Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1864-04-28
GENERAL. NEWS

The Rothschlds arc to open a bank in
Mexico on = capital of 500, 600. 900
2,o2ocadcis have graduated from West
Poiut Academy.
| Twenty four millions Of raiions have been
accommodating at Chattanooga
The Erie Canal will be opened for nay
| igation on the 3oth Instant.
The cradle in which Rufus Choate was
rockin his infancy has been presented to the
Baltimore Sanitary Fair.
a Presbyterian Church at Greenwich.
Rhode Island, has given its female members
the right to vote
HcanreSard has, II is said, issued an order
promising pardon to all Confederate deser-
ters who return to duty.
II is estimated that one Of the milk dealers
OF Boston sells owes 81 900 worth of water in
his milk in a single year
jeff Davis Mississippi homestead on his
| extensive plantations IS now used us a school
house for freedmen.
Ireland has lost 100000 Of its popula
ton by emigration in ten years. and the
cxodn, Is still going on at the rate of Iaa.
900 Il year.
Ia Central Vermont, the dryncss OF the
season has intcricrcd with the ,nap,e supar
crop, and il will hardly be as good as the
average.
The Sanitary Fair at Pittsburgh will soon
be open and prove a grand success. The
buildings are about half up. and all classes
take an interest in the work for the sol
diers
The total cost ola ton ofcoal in \ CIV York
city, including Mining and transportation,
IS Sf,3o. yet the selling price is 1890, leav-
ing profit to The dealer Of $500 per
ton.
1t Is stated, not on vary good authority,
that the rebe.s now have thirty iron-cla,ls
really for service, and the twenty more are
expected from Europe within the next two
months. 81.
Sergeant-Major Swailes, ofonc OF the negro
regiments engaged at Olustce, is torcccve a
lieutenant conn mission as soon as he re-
covers from his Wounds, and yet his wife
and children hav c had to 20 to the poor
house, IN New York to escape starvation.
4 clored man Of Albany caused the arrest
OF blind man, day or to two since, for
assault and battery The alleged crime
seemed almost incredible, but when the mat
ter was lnquir ed into, a third party, it an
pears. interes' ed himself, by holding the
negro whi'c The blind man pounded him
!. a etiificlAt = has arisen in the Imperial
,san,liy OF A. lstria respecting the prcsulnptiye
,xnt Of Ar cfduke Maxin,iiian@ to the Aus.
,,-; sh crow 4. The Council of the family
cssc ~. ~ Archduke to resign his right in
xss,'a. -. erc~a should revert to his. but the
quest ~ "'h'l"y "'''i eh's re-
!. ..1'' sou .ss full. recovered his re-
sc h ~. ,@eaasea a. hssla and is as busy IS
osy "riung up ms life and Times !"
wMch he expects to have rad, for tl,a ' rs
the course ola few weeks. Ths-or,- =. RI ~. 30
I ,mplctcd, will make nine h,,,,sro5 - -
ttsxO Pa9essg such book, froinS ss,,,
apthofNy, q this time, can scarccly fail az
finding an iInmcisc sale.
Goldand petroleum are bein,. found If. everv
place they will soon become so common =
to lOse' al their cxchanseabfe valuc-for in
stance The QuDcc Mercury saws "the rush
- the ChAndiefss gold tliggings has comnlcn-
ced. Several undrcd adyepturers arc al
feaely enthe ground, ifcl0dfng many cx-
Pe1enced miners from California. A large
Propart'on Of the adventured arc Americans.
~ - keseer 6ateA who in'sddition to
g 1tsa1tioh, thus st ont Of the