Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1859-06-12


TIE Gennesse Valley Seminary. at Bel
last. n. y. was struck by lightning on FIR.
day week. and badly shattered.
TsE cit.zess Of Fox Lake, Wis. are build
Ing railroad two miles long. from the La
Crosse road to that village. 1t will cost
$4,000. The grading 10 about finished.
OxE Of the Boston knight Templars, who
went to Virginia, bought negro man for
$500 for free colored woman in Boston,
who furnished the money, and is to marry
him.
NEARLY the whole of the town of Brody,
In Austria, was lately burned. From 500
to 900 houses were consumed, and fami-
lies which we're before wealthy, are re-
duced to the utmost distress.
Ir Is stated by a New York paper that
the disgraced, diehonored and notorious
Mrs. Sickles il rusticstng at the country
peat Of her father on Long Island, and pre-
pairing for a theatrical debut.
ADELAIDE CoRrEsI, . new prima donna
has been brought out in New York, unde
the direction Of MaxslMaretzek. She sang
in the opera Of "Saffo' on Friday evening,
and met with great success.
A young girl, aged fifteen years. was re-
Gently burned to death in Shawangunk, N.
J. She was'hanging clothes near the fire to
dry, and her dress caught by the flames.
Her name was Agnes Walker.
We learn from the Galena papers that
cattle are dying in that county of hydro
phobia. At Council Hill fourteen he'd died.
They are supposed to have been bitten by
mad dogs
FouR young men Of respectable families,
two Of them engaged in professional stud
les, have been arrested at Newark, n. D.,
for burglaries. They have made confess
ions and delivered up their tools, which
were perfect set, and with which they
have committed several difficult burglaries.
TIE Box MYSTERY ExrLAISEp.-The box
containing seven dead bodies, found float
ing in the river near New y ork, has been
asecertained to have fallen from vessel en-
gagged in transporting the dead Of Potter
Field TO- another. place.
THERE has been another elopement from
the Shaker settlement at Nickayuna, n. Y.
This time both parties belonged to the fra
ternity, and were brother Braham and Sis.
ter O'Neil. All we'll, Shakers are only poor
weak human critters, after all, just like the
rest of US.
Doc NoBLENEes.-The Norwich Courier
gives. an account of q man who tried to
drown little dog by tying q stone to his
neck and thro wing him into the river. but
. big dog, said to be relative, plunged in
to the water and pulled the little dog out.
The experiment was repeated the third time
and given up.
The investigation in the case of Fanny
Deane, the actress. who was found dead in
the river in New York on Sunday, was con-
cluded on Tuesday, the jury rendering a
verdict of accidental death. Mr.. Halsey,
her husband, and Mr.. Wells her paramount,
who had been arrested on suspicion, were
accordingly discharged.
Down on the eastern Shore" of Vir-
GINA, is an editor, who is also his own COM
position and pressman. who makes occasional
voyages along the coast of Norfolk as cap
tain Of the schooner Polly, who breaches
on Sunday, teaches school on week DAYS,
and still finds time to take care of wife
and sixteen children.
rARTy of returning Pixies Peak ers hav g
brought 10 Jasper City, Iowa, young girl
whom they rescued from the Mormons on
| the plains. She had run away from Iowa
City, but soon became tired of the Saints,
with whom she was travelling, and meeting
the disappointed gold seekers, implored
their protection, which was gladly accor-
| ded i.
A BosroS paper states that of 953 clergy
men attending the late anniversaries in that
city, but IL wore the professional badge,
the white cravat. The growth of hair on
the faces Of many Of the divines, was an
other sign that they are willing to stand as
men among men; and to find their appro-
pirate distinctions in something Of more
consequence than pecularities of costume.
A SHOCKING case of murder by poison is
, reported in the New York papers, the VIC
tim being Mrs. Cole. and the perpetrators
of the crime DIR. Wickham, and her hus-
band tire parties residing at Montague,
Sussex county, N. Y. DIR. Wickham, it ap-
pears. induced her husband to get her life
insured for 81 .OOO and the DR.. was then to
poison her, and share the insurance money
with the husband. She was taken sicl: by
confinement in child bed, when DIR. Wick
ham administered the fatal dose, of which
she died in a quarter of an hour after swal-
lowing it. The husband has been arrested
and confesses to the foul transaction, but,
unfortunately, Wickham has escaped.