Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1859-04-14
NEWS ITEMS.

EPRs SAaasxr 10 about to publish . new
edition Of his Songs Of the Sea-"
A CINCINNATI shopkssper advertises "la.
dies CATERS that are much admired by gen.
tlemen."
A NEW York reporter calls . founding
baby "an infantils candidate for human
misery"
FRon the Upper Michigan mines tho past
season. 5000 tons of copper have been
shipped. Value nearly 8, 100000.
CoNcHA, the Captain General of Cuba, 10
to be continued in Office, the report of the
appointment Of his successor having been
mistake.
SoNE ladies in New York have an associ
alton called the Hearthstons Club. which
meets at the Cooper Institute and talks over
domestic economy and the work and vel
fare Of women generally.
A PRUssIAN Prince, Adelbert, cousin Of the
King, . grand admiral Of the Prussan navy,
is at Havana with his flag ship. and 10 com.
ing to New York.
The land sales to be held in Kansas and
Nebraska, in July. August aad September,
will embrace, in the former. 6,25O.OOO acres.
and in the latter, 4 1885,, 900 acres.
Dull times are the very best for adverti-
sers. What little 10 going on, they get, and
whilst others are grumbling they pay their
| way-and with their newspaper for life
prsserver, swim on the top Of the water,
while others are sinking all around.
The Dodge County (Wis) Citizen says:
Give Of the company Of twelve which left
here few weeks since. for Pixies Peak, re-
tuened home on Saturday last They went
% fer as st. Joseph, Mo-, aud were satisfied
that the gold mines were q humbug, and
that home was better place"
FRox several notices and illusions in our
Eastern exchanges we see thut some Of the
Eastern steamboats, are provided with steam
organs, or "Calliopes," which announce
their arrival o. any town by playing tune
It is . great improvement
The Rev. Mr.. Conway, of the Unitarian
Church of Cincinnati, 10 in trouble with his
congregation. A portion Of them wish him
to resign, as they think he is given too much
to going to places of amusement, and il also
unsound in his theological faith. Mr.. Con-
way, theologically, is in sympathy with
Theodore Parker.
A REGULARLY elected and duly authorized
Justice Of the Peace in Brown Co., Ohio
named Andrew c. H. Cotterlll, is confined in
the Jail Of the county, having been con-
signed to durance vile by mother Justice,
named VIM. s. Wharton, for contempt
The contempt consisted in Cotterill saying
to Wharton in Court, "You behave your
self, or will take You by the throat"
The woman whose remains were found in
. box at therailread station in Albany, must
have been, in the opinion of physicians, It
least seventy years Of age. The body was
evidently the property Of some medical
student.
The Earl Of Devon, VIM. Courtney, whose
death in England was announced by the
last European news, vas at the moment Of
his demise sutton in the new Divorce
Court Of England. asking for divorce Of
separation from hiscountess, Elizabeth Ruth,
on the ground::that her ladyship exercised
continued cruelty" towards him. BY his
death the Countess will wear her cofonet
undistui bed by legal process, and the charge
Of" cruelty" true or not, will not be finally
solved until she joins his lordship in another
world.