TO COUNTRY SUBSCRIBERS. – Our friends throughout the country will confer a favor by remitting us money that is current here – Iowa and U. S. notes preferred. Those who have occasion to send change will please remit us in three cent stamps.
TRADE OPENED. – Messrs. Kent & Co. have sold this week several city lots; also a good farm, and have several more sales nearly perfected. This speaks well for them and the times.
COLD AGAIN. – After a brace of mild days; converting the snow into slush, the mercury has suddenly dropped and all is ice again. – A slight sprinkling of snow helped to smoothe the roads and continue the sleighing very fine.
RUNAWAYS. – Two or three runaways came off Wednesday evening, which were performed in the usual style; except that one team took the sidewalk down Brady street to Front, threatening destruction to everything in its path, eventually fetching up at the corner of Front; without material damage.
NEW HOSE. – As will have been observed, the city council on Wednesday instructed the committee on fire and water to procure one thousand feet of hose for the fire department. We understand the necessary amount of hose, with patent couplings, can be procured for $1,030 cash, and on time for the same amount with interest added. These couplings, we are informed, cannot be affected by the frost, which greatly interferes with the management of the ordinary couplings. When this is procured, our worthy Chief will be ready to bid defiance to fire and frost.
HOW CAN THEY DO IT? – Mathews at the Hawkeye is selling their Garibaldi Cheroot Cigars for 25 cents a box of 25, or five boxes for $1.00; tip top cooking brandy twenty-five cents a quart; [Alcohol], best pure, 60 cents a gallon; the best Kerosene Oil in town; three large tin boxes Essence of Coffee for 25 cents. You can by any groceries you want at the Hawkeye, corner of 3d and Brady, cheaper than any grocery in Scott county. They keep a big stock and are selling more goods for cash than any grocery house in Davenport. They sell for only one price and buy their goods for cash.
E. S. PIPER, the man whose swindling operations in this neighborhood we have before noticed and who was recently arrested in Medina county, Ohio, it seems has been extensively engaged in a series of forgeries and swindling transactions throughout the West. The detectives of St. Louis, Chicago and [Milwaukee], without any concert of action, were all after him, but those of Cleveland finally captured the rascal. A confederate named [Bouce] had been previously arrested and is now in jail at Chicago. Piper’s forgeries amount in aggregate to over $25,000. He is a cool, calculating villain, but will now receive his deserts.
BOUND OVER FOR HUGGING. – Two persons employed in one of our hotels got into court yesterday under very peculiar circumstances. It appears one of the parties, of the female persuasion, blackened the face of the party of the second part by some dexterous movement, whereupon the latter rushed toward the fair, and throwing one arm affectionately around her neck, hugged and squeezed very ardently. This style of showing attachment, however, was very ungraciously received, and the fair one rushed to a justice’s office and entered complaint against the offender. The ‘squire’ didn’t sympathize much with her, and rather pooh-poohed her out of court. Returning home, disconsolate, she called a council of her friends to see what it was best to do, and they advised her to swear her “life agin the feller.” So off she posted to another squire, and swore her existence was in danger of being suddenly cut short by the miscreant in his ardent moments. The latter was brought into court and to keep him from hugging the “charmer” to death, in one of his fits of affection, he was bound over in the sum of one hundred dollars – leaving him one of the most astonished mortals you could scare up.
ST. VALENTINE claims to-day as his own, though the saint has long been forgotten in the celebration of the day. It is not positively known whence originated the custom of sending remembrances from friend to friend on this day, and different views prevail. The most common notion is that it came from the supposed custom of the birds choosing their mates on that day. Others derived their custom from the saint himself, one of the early Christian martyrs, who was much distinguished for his love and charity, and hence the practice of making presents on this day, which was the former mode of observing it. But the most probable theory we have is that it is a corruption of one of the observances of the Lupercalia, a singular festival of the Romans when the young men drew the names of young women from a box; this festival was held on the 15th of February. We presume, whatever the opinion of the individuals in regard to the origin of the celebration, few will hesitate on that account to pay all due respect to the occasion; the greater danger is that some will be so anxious to observe it that they will not be particular about the missives they send, but will indulge in anonymous flings at those they don’t like.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Friday Morning, February 14, 1862, p. 1
TRADE OPENED. – Messrs. Kent & Co. have sold this week several city lots; also a good farm, and have several more sales nearly perfected. This speaks well for them and the times.
