Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1860-11-05
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STATE ITEMS.

by the speaker.
STATE ITEMS.
TnE Buckeye House, Upton, was
burglariously entcrei few days since,
and sOpounds Of pork stolen.
Col. RICHARD McALLIsrEa has been
appointed postmaster at keokuk. He
is prominen, Buck man, and the Jour-
nal says was not an applicant for the Of
fee.
The Burlington H1wkeye reports
business improving in that city. That's
what we like to hear. The Lyons Mr.
ror reports the same state of affairs in
Lyons. Good again.
The Mascatine Journal SAYS that a
lynx has been seen several times recent
ly in the "Wapsy" timber, near West
Liberty, in Muscatne county. Its cries
at night are represented as piercing and
frightful. Some attempts have been
made to capture 'the varmint," but a.
yet without success.
! Bio PorAToEs.-The Davenport DENoCRAr
| AND News brags over q Scott county potatoe
that weghs over lbs 2oz "Oid Cedar can
beat that, easy. There is now at f. i NJ.
| Child.' store, a potatoe raised by Anthony Cos
gritf that weighs lbs. oz.-Tipton Adysrti.
ser.
Good for you!! That beats our per
simmons by just five huckleberries.
| BIC PorAroEs Mr.. John Leath, OF Cedar
county. recently exhibited before the Sugar
Creek Farmers Club. eight potatoes weighing
"a he The largest weighed IL lbs anoth-
er lbs third 2 lbs, and fourth lbs
They were of long white varisty-no name
| for them.
Mr. J. II. Leach exhibited at the same time
eight potatoes weighing 80 lbs. 10 OF The
largest weighed lbs. ii ounces. Two others
weighed lbs 6 OF. each.-Nuscatine Journal,
That "big one" beats the Upton i'd
yertiser's little.
MEDICAL students are seen upon our
streets in numbers, and, judging from
heir respectable and gentemanIy exte
rior, they are fine set of fellows. We
welcome them among us with hearty
good cheer, and trust they will be both
pleased and profted by their winters
sojourn among us.-RsoHuk Journal.
THE K, Fl. D. NJ. & NJ. r. R. track
was laid down, yesterday, to within six
miles of Ottumwa, and the track laying
is progressing at the ate of one mile per
day. Men are at work aging the track
from Ottumwa down to meet the track
layers who are rapidly pushing the work
onward from below. BY the 9th OF
November it is expected the track will
be laid down to Ottumwa. When it is
completed, which will be after our cleo
ton, we expect to have grand jubilee
to celebrate the most important event in
the history of the progress Of keokuk.
I-Reokuk Journal.
The Elevator which is being erected
by the side of the Dubuque & Sioux
City Railroad Freight House, has at
length assumed its iull proportions, and
is now receiving roof. 1t is huge
building, being IS feet square, and will
afford storage for seventy or eighty
thousand bushels Of grain. Above the
main structure rises an attic story in
which the weighing is to be done. The
topmost part OF this story overlooks the
river BY nearly hundred feet. Tracks
are to be laid through the centre Of the
building, so that cars can be run into it
and unloaded. One advantage to be de-
rived from this elevator will be, that
when there is a scarcity of cars, as Is the
case now, the grain can be stored in
stead of standing day after day upon the
track. A gentleman connected with the
enterprise informs us that they hope to
have the building ready for use by the
first of Observation-Disclosures Times.
GREAT SToRM.-The wind blew a
gale from the Northeast all Gay yester-
day, accompanied by apelting rain. Of
course the streets were almost deserted,
and very little outdoor business was
transacted. On the RIVER the effects Of
theg ale were somewhat disastrous. A
coal boat belong to Mr.. Davis was sunk
at the steamboat landing and many
sklffs along shore were swamped. But
a nat-boat, loaded with produce, which
got aground Wednesday night on the
bar below the ferry landing on the op-
posite side, was in the most per'ious
5 tuation. The swell dashed over it fur
iously, yet its owners stuck to it brave
~ till IN the afternoon,w when they hoisted
flag of distress and commenced calling
for help. After several hours a skltf
ventured INTO the raging waters from
the Illinois shore and took them off,
1Nuscdtine Journal.
LATE statistic sh wv that 100000
persons are supported in England by
cotton that so,OOO,oOO spindles are
employed 10 the production Of the yarn;
and that the capital absorbed exceeds
$3.50, 100000. Four fifihs Of the cotton
consumed in England--s,OOo,00O pounds
lis American.
The Atlanta (Ga.,) Locomotive says !:
The real propristors Of the soil. have writ
ten upon their hearts with cienched tech. Abe
Lincoln, so help us Heaven. shall never be our
PRESIDENT"
A YOUNG lady, writing as enthusiastic