Local Matters

SALE POSTPONED. – It will be seen by our advertising columns that the sale of Government property at the Fair Grounds is postponed till further notice.

TEACHERS’ EXAMINATION. – The monthly examination of candidates for teachers’ certificates will take place to-day, beginning at 9 o’clock, at the brick school house, corner of Sixth and Warren streets.

PULPIT AND ROSTRUM. – This is the title of an elegant pamphlet serial containing reports of the best sermons, lectures, orations, etc., published by E. D. Barker, 135 Grand street, New York, at the low price of $1.00 for twelve numbers. We know of no way in which such a mass of good reading can be obtained so cheaply.

IMPROVEMENTS. – The season for erecting new buildings, repairing and renovating old ones, fixing up fences, setting out trees and plants and shrubbery, and improving appearances generally, has commenced, and although less is doing in the way of new buildings the present season than in some former years, yet there is probably more than last year; while there is considerable activity in minor improvements. We have already noticed Mr. Forrest’s ‘conversion of a church’ and Mr. Moore’s new bakery. Mr. John Hornby is putting up a neat two-story frame building for Mr. D. C. Eldridge, on the east side of Perry between Fifth and Sixth streets. Mr. Eldridge expects to move into it next week. Mr. G. Thiele, butcher, is putting up a brick building on Brady, above Fourth street, which he intends to occupy as a butcher shop. Re-roofing has been done to a great extent; shingle roofs in all cases taking the place of composition ones. The last change of the kind we notice is on the building on the north corner of Front and Brady streets. We are informed that Mr. Lahrmann intends to put a shingle roof on his entire block. Shade trees are being set out in many parts of the city, to probably as great an extent as in any former year.

A RUNAWAY. – Yesterday afternoon a team came dashing down Brady street, past the Postoffice [sic], in a furious manner, taking the side-walk in front of Macklot’s bank, and brought up against the corner of the building with such violence as to knock out a portion of the brick. A good many people were standing on the corner at the time, and had to travel pretty fast to get out of harm’s way. There is an ordinance against allowing horses to stand in the streets unhitched, and we hope the authorities will see to enforcing it.

TO THE LADIES. – Just received at Farrand’s, a large assortment of infants’ and misses’ Straw Goods – trimmed and untrimmed – to which we invite the attention of those desiring goods of this description, believing that we can offer superior inducement in style and low price of the article. Call and examine.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Saturday Morning, April 26, 1862, p. 1