Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1867-08-19
STATE ITEMS.

A Gas Company Is talked of in Oscs>
loosa
: A Bee. Sugar Factory is talked Of at
Council Bluffs.
Van Amburg's Menaeerie mao Il 800
at Fairfield.
The Abba Union urges the est.bli shment
Of a good academy in that thriving town.
TIE barn Of Nh Gwin, Of Clarence, Ce-
dar county, WAS destroyed by fire a few
days ago. A 500 horse WAS burned up in
the flames.
Good spring wheat il selling in Musca-
tine for fifty cents per bushel.
TIE next session Of the Upper Iowa Con-
ference Of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
will be held AZ Montezums, on the 29th
inst.
The Muscatine Courier says that Judge
Richman was offered $1,000 for his Wild
Hornet colt Cadet. The offer was refused;
cadet lisa horse Of promise.
The Upton Adrertiser says that Mr.. Zion
Howard who lives near that place, while
driving a reaper, WAS thrown from the seat
in front Of the sickle which immediately cut
Of his left hand about the wrist and one of
his ears and made a terrible wound in one
Of his legs.
The Iowa Voter states that the Marion
County Poor House has but eight or ten
paupcrs in 1t.
The Masonic Lodge at T.entonsport are
fitting up q new lodge room, which will be
lSx32t. with three ante>rooms.
The Cou, ell Bluffs -~Nonpare1 says they
I.un lx... - 49,. -. II, -.
successfully conquered the Sheriff Of Pots
tawa.tamie county.
Conrad trich, the Bonapsrto man, who
attempted to cut his throat, because a reap.
lug machine d.dn't cut his gram when IL
VAS engaged 10, has died from the injuries
The Iowa Voter gives the following &c.
count OF a fatal accident "On the 18th inst,
while Mr.. Jacob Miley was at work with
lis brother in his harvest field, some seven
miles from tswn, loading grain. no tried to
climb up on the load, when the stake to
which he was holding suddenly broke, end
he fell down under the horses. They start
ed up. and the wheel Of the wagon ran
oyer his neck and side, crushing him so ter
ribly that he lived but about half an hour.
The deceased was an unmarried man about
Abihbtc uEc.
Mr.. lilies, aged 76, fell down STAIRS in
Cedar Rapids a few days ago, and died in .
few hours afterwards.
a young man named John Hammond, Is
years old, a resident Of Glasgow. jefferson
county, blew his brains out with a shot
gun on the l2th inst, because he wanted TO
90 to the animal show and couldn't.
The Dubuque Herald says Ct the Iowa
Central Road ave understand that some
capitalists are negotiating with the lowa
Central Railroad Co., with a view OF furnish.
in. the iron, rolling stock, &c, for the en-.
tire line, as soon as the grading shall De fin
ished.
The Mt. Pleasant Free Iress states that
An attempt was male on the night Of the
l2th inst. by some awkward burglars to
chisel and hammer the money out Of the
safe in the office of the i. & NJ. Railroad in
that citp. They had their trouble for their
pains, and were scared away by the app
proach Of daylight.
The st. Louis Times gives the following
item:
Captain ". II. Austin. the bud stcatn-
boat agent. has boueh, ore-hslf # tie
steamer David Watts ~ the rate of SIG. 600.
She VIII BE placed IN the Upper Msslssip>
pi trade with that Old aud vel known N0r>
thcrn line pilot, Wash Hight in command
We learn that the late crew Of he sluscas
tine GOES on the Watts with Wash. We
a%nticipa,e "a good business for the Watts,
II sht being an experienced and popular
b~natn,an on the Upper Mississippi, ard the
bold Austin bein. one of the sh-ewdes, and
most energetic of steamboa. agents.
Y IL reported III Washington that Ir
Ashley Is 10 be ind cted FIR lis conspiracy