Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1859-06-10
NEWS ITEMS.

A LIFr-pREsERvISa state.room has been ir1
vented.
In Philadelphia there are 3,4Sl place
where liquor is sold, of which only l,97l
are licensed.
A GENTLEMAN in Waterloo, Seneca county
N. Y, owns a canary which will warbl,
Hail Columbia" without missing note.
A BOX containing q lot of wooden-soled
shoes which are supposed to date back ti
the time of VIM. Penn. were exhumed id
Philadelphia. on Monday last.
ABOUT one-hslf of the accidents on Rail-
roads result from the carelessness of farmers
and others in premiting their cattle to 50
upon the track.
The Allcpathic doctors in Hartford re.
Gently expelled from the County Society
Dr. l. S. Curtis. because he held a consulta-
ton with Homepathst.
The unsettled condition of affairs in Eu.
rope does not check travel thither. The
two steamers that left New York on Satur.
day took out GOO passengers.
PuNoH says that Austria should pause be-
fore pitching into those Sardines. II Hun
gary should rise, she may have other fish
to fry.
TIE \. Y. Tribune says that John Morri-
sey. the pugilist, lost six thousand dollars
on the recent trot between Ethan Allen and
Flora Temple.
WHILE blowing in a field the other day,
linz nSf Of
struck buried box. on opening which he
Foul play is suspected.
PiocoLoMINI sailed for Europe in the
| steamship vanderbilt on saturday, after %
popular and successful a career az any sing
er. except Jenny Lind, has ever enjoyed in
tina country.
The gas consumers of GAINESVILLE are in
trouble. Two differrnt sets of men clam
pay for the gas, one being the receiver OF
the company, the other the lessee of the
works. Each side threatens that if consul
mers don't pay them, they will shut down
the gas.
In the case Of James Shepard, who was
tried. convicted and sentenced to death
n,
and which was appealed to the higher
Court, the sentence of the Court below has
boen re-affirmed. and has been sentenced to
be hanged on the Goth inst. 1t is stated
that the case will be carried up to the Court
of Appeals.
A live alligator recently emerged from
the muddy depths of the Mississippi river
and crawled upon a wharf in New Orleans.
Having taken aleisurely survey ofthe civil.
ICED world he began slowly to drag himself
up the wharf towards the levee. He was
| seen and killed by blows from behind. no
one daring to face the monster. lie was ten
feet long.
WILL the personal difficulties between
those two spunkv sons of "chivalry" of Vir
ginia-John NJ. Bolts and o. Jennings Wise
never come to an end? Bolts publishes
a long letter in the Richmond Whig, de
claring that he will prosecute Wise for libel
the damages to be donated to the cause o.
benevolencei Wise was some time ago re-
ported to have been shot in Q duel will
Bolts sen, which, unfortunately, proved L
be incorrect.
| We see it stated without name beins
given) that a clergyman, one Of the Illinoil
delegates to the Synod of the United Pres
byterian Church at Xenia, was robbed OF
tie cars of about $3.50, about the time tn,
train was starting; 500 of the money hai
been contributed by members Of the SYNOD
for the relief of . poor and afflicted broth
er minister in Illinois, and the remaining
$50 was his own money, on which he de
pended to take him home. The money VA
in wallet which he had carelessly place.
in side pocket of his coat.