Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1867-03-06
STATE ITEMS.


The Dubuque Board Of Trade has adopt
Cd the Genital system.
The Dubuquers propose building MAJ
sonic Hall this season.
The people Of Ot.umwa are agi.ating the !
question Of bridge over the Des Moifesst
that place.
Col. T. II. Stantoa. q popular lowaian.
has been appointed piymsster IN tho regu-
lar army
Mrs. Anna NJ. Longton, 40 esti'Dable lady,
and . resident Of Dubuque since 1888. d'ed
in tha, city on the I'd inst
Patrick Norton, an cd settler Of Dubuque.
died in fit Of appoieSy or the % inst lie
was an industrious and vel 10 do man.
Dubuque Is the present rendezvous Of .
gang Of burglars, who are committing almost
nightly dspredstions, - We learn from the
Herald.
The Cedar Rapids 4 Missouri River Rail-
road Company has recently paid the tax oa
"a. C63 acres OF land in Boone Co., amount
Ing to the snug little sum Of $5.557.
From the Jefferson Era Ne learn that
while Michael Russell, . workman on the
railroad, Was standing near the tender Of
the snow plow, which Vas pumping water
on the main track. he u IS struck and almost
instantly killed. Al the time the snow was
flyioK in al directions, and no blame 10 At
tsched to the engineer. Mr.. Russell leaves
Q wife and three children at Msgona.
Edwin NJ. Lucas has been confirmed as
Postmaster ofllowa City.
The Burlington Hawkeye assumes to be
the dictator OF the Republican party OF TINS
State and reads newspapers and individuals
out of the party for standing up for the peo-
PIES ishts and against the tarih bill.
|, A BouScrSo BABY.-Ths Clay ton county
Journal saws that Mr. and Mrs. Livengood
nrs the happy parents of q baby girl
. which 10 but nine months old and weighing
IS pounds. 1t measures nine inches around
the arms and slevenssinches around the
calves Of the legs.
' Last Friday contrac; Was entered into
by the Toledo, Western and Wabash, the
Toledo. Psoria and Warsaw, and the Dsa
Noinss Valley X. r. Companies. on the one
part, and the holders OF . charter for bridg
ing the Mississippi, At Keokuk, on the Other
part, by which these railroad companies
, bind themselves jointly to erect railroad
and carrisgs-way bridge over the river there
within tive years, or in case Of unusually
high water within three years.
TaE FLooD II VERMoHr.-The Montpelier
(Vt.) correspondent Of the Boston Journd
writes that The "asps-t Of affairs st the un
= fortunate village Of West Hartford 10 disolat'
in the extreme. am told that Yesterday
y only two owners Of residences in that re-
Gently pleasant village were occupying them
" Al others driven from their hsmes BY thu
ranges Of the recent flood, have sough
g shelter elsewhere. The whole extsnt Of tn
l. village, with the exception above named
o reveals only vest fields Of ice. shattered
~ buildings topplsd from Their foundations
}, broken fences. carriages, sleighs, fasein
% utensils, household furniture, and the dea'
u carcasses Of horses, cattle, sheep and hogs
70 IL must be weeks If not months. before tn
waste can be repaired. The mountains O
ice ere too much 20 10 removed, except b
the slow process Of . warm sun. No suci
\ bitter c,hmity ever Tell upon Vernon
q village b, fore