Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1867-02-27
DATI DEMOCRAT.


The bridge over the wapsie. ., oxford,
has gone up'-cause. high water and iee.
Gen. II. n. Heath of Dubuque. has been
appointed and confirmed Secretary of New
Mexico.
The skaters Of ermont, Iowa, place live
rats upon the ice and then chsse them TO
death.
A Mr.. Beechly, OF Marshall County, re-
Gently sold two hogs, weighing respectively
GAS and 5a5 pounds.
On Sunday last Jas. Hunt, farmer near
Earville. wss hooked BY = bull. the horn en-
tesing just below the right shouldse blade,
inflicting . severe wound. Dubuque Her
aid
The Stste Register says that the property
of Polk County ID valued at seven million
dollars, and that Of the city Of Des Moines
At three million two hundred and ninety
thousand.
A man BY the name Of Gilbert Gilbertson,
vas found hanging BY the neck in Como
yer, on the 2Sth ult. He came from Nor.
way . short time since. and had repeatedly
threatened to destroy himself. We CLEAN
from the DEBORAH Register.
The Charles City Intellioenccr tells of .
Young man Of that place who was recently
entrusted with money to bring his father
nome good family sewing machine. lie
carried Of neighbors girl TO Dubuque,
married her, and brought her home.
An express train on the Northwestern X
r. was thrown from the track bv broken
rail near Marshalltown, at one o'clock last
Sunday morning. All the cars were badly
smashed, and the Caliiorn; a mail was under
water for several hours Wonderful to re
late, none Of the passengers were hurt.
Mrs. Hoover. . widow lady owning farm
and moderately wealthy, WAS recently ar.
rested At Iowa Falls, in Hardin County.
for shop lif,ing The missing goods were
found IN her possession. Pleading guilty
at the trial. she was 6nsd $500 aud costs
The robbers Of the Office Of the Merchants
Union Express Company at Ottumwa. were
captured on the railroad between Kilbournc
and Douds, on Thursday. by officers who
have been on their track, and taken back to
Ottumwa. They are supposed to be the
same chaps who robbed the Knoxville Treas
ury some DAYS ego.
The Muscatips Journal says: Mr.. Ed
ward Piouty, Of West Liberty, attempted
" commit suicide ON Friday last BY cutting
bis throat with . razor. He severed the
trachea completely, and made horrible
gosh il the esophsgus. He could not, at
last date, swallow any food and it il feared
he must starve to death.
From . special dispatch to the Chicago
Journal We learn thai Phillip We'll, GER
msn, while driving team from Newton to
Dss Moines. found, on arrival 1t the Skunk
River. that the water overlooked the bridge,
on attempting TO drive over which the horses
ran of. upssteing the carriage. A gentle<
man who was with We'll was saved, but
the latter. together With the horses and car
riage were swept away.
The Jasper Free Fsess says that an Irish
woman named Mansfield, was committed Il
jsil at Newton for selling intoxicating
liquor contrary to law. She he's with her Z
pair of twin bibles under one year old, and
several small children at home
The Upper Des Koines. published At Al
gona, kossuth county, gives an account o.
the freezing to death Of Thomas Dawson
and his step son. James Baldwin, aged IA
years. They were hauling hay when they
were overtaken by . storm, and lost theiI
way at point only three miles from home
ct six o'clock in the evening.