Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1860-03-02

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Mr.. Pillsbury. Superintendent Of Police
ia Nsv York. has resigned bic office
Rev. Chssncey Allss Goodrich. Professor
ofP.storal 1bsology At Ysle College, died -
hi reiidssesfn New Haven . Saturday.
.-Rovlssd Hill. the working hesd q the
British postal system. hes been appointed .
knight Commander Of the Bath.
The Cuban Government is getting up .
Regiment Of Zouavss At Havana, for the Dc.
fence of tbs.lslsnd.
1T has been decided that women are enti-
tied TO vote, at the election for School Trustees
in Upper Canada. if taxed.
The loss on property on the Lakes last
year aaounted to u ,02O, loo; the loss of life
10 los persons.
-Chstauqua Lake. in the State Of New York
is said TO be the highest body Of water ever
navigated by steam. It lies seven hundred
feet above the level Of Lake Erie.
The venerable Bishop Miles. Of the Cath-
ole diocese Of Tennessee died ct Nashville
last Wednesday. after shsrt illness from the
effects of . poralytic stroke
The steam carriage built BY Murdoch In
1885, many yesrs before. it il supposed TO
have been the first locomotive, while II 10 said
that still earlier one Was built 10 France.
"A movement 10 on foot TO extend the tss-
graph lines up the Mississippi river from La
Gross to st. Paul. line of telegraph has
just been completed between Pensacola. Fla
and Mobile.
An arrival Of dismonts ct London, lately
from India, include one for which the owner
demanded $500 900, Or about million and {
half dollars. The balance Of the stock sold
| readily at from IS. 900 to $4,000.
Tho Morss telegraph patent expires in 1861
and will then be tree to the public. II viii
and will give rise to . good deal Of compsti-
ti0n.
Steam has been used TO extinguish fires in
! workshops in several instances. lately in
France. A flexible steam.pips has been fire.
quently suggested as . cheap and efficacious
precaution in workshops where steam is used.
The receipts into the Treasury last week
were nearly . million and = half of dollars -
Drafts paid $S7 900; drafts issued a. $40 600;
reduction from amount on hand the previous
week 10 nearly 81. 396. 900. Having subject 10
draft upward Of $5.628, 900.
-"spalding's Prepared Glue" is conserve
tive preparation. The snterprising propris-
tors have forwarded . bottle Of it TO each Of
the members Of Congress, with . letter pray
ing them to stick together. A very good I'D.
Using dodge.
One Of the Pensbscot indiana recently ap.
II L. MAJ IN hni1 IL
tlibe new school house, and thus hgurativsly
described the old one: 1.-THE building has be-
come bald with age, and weeps now. within
and without. In every rain. and 10 e ragged
and tattersd - dead poplar in the woods.'
The Newburyport Herald says that the
strike among the shoenakers 10 not - extern
sivo as some Of the published statements
would lead one to infer. There are more than
and 90 far - the Herald can learn, not ten
| thousand have struck or intend to.
The agrieved and indignent darkiss Of
| Canada West, feeling that great injustice has
been done them by what they term the e base
cslumnies" of the newspapers. have called q
convention to be held In Sandwich, on the 9th
| Of March, on which occasion the sense Of the
meeting will be fully expressed.
"A dangerous fraud has been discovered in
the American sagle-the coin il not the bird.
The piece il split edge wise. both halves are
| filed thin, and in place Of place Of the gold
| filed away. piece Of whitish metal 10 put in
aud the coin re milled. The cheat is 30 good
that thirty bank tsllers in New York to whom
one of the fraudulent coins was shown, pro-
nounced it true and offered it at it, face. The
cheat was discovered by the specie clerk Of the
U. S. SubsTreasury.
In Cincinnati, last week. an only child Of
Mrs. EcLles. little girl about five years old
was fatally burned by the explosion ofa cam
phens lamp. The child had just concluded hsr
evening prayer preparatory to retiring for the
night, when the mothe picked up : camphene
lamp vhichlfsll from her hand. and breaking
the contents we're thrown ell over the clothing
| Of the girl. She was almost instantly envel
OPEL in sheet Of fame, and before 1t could
be sxtinguished. vas SO shockingly burned
that she died soon after.