Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1864-01-09

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b $780, I
La The ycs- 1903 there wefs 4,2s4
IN. tnQ hou.es, IS Il tories add nine
.aorch.s erectedio PhiIsdelphis.
Tho co.s,~ise arrivals At Philadel
phia last year numbered 2,s7s, foreign
SO.
The total number Of deaths in Phila
1elphia last year was 1886. deaths
rom consumption numbered 1877.
The entries at The Custom House In
Boston last year numbered 1929;
gin Of IS compared with the prev'ons
year.
In one Of the po,k.packing establish
mems 10 81. Louis. last week. 100 hogs
were cut up in five hours.
Heensn and King are under bonds for
t,ial FIR breach ofthe peace.
A specimen e silver bearing qnartz
from Vest Mount.ios, twenty-five miles
H. m Salt Lake City, is exhibited IN 81
Sous. which yields tl43 TO the ton, 10
pure metal.
The New Haven papers are to 10
crease their advertising rates for the
coming year, thirty-.hrce and third
per cent.
An eight day clock, whose machinery
is made Iiom soup bones, j. among the
1 ~ ,hD in ,innuft IA
There are now three hundred vessel,
and twelve hundred men employed 10
The Ba t,moro oyster trade.
Persons writing letters to members Of
Co gres., Iced not prepay the postage.
Bears arc unusually numerous in
Michigan thi. winter. They are rather
thieyish too.
Oar annual crop of whisky is estima-
ted at one hundred millions Of gallons.
Gen. Casa is said to be 20 tecbie that
he cannot live much on,er. He is IN
his slst year.
Rufus King. U. S. Minister at Rome,
has also been accredited 10 the court cf
Greece.
The ccal mines at Canneltown, I'D,
yield 10000 bushels per day.
| Unmarrie women are cmigrating in
large numbers from England to Austria
la. Some Of them get pretty poor Lus-
bands.
The brewers Of Cincinnati presented
Que hurd ell barrels OF lager beer 10 the
Sanitary Fair, which Was worth 5000.
was j-c,cd.
1t IS stated that The English and
| French insurance OH .es ere dividing the
'i,ks VI an insurance, TO the amount o.
100000, on the lite Of the Empires OF
the F,crcn.
Chicago boasts Of berg the greatest
p'sc. in The world for pack NJ pork. The
reccio oil hogs there last year amouo'-
Ell /, 900 $40, which is an increase oil
5jl.G29 compared with the previous
year.
Madame Anna Bishop is now delight
ing tie inhabi; ants Of Louisville with
her soogs.
Kit Carson has been appointed Colo el
of the 81 te.imsnt OF volunteers IN
New Mexico, and is urged for Brlgadicr
General.
The London Times says the enormous
] SUN of f3OO was last week paid for the
! insertion OF an advertisement on the
back page of the Christmas number Of q
weekly serial.
| A MILLION and halt ct democrats
recorded their votes against abolition
ian at the las. change
paper.
Wendell Phillips il mot certain that
slavery is dead unt, he sees it buried"
The New Haven Register sa, if he will
go to the "Freedmcn's" camps along he
Mississippi, he will see it buried at the
rate of several hundred per day.
The Americans at Paris have contri-
bntcd $1,000 for the Sanitary Comnis-
sion, and they are about holding a con-
cert Tor the benefit Of the commission.
Francis Hall l. Co., after proprietor
ship o. fifty year,. retired from the New
| York Commercial Advertiser en- the at,
and tho paper will he continued by an
association as di>tlnctively commercial
! paper. The -4doeriiser is the oldest
daily paper in New York. and was for
merIy edited by Noah Webster, author
Of Webs er's Dictionary.
The rebel House OF Representatives
have passed bill prohibiting any per-
son frnn buying, selling, taking, circu-
atlng, or in any manner trading in the
paper currency Of the United States.
The richest individual in England s
the Marquis < + Westminster. whose daily
Income Is estimated at $4,000. The
Rotchs ch,lis, tour of them, are the rich.
est house IN Europe. and their income
ia estimated at about nine millions
year, or thousand dollars an hour.
The New Orleans Picayune goes into
ecsiacies over the Dccenbes flowers OF
that city, and says: How beautiful and
abundant are the f,we,s xhich adore
he gardens Of New ORR ans Just now {!
Were Nor,herlc CIR suddenly transport
Ell here. with no knowlc 'ge that he was
going South instead OF North, he would
'nag.ne himself to have slept TIL June,
AID then TO have awokc in tho garden OF