Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1859-07-12
NEWS ITEMS.

Gov. CHASE of Ohio, has q farm below
Hamilton where he grows wheat at the rate
of 40 bushels per acre.
The American horse Jack Rossiter has
been matched for $40 900 in England to trot
twenty miles within an hour.
The people Of Texas assert that that
State is the greatest wheat growing State
in the Union and that the crop the pres
ent year is the best ever grown in the State
the wheat weighing from seventy-five to
eighty pounds to the bushel.
The commercial men of New Orleans have
in consideration . ship canal six miles in
at point on the coast above the sand bar.
Engineers say that it can be done at q cost
of about million and half and will give
q permanent channel
SOMEBODY emptied quantity of cherries
which had zen used to flavor rum, upon a
wharf in Philadelphia. About twenty pigs
partook of the fruit. and were made very
drunk thereby Being intoxicated they be.
gan to squesl and in other ways to make
themselves ridiculous. In the foolish grsvl
ty of their countenances they we're said tol
resemble inebriated humanity very closely.
On Friday. come hog pens in or near Gin.
cinnati fell down with tremendous crash,
carrying with them about four thousand
hogs The excitement among the swine
was great. The pens were situated over q
drain, and were elevated above the bottom
of the ditch about thirty feet. A loss Of
some thousand dollars will probably result
to the proprietor from this accident
The State Prison Of Indiana, at jefferson,
vills. is full tc overlooking. 1t contains FIVE
hundred ard twenty.one convicte. The
State Prisons At Columbus, Ohio, and at|
Auburn and Sing Sing, New York, are also
crowded
TnE liquor dealers in New York generally
declined to sign the remembrance against
the enforcement Of the Sunday laws They
said it was designed to benefit the lager
beer interest, which had done more than
anything else to injure the liquor trade. SO
it seems that lager Is not only accounted
temperance drink by some folks, but the
liquor dealers consider it an efficient instru.
mentality in the temperance cause.
EIGHT millions of bottles are annually
made ct mandatory of bottles in Folem.
bray. France, which is said to be the larg-
est mandatory of the kind in the world.
The largest bottle ever blown was at Loith,
Scotland. 1t measured 40 by AZ inches and
was capable Of holding two barrels in guam
tity Of fluid.
Hon. THOMAS g. CAREY. . prominent citi.
zen Of Boston, and the father in-law of Pro-
fsseors Agassiz and FELTON,. died at Nahant,
Mass, on Sunday, in his 6Sth year.
PRNcE Poniatowski. the sole Representa-.
tive OF the royal family of ancient Poland,
who has escaped from exile in Siberia, on
account Of his Protestant sm, has come to
this country, intending to become a citizen.
He 10 lecturing at Portland and Newbury-
port on Siberia and Russia, but means to
come West for his residence.
THERE are IS breweries in st. Louis, and
vicinity, which, during the past yeaI, tnrn.
ed ont 1000 barrels Lager, and $4,000
barrels common beer. the total value Of
which was 81. 366.4OO. In addition to this,
$4,000 barrels were imported during the
year from Milwaukee, Bellville and Pitts.
burg, all of which were needed for home
consumption.
The Fools NOT ALL DEAD.-The Rochester
Union states that young man, residing in |
city. has addressed letter to NJ Blondin.
accepting his invitation to ride across the
Niagara on the rope The name of this Der.
son 10 Henry l. Young, and he informs N.
Blondin that he is "a ears old. is five feet
five inches high, weighs 100 pounds, and 10
ready to mount the back Of the interpid
walker and be borne across the great
chasm.
A couple of catfish were captured in Kan. |
sas river at Topeka, on Thursday last which |
weighed ITO and l6O pounds each, net 1t |
is said the mouth of the larger measured On |
the inside eight BY twelve inches. tits wdl |
that this fish was caught, or else some of tie /
little steamers playing on the Kansas might
have entered it, mouth, installing it for .
tunnel.
The dead letter office received and opeu.d
during the laet quarter, 1853 dead Letters.
containing $l2.27O,74. 1t il believed tlat
the recent instructions to poetmasers uvon
the aubiect Of dead letters, will have me
effect 20 diminish the number Of such letters
- far - any agency Of the Department IN
compass sach change.
TINS total number Of houses in Boston in
1913 vas about 5000. Of which 1000 vsrs
brick and the rssi Of wood. ed the popoa,
ton, after ssttlsmsnt Il nearly me In.
drsd years. amouatsd 70 ealy iS.0oo Nv
NE aaabse ct bsildisss . pesAsbly -.
wards u lo,0oo, while he populaas6a II
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