CLOCKS. – Another installment of clocks just received and for sale low for cash, at Billon’s, No. 10 Le Clair Row.
BOARD OF EDUCATION. – We are requested to state that there will be a meeting at the Court House, on Saturday evening next, for the purpose of nominating candidates for the offices of President, Vice President, Treasurer, Secretary and one Director of the board of Education. A general attendance of all interested in having good men to fill these important offices is requested.
THE SNOW doesn’t seem to have got half through falling, judging from the general state of weather now-a-days. Weather without snow is an exception just now, while sunshine is a rarity, which, some of us remember to have seen some time ago. Under these circumstances, local news is desperately scarce. Hardly anything short of a knockdown on the highway will make a man disgarge [sic] an item, and if it wasn’t for Fort Donelson’s flagstaff’s and similar trophies, on exhibition at the hotels, we could hardly have a local sensation.
The trains continue to be impeded by the snow. The train which started West on Tuesday morning, had made about eight miles at daylight yesterday morning, and there are high hopes it will reach Marengo by the 4th of July. Another train started about 2 o’cl’k yesterday afternoon, with the intention to go through and return immediately. At the time of this writing we haven’t had a mail from the village of Muscatine or west of Iowa City since Saturday.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Thursday Morning, March 6, 1862, p. 1
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