Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1858-10-01

The Illinois Central Railroad Company
has declared dividend Of per cent, pay
able in scrip
There we're but two deaths in wassenton,
Va, in 1857, among the white popslation.
and none asyst this year.
4 man ceases to be "good fellow" the
moment he rsfsses to do precisely what 9TH
ers wish him to do.
Tuckermap. the mail robber, Is employ ed
in varying joiners planes. which are made
in the Connecticut State Prison.
Large bodies of ice have been observed
in the Atlantic ocean recently. One was
enormous in size, being two hundred feet
high and four hundred feet long
The mayor of Charleston. 8. c., has ap
pointed Thursday of this week - day Of
humiliation and prayer. 10 view Of the raw
ages OF the prevailing epidemic.
The White Mountains Railroad will be
sold at Bath. N. H., November Sd. to the
highest bidder.
There are boats now navigating the Erie
Canal Of greater tonnage than the ship with
which Columbus discovered America.
A Berne correspondent states that all
Switzerland is in state Of instruction
agains; railroad lords, whose political pow
| err is rapidly extending over the whole Cor
federacy.
w. G. Clark, convicted of poisoning his
| wife. was hanged ut Danville, Pa, on Friday
last. He exhibited the utmost indifference
| AS to his terrible fate.
The Newark IN. j. Machine Company
have Just completed number of docks on
! the Island Of san Lorenzo, near the coast Of
! Peru, at cost of s350.000. They are ca
pable of taking from the water the largest
vessels, the lifting power being twenty thou
sand tone One million five hundred thou
sand tons Of oak and yellow pine lumber
and two hundred tons of iron we're employed
in the manufacture of the docks.
| Excellent wine is now manufactured from
the tomato. 1t is made from no other ingre
dents than the pure juice Of the tomato ant
sugar, and very much resembles champagne
"a light transparent color, with a pleasant
| palataLle flavor. 1t can be made equal /,
the best champagne.
There are 205 citizens of Providence, r. /.
who pay a tax Of $4,000 and upwards
The highest tax is by Alex. Duncan. who
Gays sl6,52l 81, on.property valued at 81,
| O4O, 100 A rich man that
Emperor Alexander. of Russia, has ISSUED
a ukase abolshng all the edic's of his pre-
decessors against the Bible Society, permits
IA free circulation of the scriptures through
out his dominions, and contributes 20 .o0t
roubles towards the support of the society
The receipts of the st. Louis Fair wer
500, 900. The daily receipts ut the gat
were So. 700; and the proceeds exceed tn
expense $4,000 Is not this striking il
lustration of the importance of holding Ag
ricultural State Fairs in the neighborhoo,
OF some large city.
It will be recollected that the Legislature
of Michigan appropriated, at their extr'
session last winter, The sum of $4,000 TO
the relief of bleeding kansas The Dem
ocratic papers IN that State are anxious t
know what has become of the money, a
only one thousand dollars are as Yet ac
counted for by the State Treasurer in his re-
cent report. 1t is easier to Square the cir
Gle" than to detect the wherea bouts Of tn,
pubic money after Republican sharper
have had the lingering ct it, as our Michi-
gan friends will doubtless ascertain to thei
entire satisfaction.
Gen. Winfield Scott, who is now stopping
at West Point, met with n severe acciden
last week, which may confine him to hi
| bed for some time. He was about attend
ing dinner party given By Col. Delafeld
when, on going down the stairs, his foot
slipped, and he fell to the bottom. Owing
to the bullet in his shoulder and the swor'
wound in his arm, he was unable to ares
his descent, and the fall was severe. To {
person of his advanced years and large
frame, it is most serious affair. The Gen
eral was taken to his bed, cupped am
leeched and though he feels better h
is still suffering intense pain.