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

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lished in New York, has been suspended.
a New York soecuIaaor is said 10 have
been reccntaly stuck $500, 900 on PORK.
The price Of newspapers in London
during the French war was fourteen cents
each.
The government printing office has orders
to print twelve hundred thousand copies OF
the blank notifications to drafted men.
Two hundred thousand acres Of land
in Irand have been permitted to iail TO
waste and sterility the past year.
The price Of "milk' advanced to ten
cents per quart in New York on Monday
the LIST inst.
A number Of the personal faiends Of Gen.
Mcclellan, in Boston, recently made him
prcasent of a fine library, worth about $2,00.
Gen. Lee is the last man Of note to who
our Scotch frinds have laid claim. lie is
claimed as Q native Of Tweedmouth and
Hawicl:
Miss Lucy 4. Sinclair, Of Lowell, died
suddenly few DAYS since from drinking
and bathiny in cold water while in a state OF
perspiration.
-Semmes had gonc.o Ireland at last ac-
counts. lie was in Kilkenny the 10th.
ult. lie travels incognito, and is on visit it
to Some peIsonal friends.
A young woman who was sorting rags
paper mill, in Rainbow, Conn, dry or
two since, found 800 bill among the rub
bish A valuable rag
One man twelve miles south of La Crosse,
Wisconsin, has taken with a net this season
thirty thousand pigeons. Another man in
Sparta has taken ) 500 worth, at four cents
each.
Tnr Danyiile Herald Of last week says
1.-THE present number Of the Hearid was
pnt in type almost entrelyby two young
ladies who six weeks since had never been
inside a printing office.
There is great excitement in Chatham,
Canada West, on the oil question. A large
vain has been struck at the depth Of
429 feet A new flowing we'll has been open
ed at Enniskil!en at the depth Of only abo ut
40 feet.
A man who committed murder three
years ago, and has been at large ever since
has been arrested in Laporte county, Ind,
on the confession Of his brothc in-law, who
was privy to the deed, but has kept it so
long Il secret.
The Charleston Cour;er Of the 18th inst,
says: "Thc number of shells thrown into
the city from the commencement Of the bonn
bardment up to Saturday, the 365th day.
Zone YEAR,, is seven thousand and ninety.
one.
July, 1864, will be memorable for dis
astrous fire III this county. Many Of them
have originated from the droutI, and much
valuable woodland has been burnt over.
Aside from this, it is estimated that upward
Of s., 900 900 worth Of property has been
destroyed by fire in different sections Of the
United States.
Some of the late fires in Newark have
been traced to a gang Of boys, from IL to
| years Of age, who travel between that
place and Jersey City, and burn buildings
apparently from no other motive than to
raise an alarm Immediately after Some Of
them have been lodged in Jail.
Some funny fellows in New Orleans the
other day armed cushion with n masked
battery Of upright pins, and induced a
young man to sit down ON it, pressing him
while he cried with pain, to keep his seat.
For this playful and anusing act the of the
conspirators paid S75-thc others $a5.
"A Canadian journal says that several
droves of horses, purchased III Western
Canada OH Confederate account, have passed
down on the royal mail steamers during the
past few days, destined for Quebec. At that
port, it is understood, they will be shipped
for Mexican port, and thence passed over
land into the Confederacy.
A little boy met with fearful death in
Mechanicc' Falls, Me-, last week. lie had
been up to playful mischief, in an oil-boil
ing established of the place, and SO annoyed
one Of the workmen, that ne seized the lad
and held him over the vat, and threatening
q joking way to drop hin in. The boy
struggled SO violently, however, that he
worked himelf out the mans hands. and
fell into the terrible basin, where he was in
stantly killed.
The London Ne,cs gives the following
said ending" ola wager On the 14th inst
William Harvey, composition, undertook
for wager of II to siwm across the Thames
from Miibank to Lambeth within twelve
minutes, and got in the water for that pur-
pose at 8 o'clock. The unfortunate II an
reaclel about 300 feet from the shore
when he gave loud shrek, and instantly
sunk. The poor fellow, who it is supposed
was seized with cramp, and persisted.
The Great Scare fn Keokmlx.
The kcokuk Constitution, in speaking Of
the late excitement in that city, concerning
an anticipated invasion Of guerilas from
Missouri, says:
We give place to the following article
commenting on the great scare" as it APP
pearcd elsewhere in order that our citizens
may have an opportunity of seeing the
ridiculous light in which our city is being
held up by the papers abroad, on account
OF the senseless conduct of some Of our re
publican citizens, who ought at least to see
that they have some real cause for alarm
before they got scared out of their wits,
and by their imprudent haste to do some
thing, bring our city into contempt and IT.
voive the State in useless expenditure of
money, as well as subjecting the militia of
the state to Inconvenience and trouble in
gong out to meet an enemy who never OK
istcd except IN the wild imaginations of the
Union Leaguers, to whom all such sensation
reports seem to be confined.
TIE editor Of the Cairo Ners has been fur
nished with copy Of the Mobile Evening TEL
o7r0ph of Nav Both which contains tbo coI