Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1860-01-20

-Quz.Y.-Is Sleepy Hollow Yavning golf
or mrs Cape in the mountsin.
They have the coolest weather st St Paul,
MINI. Msrcurisl Thermometers freeze up, and
spirit ditto indicate .ffty degrees below zero
Mr.. Sheridan Knowles 10 about 70 v.its
bic life, particularly that portion Of it antecs-
dent 70 bic theological lsbors Il should be .
curiosity.
-Persons should cease to wonder that mules
are ugly animals when they consider that they
are BY nature very saritsble
Tho eloquent DR.. Cahill, Who il now stay.
ing ct the Astor House. will commence course
Of lectures on the 10th inst.
1T 10 considered very cool to ask for the
daughters hand and get her fathers boot. 4
man don't generally want but one such lsg.i see
in life time
Somebody says: wife should BE- like :
roasted lamb-tsndsr and we'll dressed. 4
scamp odds, and without any sauce.
"A young saw-bones. having eourted : girl
for year. and got the mittes. turned round
and sued her father for "visits" he paid her.
For the aid Of Grace Church. in San Fran
cisco, the parishioners got W . rsff1s which
yielded IS 900. and mean to follow it up With
. ball, aud perhaps . grand consolidated
buck" At faro-until $4,000 necessary funds
are raised
-Gsrritt Smith is At Utica, slowly recover
ing from his mental alteration. The 1Ti6Sns
Of last Friday says 1--WE sent to him the flies
OF the Tribune for . month and half past,
which will be read to him." We predict re-
lapse.
The St. Louis Lsmoerat says the pork msr-
chants Of that city have spent about seven
millions Of dollars in the purchase Of hogs in
Illinois, Iowa, and Missouri, this season. TO-
900 head had been packed in st. Louis up TO
Saturday night last
The Western papers say that the upward
bound boats on the Mssisspi River are crowd
ed with free colorsd people, expelled from Ar.
kansas by tie recent laws Of that State. For
ty-three arrived ct Cincinnati one day last
week. Some were bound to the North and
East.
"A western paper boasts that there IL q
young lady in Kane county, ILL.,, by the name
Of Peck only fourteen years Of age. who
weighs 2O2 pounds. When that Peck grows
to be bushel, what whopper she will be-
The Washington correspondent Of the
Cincinnati Commercial says there is rumor 10
"Court Circles" that Lord Lyons, the British
Minister, will shortly lead Miss Harriet Lane,
tho Presidents niece. to the Altar
The State Of Michigan has forty three
cities and villages, containing over one thous.
and population each. The city Of Detroit has
the greatest number of people-75. 900. and
Grand Rapids 10 next. having population 81
$4,000.
Tho Montgomery (Ala.) Nail Of late
date says: The House of Representatives haa
passed bill and sent it forthwith t. the Sem
ate. by whom it was passed instantsr, imposing
$500 per day on al persons dealing in spiritual
manifestations. &C. Our departed friends can
not visit ~ At that price.
The Legislature of Virginia having au,
thori1ed . special term of the Circuit Court fol
the county Of Jefferson, Judge Parker has di.
rtcted notice to be given that the term will be
commenced on the first day of February next
1t is understood that Stephens and Hszlett
two of the Harpe,'s Ferry conspirators, will BE-
tried. Business not reached at the last regulal
term is also to be dispatched.
I'm some of the islands Of the Indian
Ocean, women are permitted to have 90 many
husbands - they choose. A young lady be-
| comes snamored Of . gentleman, and he Il
bound to unite in the holy bonds ct matrimo-
ny. even though half dozen men have pre-
ceded his advent to the family He loves if he
can. but marry her he must. Female sufferers
in Utah will find ample relief among the Nor.
mons of the Sea.
One Of the Republican members Of the
New Jersey Legislature has forsworn slave
products absolutely. few days ago, he ap
peared in his place. clothed in q suit in which
there was not thread Of cotton, either inside
or outside. Another one, long addicted to to.
bacco, declares he has taken his last quid. Al
. set of to the "homsspun" movement, thia
action of the Jersey patriots may be consid.
cred quid pro quo.
Troy, N. Y, has suffered much Of late
from the outrage Of throwing vitriol upon the
dresses Of ladies of that city The amaehins'
by means of which vitriol i. thrown consists
Of large hollow metallic finger ring, with q
small hole in it just large enough to permit
the flew of the small stream thrown. To thia
ring 10 attached . metallic cylinder, which
contains a tablespoonful and half Of vitriol.
From the cylinder projects the end Of piston
rod, to the piston rod 10 attached valve work,
ing inside Of the cylinder. The whole thing
ia worked on the principle Of an ordinary
equirt.gun or syringe. The ring 10 worn on
the finger, the cylinder being held in the hol :
low of the hand, and the small piston is worked
by the pressure Of the thumb to the end Of the
piston rod. 1t may be easily concs.lsd by
shutting the hand on the cylinder, 20 that to
ordinary observers it would only appear that
large sized lingering