Local Matters

M. D’s. – The Physicians of our county and city will find an advertisement of interest to them in to-day’s paper.

SINGER’S SEWING MACHINGES, for family and manufacturing purposes, are offered at very low prices, at No. 36 West Second street, by the agent, R. Krause.

REMOVED. – Mr. J. F. Newbern has removed his jewelry store from his old stand to the next square above, occupying the same store with Mr. Howe, next to Mrs. Knotwell’s millinery.

RAILROAD SHIPMENTS. – The shipments by rail last week were 654 lbs. flour; 3600 bu. Barley; 1,200 do wheat; 434 sacks malt; 400 bu. Oats; 7,480 lbs lard; 3,050 lbs. hides; 520 lbs. butter.

AD. HINE. – This favorite boat is ready for business as soon as the river opens.  Capt. Galt has had the ice cut away from around her.  She is to take her old place on the river or the coming season – between davenport and Dubuque.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. – The ladies of the Benevolent Association thankfully acknowledge the receipt of $31.50 as a donation from the Young Men’s Christian Association.

MR. B. ANDREWS, Treasurer.

JUST RECEIVED AT FARLAND’S, all the latest Spring styles of hats and caps, consisting of the Burnside, Stanton, McClellan and Oxford hats.  All the latest styles of caps constantly on hand.  For bargains in the hat line call on Farland, corner of 2d and Main streets, Davenport, Iowa.

‘TEE VINEYARD.’ – This is the title of a neat quarterly paper recently established at Jersey City, New Jersey, by Wm. P. Peck and Wm. Rowe, and devoted to Grape Culture.  It is published on the first of each month at the low price of 25 cents per annum.  Those engaged in the business of raising grapes, we should think, would get from it many times the worth of that small amount in information during the year.

THE ICE piled up on the opposite shore yesterday, for some distance.  The deck of the wrecked Grey Eagle was carried down stream perhaps a hundred yards.  In the neighborhood of the bridge the ice was breaking up most of the afternoon.  About 8 o’clock last evening, the great mass gave way and piled up along the levee.  The river will probably be clear enough to-day to allow the ferryboats to cross.

THE HORSE SALE. – The Island was visited yesterday by several hundred people, who went to attend the sale of government horses there.  The whole number to be sold was about 150.  Of these, 45 were sold.  The prices ranged unexpectedly high, $38 being the lowest paid for any animal, while $100 was paid for one, and the figures ranged all the way along between these two extremes; the average being about $65.  The sale was adjourned till this morning at 11 o’clock. – Mr. Thomas Orr acts as auctioneer.

RIVER MOVEMENTS. – The Bill Henderson and Fred Lorenz having arrived at St. Louis from the Ohio river, with trips for the upper river, were expected to leave that city on Monday for this point.  Capt. Ward has arrived here, on his way to Le Claire, whence he intends to bring down the Sucker State, which is now about ready to go off the ways.  A boat was to leave Keokuk on Tuesday morning for the capital, to which place the Des Moines river is open.

APPEARANCE DOCKET. – Dropping in on the District Court Clerk the other day, we found him in a little more than usual good humor.  Looking around, we discovered the cause of his elation in the law just passed by the Legislature, requiring all county clerks to keep a book called the “Appearance Docket,” in which shall be recorded the names of the parties to each suit, with the cause of action; and every step in the progress of the case, till its final settlement is to be recorded in the book. This law adds largely to the clerk’s duty; while it gives no additional pay.  Hence its popularity with the county clerks.

THE CONCERT, given at Metropolitan Hall, on Tuesday evening, by Mr. Strasser, was second to none ever given in Davenport.  The selections were choice.  The opening piece, the Overture – ‘Iphigenie,’ by Gluck, deserves special notice, not only on account of its merits as a musical composition, but also for the taste and skill with which it was executed – this was decidedly the best piece given by the Orchestra.  But what most delighted us was the part performed by the juveniles.

Miss Alice Dutton, the youthful Pianist, astonished everybody –we doubt if any person can be found in the world of her age (10 years) who can excel her.  She has only had two years’ instruction and practice, and her playing is as faultless and her execution as rapid as that of a professor of the Instrument.

