Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1864-08-22
GENERAL. NEWS.


The tobacco crop III Missouri, is estimated
nj about third that OF COIN
i ager bier is twenty cents glass in
Memphis
An Atlanta paper boasts that there are
| now not less than hundred rebel officers in
active service with one leg apiece.
There has been report in Little Rock
for several days that General Sterling Price
had died at the house of Mr.. Paine, in Aa-
kadclphia, of dyscntry
The daily Richmond papers are sold at
forty cents apiece to the Southern soldiers
at Petersburg. Reading must be consider
ed luxury i'll the rebel army
An imErudcnt gentleman leaning out of
his ear at the scene of railway catas,ro-
phe in Canada, had his head severe from
his body b. one OF the supporting rods of
the bridge.
y Coal ut Cost Company has been Or
ganlzcd III Brooklyn. One thousand tons
val be purchased by subscriptions and a
purchaser dispatched to the PENNSYLVANIA
mines. A saving Of 81 a ton is expected
the Hsrald IF Progress, Spiritualist
newspaper and we think the most widely
circulated of the papers devoted to Spirit
nai's'il, has been forced TO succumb to the
high piicc OF apcr and is dead.
The fare from San Francisco to New York
has been advanced to $500 by all tho routes.
The Atlantic and Pacific mail ships are ma
kiug very large profits, and the latter has
coal enough to nearly represent its capital
stock
The treat Eastern which cost 81 .OOO.-
900 Or s5,o00,0U0, has been sold for c2,.-
ooo, or Sl25,o00, which sum will not be
sufficient to pay eff preference creditors and
her expenses. Thus it seems that our
Monitors are not the only example Of failure
In ocean architecture.
There is to be an alteration in the Eng.
ish silver coinage. 1t is intended by the
government to recall, during the coming
fall. the whole Of the SILVER coin now circu
latinS throughout the United Kingdom.
ana replace them b., an entirely new coin
age.
During the hot weather, and the absence
OF AR. and 3irs. Lincoln, the White House
l. oeing all renovated. A great deal OF iniu-
~ mas been done by visitants. who have
ciiPped the curtains and torn the wall paper
ior the purpose of sending home Prcsiden
tial souvenirs.
The largest silver block ever moulded IN
Nevada Territory was on exhibition at VIZ =.
gina City y few days 81 nee. It weighed
two hundred pounds. was worth 81 aJs ea
ana was designed as present to the SAM
tary Commission 1t was moulded in Tho
shape of a writing desk.
so. Yo'" Metcaif, Of Northampton, Massachu-
Sues oi's Of the oldest printers in the
state, having follow ed the business CIV
$50 years. aied ON Tuesday last. aged
seveh.y-slx lie printed the HAMPSHIRE Ga
.eue LOT TWO ye Ars, aid and at d;fferent
~. times was boo TX and job printer in most Of
tne ounces IN Massachusetts as we'll &c Ver.
mont New II -ampshire and Connecticut
1nree no' lse breakers were killed recently
-, l'ancas' =, o., while forcing an entrance
n0 inc no use OF a soldiers wife, by woun.
uea solole rwhom the lady's hospitality had
!. .eucslseo the event ng previous. One Of the
ppuHA's was r. C gnized as tho lady's
s s.o.ner -ln-law. She had just rec lived $500
nun her husbaM in the army, and it is
opposed that tn was the temptation that
.'ousnt sne mcr 4 on their evil and disas-
Lrous errand.
,o a terrible mu rider was committed on July
rS.n' al tue Sou them Lunatic Asylum, near
Dsy'on' o., BY maniac named Coleman.
.ro was notet for his dangerous charac-
81, ana having before attempted to kill the
=. nc I he victim, named Runk, was
4. :, inc iatt er, while carrying dinner for
~ 1Sa, incautfopsly left large knife
IA Oolesa.e WHO Immediately Seized it
s h,s sIsooed Runk twice, cutting entirely
AOuen TWO ribs and severing the liver.