Local Matters

CHOICE editions of standard works on exhibition at the Iowa Book Rooms, No. 50 Brady st. – some of the finest works in the English language.

APPLES. – Simmons has for sale, on consignment, thirty for forty barrels of prime [genitings].  Apply at his stand, corner of Brady and Second streets.

WE ARE pleased to see that Erskine has received a beautiful lot of cassimeres, vestings, &c.  We advised every one to go and see them.  He keeps a fine stock of ready made clothing on hand, which he offers very low.

ALEXANDER’S plain and embroidered kid gloves, plain and fancy raglans, elegant embroiders shawls, fancy dress silks, new dress goods, embroidered handkerchiefs, lace mitts, silk, mohair and may other styles of goods will be opened at Wadsworth’s this morning.  Ladies are invited to inspect the same.

CHILD & Co. have just received a very large stock of boots and shoes, consisting of every variety.  Their unequaled facilities in getting goods direct from their wholesale house in Boston, enable them to give great bargains, and they are bound to do it.  They also manufacture men’s and ladies’ fine sewed boots to order, of superior style and quality.  Call and see them.

GOLD EXCITEMENT. – A citizen who has just returned from St. Louis reports considerable excitement existing there relative to the new gold country in the far North-West.  He met a French Canadian who had spent a few months there, and hat returned with $30,000 in the shining dust.  Expeditions were being fitted out to explore the new country.  A number of our citizens contemplate joining the explorers.

NOTARIES PUBLIC. – It may be interesting to those of our fellow citizens who hold appointments as notaries public, numbering something less than half the voting population of Scott county, to know that by a recent act of the Legislature no more than nine notaries can be appointed for this county.  Those holding commissions, however may fill out the term for which they were appointed, by paying into the State treasury the sum of five dollars.  Of course, this will please all our notaries, who will be delighted to exhibit their patriotism at the cheap rate of a drop of five dollars into the treasury bucket.

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LAW CASE. – The case referred to below may possess interest to many of our readers, as it involves a considerable amount and the parties all citizens of this place:–

In the case of James May vs. Executors of A. LeClaire, John P. Cook, Geo. L. Davenport and others, in Chancery, in the U. S. District Court for Iowa, defendants filed exceptions to plaintiff’s original and amended bills and his bill of reviver, and had the matter referred to a Master in Chancery to examine and report thereon.

Counsel for both parties appeared before the Master and occupied one day in arguing the case before him.  It was then argued by the counsel for two mortal long days before his Honor, Judge Love, who yesterday morning gave his opinion overruling the exceptions to plaintiff’s original and amended bills, but sustaining the exception to the bill of reviver, and counsel for plaintiff have leave to amend the same.

The Court decided that the costs occasioned by filling these exceptions be paid one-half by each party. – Keokuk Constitution.

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A FAMILIAR COMPEND OF GEOLOGY. For the School and Family. By A. M. Hillside.  Philadelphia: James Challen & Son.

A copy of this elementary work has been handed us by Elder Challen, of this city.  After a critical examination of its contents, and noticing the familiar style in which the author treats the subject, we pronounce it the very book that is needed in our schools to acquaint children with the first principles of Geology and give them a love for one of the grandest and most useful of the natural sciences.  It commences with the definition of the simple question, What is Geology? And ends by leaving the student with mind prepared to enter upon the study of Lyell’s profounder works, or to peruse understandingly Hugh Miller’s noble and elevating series of publications on this interesting science.  The introduction of this rudimentary book into our schools would cause children to devote more of their spare hours to the healthful and profitable pastime of searching for specimens of the different rocks and paleontological remains that abound in this vicinity, and if teachers themselves would take an interest in it – without which no study can be made interesting to students – the nucleus of a cabinet might soon be formed in each of our public schools, that eventually without expense might grow to be valuable acquisitions.  This little book, embracing only 150 pages, contains a glossary, index and chart of the systems of classifications adopted by several of the most distinguished geologists of England and America.  Its author is a lady, not a compiler of school books like Comstock, but one who has made geology her study for years, and in offering this elementary work to the public, gives what was originally written to interest her own children in this grand science.  An examination of this little book, we feel sure, will favorably impress our committees and teachers with its merits, and lead to its general introduction into our schools.

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SUPREME COURT

(APRIL TEARM.)

CALEB S. BALDWIN, Chief Justice.

G. G.  WRIGHT, Associate Justice.

R. P. LOWE, Associate Justice.

LEW KINSEY, Clerk.

FRIDAY, April 11.

1280. Cochrane vs. Miller, appt.; Green Co.  Affirmed.

880.  Samuel vs. Griffith et al.; Lee Co.  Affirmed.

1107.  Bevan vs. Hayden, et al.; Dubuque Co.  Affirmed.

1117.  Joseph J. Wilson vs. William L. Holcomb; Dubuque Co.  Affirmed.

1194.  Martin Terhune, appt. vs. Carmichael et al.; Scott Co.  Affirmed.

825.  Cassady, appt. vs. County of Woodbury; Polk Co.  Affirmed.

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WHIPPING. – Mr. Mixter, of Rock Island, delivered a lecture on Tuesday evening against whipping, either in school or the family.  We believe with the Argus, that there are other more humane and more effective modes of correction; and since public opinion had abolished the whipping-post, the government abolished whipping in the navy, why should this relic of barbarism be kept up in the family and the school?

MAPLE SUGAR. – Starr has several hundred pounds of this delicious article, just received.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Saturday Morning, April 12, 1862, p. 1