REMOVAL. – John R. Dow has moved the Suits stock of boots and shoes to his store, No. 25 Brady street, where he will continue to retail at wholesale prices.
NEW styles of spring delaines and prints, ladies colored and white corsets, toilet quilts and counterpanes, striped and chequed namsooks, French prints and many other styles of goods just received at Wadsworths.
FIRE IN ROCK ISLAND. – A fire occurred about 4 o’clock yesterday morning in Rock Island on Eagle street, between Illinois and Orleans. It burned F. Ludolph’s harness shop, a saloon, and a portion of the store of Smyth Brothers, on the corner of Illinois and Eagle streets. The property burnt was insured for $2,250.
SCHOOL ELECTION. – On Monday comes off our annual school election, and this evening a nomination meeting will be held at the court house for the purpose of suggestion suitable persons for the position. We have heard of no candidate yet except for Secretary, for which position there are three in the field – Messrs. E. Peck, the present incumbent, Mahlon D. Snyder, and Otto Smith. Either would make a good officer. There should be a good turn out of the voters to-night.
A FIGHT occurred yesterday on the levee near Brady street between a German and a boy named Jacob Smith, in which it is said the latter name came off first best, and the other getting a broken nose. The affair is said to have begun about a load of coal which the German had bought of Smith, but of which he refused to pay the weighage. After the fight, a number of persons caught the boy and undertook to hold him till an officer should arrest him, but another crowd released him, and sent him on his way rejoicing. The affair created quite an excitement on Brady street, and seemed at one time to threaten a general row.
ROCKY MOUNTAIN RANGE. – We are indebted to our scientific fellow citizen, Dr. C. C. Parry, for the advance sheets of Sullivan’s Journal, containing a “Physiographical sketch of that portion of the Rocky Mountain range and the head waters of South Clear Creek, and east of Middle Park: with an enumeration of the plants collected in this district in the summer months of 1861.” It is the result of Dr. Parry’s trip to that locality and gives a very interesting description of a portion of our territory that, perhaps less than any other, has been examined by scientific men. To the botanist the report is one of rare interest.
LOOK OUT FOR THE BRIDGES. – It has been suggested to us to call the attention of the county authorities to the safety of the bridges throughout the county, in case of a heavy freshet, of which there is considerable danger, owing to the immense accumulation of snow on the prairie. Such a freshet would endanger the bridges over every stream in the county. There is probably no way to protect them now, unless it be by placing a number of men at the bridges armed with long poles with which they could prevent the ice form gorging against the abutments. The heavy freshet of 1857 carried away, we believe, every bridge on Duck Creek, and such a thing is possible again.
SHARP PRACTICE. – The defeated party at the late municipal election at Le Claire, we are informed, take the matter rather to heart. In one of the wards, which gave the successful ticket about 20 majority, the judges, who were on the other side, neglected to sign the returns. The mayor sent them back for their signatures, which they appended on Tuesday evening, and then went before a magistrate and made affidavit that the whole thing was illegal, on the ground that more than two days elapsed since the election before the returns were made, contrary to the charter. The Mayor suggested that as one of the days was Sunday their objection wasn’t of any account. They talk of taking it into court. Much good that will do them.
THE PRICE OF GAS in the city of Peoria has been reduced from what the Transcript of that city terms, the high rate heretofore charged of $3.50 per thousand feet, to $2.50. ‘The former high rate,’ says the above authority, ‘induced many gas consumers to resort to coal oil as a substitute; but the reduced price gas will be very little more expensive, and we have no doubt will again be used in preference.’ Here we are charged $4.50 per thousand feet for gas. The result will be that as kerosene can be furnished for less than one-half that amount, and supplies nearly as good light, many of our citizens will adopt it instead. It strikes us that our Gas Company would consult their own interest by reducing the price of gas, before our citizens ascertain the economy of kerosene by introducing it more generally into their houses.
IOWA MAIL LETTINGS. – Mr. J. B. Grinnell, special agent, whishes us to state that it is of importance to the Post office Department, and to those who wish to make bids for carrying the mails for the four years ensuing, and to the people of the State of Iowa who desire additional mail facilities that it should be kept in mind that bids will be received at the contract office in Washington not later than the 31st day of March. Full proposals may be found published in the DAILY GAZETTE. Bids are invited on more than 200 routes, for near 2,000 miles of daily service, 2,500 tri-weekly, 2,000 semi-weekly, and more than 4,000 weekly. Of the above on 70 routes there is a proposal for an increase of service, being an aggregate distance of 1,600 miles. It is thought that the desired increase of service will not be granted, unless the bids are low. The Post Office Department confidently anticipates such a competition as will materially lessen the cost of mail transportation. A new supply of blanks for proposals will be found at the post office in this city, or can be obtained by writing to the postmaster.
CLEAR THE GUTTERS. – The Council passed an ordinance last Wednesday, requiring all persons to clear their sidewalks of snow, now that the snow is over for the season, as we trust. As yet we haven’t witnessed any very great activity in this particular line of business – the thaw rendering it almost unnecessary. While on this subject, we would suggest the propriety of clearing out the gutters, especially in the streets running toward the river, so that the water need not spread all over the sidewalks and streets, to the great discomfort of pedestrians. For several days, if not weeks, it is probable the streets will be in fluid condition, and a movement of the kind suggested would be of great benefit to the peregrinating public.
SLEIGHING. – Beneath the milder rays of the sun during the last two days the snow has slowly disappeared. Since the 23d of December we have uninterrupted sleighing. Soon we will no longer be able to chime with Edgar A. Poe:
Here the sleighs with the bells –
Silver bells!
What a world of merriment their melody foretells!
How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,
In the icy air of night!
While the stars that ever sprinkle
All the heavens seem to twinkle
With a crystalline delight;
Keeping time, time, time,
In a sort of Runic rhyme.
To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells
From the bells, bells, bells, bells,
Bells, bells, bells –
From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.
Notice.
At the special request of a number of our citizens the Rev. Mr. BUTTERFIELD will repeat, on Sabbath evening next, the sermon he delivered on the 24th ult., on “The Duty of Praying for Our Rulers in the Present Crisis.”
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Saturday Morning, March 8, 1862, p. 1
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