Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1869-01-05
DAILY DEMOCRAT
STATE NEWS.

Clinton 10 70 have city dirsstssy.
Dee Noinss has improved Iol. ooo. oco.
-Kssksk has packed $1,000 hess Iass
year.
-CsnAdencs men And rich hssvsst 10
10 Barliogtos.
-Clinton county jsil is o@eislly de-
e!arsd safe and sound.
-ll.l5o. 900 brick we're made in Dee
Noines last season.
The Nashua Pet has sdspssd Chicago
estimates.
The D. Y. Bridge a Des Noinss b
completed and trains will soon pass over
ssys the Resistsr.
Whittier College 10 the naas Of
6eurishisg institution established BY the
Society Of Friends near Mesat Pleasant.
Three hundred and fsur marriage II.
eeuess issusd 10 Polk csusty in 1858 and
sas msrrigabls ysung ladies are still On
hand.
"A bone 20 10 length and III inches in
eireu inference was discovered 20 feet un.'
der the ssrface in Mitchsllvills. The Reg.
lister ssys IL seems 70 Be part Of the LEG
bsne of msstadon.
Esthervills. away up in Emmett eous-
~ has Vinlicater published By Northup
4 Bates. Batss was fornsrally . Clinton
county editor. Baskerville Is in the ex-
srsms northwestern portion Of this STATE,
seven miles freo the Minnesota lins-msk.
ing the Vindissssr the nsr,hsrmost paper
In the State.
Hon. John A. Elliott, State Auditor.
informs 10 that the returns frsm oil the
countiss sbsw that The pssssst number Of
youth il the State between the ages 81
. and 81 years. entitled 70 the benefit Of
public instruction T. b 4s3.s ga. The
number reported January lst, 1858. was
1850. This shows On increase Of 2o..
s7b. Or nearly per cent. 10 one year.
Mr.. J. s. Dean. photographer Of
vinson, was found dead on the Asor Of his
houss . few svssises ago, By bis family
who had bssn visiting. 4 widow lady
nausd Campbsll, livisg in the same tswn.
Who had retired to bed unusually early In
order 70 prepare next day 70 sttssd ths
funeral Of Mr.. Dean, was heard = uttsr
sharp cry sbsut o'clock next morning.
and she tso was found dead. Apsplszy 10
supposed 10 be the cause Of the hrst and
neuralsis Of he heart ssssad death.
The Nashus Pat says thst Chietssaw
county 10 favored alaoss sieve any ether
county in 1sws 10 point 81 timbsr.-
The Big Weeds" % Cedar River, the
Icing belts Of timber alssg Crane 0rssk
and Wapsis, and the groves bounding the
smaller streams make timber comparative
y abundant, for present use. but 70 the
thinking NAN who views the havee made
In the timber for the past few years, and
the rapidly and constantly incrsasing popu-
'.''.- -hich every year 10 doubling the de-
mand for fsnsiax and fuel, the future 10
near q hand, cordweod win =. ...-s pre-.
sious than gold, aud "tiuber lot" will
need 20 b plastsrsd oil over With green
backs TO make il change owners.
-" Johnny Green the old Musqusm-
Il Chief. started = bic happy hunting
grsuuds the night before 0hristaas. The
Aarshalltswn Times says that at the time
Of bic death, be asd . few Of bic tribe
we're stopping in the tiebsr sssthwest Of
che tswn. He was supposed TO b sbout
70 years Of age. and for the past tive o.
three years has been in quite feeble health
induced more probable BY exposure and
insufficient foed.sthan By old age He had
suffered severely from rhsumstism. and
sssd fsqusntly to say 70 HE legs were
me essd." We know very little II bis
early histery-snd ~ dent know % hs
had any history worth reesunting. He
was pleasant and kindly old man-ths
chief Of the little remnant Of his tribe,
which still fingers about their native
streams here in the heart 81 Iews-but be
led shiftless, nomadic. useless life, like
oil the rest Of bis race. On Chrismas
merning three Indians with blackensd
faces we're seen carrying coffin out north
west Of tswn. To the ioqniry-" Who
is dead p they simply respendsd-" John
n.y." Ard that was about all that could
DO learned from them.