Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1860-02-22


The Boston Post suggests that ladies
Whose rosesta cheeks are 2 u on, are persons
Of color" Shameful
The Kentucky Senate rejected the bill pro-
hibitng the marriage Of COUSINS, yeas II, nays
49,
A constable named David Croach levied
on horse in funeral procession in spring.
field. H., on Thur,dsy last and disgraceiui
difficulty ensusd between him and the driver
throwing the whole company into confusion
On the 10th inst . PARTY Of some thirty
desperadoss, armed With guns and pistols
made an attack upon the jailor At "s's1iy'
Tenn, gagged MIN, took the keys OUT OF .
pocket. and released six prisoners from the
jail.
"A rang Of horse thieves. infssting the
country between Kansas City and Lsaven-
worth. finding that the telegraph has more
speed than their mage and 40 iuterfsres With
Their business, are cutting the lines faster t1sn
their repaiEer can mend them.
MIR Thomas MeElrath. formerly one OF
the proprietors of the New York Tribune, has
been elected Corresponding Secretary OF the
An ericau Institute, Of salary Of 1880 per
aInum.
Two Irishmsn were detected at Peoria on
Friday night attempting TO set fire to the De.
pot buildings Of the LoganspCrt, Peoria. ara
Burlington Railroad Co. The plot was diseov-
cred and the scamps detected by detective
Whitney Frank from Chicago.
The location Of a National Cannon Fourd>
ry is 10 be one o: the questions over which the
North and South will wrangle. The North
Carolinians urge its establishment a. tho coal
fields on Deep River, while the Psnsyivania
claim the location at Pittsburgh or Harrisburg
Mean while the Navy Department has already
established a foundry for casting boai>guns
and trass work at the Navy Yard al Washing
ton.
"A farmer named Nelson Countryman, re
siding in tho town of Grand Rapids. La sAhe
county, Illinois, who has occasoned great
Indignation in h neighIorhood BY his brutal
treatment Of boy whom he adopted into his
family from the county Poor House, wss Welt
ID by party of so q sixty men, disguised a.
Indians on Friday night. who seized n,gave
him q coat of tar and feathers. rode him on a
rail. and warned him to make hinself scarce,
or prepare for more serious consequences
| s-It is stated that Mrs Blsndina Dudley has
c0lhms proceedings in the Supreme Court
| at Albany to have deed set aalde which
was obtained from her by Rutgsr b
| Miller, OF Utica and which conveyed to him
| large portion Of her estate. She says that her
name was procured to the deed by his al!sga
ton that the paper was a mere power OF ate
tornsy to transact certain businsss.
A most revolving swindle scheme is report
Ell in Jersey city. The parties directly accused
are those in charge of the New York Bay Gem
etery. 1t is said that their practice 10 to
place number of cofiins in vault until some
ten or dozen had accumulated-handsom
expensive coGins, bought and paid Tor By the
surviving friends of the dscassed-su bsequsnt-
" to remove the bodies, which are then hud-
died promiscuously in pine box and buried
bv wholesale and then to steal the collins to
take back to the ware room, and re Sell TO fu
ture customers The charges are undergoing
Investigation.
A PRorE.T AGAINST EARLY RISING DR. Hall,
in the February number Of his Journal Of
Health Gays:
"One Of the very worst economies OF whole
sale but blind conmendation OF early rising
Is as misehieveous in practice as it Is arrant In
theory. Early rising Is a crime against the
noblest part OF our physical nature. unless 1t Is
preceded by an early retiring. Multitudes OF
business men In large cities count it saving
vi Tune III tuey Chl uuhc d JOuiuey VI HuH"
red or two miles at night by steamboat or rail
way. 1t is ruinous mistake. 1t never fails
to be followed by want Of general we'll feel
ing for day or two after, if. indeed, the man
does not return home ACTUALLY sick, or so near
is as to be unfit for u full attention to his bus
siness for a week afterwards. When man
leaves home on business, it is always important
that he should have his wits about him ; that
tho mind should be fresh and vigorous, the
spirit lively, buoyant and cheerful. No man
can say that it is thus with him after night
on a railroad or on the shelf of a steamboat
The first great receipt for sound. connected
and refreshing sleep is physical exercise. Toll
i'd the price of sleep. We caution parents par
ticuarly not to allow their children to be
walked up OF mornings; but have care that
they 60 to bed at an early hour; let it be ear
lier and earlier, until it is found that they
wake up of themselves in full time to dress
for breakfast. Being walked up earley ard al
lowed to engage in difficult any studies, late
and just before retiring has given many be-
autiful and proming child brain fever.er deter
mined ordinary ailments to the production
Of water on the brain.