Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-09-25

Of Gslssburg. The display Of stock, Agri-
cultural implements, and the products Of
the farm was not large, although sohs Zoe
exhibits wsre made.
~s0ss Mason, Of Dubuque county,
lately killed With several shots Of his gun
and with . club, . bird which weighed
ninety two pounds. II il described ~ COW
cred With short. asecy feathers. mottled
with grey on the back. but pure white b.
meath, wings nearly black and - feet from
tip 70 tip: legs long and slender. feet web
bed, and bill hooked. A correspondent Of
the Chicago Journal says the bird 10 nm
doubtsdly an albatross, which 10 rarely
seen in this country but quite common in
Kanschatka AID srosnd ths Cape Of Good
Hope.
While the procession was returning
from the cemetery l. Dsbuqss on Sunday,
aftsr funeral, . horse belonging to NJ.
Kshes ran away. Mr.. K. bis wife and child
we're 10 the buggy. It had gone but 4
short distance when they were thrown out.
Mr.. X. vas hurt, and Mrs. X. received .
severe bruiso in the side, which it 10 feared
may prove serious. But the painful fes-
ture Of the incident was that their your {
child. about four years Of age, received 90
bard fall. that it has lain inssnsible ever
ever since. 1t gives but little symptoms ci
life, and the physician who Was called 10,
gave his opinion that there is little hope Of
ito recovery.
The Charles City Intelligencer rays Of
tho sale Of government lands in northern
Iowa: "Ths government sales Of lands In
seven Of the northern counties Of this
State have just been closed, and the prices
obtained indicate the rapid settlement o.
this section OF country. Ono partially im
proved quarter section in Mitchell county
sold 1t eighteen dollars per acre. Many
entirely unimproved tracts in Floyd an<
Cerro 0ordo counties sold at from five dol
lars to twelve dollars per acre. The was I
lively demand for lands for actual settle
ment. in counties remote from prsssn
railroads. The sales were made at publ
auctiea BY George ". Burton, Of Dubuque
and were conducted under the direction Q
W. P. Msllsn, special attorney Of III
State"
The Council Bluffs Buols says "Wssl
srn Iowa, through her great gateway ,Cour
Gil Bluff, furnishes Nebraska and the State
and Territories west Of it, with nearl
everything they eat aud. drink. Not ool
20. but Iowa has furnished more than
million Of ties for the Union Pacific Raj
road. and nov that company 10 coming
Council Bluffs for brick to build its bull
ings near seven hundred :milss west fro
this city. One day last week Mr.. Winche
ter, Of this city. sold ESQ, 900 brick to Il
U. P. r. r. r. company to. 90 west
build their buildings At Cheyenne. So
; goes. Council Bluffs. the great railro'
centre and gate to tho western half of Il
Union, 10 not only furnishing the food
feed the men in the mountains, the ii
4. to build the railroads to them, but I
brick to build their houses ard dep
. buildings."
: The Appanoose Citizen brings I
!. strange news that some villain set fire
Il the $4,000 school house on the night
70 the 18th, and that before help could
summoned the splendid cdi6ce was reduc
A. to ashes. This loss falls crushingly up
. the good people Of that community, "
ID have nobly taxed themselves, for TIN
!" years in order 10 build the house, q
10 leaves them in deploraole condition
T. want Of facilities for education. By col
J. means suspicion has fastened itself on
> 8. A. Hall. = teacher of a scec. school
! that city. The suspicious were 80 vag,
. that nothing could be proved, 90 dep
q tation Of citizens waited on him and to
him that he was no longer wanted as
resident there, and % hs got up and du,
e ed. We agree with the Citizen that th
= action was wrong. lie should have be,
tried. II guilty, pun:shed-if innocsu
i vindicatcd; and not sent forth in the wor
n q branded. but not a proved villain.
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