JUST RECEIVED at Plummer’s, No. 50 Brady street, a fine lot of letter and note paper.
CLOCKS. – Another installment of clocks just received and for sale low for cash, at Billon’s, No. 10 Le Claire Row.
WEATHERISH. – Yesterday was a miserable day. A fine snow and driving wind was the order. The country people very wisely stayed at home and looked after their stock.
MR. D. TORREY, late local of the GAZETTE, is in town for a few days. We are pleased to hear he has obtained a good berth at Baltimore, in the employ of the Indiana Central R. R. He will leave for that city in a day or two. We wish him success and advancement in his favorite calling.
NO WESTERN TRAIN. – Owing to the great quantities of snow on the road, no train left here yesterday morning for the West, and it is doubtful if any will go to-day. The train on the branch, on Saturday, failed to connect at the Junction either morning or evening. A locomotive went out Sunday morning to assist another which had become embanked in the snow, and couldn’t get out.
SELLING OFF CHEAP. – Those goods at Parker & Van Tuyl’s are going off cheap as dirt, and perhaps a little cheaper. It will be remembered they are a part of the extensive stock which Mr. Willard Barrows, as assignee, has been selling for several days. It is one of the best chances for bargains which has turned up lately. Stop in there, either morning or afternoon, or both. Sale commences at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.
THEN AND NOW. On the 1st day of March last year the ice in the Mississippi commenced to break up, and by the 3d the river was clear. On the 5th the Northern from St. Louis arrived, and the same day the Fred Lorenz came down from Le Claire. Now the ice is as solid apparently as it has been this winter, heavily laden teams are crossing and ice and snow several inches deep cover the surface of the ground.
A SHORT HONEYMOON. – The gossips in the western part of the county have been supplied during the past month with an excellent foundation for sensation stories in a wedding which occurred a few weeks ago, the parties being residents of that part of the Hawkeye State. It appears the gentleman came to the county judge’s office, obtained his certificate, and started back home, with of course, fond anticipations of the bliss of which the document he bore was the forerunner. Arrived at the residence of the lady, they determined to go to the magistrate and finish the business at once, (though, perhaps, with some mental reservation on her part), which decision was probably accelerated by the absence from home of the parental guardians of the fair one, who, it is said, were opposed to the match. That night the ‘twain were made one.’ On the way home the bride encountered an idea; it grew on her, and she must communicate it to her husband. She did so. It was that he should allow her to go home that night, as she had left the children alone, while he might call for her next day. Well – hum – y-e-s – guess so, and the bridegroom of course gave a willing consent. Next day, bright and early, he was around to see his wife, but lo! The bird had flown – gone – left – mizzled – disappeared, – and he hadn’t seen her yet at last accounts. She has since returned home, however, while he is enjoying life as much as possible, attending all the parties in his neighborhood, and getting along as well as if nothing had ever happened to mar his felicity.
FIRE. – Just as the churches were being dismissed Sunday noon, the city bell sounded an alarm of fire, which started engines and citizens down town to the scene of the conflagration, which was on Second street, near Warren. The fire originated in the wagon-shop of Mr. Haerling, and extended to a two story dwelling house adjoining, which, with the wagon-shop, were soon enveloped in flames, and the exertions of the firemen could not save them from destruction. They succeeded, however, in preventing its spread to the corner buildings; these were two small two-story dwelling houses, occupied by colored people. All the windows of these houses were needlessly removed or destroyed in the beginning of the fire. The dwelling of Mr. Haerling was only saved by the most persistent exertions of those present. The fire is supposed to have originated from a stove-pipe, which projected from the dwelling house toward the wagon-shop, the heat from which is supposed to have set fire to the latter. Mr. Haerling lost all his tools and the material in the shop; his loss is about $300 or $400, he was not insured. Yesterday, with commendable energy, he, and his son were preparing the timbers for a new shop, determined not to lose any time. The other building was owned by the Davenport Mutual Saving fund and Loan Association, whose probable loss is about $800, covered to the amount of $500 by insurance. It was occupied by a Mrs. Emory, and its destruction was no serious loss to community.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Tuesday Morning, March 4, 1862, p. 1
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