The Davenport daily gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1869, 1856-11-12
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Some years ago when the Queen &c.
turned from visit TO her uncle Leopold o.
Belgium, her baggage was searched, and
much smugeled lace was found. One Of her
maids OF homer was suspected, although the
laugh was against the Qascn for cheating
her own Custom House.
1T 10 estimated that the miss'on OF
Earl Granville to Moscow, az the Extraor-
binary Ambassador 81 England at the core
nation OF The Gar. viii Cost the country
from fa5.ooo to $4,000. The suit Of the
noble earl includes nearly u persons,
The amount subjec, to draft in the
Treasury on the let met, was upwards OF
ga, ZOO, 600, of which there 10 in New York
Sll 1850. 900, at Philadelphia 43,oo0,ooo, at
San Francisco &2,75o.Oo0. at Boston o..
o0o, 600, and at Charlotte, North Caroline,
sl,75O.ooo.
The Philadelphia Ledger cites the
Exhibition la France Of . locomotive weigh.
ing sixty tons. with ten feet driving wheels
and stated to be capable Of attaining
speed of 100 miles per hour. Its centre Of
gravity 10 placed go low As to render 1t safer
than ordinary enginss At the usual speed, 30
far as getting off the track 10 concerned,
The yiuiol throwers are At work In
Washington. Several persons have had
their clothes ruined. recently, BY them. On
Friday, says the Star, we learn that lady
returning home from shopping excursion,
upon the avenue, discovered th at her Dress
a new and costly silk one, was entirely
ruined through the scoundrslism of thess
throwsrs.
The election on Tuesday finished up
the political life of at least two Slavery U.
S. Senators--one in Michigan and another
in Wisconsin.
Two years ago, Hon. Galusha A.
Grow was elected in the Wilmot District,
nsylvaaia, no candidate being run
against him. He has just been reelected
over has Buchanan opponent. by larger
majority than when he ran alone. A pretty
good Grow, that,
In l76a an English ship stranded
near New Rochelle, Wes,chester county
The losses on Lake Ontario alone
by the recent gale, reach $4,000.
The snow etorm of last week wat
so heavy on the Western New YORK Rail
roads as to bring snow plows into use
Some of the trains were delayed on time.
The buildings of the st. Paul ga
works have been finished, and will 60 lntt
operation next spring,
The Perkins Institute for the Blind
has received bequest of $4,000 from the
late John Black, of Ellsworth, Ill.
The Jamaica Journal says that the
present years crop of allspice and pimente
will fall far short of the original average
In many parishe. it has failed. On many
properties that have generally realized
2, oso bags, will not be reaped loo.
-George w. Johnson, one of the large
sugar planters of the Mississippi, below
New Orleans, who died recently, has left
an esi ate valued at not less than 81 ,0O0, 900
He has by his will manumitted all his slayes
400 in number. They are all to be sent to
Liberia in four years from his death, AND
each one is to be furnished with $50.
The three Washburns stick together
like brothers Israel has been reelected
in Maine by a majority of 5000; Cadwslls.
der C. in Wisconsin by at least 5000; and
Elisha b. in Illinois by 1851. It's beau.
tiful to see paternity and patriotism thus 60.
ing hand in hand.
How TO square the eirele.--Ths Buf.
ialo Republic says, "settle up your wifs'a
bill for hoops at the dry goods store or mil
liners"
Wine, fresh from the press, is sell
ing in Cincinnati at Sl,I6 per gallon while
bottle of Newark cider, with tin foil round
the cork. costs 81 in most of the large cit
les.
1t is stated that the proposed City
Hall of N. Y. will cost that city not less
| than eight millions of dollars.
The Petersburg. Va. Intelligencer
says there is a man in that city, who smokes.
chews and drinks to the following tune:
244 gallons brandy drunk, one mile and sew.
| en- eghths oi5tobacco chewed, and three
and half miles of cigars smoked in one
| year. Rather hard case.