Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1859-07-07


Rev. Mr.. Milburn. the blind preacher. is
man sau in England"
II is now confidently believed that either
the Queen or the Prince Of Wales will soon
visit Canada
distinguished for the size Of his ieet. They
measure Il inches 10 length.
OaDERs have been given to introduce into
the English army the gymnastic exercises
which have done go much for the French,
and made the Zouaves 90 terrible foe
GREAT numbers Of returning Pixies Peak
ers are taking chains in the southern part of
Kansas, where their digging will produce
something more valuable than gold
The grasshoppers in certain parts of vir-
ginia have taken to chewing tobacco. They
have also commenced upon the wheat.
corn, DC.
SEvENTY-THREk new counterfeits have been
put in circulation in the United States since
June /.
SUBSCRIPTIONS have been opened for the
construction of the Reading d Columbia
r R., il Pennsylvania-this being the last
link necessary TO make complete connections
between New York. Baltimore and Wash
ington, via the East Pennsylvania r. R., to
the county of Lancaster.
The Belvidere Qll) Standard is informed
that mine Of emery has been discovered
by Mr.. solomon Risley, about five miles
south Of that place. The emery has been
tested and is Of the best quality. The arti
Gle is worth about fifty cents per pound.
Mr.. Risley has purchased farm of one
hundred acres through the centre of which
the vein is said to run.
A NEGRO girl, only twelve years old. has
murdered three children belonging to her
master-Mr. B. J. Herring of Goldsborough,
N. C.-within as many weeks. She stran-
gled them in q nook of the wood where
each Of the little innocents was found dead,
and without any clue being had to the MUIR
derer She was detected in the act Of stran-
Cling the last child.
A FIREMAN in Bingh anton got married
lately, and his companions serenaded him
with ga fall machine" on the first night of
his welded life. They knew no better way
of congratulating him than coolly pouring
a stream of water through his bedroom win
dow and on to the spot where the interest
ing couple were reposing. There was cry
for help, which met with . hearty cheer
outside, and the serenaden dispersed.
The devil has been at work through some
Of his human agents, in deTising new kind
Of Internal machine. One day last week
this new agent of torture Or death was left
In &c I'll n
Upon lis desk in the morning he found sew
eral small nuts, one of which he placed be-
tween his teeth for the purpo.s Of cracking.
when an explosion ensued, decorating and
burning his mouth in shocking manner
The nuts were charged with powder and
friction igniting material, calculated, if ex-
ploded in the mouth, either to kill or main
| a man for life
Two old and respectable farmers, named
James Nichols and Mr.. lBackman, each about
sixty years of age, and living neighbors at
Lancaster, Erie county, N. Y, got into a
quarrel recently. which resulted in Nichols
shooting Blackman dead witbSa revolver.
The murderer fled, and at last accounts had
not been arrested.
A YOUNG man named John Warren, 81
years of age, residing at Wellington, Tolland
county, CT, murdered his wife. aged Is
years, to whom he had been married only
two years, on the I'd of June, and concealed
her body among some brush, where il was
found after long search by the neie hbors,
last week. 1t seems that Warren was CO.
quoting with young unmarried lady, and
wished to marry her, and murdered his
wife to get her out of the way. He is I'M
der arrest.