Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1860-03-16
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S.lNTnGAi. NEWS ITEMS.

We learn that judge Back 70 slowly r.
covering fron. his recent ssv.rs indi-posi,ion.
A custom house seizure Of rs. 600 cigars
was made on wednesday 10 Charleston.
The cold weather is said to haze killed
most vi the orange trees In Loui siana.
The great strike OF the working msn ef
London has ceased. Both sides-journey
aud enployers-claim the victory.
Judge Williams of Hartford, Gen Wiz
lians of Norwich ard the lion Thomas w
Williams OF New Lonion have each contribu-
ted 81 900 toward the endo VIZ ent Of Oahu
College. Sandwich Islands.
A woman at Troy, N. Y, just divorced
from white husband, has married a negro.
and another white woman in the city commit
ted suicide because che wanted to marry
NJ gro who has already vile and children.
Counties Danner. the Copenhagen miiner.
become the wife Of the present King Of
/ Denmark, has become obnoxious that the
adde's Of the best society leave the house :
soon she enters her box at the opera.
-Lenormand the Oldest French soldier WHO
had served under Louis XIV, died in paria,
Dec rs. 1889, aged log.
- General Tom Thumb, who is only tw enty-
two years Of age has his fast trotter, his yacht
| is without wife. and lie rich, is about to start
again to make an exhibition Of himself He is
t rel ola quiet lie, and longs to be a spectacle
again to tue ajmiring crowds.
| North Carolina is more extensively en-
gagged in cotton manufactures than any other
State in the South. From statistics it appears
that in 1859, about $4,000 bales Of cotton
were manufactured into cloth in North Carroll
ma. In Georgia, the number # bales was
26 900.
Fro official sources The n Y. Tribune
has gathered few facts of interest with ref
crence to members of Congress. One-sxth Of
! the entire number we born in New York.
one-tenth in Pennsy lvania, one-tenth in Vir-
GINA, ons-fourteenth in Ohio and the same in
kentucky.
A mistake respecting the sale Of Wash-
ington lrving's residence, Sunnysde, is going
the rounds OF the newspapers. Sunnyside WAS
left by the late Mr. Irving to lis two nieces to
be turned over alter their death to q male rel
alive bearing the name OF Irving, which clause
precludes all possibility of sale. at least for
long time to come.
1T is rumored that Charles Heidsick the
celebrated dealer in champagne. who came to
this country few weeks ago, ostensbly to
hunt on the Western praries had in fact
marked his game before he crossed the ocean,
and that the object of his trip was to claim
the hand of fair lady whose acquaintance he
had made in Paris. The New York upper ten
are said to be in fiutter Of excitement over
what is expected to be the event of the sea-
| son.
| The statement heretofore made, that Rev.
Mr.. Stockton, the Congressio nal Chaplain
elect, is Baptist, appears t" be mistake.
We learn that he has been resident Of PhiIa-
dephia. o. the Wesleyan Methodist denomina-
ton. formerly Of Baltimore and is an anti
slavery man Of the republican school. He ia
said to be an eloquent aud popular divine.
The woonsocket (Rhode Island) Patriot
says that John Kelley. Of North Blackstone
in his eighty fourth ear. has tended the same
grist mill for seventy years. and still delights in
his old occupation Mr.. Kellsy was never in
a railroad car or steamboat in his life, and
neve one hundred miles from home
The Hartford Courant states that the man.
ufacture Of odomsters, for measuring the dis
lance travelled by any vehicle, is now carried
on somewhat extensively in that city. Livery
keepers use them con -iderably. and in many
cases the individuals who 60 off for drive Of
five or ten miles and take twenty, are brought
up" with round turn by this continuance,
and often to their great establishment.