The Violin solo by Miss Alice Hirschl was a [gem].  Miss Hirschl has acquired wonderful skill as a player on that most perfect and at the same time most difficult of all musical instruments, for one so young.  Her playing is free from false notes and her execution in good taste and perfect in tune.

Miss Clara Kenkel, the charming little vocalist, sang ‘The Herdman’s Mountain Home’ in fine style.  Miss K. has a very sweet voice of great force and compass for a child, and cultivation will make her a very superior vocalist.

The Violin Solo by Mr. Strasser was given in his usual superior style.  Mr. Strasser is a master of the instrument; his superior can not be found in this section of the country, and his equal, when he was here, didn’t stay long.  All these performers, with the [Mannerchor?], were loudly applauded and encored.

A ROBBERY AND ARREST. – Some three month[s] ago, the safe of the County Treasury at Waverly, Bremer county, was robbed of $6,650.  As no clue to the robbery could be obtained, suspicion naturally rested on the Treasurer, and hints to that effect reaching his ears, he determined, if such a thing were possible, to ferret out the thief.  With that object he employed a well known detective, who immediately started upon the scent.  A stranger had recently purchased a fast horse in Dubuque for $1,300 and left; this aroused his suspicions and he started in pursuit.  He found that the same man had bought a farm at La Harpe, Hancock county, Ills., for which he had paid $2,000.  An examination of the money disclosed a five dollar bill, Bank of Commerce, which was recognized as a part of the contents of the Bremer county safe.  The man was then traced to this city, where he was yesterday arrested by the detective, who immediately started with him to Dubuque.  His name is Peter W. Nowels.  For the last six months he has been residing with his family, consisting of a wife, and two children and his mother, on the bluff back of East Davenport.  His house was searched by officer Brown yesterday, who found nothing that fastened guild upon him, though some well-worn slips of paper, covered with figures, had the appearance of being the keys to a secret vocabulary.

BEST A NO. 1 kerosene oil, 40 cents a gallon; rye for coffee, 5 cents a quart; fresh stock of garden and field seeds received yesterday; five bars soap for 25 cents; one lb mould candles for 10 cents; three boxes matches for 10 cents; twenty-five good cigars for 25 cents, or $1 for five boxes of twenty-five each; a fresh stock of candy, 20 cents a pound; best French mixed candy, 30 cents a pound; pure wines and liquors for medicinal purposes; 20 cents for best star candies, at the great cheap grocery, Hawkeye, corner Third and Brady, which is the cheapest store in Scott county.  Give them a call, and our word for it, you will be satisfied.

IMPROVEMENTS – Mr. R. B. Hill has inaugurated the work of improvement in our city for the current season.  He is adding another story to the double building adjoining Metropolitan Hall on the west, and both that building and the corner one are to have a pitch roof, presenting a uniform block from Brady street to the Hall.  An addition of forty feet is also being made to the rear of Mack & Co’s store, in Metropolitan Block.  Mr. Westfall is also fitting up the brick building on Brady street, near Fourth, formerly the First Baptist Church, for a floral hall.

THE BRIDGE CASE. – This suit has been so long asleep that our readers may have fancied that its somnolency partook of the nature of Rip Van Winkle, but such it seems is not the fact.  Last week it came up in the U. S. Supreme Court at Washington, and on motion the Court continued the case for one year.  The Board of Trade of St. Louis will have to bear the nuisance another year; in the meantime the assiduous Bissell can be reaping honors in the army.

ACCIDENT TO THE POMEROY. – The steamer Pomeroy, which ran in the Davenport and Keokuk trade last summer, started from the latter city last Saturday for Burlington, and had a hole knocked in her hull, when near Dallas.  She immediately began to sink, causing great consternation among her passengers.  The boat was eventually got ashore and temporarily repaired.

ADVERTISE. – The man who attempts to do business without advertising, in a town where a daily paper is published and his neighbors advertise, has to offer unusual inducements to obtain [customers], and his poorer neighbor, with one-half the stock judiciously selected, will do double the business.  This is an established fact.

SALE OF GOVERNMENT HORSES. – We are requested to state that the sale of Government horses will be resumed at 11 o’clock this forenoon, and continued over until the same hour on Saturday next.  The best of the horses yet remain and will be sold without reserve.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Thursday Morning, March 27, 1862, p. 1