Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1859-06-04

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Tss number OF volunteer, Inscribed In
Paris alone for the war il sbsut 10000.
TnE Telegraph Gable hss been laid under
the Red Sec from Alden to Suex
TsE comet nov approaching the sun viii
be visible to the naked eye, IL at oil in les
than three weeks.
TIE loss by the great fire ct Key West,
on the 10th. will reach $3.50, 900, while the
insurance does not exceed s92. 600.
THE sportsmen Of Galena have challeng-
cd the sportsmen Of Dubuque to trial Of
rife shooting, for 500 side.
IT appears that Mr.. Ten Broecks mare
"Prioress" won the Queens Plate Of $500.
on tbe..Nswmsrket Course, on the 9th inst.
The Oshkosh Democrat says that fifty
sevensnew buildings are already under way
on the burnt district. OF these. six will BE-
Of stone or brick.
The first lot Of new wheat in st. Louis.
was sold on Saturday to A. W. Fagin, at Is
per bushel The wheat was raised by Dr..
Dockery. De Soto county, Miss.
0REuBEx Hrrr died at Gslsnaon Tuesday
last. aged 66 years. He emigrsted to Ga
lens, from Delaware county, n. Y. in 1923.
going up the Mississippi in keel boat.
TwESrY-sIx thousand dollars, out Of the
fifty thousand to be raised in N. Y. City
for keeping the Egyptian collection OF Gu
riosities there, have been got together.
SonE of the leaders of the Democratic
party in Mo. are proposing w. II. Bufing-
ton for Gov. and John s. Dryden for Lieu
tenant.
Mn. MAYO. who 10 . candidate for the
House of Delegates in Henrico. We. had
his ballots creased, 20 they oan1d not be
written on. The oppositiSn Z nee this
slick operation % - miserable device to
defraud the voters of Henrico," A slippery
trick.
A SINGULAR and swift retributon occurred
in Huron county, Ohio, . few days since.
An ugly fellow, in . fit Of passion, intention
ally destroyed an eye OF one Of his horses.
The next day while driving nail, piece
of 1t broke and lodged in his eye, complete.
ly destroying the sight
GIRL at Pennington, Mich, was so
dreadfully burned few days since. by the
bursting of fluid lamp, that her face is a
mass Of burned fiesh-her eyes, nose and
mouth oblitersted by the Inflammation
and no n0urishment can be given, except q
little fluid forced through an aperture
where the mouth ought to be.
BANKS REDLEMINo.-Several DAYS since
We gave currency to the fact that about
$4,000 in the bills of five of the banks in
Southern Illinois had been protested. We
are glad to state that the banks have depos-
tied with the Auditor the necessary amount
in specie to redeem their protested notes.
Springfield Journal, 18Th.
HORACE GREELEY thinks the child is now
born, that will see Illinois state Ut ten mill
ions Of people. 1t is difficult to predict
what we may not be hundred years hence
in the number of population, when the
whole surface will be titled tike a garden.
He says truly, as We view it, that Illinois is
just beginning to be cultivated.
A PARAGRAPH is gong the rounds Of the
papers stating that bruised horse radish ap-
piled to the face or other parts affected will
afford certain and speedy relief from tooth
ache or neura gia. The remedy is 50 cheap,
without failure the first opportunity.
A HEAVY Pull on THE RoTHscHLDs-The
Paris correspondent of the New York Conn
mercial writes:-"I have been told that the
Rothschilds have lost IS millions of francs
(S23. 000OG0) by the great Viennese house,
Arnetein d Eskeles, that has just failed, but
this is probably an exsggeration."
How THE SOLDIERS LEAVE PARIs-A whole
regiment of the Imperial Guard left Paris,
with boquet of violets of Parma stuck in
the muzzle Of each gun, the officers carry
ing in their hands huge boquets OF the
same-the gifts of ladies Of the neighbor-
hood. What is this but the poetry Of war
kHINoCERos GRAMMAR-An advertisement
Of Dan Rice's Great Show. published in a
country paper, speaking of the rhinoceros of
the menagarie, says that this animal will
be turned loose into the arena, and perform
incredible feats, proving. by its submission,
that what could not be done IN the mast.
has, IN tie future, been accomplished"
The CAMELs GoIsG-We learn from. the
California papers that lot of camels be-
longing to the United States government,
lately strayed away from Beaie's rancho on
the Colorado, and at last accounts had not
been recovered There were over twenty
in the herd. and it was feared they had
fallen into the hands of the Mohave Indians.
The English papers report the death of
Mrs. Young, lady of high social position,
who died under the excitemeLt produced
by receiving the joyful intelligence of the
election Of her nephew to the House of
Commons The wife Of a sea captain, in
England, lately died from joy, in conse-
quence of the return Of her husband after
an absence of seven years.
TnE St Paul Times of the 3lst ult., saws:
"The bridge which spans the Father of
Waters at this point is nearly completed.
Yesterday the frat team passed over it-a
span of horses attached to y wagon. It is
- firm As a rock, and as a work will reflect
the highest merit upon its builders and
prove Of incalculable benefit to ST. Paul.
RoBERr MORRISON. q deputy sheriff of
West Troy, New York, was waylaid, on
Friday evening last, within few rods of
his house, knocked down aud robbed. and
afterwards thrown into the canal, where
ris corpse was found the next day. lie Lad
made q large sale of iron the day previous
and was supposed to have the price receiv-
ed in his pocket A suspicious character