Local Matters

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

DRS. PRICE, at the Le Clair House, are prepared to treat all diseases to which flesh is heir.  They bring a number of good references, and will probably have a trial among the numerous competitors for public patronage.  See their card.

RAILROAD SHIPMENTS. – The following are shipments by railroad for the week ending March 1: 1,526 brls. flour; 5,000 bu. barley; 4,400 bu. wheat; 318 sacks malt; 630 lbs. butter; 75 dressed hogs; 99,210 lbs. lard.  Value about $16,000; about $1,000 more than for the same week last year.

COMMITTED. – Quinlan, who was arrested last week at Rock Island, had an examination on Friday before Justices Connolly and Fischel, on the charge of forging county orders and was committed to jail in default of $1,000 bail.  From the testimony adduced on the examination, we would judge it will be very difficult to procure a conviction.

PATENT-OFFICE SEEDS. – At the meeting of the Directors of the Agricultural Society on Saturday, a large number of packages of seeds was distributed to different persons, with the understanding that they would cultivate and report progress.  They consisted of several varieties of sugar cane, Georgia cotton, corn, peas, salsify or vegetable oyster, cabbage, onions, and other vegetables.

THE STORM ON THE TRACKS. – The storm on the railroad has been extremely severe, and it is with the greatest difficulty trains can make any progress in some places.  The train due at 5 o’clock Monday afternoon did not reach here till 10 yesterday morning.  It was from six to ten miles from town all night.  The train for Marengo left about 11:50 a.m.  The track is buried several feet deep in some of the excavations.  The cut below town is in one of the worst places on the track, the snow blowing in there almost as soon as it is dug out.

PREPARE FOR BAD ROADS. – Farmers should lay in a stock of groceries, for soon the roads will be impassable.  If you want to buy cheap, call at the great cheap grocery, (Hawk-eye) corner Third and Brady.  They are selling more goods than any store in Davenport.  They sell candles 10 cents a pound; five bars soap for 25 cents; best kerosene oil 50 cents a gallon; sugar cheaper than ever; starch in one pound papers, best, 10 cents; cones for lamps 15 cents; pure wines and liquors for medicinal purposes; cooking brandy 25 cents a quart; cheroot cigars reduced in price to 25 cents a box of 25, or five boxes for $1.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Wednesday Morning, March 5, 1862, p. 1