Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1859-05-01

NEWS ITEns.
Tmr taxss Of New Yosk City IT. 1859
amount u t9.S4l.SS5.
Rurs blsekhsrries we're sold In Savannah.
Ga. last Saturday.
Snow fell ct Buffalo on Saturday 70 the
depth Of six or seven inches.
A WOMAN left Bangor recently for Oregon
10 marry . person whom she had not seen
for eighteen years.
STEAMBOAT navigation has been resumed
On the ST. Lawrence, between Montreal and
Quebec.
T.ssE have been four hundred Gases Of
measles at Niles. Michigan, within the past
four months.
" you would be known. and not know.
vegetate in a vessel; il you would know
and not be known. live in . city.
THx V;ncennes lind Sun says there were
sales OF good family butter in that city last
week at sixty cents . pound.
SENATOR DoHERry, the Democratic Repre-.
sentative from the Seventh District Of New
York, died suddenly at Albany on Wednes.
day.
The Steuben county Qnd) Republicans
reports the divorce ei about twenty couples
ct the late term Of the Circuit Court in that
county.
Doc fights and rat matches are now re-
corded ss amusements in New York, largely
patronized by certain portion of the pop
ulation Of that city.
ArR,vArE letter dated Marion Co., ILL.,,
April 26th, says:
Weather pleasant, peaches and pears
Set with the finest prospects Of . vsry
full CROP"
NEGOTIATIONS are in progress for the cree
ton Of telegraph line on the New Albany
and Salem railroad, from New Albany to
to Michigan City.
A NEW YoRxER says that the sweeping
machines q the Broadway sidewalks are
thirty yards Of eight dollar silk, mounted
on . retieulated frame Of vhalsbons and
steel"
TH.aE 10 one manufacturer In Bristol,
Cnnn., who has made not lees than 325. OOS
year nett profit, fer the last three years.
in the manufacture Of ladies' steel hoops.
Mrs. Ada l. Coan, . "detsctive medium. :
charges Mrs. Andrew Jackson Davis with
procuring sundry old books committing her
lectures to memory from them, and then DE-
livering them in tran ate"
DIR. WILSON, dentist. VII tor the past year
has occupied the memorable house where
ho Anll tp0 cd I'D
street, New York. has been arrested for
rape on a widow. Mrs. Lyons.
DR. KING, the wife poisoner Of Cobourg,
Canada West. 10 quite lion. Clergyman
vesit him daily to look after his soul, and
other sympathising visitors attend to his
bodily comfort.
DR. HENRY BoEMsrErS, of St Louis, editor
and proprietor of the Anze,ger des Westcns,
and also largely engaged in the lager beer
business, has become the manager Of the st.
Louis Varieties Theater.
The Legislature of Maryland, at ito last
session, passed . law prohibiting lotteries
after the first day of April, 1859 1t seems,
however. that the law is imperative and
worthless, by reason that no penalty attach
es to its violation.
The people Of Ohio will vote at the en-.
suing October election, upon the proposed
amendment to the State Constitution substi-
tuting annual sessions of the Legislature for
biennial, as at present,
You may insert . thousand excellent
things Ia newspaper, and never hear
word Of appreciation from the readers, but
just let paragraph slip in 10y accident) OF
one or two lines not su tied to their tastes.
and you will be sure to hear of it.
A CORRESPONDENT Of the st. Louis Neps
Of the 23rd, farmer, writing to that pa
per, from Howards Point, Fsyette county
Missouri, says "thers never was better
prospect of apples, peaches and cherries, In
that country, than now, notwithstanding The
late FROST"
1T is currently reported that a grand fill
clustering expedition will be organized sat
Pixies Peak, and thousands Of the disappoin
ted gold seekers will march in grand ar
my upon the Northern States Of Mexico. and
take possession of them.
CHEsNUT street, in Philadelphia. is now
swept every night, from Bank to Ninth. II
is not only swept, but washed, and 10 u
clean every morning as Q grainery floor. A
perfect immunity from dust 10 enjoyed, rem
dering Chesnut street delectable as prom
eads, when other streets are 20 dirty % ia
be uncomfortable.
THERE is now lying in the Mint Of San
Francisco uncalled for deposits, in--gold, to
the amount of $3l3,6OO. OF this, $l,4OO
was left there in 1854 81, 900 in 1865 ;t22.-
800 in 1856 SCI, 600 in 1857, and 1921 400
in 1858. The money. is liable to be called
for at any moment by the depositors, and
cannot, therefore, be of any service to the
Mint.
OK the sOth inst, yesterday q YES
sci sailed from New Orleans with load
of negro emigrants to settle In Hayti.
President Jeffrard invites all the negroes Of
the United States to 60 and settle in that
island, if they will, and the above is the
first fruits of his invitation,
STURGEON must be . pleasant fish to eat.
If the Philadelphia Gazette tells the truth.
It says "the meat tastes very much like iii
caseed sponge. and imparts to the breath an
odor like that of onions and guano mixed"
Important Bank Decisions.
[From the Louisville Joarnal.l
In q case brought before Judge
Perkins, Of Madison, Ind, the Indiana
Bank brought suit against Henry L.
Davis for damages sustained by pro-
test made by defendant against plain
tiff. The facts in the case are that
defendant presented to the Bank