Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1859-06-02

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forfeited to Mr.. King.
rh ihE sun shOne brilliantly ipts. =. ro ."
"..ei. ..ua4ooiaJ 0ied, and it is reported
that his last words, addressed 10 his n-ice,
where :-"Wie herrlich desc Strahlen sic
scheinen die Erde yum Himmel zu rufen
How grand these rays ; they seem to beck
on Earth to Heaven ~
ACCORDING to the sayings OF the Court
the Emperor of France intends that his
campaign shall be as rapid and brilliant as
that of his uncle in 1896. He intends to
date his dispatches from Milan by the last
OF May or the first of June, at the latest.
HE opinion amongst railroad men in n.
Y. is, that the competing roads will lose
Sl25 900 month during the continuance
of the railroad war the aggregate loss Of
the four will be 100000 per month, being
at the rate Of s6,oOo,OoO per annum.
The Prince..of Wales, on his recent visit to
Rome, made some few purchases of works
OF art, and among them Miss Hosmer's
spirited little statue of Puck on Mushroom
which has attracted SO much attention.
ROBERT BAIRD, n mulatto and vagabond.
has been arrested for setting the recent fire
at HoIicon, Wis, and has acknow lodged
his guilt. There is scarcely & doubt that
he was hired to commit this dastardly crime.
A FELLOW living near Evansville. Indiana,
killed himself few days since by drinking
forty-five glass of lager beer in quick sue
cesslon.
II is stated the London reprint of Web
ster Dictionary, as edited by Dr. Good
rich, has reached the fifteenth edition.
TIE excise commissioners of New York
have the names of 5000 persons who sell
liquor without authority of law, and 500 of
them are to be placed in the hands of the
sheriff for prosecution.
TIE New York Historical Society is at
tempting to raise 100000 to purchase Az
bolts Egyptian Museum, which they intend
to make the basis of great national mu-
seuEa in New York.
To give an idea of the force of the late
tornado in the central part of this State it
is stated that "a school house, 30 by 80
feet in size, was, with heavy timbers and
all, carried away and cannot be found
"A 1A'hI, Unity -uVe Ieet IN ieHgLu, nine
feet in beam, ia being built at Skaneateles,
n. u, for a gentleman of St. Louis, that is
to be propelled by a caloric engine. This
will be the first introduction of this motive
power on the Mississippi
The Rev Henry Ward Beecher has re-
Gently purchased twenty-seven acres Of
land in Westchesrer county, N. Y. They
form part of the estate formerly known as
the Trowbridge Farm, situated about
mile from Peekskill, on the road leading
from the lakes Mohegan and Mshopac The
price was $4,000
THE Spiritualists of Sturgis, Mich, and
vicinity, are about to open brick church,
costing over $4,000, for service in that
place. 1t is built in Gothic style, and will
seat 600 persons. Andrew jackson Davis
and other notabes are expected to be pres
ent at the opening on the 18th, 18th and
10th of June
EMIGRATION TO PIkE's PEAK.-Notwith-
standing the unfavorable reports from the
gold mines, the emigration continues TO
pour in upon us. For the last three days
the cars have been filled to overfow ing
with emigrants for the mines and for CALI
fornia. An immense amount of stock is be-
ing taken across the Plains this season.
st. 10 West
EPHRAIM BURDIoK was shot dead by his
father-in-law named Hill, at Pine River, in
ST. Clair county, Michigan. on the 10Th
isn't. 1t appears that Burdick was milking
the cows and one of them becoming re-
fractory, he gave her beating whereupon
Hill came out with gun and discharged
its contents into Burdicks heart Hill is
under arrest.
MEssRs. BURTON Il SPEKE, the African trav-
elers, have arrived at Alden from Zanzibar
They penetrated into the country about 700
miles from the coast, and surveyed the IA
nous Lake Uniamesi, aud several other
lakes in the same longitude. Their research
es tend, in some degree, to dispel the doubts
which have 80 long hung over the sources
Of the Nile.
Ar a banquet in Milan. the other day,
after various toasts had been drunk in sllu-
sion to the impending war, Jealous young
Austrian officer proposed the following:-.
ITO the Austrian army The French and
Sandman battalions shall break against it
like this brittle glass!r So saying be tossed
the glass, which he had Just emptied. into
the air. that it might fall heavily upon the
table. 1t did SO, but-without breaking.
The young soldier stood aghsst.
The WHEAr Csor IN OHuo.-The prospects
Of the wheat crop throughout Central and
Eastern Ohio. were never, it is said, more
promising than they are at this time. The
Wheeling EnteIigenccr has been informed by
MIR. Garrett, President of the Baltimore and
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