Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1860-05-02
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pearance lately.
SrxrEhS wagons, bound for Pixies
Peak, passed through Burlington on the
24th.
THE State Register says the Des
Moines river is now lower than 1t has
been for twelve years past.
LAST Thursday afternoon the village
OF Marshalltown was visited by severe
whirlwind, which struck the north.
west corner Of the Court House, raising
The root about six inches, but doing no
particular damage. The Times says its
force was SO great that heavy logs we're
raised from their beds and carried sever
al feet.
Iowa PAPERS are filled with notices Of
persons departing for Pixies Peak.
The rush, though not so fierce as last
year, is steady and will not cease for
some time yet.
The father of the girl murdered at
Ottumwa has offered one thousand dol
lars, J. w. Grimes has offered one thous.
and dollars and the citizens Of Ottumwa,
have offered five hundred dollars, max
ing twenty-five hundred dollars in all as
a reward to any one who may take and
deliver said Laurence and Macomb over
to the hands Of justice. SO says the
Alton Eagle.
RErIRFD.-By a notice in the last
Dewitt Standard, we learn that .. G.
Bates, Esq, who has for the year and a
half Of its existence, presided over the
editorial department Of that paper, has
sold OH. and vacated the chair editorial.
He has been connected with the press in
Clinton county for six years, being
among the pioneers in that line, and re-
tires with the good will of many friends,
made during that time. He has our
best wishes for success in the future, in
everything but his politics. Hon. E.
Graham is his successor.
A NEW PAPER, styled the Republican,
has Just been started at Camanche.
Mr. b. c. Holiday, la Of the Fulton
Courier, is the gentleman who has the
courage to attempt this almost hopeless
enterprise.
The Clinton Herald speaking of
Lambs saw mill at that place, says it is
one Of the very best saw mills between
St. Paul and st. Louis. The building is
one hundred and thlrty-two feet by for
ty.five feet on the river, and has been ar
ranged with regard to convenience and
safety in all respects. it is furnished
with two engines, one of sixty and the
other of forty horse power. These fur
nish power to drive one circular saw, of
three feet diameter, one upright, one
gang Of 3 saws, one shingle machine, one
lath machine, one siding mill and one
planer. With these various machines
the mil can turn out in ten hours, the
usual days work, twenty-five thousand
feet OF lumber, twenty thousand shin
gle and fifteen thousand lath, and all
this is accomplished with only eleven
men to run the machines and two to pile
the refuse.
THE editor Of the Waterloo Courier,
in his issue Of the oath, says that he has
in his possession several pieces of wood
and coal which were taken from the
earth, some twenty seven feet below the
surface, by some men who were digging
a well near town. One piece of the
wood is partially petrified, but the other
is somewhat decayed, and can be easily
whitfield with knife. The coal is ap-
parentIy the ordinary stone coal, and on
ly small quantity was discovered.
THE Fort Madison Haindeoler Of last
week says, it was discovered on Satur-
day that the prisoners in the Jail at that
place were making preparations for es-
cape. They had worked hole nearly
through the partition batween cell and
the hall, intending to push themselves
through at convenient opportunity,
take the keys from the guard, and make
their escape.