Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1867-04-10
STATE ITEMS.

B!airstown claims q population OF tive
hundred.
The spring session Of the state lniversi-
" commenc, d on Thursday last.
Whites Wooden Factory. at wi,ierset,
commences operations next Monday
The Dubuque Times savs that all Old /
Fellows Lodge was vr.nn'zeJ at Nanch,s-
ter Oh the 2o,h ut
The horse railroad q.cs,,on ~ the late /
elecu n IN Dubuque passed almost nn,ui- /
mous'y.
$. T.. Whtchcr hss been appointed Deg |
u,y Internal Revenue Assessor OF Nusca
tine, rice John =. Dawson.
The Dubuque Herald says that the cars
on the d 4 ). c. X. X. were snow bound
on the Let near Ackley.
Muscstiuc county has one hundred pubs
lilo schools, in which are employed ore
hundred and fifteen achers.
A couple Of thieves were arrested in
Muscatiue list Saturday night, who bad
stolen tll5 in Wapello, and made
good their escape to that city. Doubtless
,hsy will 20 to III. Mauison ss tho rcsult
The Iowa City Rcpubiicaa Gays that the
bank deposits in that city were $4,000
greater o.. tho lst IL Apri! than on the st
of January
] From the Csrro Gordo Rrpublicas we
! ieainn that a cheese factory 25Af6 feet is
I IA process of erection ut Strawberry Point,
4 Clayios county
IA -
r,son has been coniiImed Collector vi Gus
! toms at ,tst city
Ga Friday lus, yauHe Rutledge had his
nosc blow. off and one eye seriously injur>
/ ed by the brcech PIN Ct his g0n blowing
out while he was duck hunting.
1 r. The proprietor of the B,azleton House a,
! Mt. Pleasant announces through the lat is>
sue Of the Free Press that ",ae insuiivrAbls
nuisance o! being pesterrd with hor.es Of
lo,fers Oh Sunday require . remedy which
will be effective All iAndlards in the
world would echo amen to u suppression
this asominsbls plague.
Darn OF an EDlros.--George \. Schocn-
over. formerly editor aud publisher u the
/ Stsry County Rereille, died AZ Nevada al
Monday night last, Of consumption. lie
entered the military service "a member Of
the First Iews Infantry, and vas wounded
! ia the arm 1t the battle 81 Wilson's Creek.
After the expiration Of his term Of enlist
inert he commencsd the publication Of the
Here lie, and continued il for about . year
and half, and then rs.eulisted, ~ mems
her Of the Twenty Third Iowa Infantry
lie served until the close Of the wsr. and
last fall ives elected Recorder Of Story Co -
His health had been gradually failing fos
several months, bnt on Sunday last he grew
unexpectedly worse, and died on Sunday
night. lie was . good solder, worthy
member Of the editorial profession, and .
citizen universally respected.
The Pres says the Irish labcrsrs have
stampeded from Jasper county end expect
TO take up somewhere vest Of Dss Moinse
The heavy wssk % the line II the railroad
through jasper county is about finished up.
The Jasper Free Pess says that the work
On the road between Kellogg and Newton il
} rapidly spproachnfi csmpletico. Some few
light alls are yet TO be completed, and the
laborers find II no easy task 70 sink through
frsst near six feet deep TO obtain materials
a. make the fills n the westher remsins
favorable. the cars will be in Newton some>
time during this rDou.h.
The same paper records another case OF
burning TO dpath-n.a'ly. Mrs. George
Bourden, OF Clesr Creek township, Jssrer
county. was standing near, or leaning over
. stove on Sunday evening last, when her
clothes took ne. Mrs. Joseph Lowry, Wis.
iting there at the time, with great presence
of mind seized the woman dragged her from
the house, dashed her in the snow. and thus
exiting uish.d the nsmes, but not until she
VAS 20 badly burned that Ter life VAS de-
SPARED Of.