PARTICIPATION. – See new advertisement. Enquire of R. Simpson.
ROANOKE ISLAND, the scene of the recent victory is off Tyrell county, North Carolina, between Pamlico and Albemarle sounds.
PUBLIC LECTURE. – Dr. C. C. Parry will deliver a lecture on “Camp Life,” in the Congregational Church, on Wednesday evening, Feb. 12th. Price of admission, 10 cts. The entire receipts will be appropriated for the benefit of the Soldiers’ Aid Society. d2t
RAILROAD SHIPMENTS. – The following are the figures of shipments from this city by railroad, for the week ending February 8th: 2,595 brls. Flour; 15,000 bush. wheat; 1,200 bush. barley; 417 sacks malt; [336] dressed hogs; 44,290 lbs. lard; 8,620 lbs. hides; 2,550 lbs. bologna sausage; 540 lbs. butter.
OYSTERS IN THE SHELL. – We are indebted to Mr. G. Hickox, of the Davenport Hotel, for a basket of oysters in the Shell. They are a kind of Yankee vegetable that are not hard to take in any form and we hope our friends’ pockets may ever be as full as – the shells before they were opened.
A THAW. – Signs yesterday were indicative of a general thaw. The mercury stood at 34 degrees before sunrise and the snow rapidly disappeared under the warm temperature. – Unless the weather should turn cold another day will spoil the fine sleighing that the denizens of this locality have so long enjoyed.
SLEIGHING. – As is frequently the case the prospect of a break-up in the weather brought a great number of people out on runners last night. One large party, in a huge omnibus sleigh, went to Le Claire, where they were to have a supper and a hop at the far-famed Howard House of that city. A larger party arrived from Moline and stopped at the Le Claire House, where they had supper.
MR. EDITOR: I predict that hundreds of the citizens of Davenport and Scott county will, within the next three years, regret and find fault with themselves that they did not purchase farms and dwellings in 1862, when they could have purchased property for less than the cost of the improvements. Please to read my advertisement, Mr. Editor, in this day’s GAZETTE, and forward to me at my office on Perry street your opinion of my prices. A. C. F.*
COW DROWNED. – We have heard of no cows being lost on this side of the river, as the current is more sluggish, but on the opposite side, where the current runs so swiftly, it is not uncommon every winter for cows who frequent the river for a drink, to slip into the rapid current and be washed under the ice. A case of the kind occurred on Sunday last. Poor muley got off the ice into the water, thence under the ice to become food for fishes.
BAD BOYS, or boys whose parents do not exercise the necessary control over them frequently meet on the ice between Davenport and Rock Island, and pass the Sunday in a pitched battle. A scene of this kind occurred last Sunday The little shavers not having fear of the law, of their parents, or of any higher power, met armed with sticks and clubs, and had a regular engagement, which closed only with the close of day. Neither party was victorious, though doubtless both claimed it. Fathers should keep an eye on their offspring, remembering they too will be men some day, and that “as the twig is bent,” etc.
DR. JEWETT’S LAST LECTURE, on Monday evening, was as usual well attended. The subject presented this time was the effect produced by the sale of intoxicating liquors on the business interests of the neighborhood. The arguments presented were of a particular character, and were substantiated by numerous illustrations drawn from his own varied experience. This lecture concluded Dr. Jewett’s course in this city. And we must do the Dr. the justice to say that he has presented a subject, so often before discussed, in such a new and interesting manner that all were pleases – both those who had previously examined the subject, and those to whom the arguments for total abstinence were new.
LARGE EXPORTS. – On Monday evening, nearly fifty teams, mostly from Cedar county, stopped at the Pennsylvania House, whose ample accommodation frequently entertain as many teams over night. In the morning, most of the teamsters loaded up with lumber and with from 20,000 to 25,000 feet of that article, started for Cedar county yesterday. The lumber trade has been exceedingly good during the long sleighing season, and Cedar county has not been the outer limit of our trade with the interior, but teams have come from beyond, as we mentioned a few days since. It speaks much for the popularity of the Pennsylvania House among the farmers, and the excellence of its management, that it should be so well filled every night with the industrious denizens of the interior counties.
FORCED SALE OF REAL ESTATE. – We have neglected to mention the handsome property sold under deed of trust, on Saturday last – property belonging to the individual partners of the obsolete firm of Cook & Sargent. The beautiful residence of Mr. E. Cook, on Fourth street, that in palmy times cost over thirty thousand dollars, was knocked down at just one-half that amount, fifteen thousand dollars. The fine homestead of Mr. Geo. B. Sargent, on Brady street, with the outbuildings and grounds attached, brought the sum of thirteen thousand dollars, or about one half the original cost. The vacant lot adjoining on the North between that and the three story house at present occupied by Bishop Lee, brought four thousand dollars, the three story building four thousand five hundred dollars, and a lot in the rear two thousand dollars, making in all $23,500 for the entire property. The aggregate amount of sales was $38,500, while the amount against the property was $53,429. The purchaser was John J. Dixwell, Esq., of Boston, the holder of the deeds of trust, through his attorneys, Davison and True, of this city. – The property sold remarkably well, and at a higher rate, doubtless, than other parties would have been willing to pay for it. Mr. Dixwell has done well in securing this fine property at the rate he did. We should be very happy, indeed quite contented, to occupy either residence as a homestead, and were the title vested in us, we would agree to forego any aspiration of a change until we “shuffled of the mortal coil.”
THANKS. – We are indebted to the Hon. J. B. Leake, Senator, J. H. White and J. R. Porter, Representatives from this county, T. H. Stanton, of Washington, and W. L. Davis, Secretary of Senate, for valuable State documents.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Wednesday Morning, February 12, 1862, p. 1
ROANOKE ISLAND, the scene of the recent victory is off Tyrell county, North Carolina, between Pamlico and Albemarle sounds.
