SCOTT’S FASHION PLATES for spring and summer 1862, are now
on hand at R. Krause’s.
STARTED AGAIN. – Burrow’s mill was started again yesterday,
after a silence of some weeks, caused by the high water.
DON’T be in a hurry to buy your Dry Goods, but look at
Wadsworth’s stock before making your purchases.
He has more and better goods than any house in the city, and is
constantly receiving new lots of all kinds, and will sell them as cheap as any other man.
HOPE FOR DOGS YET. – For the benefit of those animals, and
their owners, whose names do not appear as yet on the town clerk’s books, that
officer will be at his room for another week, for the purpose of accommodating
those who have not registered their pets.
ACCIDENT TO A STEAMBOATMAN. – The Rock Island Argus says: Wm. C. Coulter, an engineer
on the Wm. L. Ewing, which went up Sunday afternoon, while cleaning the “doctor,”
had his right hand caught in the machinery, breaking all its bones except
one. He left the boat at Hampton and was
brought back to Rock Island, where the wounded hand was dressed.
SHIPMENTS BY RAILROAD. – The following are the shipments
from Davenport by railroad for the week ending May 17: 180 brls. Flour; 3,000
bu. barley; 6,400 bu. wheat; 1,600 brls. Meal; 414 sks. Malt; 78,500 lbs. pork;
112,100 lbs. cut meats; 1,200 bu. potatoes; 3,240 lbs. hides; 20 live
cattle. The estimated value of these
shipments is a little over $20,000.
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POOR TOMMY. – We appeal to the American people if it isn’t a
circumstance of the most aggravating character, for a cat to take advantage of
the darkness, and a broken pane of glass, and creep clandestinely to a bird
cage and murder our canary? – Des Moines
Register.
No, sir; after the terrible fight you had with that cat, he
is justified in coming the secesh over you on every fitting occasion.
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VANDAQLISM. – Nicholas Krambech, sexton of the city
cemetery, informs us that he detected a couple of young women, on Sunday
robbing the graves in the inclosure [sic] of the flowers that friends had
placed over the remains of the cherished dead.
He contented himself with taking the bouquet from them and reprimanding
them for their conduct, but says if it is repeated he will be under the
necessity of prosecuting the parties guilty of such outrage.
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SEDUCTION AND SUICIDE. – One of the most melancholy cases of
death by suicide it has ever been our duty to record, occurred last Sunday
afternoon in this city. The deceased, –
Jeannette Dutton, was a native of Scotland, and had been in this city two or
three years, during which time she had been living with different families in
town, and for some time previous to her death had been employed at the Burtis
House. The circumstances leading to her
death are related in the testimony as taken before the Coroner’s Jury on Sunday
evening, nearly all of which we publish elsewhere. She first tried to kill herself with
laudanum, but took an overdose which caused nausea and vomiting, destroying the
effects of the poison. Sunday morning she procured some strychnine, with which she
succeeding in accomplishing her object, death ensuing about 5½ o’clock in the
evening. She appears to have been
suffering very much in her mind from the stories which had been set afloat
about her, and these eventually, no doubt, led her to commit suicide.
The jury in the coroner’s inquest found that the deceased
died from the effects of strychnine, and that Frank Collins was guilty of
criminal misdemeanor on her person, which prompted her to commit suicide. On the rendition of this verdict, Coroner
Tomson issued his warrant for the apprehension of Collins; and last evening
Constable Teagarden, assisted by Mr. Dermody, and by Justice Swander, of Rock
Island, arrested him on the other side of the river, brought him over, and
locked him up in jail. The ferry boat
had lain up for the night, but Capt. Robinson promptly got up steam and brought
over the party, declining to receive any pay for it. Collins will probably be examined this
morning.
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Insurance against fire and the perils of inland
transportation, and life insurance, can be had of W. F. ROSS, general insurance
agent, Metropolitan building, who will not represent any but the most reliable
companies.
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DIED.
In this city, on Sabbath evening, May 18th, suddenly, of
disease of the heart, HENRY W. SLAYMAKER, aged 64 years.
The funeral will take place from his late residents on Brady
street, this (Tuesday) afternoon at 2½ o’clock.
In Littleton, N. H., at the residence of her father, Mrs.
ALTHERAM, wife of MILO K. PARKS, of this city, aged 34 years.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette,
Davenport, Iowa, Tuesday Morning, May 20, 1862, p. 1
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