Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1859-03-26

Six new churches are to be built in Bos-
ton this year.
A ROMAN Catholic College is about to be
erected in Syracuse, N. Y.
SuAD have already been caught this sea-
son in the vicinity of New York.
THIRTY thousand dollars were appropria-
ted by the last Congress for the completion
Of The custom house at Detroit.
SEVERAL persons have been bitten by sup
posed mad dogs in Lowell, Mass, and the
vicinity.
A LARGE number Of dry-goods merchants
in Buffalo have recently substituted female
clerks for those Of the masculine gender.
Miss Sarah Bonham committed suicide
by poison, at Decatur, Illinois, about the
18th inst. Cause-diappointed affection.
THERE are now 300 patients in the Indiana
Hospit, for the Insane-the largest number
that has been within its walls at one time
An Indiana pork operator lately lost sl5,-
900 at Cincinnati faro bank. lie desired
to go the whole hog, probably, and got
''stuck."
The Senate of Missouri has passed bill
appropristing So. 500 for portraits of Henry
Clay and Andrew Jackson, to be painted by
Mr. Bingham, Missouri artist.
"THE Bonner Hat" has appeared in New
York, advertised extensively after the Bon
ner fashion Next We may have oysters .
Ia Bonner. and it is not impossible that
Bonner cock tail may arise.
The fare from Dubuque to st. Louis, via
the Illinois Central Railroad, has been re-
duced from $lO,4O to $3.50.
The Sandusky (Ohio) Register chronicles
the departure to the Penitentiary of man
named Harvey the last male member of that
family out of Jail. his father, brother and
brother-in-law having preceded him to the
Penitentiary.
WITHIN four or five years, forty of the
beautiful elms that shade the streets of New
lie en-, Conn.,, have been killed by gas. Of
this nun Der. twenty.One died last summer
on Wooster Square, soon after the Wooster
Place Church was struck by lightning. An
examination of the pipes showed that the
electric fluid had followed them under
ground, and thus occasioned leakage.
The billiard match for 10000 between
Mr. Phelan and Mr.. Seereiter of Detroit, is
to be played in the Firemens Hall in De-
troit. The room is 80 feet long by 50 feet
wide. The price Of admission to spectators
is fixed at five dollars.
The Rev. John Pierpont, who. our readers
may remember, some time ago avowed him
self convert to spiritualism. is delivering
lectures on that subject in the East.
FoR PKE's PEAK.-A company designs
leaving in the Spring for the new Eldorado:
They intend going the overland route to the
Junction. where they will lay in their sup
plies for the journey - follows:
100 pounds of flour,
2 barrels of whiskey,
SO pounds OF bacon.
40 gallons Of whiskey.
100 pounds of venison,
Is demijohns of whiskey,
2 boxes dried herrings,
barrel of whiskey.
barrel of crackers.
IS gallons of whiskey,
3 barrels of pickles.
3-4 barrel of whiskey,
dutch cheese,
10 TASKS Of whiskey,
3 pounds of powder,
8 quarts of whiskey.
2 guns,
keg Of whiskey,
II quart mugs.
The members Of the company think that
il thew encounter NO back &C. on their jour.
ney. the above articles will carry them
through. - their number i not very large.
They may possibly rsquip . little more
,sA;skey which, II they Do, they win buy ct
the first still-heuse they oouas acrosa-Fair-
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