PUBLIC LECTURE. – Dr. C. C. Parry will deliver a lecture on “Camp Life,” in the Congregational Church, on Wednesday evening, Feb. 12th. Price of admission, 10 cts. The entire receipts will be appropriated for the benefit of the Soldiers’ Aid Society. d2t
RAILROAD SHIPMENTS. – The following are the figures of shipments from this city by railroad, for the week ending February 8th: 2,595 brls. Flour; 15,000 bush. wheat; 1,200 bush. barley; 417 sacks malt; [336] dressed hogs; 44,290 lbs. lard; 8,620 lbs. hides; 2,550 lbs. bologna sausage; 540 lbs. butter.
OYSTERS IN THE SHELL. – We are indebted to Mr. G. Hickox, of the Davenport Hotel, for a basket of oysters in the Shell. They are a kind of Yankee vegetable that are not hard to take in any form and we hope our friends’ pockets may ever be as full as – the shells before they were opened.
A THAW. – Signs yesterday were indicative of a general thaw. The mercury stood at 34 degrees before sunrise and the snow rapidly disappeared under the warm temperature. – Unless the weather should turn cold another day will spoil the fine sleighing that the denizens of this locality have so long enjoyed.
SLEIGHING. – As is frequently the case the prospect of a break-up in the weather brought a great number of people out on runners last night. One large party, in a huge omnibus sleigh, went to Le Claire, where they were to have a supper and a hop at the far-famed Howard House of that city. A larger party arrived from Moline and stopped at the Le Claire House, where they had supper.
MR. EDITOR: I predict that hundreds of the citizens of Davenport and Scott county will, within the next three years, regret and find fault with themselves that they did not purchase farms and dwellings in 1862, when they could have purchased property for less than the cost of the improvements. Please to read my advertisement, Mr. Editor, in this day’s GAZETTE, and forward to me at my office on Perry street your opinion of my prices. A. C. F.*
COW DROWNED. – We have heard of no cows being lost on this side of the river, as the current is more sluggish, but on the opposite side, where the current runs so swiftly, it is not uncommon every winter for cows who frequent the river for a drink, to slip into the rapid current and be washed under the ice. A case of the kind occurred on Sunday last. Poor muley got off the ice into the water, thence under the ice to become food for fishes.
BAD BOYS, or boys whose parents do not exercise the necessary control over them frequently meet on the ice between Davenport and Rock Island, and pass the Sunday in a pitched battle. A scene of this kind occurred last Sunday The little shavers not having fear of the law, of their parents, or of any higher power, met armed with sticks and clubs, and had a regular engagement, which closed only with the close of day. Neither party was victorious, though doubtless both claimed it. Fathers should keep an eye on their offspring, remembering they too will be men some day, and that “as the twig is bent,” etc.
DR. JEWETT’S LAST LECTURE, on Monday evening, was as usual well attended. The subject presented this time was the effect produced by the sale of intoxicating liquors on the business interests of the neighborhood. The arguments presented were of a particular character, and were substantiated by numerous illustrations drawn from his own varied experience. This lecture concluded Dr. Jewett’s course in this city. And we must do the Dr. the justice to say that he has presented a subject, so often before discussed, in such a new and interesting manner that all were pleases – both those who had previously examined the subject, and those to whom the arguments for total abstinence were new.
LARGE EXPORTS. – On Monday evening, nearly fifty teams, mostly from Cedar county, stopped at the Pennsylvania House, whose ample accommodation frequently entertain as many teams over night. In the morning, most of the teamsters loaded up with lumber and with from 20,000 to 25,000 feet of that article, started for Cedar county yesterday. The lumber trade has been exceedingly good during the long sleighing season, and Cedar county has not been the outer limit of our trade with the interior, but teams have come from beyond, as we mentioned a few days since. It speaks much for the popularity of the Pennsylvania House among the farmers, and the excellence of its management, that it should be so well filled every night with the industrious denizens of the interior counties.
FORCED SALE OF REAL ESTATE. – We have neglected to mention the handsome property sold under deed of trust, on Saturday last – property belonging to the individual partners of the obsolete firm of Cook & Sargent. The beautiful residence of Mr. E. Cook, on Fourth street, that in palmy times cost over thirty thousand dollars, was knocked down at just one-half that amount, fifteen thousand dollars. The fine homestead of Mr. Geo. B. Sargent, on Brady street, with the outbuildings and grounds attached, brought the sum of thirteen thousand dollars, or about one half the original cost. The vacant lot adjoining on the North between that and the three story house at present occupied by Bishop Lee, brought four thousand dollars, the three story building four thousand five hundred dollars, and a lot in the rear two thousand dollars, making in all $23,500 for the entire property. The aggregate amount of sales was $38,500, while the amount against the property was $53,429. The purchaser was John J. Dixwell, Esq., of Boston, the holder of the deeds of trust, through his attorneys, Davison and True, of this city. – The property sold remarkably well, and at a higher rate, doubtless, than other parties would have been willing to pay for it. Mr. Dixwell has done well in securing this fine property at the rate he did. We should be very happy, indeed quite contented, to occupy either residence as a homestead, and were the title vested in us, we would agree to forego any aspiration of a change until we “shuffled of the mortal coil.”
THANKS. – We are indebted to the Hon. J. B. Leake, Senator, J. H. White and J. R. Porter, Representatives from this county, T. H. Stanton, of Washington, and W. L. Davis, Secretary of Senate, for valuable State documents.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Wednesday Morning, February 12, 1862, p. 1
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