Local Matters

CLOCKS. – Another installment of clocks just received and for sale low for cash, at billon’s No. 10 Le Claire Row.

COFFEE. – The best substitute for coffee is said to be rye.  A very superior article always on hand at 98 Brady street, second door above Fourth.

AHEAD OF TIME. – The R. I. Register is bound not to be beaten in getting out the latest news.  Its last issue is dated March 5, a tolerably good length of time ahead.  Wish it would always give us news a weak ahead; it would entirely supersede the telegraph.

“THE DAILY CONSTITUTION” is the title of a large, fine-looking paper, that comes to us from Keokuk, published under the editorial auspices of Judge Claggett.  It is built up of the old material of the Journal, but we presume occupies better Union ground.

SHIPMENTS OF PRODUCE BY RAILROAD. – The following are the shipments by railroad last week: 1,251 brls. Flour; 8,500 bu. Wheat; 9,000 bu. Barley; 22 sks. malt; 9,000 lbs lard; 4,270 lbs. hides; 380 lbs. butter; 45 dressed hogs.  Value, about $15,000.

CHEAP LANDS – FIRE PROOF SAFE. – we are requested to state that a superior Fire Proof Safe and 400 acres of land, will be sold to-morrow (Friday,) at the auction sale now going on of assignee goods at Parker and Vantyul’s auction rooms.

GREAT BARGAINS. – The final closing out of the large dry-goods stock, of the late firm of Eldridge & Williams, is still going on, at Parker & Vantuyls’s auction room, on Brady Street.  The entire lot is to be sold, with real estate, notes, and accounts.  Great bargains to be had, if any one wants.  Sales commence each day at 10 o’clock.

SNOW MELTING. – Under the warm atmosphere of yesterday the snow rapidly melted, the gutters were like small rivers of water, and every indication was an assurance of the speedy disappearance of the fine sleighing that for more than two months the denizens of this portion of our earth have enjoyed.  So mote it be.  Of course before night it turned cold again.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT. – We are under profound obligations to Senator Leake for a copy of Governeur Kirkwood’s Inwijdings Rede.  We have space but for the following extract: –

“Indien wij tot hun zeggen wij zijn uwe vrieden, kom tot ons en gij zult vrig zin zij zullen bij duizenden tragten te koomen.”

For the balance of this interesting document see, New York Ledger.

THE THAW still continues, and the sleighing is going very fast.  There is still a good deal in the country, but it is rough work in town.  The torrents of water pouring on the river ice must soon part if from the shore, and start it out.  If the present weather continue[s] many days the river will be opened by the end of next week, and we may reasonably expect navigation will be fully resumed by the middle of March.

A SAD CASE. – From the R. I. Argus we learn that a man named Charles Johnson, a Swede, came to the house of Mr. H. N. Mosher, near Andalusia, last Monday evening, and commence battering his door with an axe.  The door gave way, when the man was secured, and it was found that his hands and feet were badly frozen.  He was taken care of during the night, and his limbs kept in cold water till they were thawed out.  Next day he was brought to Rock Island jail.  He is evidently deranged.  He says he was tired and lay down to sleep, when he froze his limbs.

A SCENE occurred in the office of our justices yesterday, on the examination of a charge for obtaining goods under false pretenses, between a lengthy attorney and a pugnacious shoe dealer, which threatened, from the vigor with which the parties went in, to leave nothing of either party but the boots; an officer however kindly interposed his good offices and save this combatants from such mutual destruction.

REV. HENRY COX, who, it will be remembered, delivered an able lecture in this city about a year ago, has preached his farewell sermon to his church in Chicago.  He goes to St. Louis, a field peculiarly fitted for him as fearless, outspoken Unionist preacher of the Gospel.  He leaves his church prosperous, they having recently cancelled an indebtedness of $26,300.

PERSONAL. – Mr. J. H. Briggs, so long the telegraph operation in this city, leaves here to-day for Des Moines, to take charge of the office in that city.  Mr. Briggs has been a faithful and laborious operator, and has won the respect and esteem of our citizens universally.  We wish him success and easier labors in his new location.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Thursday Morning, February 27, 1862, p. 1