Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1867-10-21
DAVENPORT. IOWA. MONDAY.

Wo.p TO YouxG MrS-The prudent
squirrel lays in its stock ofnu,s FIR the
winter the little busy bee, improving each
shining hour. els its cells with delicious
honey, laid u2 for the time when there
shall be no flowers, and no flying about
from one sugar hogshsad to another. Tie
bear and the marmot hyberna,s. and have
no need to accumulate grub" YeauS
mon, however, r,-mAny OF them a. leas.-
are perfectly careless Of the future. We
know many Of them hard working, hon
est, industrious young men-wbo work
like slaves from one year to anno.hsr and
are as poor now as when they began life.
five or ten year, ago. They work bard and
spend their money freely, thinking noth'
ing ef the tszDe when falling eyssighs aud
stiifening limbs will come ypoe them
when they will be unable to earn their bread
and viii become recipients Of county chsr>
ity, or . burden on more provident rela>
tives. The billiard saloons, the drinking
saloons, or even more Questionable estat-
lish msnts, secure the earnings Of their
heads and hands. They are oil the time
using up their capital, which is their labor,
and will, unless death interposes. come to
. time when they are not only penniless but
helpless. We believe that young men
should have amusements, but in modcsa>
tion. Let every young mschsuic or salar-
iod clerk make it point to lay up some
thing every year-pus something in the
Savings Bank as a fund to support him in
his age and disability. There is q happy
medium between the miser and tho spend
thrift, and lie who finds it enjoys life to
its fullest. Better run the risk Of being
called mean and penurious by your comrades
than find yourself trembling and deersp;d
old man, without the ability to earn . liv-
ing. and nothing ahead from previous years
Of wasted labor. Young men. ws beseech
you in al esrnostnsss 70 ponder % these
things and to oct upon them.
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THD GLEASON AuRDER CAsg.-4icbsel
Gleason. who was indicted in October. 1854,
for the murder Of Bashaw and Woodruff.
Deputy U. 8. Marshale. in the United States
District Court, comes to trial tomorrow At
Dss Moines. About fifty persons lave
been chosen from whom to select jury.
Gleason is defended by Geo. II. Parker,
and Martin & Murphy, Of this city. He
has now been in confinement !it,lc ever
three years-about seven months in the
Oskaloosa Jail, about five in our county
jsil and the balance Of the time in the peni
tentiary ct Fort Madison. At the time ol
the murder, he, with the two MaSshals,
sere going to arrest drafted man, and ac-
cording TO the dying confession Of one Of
the murdered men, they were shot from
the bush-shstiering Gleason's left leg
mortally wounding one of the Marshals
in the side, who lived blt few hours after
aud killing the other on the spot, by shot
through the head. Gleason supposing be
had been shot by lhe Msrshais clubbed
his rf. over the head Of the wounded man
aud on this confession was arrested liz
was taken by the State Miina company
formed At Grinnell, ard by inhuman tor,
ture made to give such confession as tc
warren. the arrest Of the whole Of Carpen
ter company about 20 men made up moste
y Of Democrats. They were thrown into
the block house at Grinnell, and after sev.
cral days confincmcn. released on 100000
| bail for their unpearance at the Octsbel
term Of court, when the court dismissed th,
Gaze. Carpenters company in turn sued
the parties causing their arreet for DANA
gcs 10 the amount Of .2o .00o The dsci
sion of these clses will be looked for Will
no little iuteres, by all who are converssn
with the facts