COLD AGAIN. – After a brace of mild days; converting the snow into slush, the mercury has suddenly dropped and all is ice again. – A slight sprinkling of snow helped to smoothe the roads and continue the sleighing very fine.
RUNAWAYS. – Two or three runaways came off Wednesday evening, which were performed in the usual style; except that one team took the sidewalk down Brady street to Front, threatening destruction to everything in its path, eventually fetching up at the corner of Front; without material damage.
NEW HOSE. – As will have been observed, the city council on Wednesday instructed the committee on fire and water to procure one thousand feet of hose for the fire department. We understand the necessary amount of hose, with patent couplings, can be procured for $1,030 cash, and on time for the same amount with interest added. These couplings, we are informed, cannot be affected by the frost, which greatly interferes with the management of the ordinary couplings. When this is procured, our worthy Chief will be ready to bid defiance to fire and frost.
HOW CAN THEY DO IT? – Mathews at the Hawkeye is selling their Garibaldi Cheroot Cigars for 25 cents a box of 25, or five boxes for $1.00; tip top cooking brandy twenty-five cents a quart; [Alcohol], best pure, 60 cents a gallon; the best Kerosene Oil in town; three large tin boxes Essence of Coffee for 25 cents. You can by any groceries you want at the Hawkeye, corner of 3d and Brady, cheaper than any grocery in Scott county. They keep a big stock and are selling more goods for cash than any grocery house in Davenport. They sell for only one price and buy their goods for cash.
E. S. PIPER, the man whose swindling operations in this neighborhood we have before noticed and who was recently arrested in Medina county, Ohio, it seems has been extensively engaged in a series of forgeries and swindling transactions throughout the West. The detectives of St. Louis, Chicago and [Milwaukee], without any concert of action, were all after him, but those of Cleveland finally captured the rascal. A confederate named [Bouce] had been previously arrested and is now in jail at Chicago. Piper’s forgeries amount in aggregate to over $25,000. He is a cool, calculating villain, but will now receive his deserts.
BOUND OVER FOR HUGGING. – Two persons employed in one of our hotels got into court yesterday under very peculiar circumstances. It appears one of the parties, of the female persuasion, blackened the face of the party of the second part by some dexterous movement, whereupon the latter rushed toward the fair, and throwing one arm affectionately around her neck, hugged and squeezed very ardently. This style of showing attachment, however, was very ungraciously received, and the fair one rushed to a justice’s office and entered complaint against the offender. The ‘squire’ didn’t sympathize much with her, and rather pooh-poohed her out of court. Returning home, disconsolate, she called a council of her friends to see what it was best to do, and they advised her to swear her “life agin the feller.” So off she posted to another squire, and swore her existence was in danger of being suddenly cut short by the miscreant in his ardent moments. The latter was brought into court and to keep him from hugging the “charmer” to death, in one of his fits of affection, he was bound over in the sum of one hundred dollars – leaving him one of the most astonished mortals you could scare up.
ST. VALENTINE claims to-day as his own, though the saint has long been forgotten in the celebration of the day. It is not positively known whence originated the custom of sending remembrances from friend to friend on this day, and different views prevail. The most common notion is that it came from the supposed custom of the birds choosing their mates on that day. Others derived their custom from the saint himself, one of the early Christian martyrs, who was much distinguished for his love and charity, and hence the practice of making presents on this day, which was the former mode of observing it. But the most probable theory we have is that it is a corruption of one of the observances of the Lupercalia, a singular festival of the Romans when the young men drew the names of young women from a box; this festival was held on the 15th of February. We presume, whatever the opinion of the individuals in regard to the origin of the celebration, few will hesitate on that account to pay all due respect to the occasion; the greater danger is that some will be so anxious to observe it that they will not be particular about the missives they send, but will indulge in anonymous flings at those they don’t like.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Friday Morning, February 14, 1862, p. 1
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