Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1862-10-22

we're bound ior Iowa City.
Oua friend James Handkerchief, Of
Clinton, hes received On appointment
- Brigade Commis.ary.
DEAp.-D~ight N. Perry, . soldier
10 the Iowa gath, At Muscatine, died on
Friday last. He enlisted at Upton, and
Was taken there 70 be buried.
KILLED BY ISDrAss.-Andrew J. Hun.
ter, who left Iowa City las. spring Tor
the Salmon River gold mines, was kill.
ed 10 . fight with band Of Snake In.
dams on the 9th Of August.
DrMocRArIc.-The Board Of Super.
visors Of johnson county bas changed
its complexion. It wss strongly Repub.
lican last year, but now has Democrat
ic majority.
JxwrLKR BY the name Of Prcchaska
At Burlington, was victimized 10 the sum
Of about $4,000 10 jewelry on Friday
night last. No clue to the thief has
been obtained.
Hoo CHOLERA. = The Muscatine
Courier says that the hog cholera is
carrying of great many swine in that
county. 1t knows Of farmers who have
lost from thirty to . hundred. The
cold weather will perhaps put an end to
the disease.
A Colonel IN THE REBEL SERVICE
Mr.. l.. &. Allen, who LETT Dewitt as
member OF Capt. Leffingwell's company
last year, deserted the Federals about
the 4,h of July, and has been promoted
to a Coionelcy among the rebels, in
Rains division. He was formerly from
Arkansas.-Lyons Mirror.
A SERIOUS AccrDENr.-Last Sunday
morning the cannon used at Camp Kirk
wood for firing the morning and eve-
ming salute., busst into q dozen pieces.
George Peck, a private in Company A,
was struck by one piece, which chatter
ed his right leg below the knee so that
it is doubtful whether smputation can
be avoided. No other person was in
jured. The gun was cast iron one, and
a miserable affair. 1t belonged 10 the
city, but has been in use all the season
at the Camp Clinton Herald.
TIE Iowa STATE FAIR.-The recent
Fair OF the Iowa State Agricultural So
ciety at Dubuque, notwithstanding all
adverse circumstances, was nevertheless
a marked snccess, al appears By the fol.
lowing financial statement, made by a
| reporter for the Dubuque Herald. He
says:
The total amount of premiums award
ed and paid in fol! is about 81 800, and
the total receipts of tho fair about ga
600. The amount received from the
State is $4,000 per annum. The ex.
penscs were about 100. The fitting
up Of the ground cost over s., 900, and
has been paid by subscription by the
citizens Of Dubuque.
The receipts from tho Fair in 1857
we're s., $50; in 1853, So, s43; IN 1859
s2,l16; in 1860, $S,426. In 1861, a,
Iowa City, the receipts were less than
ever before, on account Of the bad
weather, and the exhibitors were salts
fed with halt premiums. The balance
in the Treasury after each Fair, has MOI
been 500, except in 1855, when it wal
S77l. This year it is supposed the bal
a.ce will be about 81, 500. These fig
ures, and the success of the Fair this
year, notwithstanding three days Of
very unfsvorsbie wsathar, shows tn,
good policy ofholding the Fair generally
on the Mississippi river, and we trust i
will be held at Dubuque. The receipt,
would have been much greater this yeal
had it not been for the enlistment o
nearly ~ regiments in Iowa for the
war, and the consequent absence o
many thousand men and their families
The same causes prevented the attend
auce Of thousands Of people from Mime
sofa, Wisconsin and Illinois,"
| Gov. KIRKwooD AT HOME.-Tht
voice Of Governor Kirkwood's neigh
bors is against him. Those with whom
he has lived for many long years.
those with whom he has done business