Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-05-04
IOWA ITEMS.


Belle Paine is 20 be incorporated.
The patent lock con6dencsrs are vic
ti,nizing ksokuk.
Port Louisa is shipping = great deal of
corn to the E,s..
Winthrop, Buchanan county, wants
the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, and promises
TO donate 500 acres of ~ pretty land rs Blu
chanan or any o.hrr county can boast OF to
seeureit.
MI. Pleasant has n Zouavs Company in
daily drill
One nursery firm Mt winterse: has sold
10000 Unit trees This spring.
The Ptcss says ,hev have model
township la Washington county a c,id-
nag to Mr.. Ben. MeCoy. fraHkiin township
i hard to hc.t Il has 30 church within
IS limits, or store, ur shop, las n oil 4efs;
~ meetings. p1iihcli or ieitgio X. are ,ves
hell iheiv, the paoilc aye moral without
orntchts, pea eat e and mud ,hoir own
hu>lu.ss. II J an Jacques Rousseau could
hAse settled IA Frank an, he would have be-
aeNet tnc Golden Age bad returned
The Pres says about fruits 4 farmer
Nhp pietents to know, Gays this " II be a
good .rut season. Very littlc maple sugar
tas been uilr this spring, owing to the
,lsable temperature. Thnsing and freezing
mske the sap run, and they also start tho
buds and hil them, and throw the wheat
AID kill it. There ia sound sense in eur
farmer friends rule. and we trust this year
will not prove excepticn al
The Page County Herald says Of The
grass-hopper prospect " he grass. hoppe,s
hopper eassss) are being hatched out by the
nil.ion. An enthusiastic mathematician
he oil her day cal ulated thor were II 900
go to the acre. They are doing good
deal of damage 10 The wheat. The late cold
weather apparently haa not seriously affect.
cd them. ~ they seem to be The same spor-
tive little cusses they were before piliiction
came upon them. II they do not migrate
soon the chances for a whea, crop in Page
county will be slim indeed.
The Osksloosa CITIZEN tells tale out
4 school: "A friend Confidently informs Us
that on sunday night isst a certain hard
ware young man OF tbs city asked his bean
uifl Belinda aeisey 10 marry him, where
upon she tainted III his ar,ns. Of course
But he was equal 10 the trying occasion.
seeing . camphor bottle from the table, he
speedily restored her 10 consciousness with
Is contents. The next ms ant however,
II wa. discovered that nuciage instead If
anphor had been used to e.lcc, the desired
re.ul, which caused the Miss to feel so
stuck up that she came very near dis
charging her blund.ring ,Iosephus y
A corresp ondent OF the Charlton Pai-
riot has gone into the grass.hoppsr oil bus.
n...r -.
advantages and disadvantages. Some parts
Of Iowa have good prospect for plenty of
srass-hoppers this season, but even those
pests are not without their advantages.
Am informed by a responsible man that in
Maiisoa Township, Clark county. grass-
hopper eggs are 90 abundant that chickens, |
feeding upon them, are absolutely made too |
fat to be eaten, but are profitable withal,
f,r they lay esgs IS big as a mans fist -
Madison Township will export hen oil
enough this season to grease all the fops |
and tiirts in the Northwest, and sgs sutii |
cient to make custard for Uncle Sam."
A few weeks since young married |
man. VIM. Broad by name, residing in The |
edge Of Black Hawk county. committed the |
iadiseretion Of stealing ye Ike Of oxen from |
. nsskhoor, and took them to Independence |
and sold the N for 1920. His or, me vas de- |
tectsd and he WAS nabbed aud chucked into |
JAIL. The door Of his jail room VAS Of wood.
tie heated the poker red hot, burnt q hole |
through the door, put out his hand. clipped |
back the bolt, made his escape. and broke
for Black Hawk county. The officers over
took and arrested him while he Vas break
ing Tor the EAst--his wife being with him
IN male attire-and now have him iuggsd
Up for trial. We condencs from the Bale
tan.
The Madisonian also says: I'VE are,
informed that the lades Of Strinstow
in this county. have formed a secret society
in which the slerner sex are not permitted
to enter. eli her as spectators or member.
What the object il of tits society is not
Anown. Some says it is to gain . knowl-
edge of the naiu and attr 2utss If men,
Pshsw why don't they get married.
Ben Evans, e Madison county, snap
ped a revolver at hi, wife the other dav
he result. of a quarrel Brave man, wasn't
he!
Mrs Isaac Ruby, of Win,erset, has
woven 1900 yards OF carpet al d cloth, dur
ing the last ten months, beside attending
to the various du,iss Of the household Il
us' am industry. we con Know what
INDUSTRY IS; and she is over sixty years Of
age, too"
The Council Bluffs Bugls tells sad
story OF dea'h: 1T is our melancholy duty
to chronicle the sad death Of MIR. Samuel
Al en-, OF Boomer township, on last Thurs.
day n'ght-As We learn the case, Mr.. Allen |
came to this city during the day, Thursday. |
Tor some medicine. and started hems with |
MS son IN wagon in the evening. The |
terrible storm overlook them on the road.
ana a. thsy were driving along in the dark
ness and storm the wagon was upset from
some cause. when they we're within q mil, |
or 50 OF their home, and Mr.. Allen was
somewhat hurt, rerhaps more than he |
thought for Arranging matters a. best |
they could. from their almost perishine cen. |
di,ion the boy was put upon the horse and
sent home, where he arrived in . very cad
plight-having to he lifted from the horse
M. Allen, suffering from his hurt and the |
chilling he had receiving during the ride |
was unable to proceed ct once, and ID is
supposed set down to rest, where be p.rish-