Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1859-06-09


FoRrY-oNE years ago, last Saturday, the
first steamboat was floated on Lake Erie.
SO says the Buffalo Commercial of May 80.
GEORGE w. KENDALL the old Picayune ed
itor, 10 proposed in some Of the Texas pa
pers for Governor of that State,
Elk NJ YoR COPELAND is in hopeless con-
dition of health, at his residence in Rnaok.
Ign. s..s..sssl,l
Miss CURTAIN of Nottingham, ~
bitten in the leg by q vipwtn =.
The reptile 10
The fare from Chicago to PhiladslpEI
the Fl. Wayne and Pennsylvania C1pfS1I
Railroad, has been reduced to ten dollara
FIVE ambitious Bostonians challenged
Mr.. Morphy to play a game Of chess on
Thursday. He accepted, and beat them
call hollow"
DR. PLAssARD, the French explorer in
South America, now resident of Ciudad
Bolivar, has found gold in Venezuelan Guy
ana.
NEW JERSEY has lost its last slave, and
death has been the dark abductor in this
slave case. Her name was Mary Jackson
and she died at Newark last week.
REPORTS from San Antonio, Texas, recei.
we'd at New Orleans state that Gen. Twiggs
is dangerously i'll, and small hopes are en-
tertained Of his recovery.
TIE Peru (Ill. y commercial says there was
q regular November frost, and ice formed
an eight of an inch thick, in that vicinity
on Friday night. 1t is feared that much
damage was done to the crops
IT has Just been discovered that law in
relation to school districts, which has been
on the Massachusetts, statute book for ten
years, was never really passed, owing to q
mistake concerning its engrossment.
No person is admitted in Bos' on to see
Paul Morphy without ticket This is very
ridiculous. and Mr. Morphy will have to be
careful that the Bostonians do not turn his
head.
IT is said that the heirs of the Hon. W. B.
Clarke of Washington County, are likely to
receive 100000 for their portion of the
revenue from the British Government Tor
the use of Henry J. Rogers signal.
MR. HILL, who mysteriously disappeared
from Bridgeport few weeks since, has
written to his wife, who had offered 800
for his recovery, that she had better keep
her money, as she may want it.
Mr.. James 7. Feds, the we'll known pub
Usher of Boston, sailed for Europe on
Wednesday in the Canada. Rufus Choate
had engaged passage. but was prevented BY
sudden illness from living.
HEEsAs. the Benicia Boy. intends passing
the summer at Avon Springs, where he will
occupy himself with doing the fashionable,
and training for his great fight with Tom
Sayers. 1t ia said that the Literary lady,"
to whom he was recently married, warmly
approves Of the proposed contest, and
proudly anticipates the championship Of
England for her gallant young husband.
In St. Louis Miss Effie Carstang, q LADY
Of about twenty-five. obtained virdict Of
one hundred thousand dollars against an old
gentleman named Henry Straw, for breach
Of promise of marriage The defendant is
sixty-ive years Of age, and, of course. very
rich The case has been ON trial for some
days, and excited much interest.
The household Of Mr.. Robert Stuart. at
Newberry, N. c., consisting of four whites
and six negroes, were poisoned few DAYS
ago with arsenic, put in the food by the
slave cook. Mr.. s. and wife, and two other
members Of the family, it was thought
would not survive. The slave had been
threatened by Mr.. s. with whipping. and
when arrested confessed the deed.