Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1859-07-01
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The Cincinnati Enquirer says that it was
not Gen. Garibaldi who kept . coffee house
in that city, but one of his relatives, Of the
came name, who died long since.
ARrEMus WARD, "the itinerant sho wman."
passed through Buffalo on Saturday. bound
for Maine, where he is to deliver q Fourth
Of July Grafton in his native place.
TIVE Empress Eugene has received an
autograph letter from Queen Victoria, in
which the sovereign ef Great Bnitan gives
expression to the sympathetic feelings she
entertains towards her Majesty, as Regent
charged by the Emperor with high and re-
sponsible functions, aad ss Q wife whose
husband is running the risk Of battle.
CARL FoRMrs left New York on Saturday
for Europe. His departure was unexpect-
ed and sudden, he having been engaged to
sing at matinee on that same afternoon.
The lightning struck house in Camp
bellsburg, KY, and tore to fragments q pi-
ano on which . young lady about to com
mence playing The subtle fluid then left
the house without doing further damage,
A HAIL storm visited Hudson, Summit
County, Ohio, on the oath, breaking out IS.
900 panes of glass in houses of the village
1t was also immensely destructive to the
crops in that locality.
ACCORDING to the Philadelphia papers. a
clothier in that city named Bennett has
obtained divorce from his wife by most
villainous trick. He ma de her believe him
insane and she consented to sign a paper
corfessing that she had committed adultery,
in order to satisfy his demands. She did
not suppose any use would be made of the
paper, but by it he procured divorce. She
now petitioned to have the divorce set aside
and declares that her confession was wholly
false.
AN old man who eaid his name was Jesus.
entered the Mechanics and Farmers Bank of
Albany. on Monday, and demanded SIC. 900
which he claimed was justly due him, hav-
ing been stolen from under Niagara Falls in
1909. and threatened, unless the money was
Immediately forthcoming, to call upon the
entire Br itish army 10 get it at the point of
the bayonet. He was insane.
A BOX containing several thousand dollars
in Tennessee bank bills. was found day or
two since in Cohocksink creek, near Plila
delphia. 1t is believed the money is part
of that stolen from the bank Of jackson,
when the clerk. George Miller, was muir.
dered. on the I'd of February last.
An operation was performed upon the
eyes of Jefferson Davis, in Washington, .
few days ago. by which his sight, with the
loss Of which he has been threatened for
several years past, was much improved. =
The street drinking fountain movement is
spreading. There 10 one Of the merciful
dispensations in Fttsburg, and they are a..
itatating the subject in Baltimore.
A YOUNG lady residing with her parents
near Winchester. by the name of Elizabeth
Welcl,, took poison number of days since
from the effects Of which she died on Sat
urday last It is said that the cause of this
rash act WAS owing to the supposed GOODNESS
Of her lover towards her. She died in great
agony.
A PHILADELrHrAs lately put &c, 900 into
the hands Of his stepsons. in order to cheat
his creditors. and has been rewarded for his
dishonesty by the flight Of bis stersons with
the money. leaving him two shirts and
bootjack to begin the world with.
TIE officers of the Sing Sing prison. New
York, have invented another instrument of
torture more barbsrons than the sho = Ct
bath. II is heavy iron cap, which drives
the vesrer nearly mad in few hours The
Sing Sing torturers had better buy I'D the
old instruments Of the Inquisition.
The arranged fight Of Heenan and Savers
has fallen through for this season, BY the
neglect of Heenan to send the necessary
funds to back up his challenge. Afieht be.
tween Australian Kelly and Edward Price.
Of boston, 10 In negotiation. for 81 900 .
side on the lst Of October, in Canada,
Mons. Blondin persists in his Determine.
ton to cross Niagara RIVER on rope. The
cable has arrived. and 10 nov stretched from
shore to shore, distance Of l.lOO feet, and
100 feet above the water. Thursdav after.
noon next has bssa hxed upon for the Per.
formance.
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