IF YOU want wall papers of the newest patterns, go to
Plummer’s, No. 50 Brady st. *tf
GREAT EXPECTATIONS can be realized by buying some of those
new styles of wall papers. *tf
BOUNTY, PENSIONS, &c. – See advertisement
of Parker & Edwards. They are
reliable men and will transact promptly any business entrusted to them.
DO NOT fail to call in on Farrand’s to-day and purchase a
new hat or cap. You can find them in all
styles, prices and colors at cor. Second and Main sts.
DECORATE your dwellings with some of those recherché patterns of wall paper, which
can be seen only at Plummer’s, No. 50 Brady street. *tf
“ARTEMUS WARD.”- Charles F. Browne, Esp., the well known
Artemus Ward, showman, etc., will deliver his celebrated lecture on “Babes in
the Wood,” Thursday evening at Metropolitan Hall. See advertisement.
LANDLORDS, paper your houses with some of the beautiful
paper hangings which can be found only at Plummer’s. Then on rent day instead of being met at the
door with a broomstick, you will be greeted with pleasant smiles. *tf
SLIPS TO RENT. – The slips in the Second Baptist Church,
corner of Fourth and Perry streets, will be rented to-day (Tuesday). – Those desiring
seats will be waited on by the committee, at the Church, from the hour of 9 o’clock
A. M. until 4 o’clock P. M.
HITCHING HORSES. – People who are in the habit of allowing
their horses to stand in the street unhitched will do well to remember we have
an ordinance in this city punishing such negligence by a fine of five
dollars. Farmers had better be on the
look-out, or some policeman, on scent of a fee, may haul some of them up before
a magistrate and ease their pockets of some surplus demand notes.
INFLUENCE. – The Democrat
says jocosely that the GAZETTE has no influence. That depends altogether, neighbor, upon what
constitutes influence. If it is a
limited circulation, published in a community that has not sentiments in common
with it, without the enterprise to secure correspondents in the army to sustain
the credit of Iowa soldiers, villainously abused by the correspondents of other
States, etc., etc., then the GAZETTE has no influence. If the reverse of these, then the Democrat goes to the wall.
“ORPHANS’ HOME OF INDUSTRY.” – We have received a circular
informing us that there is an institution in Iowa by the above name, that it
commenced in 1854 without an acre of ground or a dime of money and that now it
is regularly incorporated with a board of seven responsible trustees, has more
than 500 acres of land, one-fifth good timber, 12 buildings paid for and stock,
wagons, machinery, tools, etc. for the use of two establishments. In the last eight years it has collected,
received and disbursed in this charitable work more than $20,000, and received
from Eastern cities and provide for 230 orphans of all ages. It is proposed now to open an asylum to
provide for the homeless orphans of deceased soldiers and as the funds are all exhausted,
until the crops come in, the institution will have to depend upon the public
for support. Those who are disposed to
aid a really meritorious object can do so by addressing C. C. Townsend,
missionary, box 142 Iowa city.
JAIL STATISTICS. – Mr. Ackley, the jailor, has kindly
furnished us some statistic relative to the prisoners confined in the county
prison. The statistics embrace a period
of nine months, during which time 130 persons were incarcerated in that institution. Of this number there are 88 Americans, 69
Irish, 15 Germans, 2 English, 2 Scotch, 2 French and 2 Canadians. Two of the number were negroes. Their religious preferences, what they had of
the article, were divided as follows, Catholics, 76; Lutherans, 14; Methodists,
12; Presbyterians, 10; Infidels, 9; Baptists, 5; Episcopalians, 2, Millerite,
1; Universalist, 1. Of the Irish, nearly
all were put in for minor offenses; while those sent to Fort Madison were mostly
Americans and Germans.
Just now, there is a lull in business at the jail, there
being very few incarcerations, which Is always the case in the spring. – There also
seems to be, both here and elsewhere, a great diminution in the amount of crime
committed. Fewer murders and robberies
are reported than usual, while the misdemeanors, in this locality, are also on
the decrease. Whether this gratifying
state of affairs is to be attributed to the general absorbing interest in the
war, or to the probability that many of the professional criminals of the
country have gone into the army, or to some other cause is an open question.
THE RIVER probably reached the highest point yesterday it
will attain the present season. The water
reached the sidewalk on Front Street, above Perry, and came up Rock Island and
Iowa streets nearly to Second. The river
road under and near the bridge is covered several inches. Cellars all along Front street are
flooded. No serious damage, however, has
occurred that we have heard of. The rise
lacked one or two inches of the great flood of 1859, and still more of that of
1851. The stream was falling at last
accounts all the way down.
RAILROAD SHIPMENTS. – The following are the shipments by
railroad from this station last week; 2,552 brls. Flour, 8,000 bu. wheat, 3,00
bu. barley, 400 bush. corn, 4,000 bu. potatoes, 600 bu. onions, 1,000 brls
meal, 40 tons bran, 712sks. Malt, 43,780 lbs. lard, 8,900 lbs. pork, 1,010 lbs
butter, 9,170 lbs. hides, 70 live hogs.
Estimated value of shipments $22,300.
ACCIDENT. – Mr. Christian Snyder, a German, employed in the
plow factory of Mr. Krum, met with a painful accident yesterday at the
factory. He was engaged at a circular
saw, cutting some lumber, when a piece of wood about three feet long, and a
couple of inches square, was caught by the saw and hurled towards him.,
striking him in the mouth, cutting his lips very much, and causing the blood to
flow profusely. He will be laid up for
several days.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette,
Davenport, Iowa, Tuesday Morning, May 6, 1862, p. 1
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