Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1860-06-26

EVENING
BRuTAL.-In our perambulation .
around town yesterday. We noticed at h.use
Of one of our citizens, . child about seven
years Of age. busily engag ged At wash.tub. Az
We passed the house, the mother of the child
came out. and hitting the girl ON the side Of
the head said "work faster" Now We know
the child was doing we'll for its age. and must
say that we wish that mother had to find her
self and wash a mechanics clothes for the ext
six months at the rate Of five cents per dozs D,
and had enough to do to oblige her to work
twenty.three hours per day during the time,
to keep her from starvation.
WHITE MAN VERY UNcERTAIN.-A
few days since We noticed the trial of Charles
W. Bosle (alias One Armed Charlie, and his
con nviction. Yesterday he was brought before
Judge Linderman on q writ of habeas corpus
who after hearing the argument remaaded him
to Justice Claussen. an on his pleading guilty
he Was fiaed fifty dollars and costs. which was
immediately reduced to thirty dollars. and
paid by the prisoner Thus one of the most
desperate ami treach erous characters unhung
is again At large We hope that the citizens Of
Davenport will make the town to hot to
hold him.
The BLOODY SIxTH.-The election
in the ab We named Ward took place yester.
day, and vas decided in the favor Of Jsa
Coulthart for Alderman, over Isaac H. Scare.
by q msjorsty Of IL. The vote polled being
95 for. oulthsrt an SO for Sears. There wae
any amount offghting aud quarreling throuyh
the day-c"mmenc,ng in the morning between
two prominent republicans. Who differed Oh
their candidates, and ended with free-fgh,
for all. Some persons we're arrested and
l4dged in Jail, who will have q hearing before
His Honor Mayor Caldwell, this morning
EXCHANGE, NO RoBBExY.-Schinder-
hannes the renowned robber Of tie Rhine. once
encountered in foraging expedition caravan
OF hundred and fifty Jews. 1t vas . very
cold night. the snow foot deep and he didn't
like Jews. so he compelled every man Noses Of
them to take off his boots or shoes He then
mixed the lot together in q heap. and at day
light permitted them 10 find each their own
property he knowing the natural acquisitivenes
Of the Jewish race. Of course every Hebrew
instantly pick ed for the best boots and claimed
them as his own. and there soon was row in
that section; but it was nothing to be compared
to the freaks Of some boys. or men, few niehts
since. in a nsighborhood of this city; they
chan ged the signs. from one store or shop to
another. DC. In the morning was to be seen
on . millinery establishment q sign reading
meat market" on butchers stall, it could
be seen that they had entered into another line
Of business, Wig: Dress making and millinery,
and vice versa On every business shop In the
neighborhood. One old lady arose and fouad
that her pots and kettles had increased in size
80 that che could not get them on her stove.-
Another woman found hers oil too small, and
~ she had no stove rings, she had to 90 with.
out her breakfast, much against ner naturally
good temper. One man had made his prepsr-
ations to attend to some urgent business in the
county, found that he had to hire . buggy. -
bis was minus one wheel, while his neighbor
was much astonished to find his had five
Every person discovered through the day that
they had lost. and at the same time gain, one
or more art'clea There vas some swearing
done that morning We think, and the scene can
better b. imagined than described.