Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1864-12-29
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foregoing Waterloo Courier, l4M.
GENERAL NEWS.
General Thomas Christmas present to
the maynard sstcrs-A worsted Hood.
The debt of Vermont amounts to 81 ,640,-
S45, or 1921 for each inhabtant Of the
State.
An honest hack-driver has been discover
cd in New York. lie is to he Killed and
stuffed aud placed in BarnumS Museum.
In London, for the week ending Novcm-
Der 10, the deaths numbered ,742, and the
number Of registered births were l,9l4.
The price of pork in Wilmington is about
one thousand dollars barrel. Perhaps
Porter will be able to make it cheaper.
1t is estimated that over one hundred tons
Of pure Java coffee--we mean chicory-will
be raised in q single town in Illinois next
year.
A competent authority calculates that be-
tween $l20,0 900 and 100000 yearly is ex-
pended in New York upon religious music
Of its churches.
A Philadelphia paper gives the names of
fourteen new petroleum companies or,an-
lied in that city within week, which to-
gcthcr have capt. Il Of 81 ,450, 900.
Major Louis NJ. Buford and Capt. Knox,
and, it is said, all the other members Of
General Crittenden's staff, have resigned, in
consequence Of the recent resignation Of
General Crittenden.
At Carbonate, ILL.,, II ere are three cot
ton gins in operation. and all have been
busy since the beginning of the season.
Three hundred bales have been pressed
there and sent to market, all from the vlcin-
ity. Other gins are at work in the county.
Since Admiral Porter assumed command
Of the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron.
in September last, his share Of prize money,
it is said, will amount to nearly two hundred
thousand dollars.
An officer who arrived at ST. Louis on
Friday, from Arkansas, says that it was re-
ported at Little Rock that General Price had
recently died at Fort Touson of intermittent
fever, contracted during his invasion of Mis-
souri,.
TIE Sultana Djemila, one of the daugh-
tSto VI Viz latS A'uttuI VI III MY OCCcuttiS
Jealous Of one of her slaves who she inag-
incd was regarded with favor by he hus-
band, had the girls head cut off and placed
under cover on the Pasha's dinner table
On removing the cover the Pasha was so
affected that he fell back a corpse.
THE REcIPRocITy TREATY.-The N. York
Times Washington special says: "Two
Ca adian merchants are here to engineer
against the abrogation Of the reciprocity
treaty. They are delighted to learn that the
joint resolution has not passed, and declare
that the Canadians will spare no expense to
prevent the treaty's being terminated.
The BALTIMORE SuN.-Thc last penny"
or one-c cent paper in the country, the Balti
more Sun, has yielded to the necessities Of
the times. and raised its price to two-ccnts.
The proprietors say they have been furnish
ing the Sun for long time back, at but lit
tic more than onc.third the actual cost of
the white paper before it had received the
impression OF single type.
The Chairman Of the Illinois Republican
Central committee estimates the number of
soldiers who returned home TO vote in No
vember at $4,000. Nearly all these were
picked men''-that is, men who were fur
Laughed on pledge to vote the republican
ticket. The Bellville Democrat assures us
that had there been no soldier votes. or had
all the Illinois soldiers voted, the State
would have gone for Mcclellan.
"Burleigh' writes that company of New
York gentlemen have fitted up y fast sailing
clipper ship in elegant style, placed on board
every conceivable luxury, manned her com.
PIetely with fine crew, put her in charge
J OF an able Captain. ard rendered her to Gen
eral George B. Mcclellan for one year. t.
sail where he will with his family and
} inends-the entire expense to be borne by
! the gentlemen.
1t is now stated in Southern journal. as
an exhibit Of the great number Of shells
which have been thrown by Grant into Pc.
tcrsburg, that the inhabitants Of the CITY
have collected GOO, 900 pounds of shell, and
sold them to the Confederate Ordinance
Department. Twenty thousand shells, it is
estimated have been thrown into Petersburg
and with all this bombardment but 10 have
been killed and so wounded.
ALDABELLA, favorite and chief of the Ia.
rem Of FL Kadir Boy Soud, is accounted the
most lovely woman in Turkey. It's said
that her princely husband is ever on the
qai oiceto discover methods Of obtaining
new items of lovelincss for his favorite. and
That ne recently sent special courier all the
VIZ % Faris to procure quantity off, Lu.
bins Floriline, {" tho new toilet REQUISITE
Iof ner nose. The result was gratifying be.
ySno nls most san8ufie Expectations, for
We quesnly AldabsfIa now sdiisplays The rich.
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