Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1864-03-01

Barnum has only made quarter Of q
milIioo since bic last failure.
The poor womss and children suffer.
ing in south western Missouri chop wood
It 90 cents PET cord.
A steam speep. shearer is among the
latest reporter Inventions. Steam rams
we're invented before
There is a movement on foot TO have
Gen. Sigsl appointed to the command OF
Westefn Virginia. II
Jobp MsrHssev has fought HE illuess
'uccessfdliv, and is about to resume
" business
A gang Of counterfeiters has recently
been broken up in Newark, Licking
county, Ohio. 1t is supposed that several
thousand dollars' worth of the fifty cent
currency had been struck Of, but only 4
little Of It was recovered by the oficers
A young man jumped from the window
Of Springfield hotel the other morning
to escape paying for his lodging. dut he
left he pocket book containing $50
under his pillow.
The Skowhegsnn Clarion says KITE
e. Ts,ior. Of Sydney, Me, during y
.svers coughing spell, brought mp into
Der mouth IN old fashioned ounce pi.
which she had swallowed when a child
and which has caused her much trouble.
Hsenan the beaten priS, 4 cher, does
not get Over his savage whipping Jet.
lie says hs reclec,s nothing Of 1t at-r
the frst Two Or thr.s rounds.
It i. .tima'ed that ship owners 10 and
about p rtisnd, Maine, have rca' Fed
$6ll0,5U0 for vessels sid in Eng aud
shc &C October, 1852.
The Knoxville Wing, OF the 18Th,
announces that the editor, Parson
Brownow, was 90 seriously i'll that bic
life was dcspsi,e ed o. /; but the rebel re-
port OF hs de.,h is probably not correct.
Senator Trumbuli, Of Illinois has been
called home by the d aih OF . little,
child three or four years old.
4 woman 10 under arrest at Syracuse
N. Y.,for desiroying her grand CT lid,
onlp three months old, BY giving it
vitrel.
San Francisco papers Of the 18th ult.
notice, withmuch cxultation, the cere.
mon Is attending the opening Of business,
on the previous day, Of the railroad t,
San Jose, 6f'y miles in myth which
ba. jnst been COMPLETED at cost Of ~,
OOO, 200, forming the fret scc,ioo onti.e
Pa.i6c slope Of the great contemplated
railway acroes the continent. The pros
poets are regarded as extremely fat.
teriog.
A WHOLE FAMILY FRczxx.-A driver
Of stage coach coming from Crown
Poiut, lod., to Lake via Centrev'lle,
found thai tbs house Of Mr.. Kru,zer
had been abusne,l the pre- vious night,
(Jan. Sd, but mono of the tstnilv were
to be sscu. He drove mile further on,
and vas horr,6sd to fiad that the father
and $50 boysi hsapns. we're ffoseu to
death. The three eospses we're placed
in the stage, bot bsfoie il hal proceed
ed more than qu.fter of nile on ite
destination, the body Of The eldest girl
vas found in . snow drift, With . shawl
wrapped closely around II, where II
doubtless had been deposited, BY i,s
weary mother, while yet alive, With the
hope that some chance traveller might
rescue il from it, impending fate. This
corpse, too, wss placed in the coach, aud
agsio it started on it, way, only to end,
sfler travelling short distance, the life
less relna,us Of The mother with the two
younge,t children. The body Of the
mother vas standing erect in snow
drift, With the cLild.ss in her arms, the
youngest being at the breaft. 9,,'gg g
In Chicago during 1893 there we're
IT. fire. and 70 slarms; !, total loss q
>aae, o00.--of this som, 4i90, 1000 VA
iosa,sd |; this i . loss Of @lo7, 4so BY
the neglect Of property holder. In
April the loss wss greatest-inJ July the
6rsa- Wsgo mast uumeYups, :. S