the heat of the sun, (the
child having had to walk consider
able distance without shade Of any
kindly and for the time was not mnch
thought Of. In a few hours, however,
the child complained of difficulty in
breathing, and strange clouded ex-
preston sat upon her, which caused
considerable uncasiness on the part of
her parents, and after trying the nu-
merous home remedies for general in
disposition, they became so much
alarmed on Thursday as to send for
the services of DR.. Arnold, who ,mme-
diatcly set out for Mt. Hawley. Be
fore the Doctor arrived, however, the
child was seized with the widest con-
WILSON'S, and when he reached the
house, evinced every symptom Of Hy-
drophobia, in more marked and tan
gblc form than the case of last week.
On presenting water to her she would
clutch eagerly for it, and seize it with
the avidity Of mania but in raising it
to her head she would suddenly con-
vulse and forcibly cast it from her.
After these symptoms none doubted
that this was case of an identical, if
not scyercr nature than the one above
stated, and on inquiry it was ascertain
cd that the child had been bitten by
the same cat, some two or three weeks
since which had not previously come
to the knowledge Of her parents. Sew
cral Of the Peoria physicians visited
the afflicted child on Saturday, and at
last accounts it was not expected to
survive the night. The victim Is an
interesting girl OF seven summers.
1t was rnmored on Friday that Mrs.
Woodward, the mother Of the child
who was first attacked by the hydro
phobia, had also become victim to
its unreIcnting horrors, from the bite
received from her child.
Quite an excitement took place in
La Crosse, Wis, on the night of the
25tb, says the Democrat of that place,
on the suspicion that German named
NJ Huber, soap and candle manu-
facturer, had murdered his wife. One
of his children, on that day, in reply
to..inquiries as to her whereabouts, said
that " Pa had cut up her mother, and
with another man had put her in a
hole /" This was deemed by the
Marshal sufficient cause of suspicion of
foul play, and the Sheriff took Huber
to jail. Some of the more immediate
neighbors believed the woman's re-
mains had been created into SOAP
But in the evening while Sheriff
Pollcys, with MIR. Fuhr, an Interpreter,
were at the house making further in
vestigations, the woman knocked at the
door and wished to see her children
OF course she was gratified, and her
husband released from Jail.