Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1860-05-30
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DsArH.-Thc Dubuque Times men.
,ions the death of German named Mich
ol,s Olgeran. lie had been = bard
drinkcr and incident upon big spree,
went of into delirium tremeos. He was
found dead at the foot of steep ledge
Of rocks some sixty feet high from
which he had fallen in fit Of insanity
He leaves wife. JE I
CnILDs, the mail robbsr has been
tried at Dubuque and bound over to
appear at the next term Of the District
Court, in the mild sun Of $500. The
proof Of his guilt seems very weak 20
far.
Pork PACKING HousE.-Capt. White,
Of Keokuk, was in town yesterday, WITH
view Of establishing . pork packing
house at Des Moines. The Captain -
one ofthc largest operators in the West
having the Navy contract last year: 10
has paid out within ten days over Sl7,-
900 for hogs and feed. 1.-The concludes
to establish branch house ct this place
it will be of incalculable bene6t.-Des-
wOines Journal.
MoKMoNs-A company Of ten teams
of these anti-Gentiles passed through
this town last week, en- route for the city
Of Salt Lake. Our pardonable curiosity
to obtain glimpse Of the Elders and tho
wives Of their bosoms was thwartcd.
We learn, however, that women there
were 10 abundance, and that unless
stratagem shall be used aud the spoils
wrongfully aggrandized, the venerable
Elder kimbsll will have fair shake af-
ter all.-State journal.
FlRE.-On Wednesday evening, .
building lately erected by Messrs. How
ard & Dangler, for q soap factory. into
which business they we're just preparing
to extensively embark, was destroyed by
fire, involving loss of about fifteen hun
died dollars, covered by an insurance Of
only one-third that amount. 1t is sup
posed to have been the result Of an &C
cident.-iState Journal.
ObrUARY.-Jacob Klepfer, resident
Of the Third Ward, who acco mpanied
the party that went down the river with
Ncidig d BURNERS hay boats, nearly
two months ago, returned on Wednes-
day, severely i'll. As he got ont of the
omnibus and entered his house he said,
Il have come home to die"-after which
he was unable to converse with his
friends, and, lingering until Last evening,
he died. He was about % y sars of age,
and leaves a wife and child. His dis
case was some kind Of fever contracted
at Memphis, Tenn. He was too i'll on
the way home to give directions con-
corning his baggage, and it is supposed
to have been lost at some point on the
oute-probabiy at Lasalle or Rock Is
land.-Matscatine Journal.
STORM OF IcE.-The Fairfield .kfer-
sonian Of the 22d, says that on Sunday
evening shower Of hail, or iciclee,
fell there. Many of the Jumps of ice
were over two inches long, over an inch
wide, and nearly an inch thick,
and angular and rough in shape. There
being little wind, no harm was done ex-
cept to interrupt the proceedings at the
"Soul Sleeper. tent."
The Ron NEcEssARY.-The jefferson
county Teachers Institute, after spirit
ed discussion, have resolved that corpo.
real punishment, or the use Of the rod,
is necessary to enforce order and disci-
pline in the schools. The editor of the
Jefersonian seems to think differently
from the teachers on this subject, but
probably he never had any experience
in managing crowd Of ill-maunered
and unraly boys collected together in a
public school.
The Republican Platform was con-
structed mainly by an Iowau, Mr.. Kas.
son Of Des Moines. So says Horace
Oreeley In communication to the New
York Tribune.
Reading In the United States.
The editor ofthe Edinburgh Witness,
the well.known Mr.. Bayne, in an arti.
Gle on our country, among some things
not very palatable, says:
The Americans are an educated, a re-
ligious, a temperate people. If this ar.
ticle had not extended to too great a
length already, we should have liked to
have said something about one or two
other Of their national characteristics.
For example, they are eminently read
ing people. Books are not. as here, the
luxnries Of the few, but the necessary
TODD Of the many. "Already," says
Mr.. Chambers, in his lately published
work, "Things as they are in America"