Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1867-04-11

81 LAOalls streets. VAS ssissd b. two ruis
0sns md dsaggsd into IN alley. wheFe hs
No. ruthIssoly beaten over the head wsse :
sIing shot and robbed Of . watch end some
money. After committing this dastsfd'y
oct the Williams vent Away leaving M. Hsy>
man living in the alley badly bruised; but
he finally succeeded in reaching the Repub
lican office and was carried 10 bis home.
LaSallc special Of the 10th says there
are about one hundred canal boats Tee
bound for Chicago, carrying probably five
hundred and fifty thousand bushels OF grain,
mostly corn. They will commence TO leave
during the day, 40 the canal is now being
filled.
A Nashville special Of last night says:-
An immense Republican Convention assem-
bled At Athens, Tenn, yesterday. More
than 1000 persons wsrs il attendance. The
cslossd population u the county were out
in great numbers. DISCHARGED seldisss
dressed 10 bloc, mounted, hseded ths pro
eessisa pssesdsd b. ~ Knsxvills coloesd
band. Speeches were made By Horace
MAYNARD, Col. Brownlow and W. A. Pattcs.
son. The great speech Of ths occasion was
BY A. +. Anderson, colossd. The snthu
siasm - Csaessss aad Brownlsw was per-
itetay svssWhslmiue.
The damage ~ the recent Hood ffom Bris.
tol TO Chattanooga 10 estimatsd ct fifteen
millions Of dollars.
A wretch in human saape, named Valen-
tine Hesler. was, yesterday afternoon, ar
rested for the commission Of . monstrous
crime, for the psrpetration Of deed most
sickening and revolving. Tho crime Of this
individual consists in the ravishing Of his
only child, fair and intelligent girl OF only
thirteen years Of age. Last fall Hesler had
some difficulty with his wife, which resulted
in his shooting her. Alarmed for the con
sequences, he fled, but was ovestaken at
Aurora, in this State. and brought back to
Chicago. The wound which he had inhict>
ed upon his wife, was most dangerous and
painful; even now she is still in the hosplt
81. Nevertheless his wife refused TO pros
ecute him, or appear against him. After
fis assault upon his wife he spent his time
very irreguls-ly sometimes he worked
steadily at his trade, but often was drunk.
A few weeks ago, he took his daughter from
the institution wherein she had bseo placed
and removed her 10 boarding house, whore
he took up quarters. About week ago, he
lsft, but ordered his daughter to remain
Yesterday mesniug while lsboring under the
effect Of liquor, be called On his daughter at
her room, began 70 abuse her to such degree
th:t people below ON the stairs were ala, IN !,
ed at his violence but il appears that he
abused HE daughter not alone with words.
ATTAINED With drink and excited by an un.
natural passion, it 10 alleged that he drag
ged his child to . bed and there outraged
her person. He then cautioned the girl to
b quiet and left her. But the woman who
keeps the house had more thas suspicion
Of what had occurred. She questie red the
girl and information which WAS terrfully
hssitatiaely and with manifest fear, given
confirmed her sufmises. Upon learning The
facts she q once sent for policeman. The
unnatural father was taken to the Armory
A Journal Sc. Joseph No. special Of ths
llth. says: We have Salt Lake dates Il
The 97eb. and Montana - the 10th. Stormy
weethsr eth prevailed throughout NEST part
Of Utah. According 70 the telegraph, peaches
part Of the territory. The Pest tells Of ter
ribls suffsrisg in neotana during the late
ssld spell. Archie n .Ossdy and the hers,
be rode were frozen - death near Dancock
Five other men are mentioned, who are &C
frozen that Gmputation Of their limbs vii
be necessary, and Ne should think from tn,
description, that nome Of them would die.
The Temperature ranged ct from 46 to 81
degrees below zero.
The trial of the cave Gulch prisoner va.
progressing 1t Helena.
The people Of Montana are getting up q
invition to Prot. Agassix to visit them as
guest Of the Territory.
IL is believed that The ST. Louis and Mon
tans Company will take out one millor
dollars from their lodes the present year.
A correspondent Of the Gazette, writing
from Highland Guleh, says: The GOLD
quartz leads in that vicinity sr,
very rich. The silver Leadss yield forty
dollars to the ten BY taking piece Of silver
quartz and heating il in . blacksmiths
forge globules Of silver the size of . pin
head will ooxe out. The slucing claim O
H d. Mansfield has yielded from 900 Il
1909 dollars il gold per day.
The same correspondent says that neal
Red Mountain City there are three distinct
Carriers Of IN extinct volcano upon
throwing stone il them, net sound can b,
heard Of then teuehing bottom.
A fatal sass Of aeeideotal shooting occur.
red in THE sisy Yesterday. An Irishnau
whe was examining . gun, which be Wal
about to purchase, when il Was discharged.
and the load Of buckshot lodged in the right
leg Of Mrs. Murray, the lady Of the house
causing her death BY hemorrhage in about
two hours.