Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1867-05-22

Eldora Is going to have telegraph.
4 reading room for the juveniles is 70 b
started in hit. Pleasant.
kecsauqua is going to build snspensio,
bridge over The Dss aoines.
There are three hundred patients in III
Insane Asylum al 1T. Pleasant.
A pike Weighing 25 pounds was recent,
caught Ia ono Of the Hardin Count
slcughs.
Ebraham Mitchell, cf Polk Township
Jefferson county, bad bis barn. worth Al !
600, destroyed By fire last week.
Col BraGshsw, OF Cedar Co.. has been I.
kentucky. aud purchased 8 <l4, coo horse
lie claims him 10 be the finest horse in th,
west, both for beauty aud speed.
A thief named Boyd, stole $40 from ,
bakery shop in dialogue the other day,
while the proprietor had his attention csiled
In another direction. Boyd Was arrested
and viii probobly have to sweat for it.
Abraham Froez., 81 years old, and an old
resident Of Des Moinss. was found dead 20
his bed last Sunday morning. The nigo'
before he was In good health. cause euP>
posed 20 be heart disease. 50 says sne AV
later.
A house near Bsriinston was struck BY
l;ghtn;ny The othes night, while nine per.
sons ver. within, and strange to cay, 90
one w. hurt. not withstanding the lightning
came down tho chimney, and tore up the
door in IL passage TO the earth.
dubuque epicurcs have been fessting on
buffalo meat. Some bufgaloes lave been
wntered there. In attempting TO take them
East the other day, q COW ia attempting to
free herself turned sommersaut and broke
her neck--hence the buffalo meat.
The Eldora Ledger says thai 10000 tons
OF coal were excavated from the mines of
Hardin county last year. And yet thsse
mines have been but comparatively recently
opened. Tho manufactures Of the county
We're over Sl7, 900 last year. A good SHOW
ing indeed.
The Muscatine Journal declares that there
were more improvements made in Museatne
last year, than there had been made foi the
previous six or eight years, but there will be
more made this year than last. Bluffs are
ocing 'eveled, hol.ows filed up. Improves
ment is going on 10 every part Of the city.
Erastus Rhodes. twelve years old, while
fishing on the dam Of LAshrop's mill, Al
Steamboat Rock, last week, was caught in
the main shaft that runs the mill burre.-
The Ledger says he had his legs broken in
two places, his breast and side bruised aad
broken in, and his arm broken in two pla>
ces, and The whole body fearfully scariiisd.
DEcIDsp-We ses Il annsunesd in The
Reiigisus telegraph that the suit in sslation
10 the lowe Southssn College located At
Albion, Marshall County, We belisve-has
been decided. In this decision Of the Court,
the college 10 dec ared 10 Ne the property Of
the Iowa Lutheran Synod. The Court fur
Their held. that Il wac an inalisnabls trust.
The Muscatine Journsi learns that SAT-
geant Joseph Griffith. Of the 22d Iowa ln<
fantry, whs at the head Of eleven members
Of his company, entered the rebel works q
Nicksburg In the famous assault q che 22d
Of Msy. 1868. and ives afterwards through
the influence Of Gen. Grant, cent % Wsst
d his class. Ills home Ia Iowa City.
Pieces Of petrifled wood have. been found
IN Hardin county, evidently maple, and
which were taken from the heart Of Q red
sandstone rock. sixty feet from the mouth
Of the main drift, and one hundred and
twenty feet from the surface OF the ground
They bear tho marks Of an axe. or some
sharp instrument on their surface. They
are curiosities for gcologists. Dubuque Her
dM.
The boiler of saw mill belonging to Maf
iatt X 70, situated in Pleasant township in
The northeast par; OF Lucas county exploded
on Monday, May 10Th, aihnga woman who
vas acting rs fireman, and dangerously
sounding man who happened to be near.
The boiler was thrown forward about 20
ttc', and the smoke stack was landed in a
tee wheic II now !emains. The poor wo
man survived about an hour, but her suf
iermgs were TERRIBLE. We CLEAN from the
Dcs Moincs Register. =
The Fairfield Ledger tells the following
joke: A sharp "daown Eust" Boston bum
iner bit himself mos; cgregously the other
day in our town. lie was passing a shop
we've some boys had two young hawks. He
IN de inquiry about the Young
fag'es. To carry out the joke, no was told
al. about the habits o. the eaoles Of this
eountry. and what fine birds they were. lie
bad read about The live eagle Of . " iscon>
sin regiment, and his love OF the glorious
bird led him to ask the price. Upon being
that one could 10 bought for IS
cents, or both Tor $i.25, he closed in and
bought one. Some of his friends, who were
standing by, told him that the one he had
bought was female grey eagle, and the
,ther was a male bald eagle. He immcdi>
s,ely purchased the other. Ito then pro.
'urel box and shpp his eagles 10
ricnd in Boston, at coat in all of about
sl.Oo. On his return to Boston he will
earn how lie has been ha,oieyed in Iowa
Ne doubt whether his friend will appraei,
Il the gift. Pity the h ys didn't have a
ouplc OF huzzards to sell him for condars.