Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1869-02-15
STATE ITEMS.


The Adair county Register has been
enlarged.
-Mrs. Mary T.. Magoon is practiciny
lawyer In the Iowa county courts.
Portable gas works are being introduc
cd 1t Washington.
"A Ere company has been organised In
Cedar Rspids.
-ksekuk 10 thrown into sostseies over
being avarded the State Fair.
The farmsrs' Home at Moscow vss
burglsvsd on the 1oth-smsli loss.
John Dietz, Jr., aged 20. hung him.
self recently, in his fathers barn. near
Cedar RAPIDS, for no sssignable cause.
-Keskuk is harrassed With thieves.
-Four Pella boys bavo been arrested
and llo ned for disturbing religious meeting.
burlington has sent forth lecturer
Salter.
On d:t-that roads we're never 90 bad
before in Iowa.
Dee Moinss mas spent three months in
reeanstruc,ing Walnut street bridge. II
was sham.
There was destructive fire at Dycrs'
vile. on the llth.
Judge Wright 10 out lectur.ns on the
early Bar Of Iowa.
Council Bluffs 10 wholssa'ing goods "a
Omaha.
--Crossing on the Toe a Dubuque sus
pended on The 18th inst.
The Dubuque dsreld has gone down
story and taken fret dsor eiiics.
There are go inmates In the State
Psnitsntisvy.
The Pella Blade eess into fever over
the announcement 10 Harpse's Buar that
bosom pads made Of wire netting are just
tbs nicsa thing cut. The Blade wants to
know :-"What 10 70 become Of the next
generation, Are al the babies hereafter
born 10 DO brought up on wirss "Csms
rest ia this BOSOM" will hereafter read
''co,ns rest 10 this iron cad" Flinty
hearts and iron bssems ere too much. w,
are rejoiced that thers Was nothing Of thi'
kind in our ounger days. There Is Ger
tainiy not much worth living for now. We
mourn The sad fAtc-but No don't do thu
subjcc, justice and will say no more"
Tho Council Bluffs Nssparsil men
tions curious circumstance "A middl,
aged married lady Of this city has for som,
time been laboring under them painfali,
preston thatshe wss monentariallv threat
oned with paralysis Of the right right sid,
An acute pain. frequently followed by
uumbness. affected her side, and extended
downward toward the foot Ca Thursd ~
right. as xhe vas about 10 retire. hs'
thigh became almost insuferatly painful,
and after some little time n common steel
needle vas taken out. She has no recol.
lection Of ever having swallowed II, and i
bore every appearance of having Travelled
10: great many years. 1t WAS complete.
~ corsodcj, and tho temper Of the stee
destroyed. She thinks the needle hal
been on this singular route since child
hood. and c,ngrAtulates hcrself on her %
cape from what she supposed was tn
symptom OF q serious bodily aillction.
A CorENroRARr says "thsre Is no stat
in the Mississippi valley, which. In aeriesl
turAl mechanical and educational enterprise
il advancing more rapidly than Iowa.
Immigration is pouring in from oil part
Of the world. II Is estimated that Ia III
last year over seventy five thousand person
have been added 10 cur population
Duri,g the last twelve months three hun
d.ed aud seventy new school houses hav
been erected. The amount paid teacher
during the past ycaI Is $1,000. 623. Tn
number attending school is 2il,s27. Tn
interest on tho permanent school faod i
tlG5, ci2.52."
ANrnRAc,rE CoAL.-Tnc Philadelphia,
American and Gazette. comes to toe defcnc
Of anthracite coal against the scientiG
attack Of certain ply siciAns OF Boston
whose experiments tends to prove that tn
atmosphere is detcrioratcd BY the combus
iicn Of the fuel. As an oilse. of these con
clus,ons. it is claimed that oil the statistic
bearing upon the subject show that the in
nusnce Of the change from wosd 10 Goa
has been favorable in its effects upon tn
general health Of the city, and that, - ,
rule, the people are better in health ant
longer lived than in the old era Of west
6rss.
Tnr Springfield Republican thinks th,
condition Of the mssses Of the American
people infinitely worse thsa il VAS in 1850
The party Of which the RTsSlicaa b On 81
ponsnt. cane int power In 1850, and ha
since held uninterrupted control Of III
Government. With it came . dem oralizs,
currency, oppressive and unequal tsxasiss
and the protective tariff system, and thea
ere the easses which have serisusly tslt
upon the condition Of The massss Of d,
American people.
TINS Batavia IN. " Tmss Gays in r.
cent article. THE many inducsmsnt,
held out 10 the western statss 10 the CAPT
talists in the eastern states, are rapid!
being embraced where the prospects for
lucrative business are moat inviting. Th
most fertile state ofIsws will acme day b
abe most foremost ia The west, her agri
cultural resources being equAlsd BY few Q
her nsighboring states.
Do youlsaARs toward keeping the worl,
in good humor. Courtesy is cheap, and b.
who can rive nothing else certainly can Of
ford polite word and pleasant look.
There are enough curmudgeors to NOR,
than balance civilised society. and you Ger
taialy owe your allegiance to the latter.
BRicK PoSsRoy. in the Aer York Den,
eerat Of Friday last, speaks thusly:
"Gen. George w. Case, President Of tn
Pitt bavgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Rail
way, is the choice Of the Democracy q
Pltt.hurgh, and very strong. prominsn
and deserving candidate for the next Gov
emo, ship Of Pennsy lvsnis. Gen. Cass i
Ona Of the ablest men in the State; . rslis
be Democrat; man Of enterprise, wealth
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