Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1859-06-25
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HoasE railways are being laid in Olive
and Morgan streete. st Louis.

Hoksh TaHWeye are Desug Iald IN OIlye i
and Morgan streets. St Louis.
The health Of DR.. Mott, the venerable |
President of Union College, n. Y. is rapid
ly recovering.
THEODORE Parker has reached England,
via the West Indies, with strong hopes VI
the restoration Of his health.
The Wheat harvest is in progress in
Indiana. The yield il reported
more than ordinary. and 1.-The grain
good"
IT is thought that the Pope will not be
allowed to leave Rome.
The New York weekly bank statement
shows . gain of sl,lSl, s56 in coin. and .
decrease Of tl,l32.s 53 in loans.
TIE Quincy Wing says the wheat harvest
will commence in that vicinity the present
week, which is nearly two weeks earlier
than usual.
TIE white opera closks worn by our Mira
Potiphers may be called ascension robes,
from the fact that the wearers land heir
husbsnds) are continually going up"
VIRTUE should not be ashamed Of being
virtuous. Spangles do not look we'll upon
broadcloth. 1t 10 best to wear your coat -
if it became you.
WORLDLY prosperity 10 . much greater
drain upon our energies than the most &c
we're adviser; there is no spring, no elastici.
ty it is like walking through life upon .
Turkey carpet.
QUEgR-A German writer obseryes that
in United States there 10 such . ecarcity Of
thieves they are obliged to offer . reward
for their discovery.
"MAY GoD forgive Columbus for discover
ing America, is said to have been the ejac
ulation Of German professor, over the re-
alistic incapacity of live Yankee to COM
prehend his transcendsntalism.
IT is said that it 10 the intention of the
Pennsylvania Central Railroad to make the
sleeping cars free for first class passengers,
instead of, as now. charging so cents extra
for berth. II this 10 true. no doubt the
Northern roads will do the same
TIE Wheat harvest 10 Kentucky is rapid.
~ progressing, and will soon be over The
yield is generally fine and the quality Of the
grain most excellent Tn ere 10 no doubt
the crop Of 1859 is the largest and best ever
raised in Kentucky
TIE new bishop of New Jersey (Episco-
pal) hesitates about taking the Office for fear
he shan't get his pay, which is fixed tt $3.-
900 . year. Security for its payment 10 de-
manded, the promises of the church not
being considered sufficient.
Tue California mare Princeu, that the
people are beginning to suspect 10 the fasteet
animal afoat, was raised by A. n. Billings
Of Clsremont, N. H., and sold by him to
Mr.. Gage of the fremont House, Chicago,
whence she went to California and became
famous. Mr.. Treakle, her present owner,
gave $4,000.
HUST's Neschanfs Magazine enumerates
no less than thirty eight substances which
are employed to give potency, flavor, con-
sistence, and other desirable qualities to
American Lager Beer. Among them are
chalk, marble dust, opium tobacco, hen
bane, oil of vitriol. copperas, alum, strych
nine, and other deadly poisons.
A disgusting "model artist" exhibition
was broken up in New York recently, and
all concerned committed to the Tooml,3,
where it is to be hoped they will be allow
ed to remain for q while.
The New York Tribune says that General
Walker has " organized a new piratical fill
clustering expedition to invade Nicaragua,
and that the emigrdnts will sail from this
port New York this week. Active re-
cruting has been going on for some time.
and very respectable force a. to numbers
has been engaged Walker is still sanguns
of success, and laughs at the pretended op-
position Of the United States Government"
Two ITEMS IN TIE BILL-The folio wing is
true Of more things than one in every day
life /: you charge a dollar for killing .
calf. you emutty rascal said planter to
an old negro. "NO, no, Masss." replied the
gentleman from Africa. "charge fifty cents
for killum calf. and fifty cents for the know
hom,"
A harmonious divine, visiting gentleman
whose wife was none of the most amiable,
overheard his friend say: lift was not for
that stranger In the next room, would
kick you out Of doors" Upon which the
clergyman stepped in and said: Pray sir,
make no stranger OF me"
mans shirt on clothes line, will, in a
waltz, lovingly repoee their heads on the
bosom Of the garment, when the man 10 in
it.
"TALK about mean men," said old Fox
"why there's Bill Johnson, he's the meanest
man / ever heard tell on. Bill was a con.
stable here. Why, don't You think, he had
an execution against me for little matter
groceries, and he came out and levied on
my old woman's ducke, and wanted me to
drive 'em up and catch 'em for him, and
told him to catch EN- himself and so he
chased 'em round and round the house, and
every time he'd catch duck, he'd set dow
and ring it's head off, and charge mileage !"
NORM CAROLINA BALL.RooM.-"Miss, can
| have the pleasure of dancing with you
the next cotiilionl"
"Well, don't know
Engaged, perhaps ?"
well. fyou must know, l amt quite
done che1ing my ra~zmn =
ACCORDING to q New York correspondent
Of the Philadelphia Press. the U. s. Trea-
sury has actually received $4,000 If the
unlawful proceeds of the Gardiner fraud.
Says the writer
Yesterday Mr.. Cisco, the Assistant
Treasurer of the United States. received
from Thos. G. Fields. the public administra-
tor Of the city. the sum of $3.50. 900. recov-
cred from the celebrated Gardner fraud.
Your readers remember that after the trial
and conviction of Gardiner, in Washington,
and his subsequent suicide, it vas ascer-
tanned he had deposited $3.50. 900 of his ill.,
gotten greed with the New York Life and
Trust Company. This sum. after protracted
litigation, was at last decided in favor OF
the Government. and yesterday the solid
coin vas paid over"
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