The Davenport daily gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1869, 1856-11-19
spristll,r, Of x.v,.

Legislature just elected in Delaware will
,e called upon to chooseswo United States
senators, a. NJ. Bsyard's term will expire
N the Ash of March nsxt.
The sale OF ~Dsed" has be IN im-
nsnse In England, Aessrs. samson. Low,
Son & Co, announce that il has already
reached 100 600 copies; that they have an
edition of 10000 IN preparation. with an
ANA bated demand. Mrs. Stow receives a
on these sales-though . very
one for successful book in Lon
don--amounting thus far to about fl2oo.
IN. P. Willis excuses himself from lectur-
ing on the ground that his "otherwise de-
ieated consumptive symptoms have left him
with little or no voice, and just now" he
says, "a recent hemorhaes has reduced him
TO a whisper"
1t is estimated that the mines in llli-
aois this year have turned out $4,000 tons.
The use OF this coal on locomotives is great
II increasing.
The high price of sugar, and the ms
bihty TO manufacture q supply at home, has
led 10 proposition to repeal the daty on
that article entirely. Thesubject will prob
ably come before Congress at its next ses-
SION.
- white Swan, OF great beauty and
gEscefulnsss OF form and proportion, was
killed few days since at the head OF San.
dusky Bay. Dimensions as follows: From
wing-,ip to wing-tip, siski feet; from the tip
OF its tail to that Of its besk, five feet aias
inches and three quarters; making sltogeth.
er the larges, ieathe,ed specimen known to
our sporting annals.
Last week young maa named Bah
cock. President of the Young Mems Ere.
mont Club, ofScheneetady, and mechan
&c BY trade, while engaged at his work
struck the back OF his hand with hammer
inh!cung severe wound, Being zeaiou:
in the Cause of Freedom. he neglected to
take proper care of his hand. Some cop.
per filings were left in the wound, which
poisoned the hand, causing the arm to swell
and produced his death in few days.
The Norwich (Chensngo connty)
Reporter. says that John Kelly, of Sher-
burne, killed HE brother with an axe OF
Wednesday last. The trouble originated
in dispute between deceased and the pris-
oners wife. The prisoner, on entering the
Jail, found one OF HE sous, lad II years Of
sge, confined on a charge of burglary ant
theft.
The Washington correspondent o.
the New York Times, says that when Doug.
las dispatch claiming Illinois for Buchanan
by eight thousand majority, reached tina,
city, his acquain,ances refrsined from bet
ting on the strength of il until they knew
whether it was cent before or after dnner.
Some strange characters get into
office in the city OF New York. Among
the Aldermen elect, is William Wilson,
~ho was second in prize tight few weeks
ago, and since the election. has been arreS-
ted and held to bail in 1900, on charge
Of beating voter at the polls, with The in
tent 10 take his life.
1t is stated that there are ten times
as many newspapers prinied in the German
lsnguagein the United States az there are
IN Germany.
In Prussia males are not permitted to
marry under twenty five, nor females under
'Sehty-four years Of age.
More than thirty mllion of bricks
were made in Milwaukee last year.
ALL the Free States bot Indiana and
California will, on the frs, of next January
have Republican Governors Last year
there were but eighl.
Every couRt in Gonaectlent Uui l
gave Fremont a majority
The report is conuadicted that til,
city council Of Wheeling, has been com
PEELED to order the spsinkling carts to mois
ten the bed Of the OHIO, at that point, /,
keep the dust down!
From an editorial in the Contra
Presby terrain, we learn that there are nov
thirty five Presbyterian churches in Virgin.
ID without pastors, and considerable mum.
Der OF them with large and influential con-
gregations, able and anxious TO procure the
services of ministers.