Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1860-01-26
This, That and the Other.

Eight miles Of horse railroad are in the
process of construction in bet, oft Michigan.
The Dstroit people are seriously agitating
the subject OF building an opera house.
i, Ia rumored in Washington that Lord
LYONS. the new British Minister, is about to
expouse Miss Harriet Lane, the niece Of Presi-
dent Buchanan.
The total exports of Mobile, Ala. mostly
cotton for three months past, have amounted
to over $l2,0O0,O00.
The great 100000 breach Of promise
case in st. Louis is postponed until the let
Monday in March.
1t is now stated that the cost to Virginia,
of tho Harpers Ferry affair will not exceed
100000.
There have been heavy falls Of snow in
everal parts of Algeria a thing which has
not happened for more than Is years.
Gracious heavens, Queen Victoria is
agaiu--. AT her time of life too !-Bost on
Post
"A new order. called "Daughters Of the
Forest" has Just been organized in Baltimore
The objects OF the new organization are sirni-
lar to those Of the Daughters of Temperance.
The man who is fond OF pudding places
himself in the hands and under the power Of
| his wife.
The present annual circulation Of the
American Tract Society is one million OF books
nine millions Of tracts, and six millions OF pa
pers.
-Barnum is making money with the Dray'
tons and their parlor operas in New York. The
ips at Ivid .I
the New York season.
The editor of the Wilmington, n. n.
Herald tells Of feasting on green peas and new
potatoes lately. These vegetables were raised
in December in the open air, in Fernandina,
Florida.
The total value Of coal shipments from
the mines OF Pennsylvania during the past
year, at $3.50 per ton. amounted to about s35
900, 600.
An advertisem ent in the Boston Herald
announces a subscription Of $35 by the ltal-
an street musicians Of Boston" in aid of the
Lawrence sufferers This is very handsome
on the part of the organ gri nders.
Fifty years ago not pound Of fine wool
was raised in the United States. in Great Bti-
TAIN or any other country except Spain. In
the the latter country, the focks were owned
exclusively by the nobility and the crown.
The New York importations from Porto
Rico small Spanish leland OF about 400O
square miles, are about 81, 900 900 per annum
while the exports thither amount to only about
$2,000,000
Towards the erection Of the New Jersey
Monument TO the Revolutionary heroes 81 ,00C
has been subscribed. The estimate cost il
$40. 900 The work will not be commenced
until $l5, 900 has been subscribed.
"A ship recently sailed from San francisco
for Hong Kong with an odoriferous cargo. con
sisting Of the dead bodies Of hundreds Of Chi
naonan, bound for the tombs Of their ancestors
Tim perfume was almost rs delightful as that
from the rats their comrades eat. This kind
al trade st.ll .hrivcs in the Pacific. Ships take
live Cinnamon and dead rs to California, and
cnI ~ lack TO Asia dead Chinese and live rats
A relic Of The classic ages was found in
Vermont lately, being dogs collar supposed
to have belonged to julius Caesar, from the fact
of having his name engraved upon it-which
leads to the supposition that the Green Noun
tain State was at one time occupied by the Ro
mans.
The emigration to Pixies Peak, it would
seem has already commenced. The st. Joseph
Ga1ettc of the 10th announces the arrival 10
that city Of one hundred and twenty golc
seekers from Ohio who were on their way to
the land of golden promise. We learn that
company from Wisconsin crossed tho river a
Dunl.ith, 81 route Tor Pixies Peak last week.