Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1859-03-22
News Items

The atlantic Monthly has rsacred cir
culation of $4,000.
The AIbanians are in extacies over the
acceptance by Professor Mitchell Of the
charge Of the Dudley Observatory, in place
of DR.. Gould.
One object of Mr.. Smith O'Briens visit to
this country il said to be the establishment
Of . line of steamers from New York to
Limerick.
Two members of the New York Legisla-
ture have died since the present session Of
that body commenced, viz: Judge Stowe
of the Senate, and Marsena Baker, of the
House.
Three successive ov erseers, on the panta-
ton of J. d. Fondren, near Raymond, Miss
have been murdered by the negroes under
their charge.
PRECIOUS youngster. nineteen years old,
named John O'Donnell, is on trial in s..
Louie, for being married to three wives at
the same time.
The Boston Insurance Companies have in
creased the reward to SIC, 900, which was
offered for any information that would lead
to the conviction of the incendiary who
fired the Mechanical Bakery. $3.50 1000
was lost by the Insurance Companies of that
city by the fire.
A man by the name of Twitchell died at
Bloomfield, Ohio. few days since, who
weighed 3S6 pounds He wore, when liv-
ing. vest six feet and ten inches in circum-
ference, and there was cloth enough in his
Overcoat to make four overcoats for ordina-
ry men.
Cadwallader Wallace, and the woman
from Columbus. who instigated him to shoot
the young man At Chilliccthe, have been
indicted for murder by the Grand Jury of
Rose county. Ohio.
GENERAL William T Haskell, the we'll
known Tennessee orator and politician, died
at the Hopkinsvile. Kentucky, Insane Asy
lum, on Sunday last.
WILLIAM PUGH, brother of Senator Pugh,
Of Ohio, was arrested on the 10th inst in
Cincinnati, and licked up, having in his
possession vial of laudanum, with which
he contemplated committing suicide.
THE BLACK Doctor" as he is called, who
has gained such celebrity in Paris, is q
Japanese. He has recently cured Adolphe
Sax, the inventor of the horn bearing his
name, of malignant cancer, and has there
by added much to his reputation.
CONGRESS passed an act in 1918, providing
that one new star shall be added to the ma
tional flag on the fourth of July next sue
ceeding the admission of a new State. So
that the number will remain 80 until next
4th Of July. after which it will be 80.
The Centralia Press, QIl.,) says that no
damage has been done to the peach buds
thus far, and if the present favorable
weather continues, We may count on good
average crop Of peaches and an abundant
crop Of all other fruits grown in that region
The Ladies Of the New York Mount Yer
non Association, in their last report, state
that they have paid Miss Cunning CHAM their
regent) $4,000, and that they have besides
81 800 on deposit. Only s., 900 of this sum
was paid by the city. The rest came from
the rural districts.
A BILL to prohibit the marriage of white
and black persons has passed the Wisconsin
Legislature. The opponents Of the bill, Of
course, were Republicans. a large portion of
that party in the Legislature voting against
it, thus proving that the Republicans are in
favor Of amalgamation as we'll as negro
equality.