Local Matters

KEROSENE OIL – The great cheap grocery Hawkeye, corner third and Brady, is the place to buy best A. No. 1 kerosene oil at 40 cents a gallon.

KEROSENE OIL – PRICE REDUCED – The best quality of Kerosene Oil for sale at 40 cents per gallon, by Dart & Sons, No. 2, Lesslie’s block, Front street.

A NEW SEWING MACHINE can be seen at White’s store.  It is one of the finest and best machines ever manufactured.  They are selling at thirty (30) dollars.  R. White is the agent.

No better or larger stock of dry goods was ever offered the citizens, than that of Wadsworth’s.  He keeps up a full assortment by weekly receipts from New York, and is prepared at all times to offer a good as bargains as any one in the trade.

KEROSEN OIL. – Matthews, at the great cheap Grocery (Hawkeye, corner of Third and Brady), received, Monday, twenty barrels of the best A No. 1 oil, which he is selling at 40 cents per gallon, (by the barrel, 35 cents.) – Try some and our word for it you will be satisfied.

PHRENOLOGY. – Dr. Wagner, it will be remembered, commences his course of lectures here this evening.  The Doctor has quite a reputation as a phrenologist.  Since his visit here four years ago, he has added largely to his fine collection of oil paintings, which form a very attractive feature of his entertainments.

FIRE AT VALLEY  CITY. – The store and dwelling-house at Valley City, owned by Mr. W. H. Spencer, opposite Donaldson’s, was destroyed by fire Sunday morning, about three o’clock.  The post office was in the store, but the mail matter was all saved.  The origin of the fire is unknown.  The loss of property aside from the house is about $150 or $200.  The house was probably worth about $1,200.  We understand there was no insurance.

STAY LAWS. – Memorials to the Legislature praying a repeal of the appraisement act and other stay laws in existence in our State, the effect of which is to drive out capital and delay Iowa in becoming the great agricultural and manufacturing State she is destined to be, have been left for signatures at the offices of Messrs. A. C. Fulton, I. W. Harrison, Kent & Co., and B. Peters.  We trust our citizens will feel enough interest in the matter to sign these memorials.  We believe they are being generally circulated over our State.

EAGLE WORKS, CHICAGO. – We have neglected to direct the attention of our readers to the advertisement of the Eagle Works Manufacturing Company, located at Chicago.  This is one of the oldest established and best known concerns in the West.  The proprietors are devoting particular attention to the manufacture of Sorghum sugar mills, evaporators, &c., of which they keep a supply on hand, or manufacture to order.  Read their advertisement and any one wishing anything in their line of business should send for a circular.

PRAYING FOR OUR RULERS. – Quite a large audience assembled at the Second Baptist Church on Sunday evening to hear Rev. Mr. Butterfield repeat a sermon, previously delivered in the same place, on the duty of praying for our rulers.  It was an excellent production and listened to with marked attention by an audience, very few of whom, we presume would except to the views of the speaker.  Taking 1 Timothy 2 ch. 1-4 v. as a test, the speaker assumed the Bible ground that it was the duty of Christians to pray for all men – for our rulers, that they be governed by wisdom and discretion, for the soldiers fighting our battles, that God will shield and protect the right, for our enemies, that the masses may see the inequity of their leaders and the error of their course, and for the leaders themselves that God will enable them to behold their great iniquity and reform their lives, or speedily remove them from the scene of action.  The speaker traced the origination of our Government to show the hand of God in its formation, and to give force to the conclusion, of the exceeding sinfulness of that sin that would attempt its overthrow. – The sermon was ‘patriotic’ throughout, and had it not been for the time and place would have been warmly applauded.

DARING ATTEMPT AT ROBBERY. – One of the most daring attempts at robbery that ever occurred in this city took place about 1 o’clock yesterday morning, at the residence of Mr. Nathan Billstein, in Parker’s Row, Ripley street.  The house was entered by the basement door, and the thief passed up two pairs of stairs to the second floor, where he went into the bedroom occupied by Mr. Billstein, senior, where, he and his wife were sleeping.  Passing through this room, the thief made his way to a closet, and took therefrom a small box, containing some $500 in money and $1,000 in State warrants, besides notes to the amount of $1,000, and was making his way down stairs when the elder Mr. Billstein awoke, and seeing a lantern going down stairs, jumped out and followed. – When in the hall, he caught the thief, but the latter slipped away, got out of the basement and was stepping into the street, when Mr. Billstein seized the box and got it away from the thief, who held on to the handle, and tore out the lid in the effort to retain it.  He then took to his heels and made good his escape.  Whoever the burglar was, he must have known, or been informed, of the precise spot where the money was kept, for he apparently went straight to the place where the box was concealed, passing a number of other rooms on his way.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Tuesday Morning, March 11, 1862, p. 1