Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1865-07-19
STATE ITEMS.

| Mrs. Jane Newton, Of Decatur county,
was killed by lightning few days since.
The total valuation Of real and personal
property in Wapello county is s., 500, 10.
Fifteen new houses are going up in New
| ton.
Rev. Mr.. DE Loss, Pastor Of the Presby-
terrain Church at Marshalltown, died few
days since.
| 1t is reported that heifcr in Chickasaw
county, which never bore calf, is yielding
large quantity Of milk.
| \ stranger named Butler, temporarily in
sane, died at the Summit House, Iowa City,
few days since
MURDER TRIAL.--Jamcs Medley is now on
rial at Des Moines for the murder Of Pat
rick Cassidy IN August. 1851.
We are grati6ed to learn that w. w.
Blknap of this State. who so long ard so
successfully commanded "Thc Iowa Brig
AIDE, has been brevcitcd Major General Of
vVIuuttcIS
The population of Council Bluffs is 2,o75'
as we learn from the NonpafeH Number
of voters, COS; Of foreigners not naturaliz-
ed, 90, of dogs, 3l5; Of owners Of dogs,
%.
George Wilkinson, a young scoundrel,
beat his sister at Muscatine with heavy
strap until she was nearly insensiblc. So
says the Muscatine journal.
The population of johnson county, as
given 10y the Iowa City Republican, is 49,
T7S-increase in one year, l,594. Greatest
proper donate increase is in Iowa City.
The drawer of Mayer Rich, clothing
merchants at Washington, was robbed OF
$50 few days since by young man nam
ed Morchouse. lie was caught in the act
Two other establishments in the same place
were robbed
| Mrs. ID. Newsome, Of South English
kcokuk county, was severely, and, it may
he, fatally burned by the explosion of an
WI S"ii III MI t,ut iidi btSti III NV
habit of starting fire with kerosene, and
the accident occurred in that way.
\ farmer by the name Of Sclustcr, in
Dubuque county, was fooing with rattle
snake head alter it had been severed from
the body, and was bitten in the thumb. His
hand and arm swelled up enormously, aud
at last accounts there was no hope enter
tanned Of his recovery.
man by the name of Carpenter pitched
into conyal,scing soldier ov,r in Marion
county, and beat him in such a manner as
to render his recovery doubtful. Suisse
quently five or six men took Carpentcr from
his house, whipped him terribly, and or
dered him to leave the country. The men
were arrested, examined before magis-
trato, and fined. Pretty style Of magis
trates they have in that section.
SABLE.-A colorcd school has been organ
lied at Burlington.
II. N. Conkln, a citizens Of Wyoming,
Jones county, was drowned while crossing
the Wapsie, at Oxford Mills, last Saturday.
A National Bank has been organized
at Winterset, Iowa, with capital Of $5o,-
900.
We are informed by the Newton Banner
that there have been $4,000 sheep shearcd
in Jasper county this season. At an aver =
age Of four pounds Of wool to the sheep
this would give 152. 900 pounds, worth, at
sixty cents per pound, the sum Of S9l 900.
Burrhus. the proprietor Of a wretched
humbug show, was recently arrested in Har.
din county on a well authenticated suspicion
that he was President Of company Of horse
thieves.
The Leon Decatur Co.. Neus says that
IN one drift Of Lockwood after the late fresh
ct in that region. eighty dead sheep were
found, supposed to have belonged to Messrs.
Craig, Davis, and Bozarth.
The Iowa State Pres says that Mrs. n.
}. McArnich has obtained IN the Cedar Co.
District Court judgement Of four ,hous-
and dollars against the n. 4. n. r. r Co.
Tor damages in the killing Of her husband
on that road in 1862.
The Keokuk Gate City says ii is inform.
ed by Col Swift, Medical Director of that
Department. that within the last six weeks
over eight hundred soldiers from the Hos
pitfalls there have received their final
papers upon which they can get their pay |
at full.