Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1867-11-18

The Courier says that Muscatine is 10
have lirst-ciass skating park.
The Dubuque Herald lays that Michael
Mchcever was arrested at fsr.cy on Thur
day last, on a charge OF dctrauding the gov
crnment.
Michael Hardy of Dubuque, while mailing
up box. hal al eye entirely put out by
bong hi by flying nail
The Quincy Herald SAYS "thrcshing mn
chine assassinations and cane mill murdev,
are the general items OF news cleaned from
Iowa papers.
Tho Dubuque Times records the shock
ing murder ot an infant child BY little ie
uSie iiend thirteen years old. When
iAuHd It's little skull was crushed, and its
hands, fingers aud feet broken aud man gled
The same paper mentions the ares. Of r.
W. Richards, the mysterious burglar. At
Cedar Falls His trunk Was filled with
clothing, iewclry, trinkets and burglar 8
tools. A portion Of the stolen goods have
been identified. lie is bound for Fort Mad
ison.
A man 10 Muscatins county took 100
lbs Of wool to the Iowa City wooden mlls
to have 10 made into cloth. Calling in
about four weeks he got 20 yards Of thin
flannel, weighing 80 lbs, aud paid &2S for
having it manufactured. He smells 4
swinds. So says the journal. Let him
come to Davenport then With his wool.
The Dubuque Times says that during the
last few days Mr.. Vim. Kelly has discovered
an Immense body Of mineral or rather Ave
Immense bodies, for the crevice leads TO five
different caves, 81, Of which arc 'chock
fuli'' Of mineral. The crevicsNw hlch leads
to theae caves 10 but . cOntinuation Of the
lover drift Of the shaft from which 90 much
mineral has been raised during the past
two years. Some weeks since NJ. Kelly
became convinced that there were caves
ahead" Of the crevice ct which they we're
then working. Without saying even Z
word o. TO his object, he commenced drift
ing and crawling. About two hundrsA feet
from the SHAFT esstwsrdly. be broke through
INTO the 6rst ''cave," which il eighty eight
feet long. about twenty feet high, end some
ten or twelve feet WIDE From the walls
and cap-rock Of this cave, mineral pro-
trudes in great chunks-it sticks out every-
where. The cave narrows to A crevice
again, and through this Mr. Kelly cravled.
AID reached another cave of nearly the
same dimensions as tho former. And here
Is mineral again-abovc, around. beneath
An experienced surveyor of mines. who has
surveyed some of the greatest lodes ever
discovered here, says that the "show. in
these caves IA the largest he ever saw. At
least one million pounds of mineral isin
sight. Then there ere "chimneys" full Of it
II besides. and it crops out Gil. along the
marrow erevice.
One would think there was mineral
enough already discovered 20 satisfy .
miner. Butno; Mr.. Kelly crawled through
another marrow "crack, till he came to the
cave OF caves" There is no estimating
the minersi in this place. The cave is nesr.
" two hundred feet long and twenty one
ieet high the exact width We did not learn.
THESE things have been Kept dark-though
u - quite vide. The leaden wealth fairly
cutters everywhere in this cave. One
can pick up stone for the lead," was the
remark made BY one who has crawled to il,
~ is estimated that considerably over mil
non OF pounds Of mineral is in sight here
East OF these are two other caves. Of the
extent OF which we know nothing, but it is
sad that they sre both very richly stored
win ore. or course 1T 10 useless to a.
Tempt to compute the value Of these die.
cove'ies. but We do believe On offer 81
$3.50 600 would be smiled At BY the cwnere
OF the iease-the Kelly estate and Messrs.
Waters 4 Coates. Three other parties ere
esd to have rent interest along the lite
OF the crevices and caves. and one Of them
mas refused goodlx sum for his share.