Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1865-08-18
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WIN CoYStuS " vOVVVVSUVU.
The management Of this AMIR il in ehs
hands Of The most energetic and in0uential
business go IN this section q Tie safe II
lows. We have assurance that 20 soon q
the people Of that section ascertain that our
North Missouri rosd y % b promptly .push.
I'd through 70 the Iowa line, the extension
in hist State viii b. commenced upon and
the3gyadihg d W road bed completed an
The way through, before tho iron-horss on
our side can reach the prairies on theirs. Il
b - - hsped III The Interested vim vpt
their shoulders to the wheel and push The
road forward TO completion lowe needs the
extension Of this road TO afford her On outlet
for trade and travel. But quite - much
st. Louie needs to secure The npmense and
rapidly increasing trade Of that fertile coun.
try.-St. Louis Republican.
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SrATE TEENS.
The Third Presbyterian Church Of Des
hoines have lately purchased . splendid
organ.
The body Of A. Casanetss, who was
drowned in Dubuque, last Monday has been
recovered.
A letter 10 lying 1t the Post Office Of
Muscatine, addressed to the "Prettiest Girl
under the Sum-"
. TIE wspelIo Rspsbliess says the little
stsamss "Tustle'' he's been making frequent
trips - thas place recently, principally 10.
den with lumber.
The Saturday night train on the Des
Aoines Valley Road, fas over and killed
head Of cattle near Ottumwa. They belonged
to Mr.. Michael Roos.
The wife Of Rev. Mr.. Merlin was severely
injured while riding in buggy at MONT
cello, lsst Monday, BY the running away d
horse
Yhs Herald says there is being so little
mineral taken out in Dubuque now that it
10 almost impossible 70 establish price for
that article. The closing up Of the rebel
lion has put . dampsr. on mining pros.
poets.
The Leon Nsus of recent date says
On Friday last young man, whose head
and beard were bleached near white by the
frosts and SHOWS of serenty-thres winters,
was united in marriage with blooming lass
Of only eighteen summers, by Rev. J. G..
Porter of tins place.
II is now . settled fact that the railroad
between Cedar Rapids aud Vinton will
soon be built. The vinton Eagle says that
it win be completed BY the lst Of January.
1867, and from all the information We can
gain We are inclined to think that the Eagle
is about right.
| SAD DEATH OF A SoLDIsR--Lt. 8. Sims
Of Co. b, 27th Iowa Infantry, died 1t the
Soldiers Home in this city, on Thursday
night last. lie had arrived with his rcgi
ment Wednesday noon, suffering with con
gestivc chills, and was at once conveyed te
tho Home, where he received ski.lful medi
cal treatment, and al the careful attention
that could be desired, but all to no avail hs
expired ct 10 o'clock Thursday, having lain
in An utterly unconscious state for fully 81
hours previous to his death. Telegram
announcing his dangerous sickness had been
dispntchcd TO his wife, but she did not ar
rive until Friday morning, and when she
learned that her husband was already dead,
she gave way to the most despairing and
incongolablc grief. But few day previous
she had received letter with the Joyful
tilings that be was homeward bound, and
she had counted the days to his arrival with
happy anticipation. Alas! little did she
and her four children 1t home think Of his
returning = corpse! How fearfully crush
ing tho sad reality and yet how often d.
such instances repeat themselves. Ctintoi
J Herald
A GRsAr Scans AT NewBERN, N. c.
few days since Ncwbern was dreadfully
alarmed at posters. placed in conspicuou
places all over the city, in these mystcriou
characters:
Il.
O. B.
Here was plot The Mayor called upor
his officials to tear the incendiary documen
down, which could mean no less. he suppos
ed, than Rise, Colored Brethren" Wher
all but twenty three were destroyed, tn
q agent Of Komaines' Ctiinean Bitters rushet
into the Mayors Office in . great passion
complaining Of the destruction Of his pos
ters, which explained the mystery, much I,
the Mayors modification. He tried to husl
up the matter, but SO good joke for tn
military officers soon leaked out, and causet
a great laugh at the worthy officials ex
pense, and brought the medicine into great
or notoricty than any advertisement coult
have done.
| A SEVERE VERDrcr-Thc following i
the verdict rendered by the Coroners Jury
appointed to investigate the facts connected
with the death of William L. Stephens, o
Washington, Iowa, who Was killed at TIN
late railroad accident near Ainsworth:
STATE OF Iowa,
Washington County
An inQuisition holden at Washington
Washington county, Iowa, on the nth day
of August, A. ID. 1865, before Robert w
McElrov, Coroner of said COUNTY, upon. tn
body of William l.. Stephens, then lynn
dead, by the Jurors whose names are hercta
oaths say that the said William l.. Stephen
came tn his death on the 10th day of August
A. ID. 1865, from injuries received by TIN
falling of the bridge of the Mississippi d
Missouri Railroad, over the north branch 0
Long Creek, in Oregon township, Washing
ton county, State Of Iowa, said bridge b III,
The first bridge east Of the town Of Aims
| worth, in said county The said jurors ar,
{ fully satisfied that the bridge was, on I'll,
{ 10th day of August, 1868, and had been 70
a considerable time, totally unsafe and unti
for the passing of railroad trains, and tina
the catastrophe by which the said William
l.. Stephens came to his death, was the di
rect result Of gross negligence ON the part O
the managers Of said Railroad Company re
speeding said bridge.
} In testimony whereof, the said jurors hav
hercunto set their hands the day and yea
} aforesaid.
HOWARD NJ. HOLDEN,
WM. WILSON,
4 JAMES N You've,
49, TEARS OF SYMPATHY.
II there are . class Of persons deservin,
, the sympathy and pity Of the sound il
health. ittsthe poor disabled victim Of Scrof
ulous Ulcers, Chronic Sores, whose bodie
' nPA N dinfivurnd nth .r,,ns;~~ .a:.>. .