Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1867-08-22

A young man named Lishia Smith was
drowed n Beutonspcrt last Thursday,

A young man named Lishia Smith vas
drowed q Bentonspcrt last Thursday.
James MGee-a store keeper d Farley
was drowned in the Maquoketa River at
Dyersvillc last week.
A member Of the tribe Of Smith, shot
himself seriously at Algona. the other day
while hunting blackbirds.
Bradley & Caswell. attornies at law at
Marshalltown, have a colored young man
reading law with them.
The Council Bluffs Ncnpareit is now fair
ly installed in its new Office, and they are
all now 'home again"
"Tippoo Sahib." Barn1m's elephant, broke
through . bridge 1t Burlington years ago,
and be has such . good memory that no per
suasion could induce him to cross il when
he came 10 il the Other dav.
The farmers Of Polk county fear that the
fails 10 . short time.
About two hundred teachers are in at.
tendance upon the State Teachers tonven
ton at Des Moines. Wednesday, III open
ing day, was spent 10 debates.
Engineers are ia Des Moines making pre-
parations for commencing work ON the low
and Missouri railway between that city and
Indianola.
The celebration by the Turn trs at Des
Moines has proved q splendid success. II
was held ct the Fair Grounds. Speaking,
gymnastics, shooting matches and other
sports we're the order OF the day on Wedncs.
day. In the evening there was a grand ball
at the Savery House.
A slittlo boy named Willie tBagley fell
from . porch in Muscsiins the other evening
and broke his nose.
The C5urm says that Muscatine is infest>
ed with . set of thieves. who make almost
nightly dcscents. and calls upon the author
ties for . stronger police force.
They have had . regular elopement case
near Ansmosa, and tho Eureka has n rich
account Of how one E%mmogeue lngsrscn
became Mrs. A. q. Lee Through window
A gentleman in Cedar Falls hid 4760 in
currency under his bureau. Upon looking
for it next day, he found it was gene. A
servant afterwards discovered it In . rat's
nest, less about $50. nibbled away.
Henry Overhalster. . German. VAS thrown
from his wagon near Fairfield, the othe,
day. and killed. His neck was dislocated
Cinnamon are coming into California thia
year faster han ever, nearly 5000 arriving
between the 10th Of May and 18th Of June
The annual loss by the wear Of coin !,
estimated at one>tsnth Of one per cent, and
the consumption bv the arts aud the loss
by fire and shipwreck OF So. 000, 900 ayear
A singular case comes to Is from Maren
go, lowa county Not long since, 40 thu
attendants Of Q ccrtain church in that towr
we're engaged in worship. tho attention o
the congregation was attracted BY the sin
gular conduct off young woman in th'
back par. Of the house. II was soon as
ccrtained that she was enduring the panga
Of maternity. The house was cleared, ant
in due time the population Of Marengo wa,
increased by ono. That Is "some place.
that Msrcngo. aud mole strange things hap
pen within ito corporate limits than in al,
other city in Iowa.
We do not think OUT people yet realiz,
the enormous crop OF small grain that hal
Just been harvested. 1, is undoubtedly tn,
largest ever raised in this State. Their,
arc places on the p~rairics In the northern
part Of this county, where, with the aid Of
a small field glass. one can easily count a
thousand stacks ready for %threshing.
Four young boys aged from thirteen I,
seventeen, and two girls, aged respectively
thirteen and sixteen, went into camp on al
Island, near Dubuque, and established q
regular thieves den. They used to max,
nightly descents on the adjoining shore.
and steal everything they could lay thei
hands on. In their lair on the Island, tn
boys and girls lived together in the mos
disgusting immortality, and the details o
their lives are almost too disgusting To-
belief, as they certainly are for prin.
The young rogucs were arrested by tn
officers.
Saturday afternoon, two little boys, on
a son and the other = nephew OF MIR. GeOrg
Valet, who resides about a mile this side u
Moscow. we're playing in the barn, whel
the older. aged about nine. found . gun
Aiming at his cousin. he playfully re,narke'
that hc was gong 10 shoot him, and pul'inI
the trigger the gun was discharged tn
aim was too true, and the boy sank bscl
and expired in = few minutes. The it'll
victim WAS an uncommonly intelligent child
only five years of age, and his death ha
cast a deep gloom over tle entire %ncighbor
hood. Why will people leave fire arm
within reach Of their children? We shoul,
think the accounts of similar casuaiitic
which appear every day in the papers, woul'
be warning enough.