Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1864-04-22
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| Immigration TO Canada las' year amour
ted TO ~, Ale souls.
The Russians are constructing rsilwa,
from Moscow to S~sastopal
Figtccn h,,rred soldiers died in and abou
New York sast year
The,e are no reptiles in Newfoundland
moi even frog.
J Florence, the actor, lately insulted Z
Russian court at a New York ball, and the
count wants toshoot
The Sanitary Commission and its agents
cry loudly for potatoes, onions and pickles
| for the SOLDIER.
Two hucdreA votes on the amy sword
election have been received from the West
for Grant.
In Minnesota, people are grumbling be-
| Gauss they have to pay BIC a pound for but
ter. Only think Of it,
Fashionable ladies visit the !" kitchen at
the New York Sanitary Fair in crowds,
because il is such a curiosity
About two millions volumes were sold at
the recent New York book trade sales.
Prices were ten and fifteen per cent. higher
than formerly.
The total receipts Of the New York SAM
tary Fair. mp to Saturdar, were about 1921
600 The Fair will be kept open until next
Saturday. April ODD.
Seine Of the Philadelphia papers are talk
ing about the propriciy Of swearing cars. as
well as smoking cars. upon railroad routes.
Why not
The woman who makes the best shirt for
the st. Louis Sanitary Fair is to have prize
OF $500 in silver ware also $50 in silver
ware i offered for the second best
Last year there were imported into Great
Britain 1876. SOC, 3l9 lbs, Of tea worth go
666 olS. The quantity Of this article is
unusually and rapidly Increasing.
The Italian navy consists Of 1o2 vessels.
car ying 1924 gus and 81 $50 men. Italy
now ranks as the firrth on the list of Eur
opean naval powers, and is rapidly. getting
up higher.
Flonr was selling at Richmond, last Satur-
LAY, at $500 per barrel So the woman say
who arc coming thence daily. General Win
der gives them passes, aud the Confcderacy
is glad to get rid of all that have to be fed
cannot fight
Mr.. Bonner, Of the New York Ledger, con
Iributcd his celebrated mare, LADY Wood
ruff, to the Sanitary Fair She was sold
by auction for 81 500 and her former owner
" jim Irving" bought the purchaser bar
gain for 5000. Mr. Bonner gave So, 800 for
her, originally.
The frigate Ironsiles has fired since she
,een in the service 4 ,36l rounds has been
nit 24l times has only had one man killed: |
has not hcAl seriously injured, and is proba-
by the best iron clad vessel in the worll.
The largest tree in western Massachusetts,.
nc old chm, in Springfield, has been cut
Town According to DR.. Holmes measure |
nent in 1897 it was twenty nine feet and |
our inches in circumference one foot above |
he ground.
The immigration for the past three months |
caceeS the enormous Of 25,3.o for same |
'criod last year it was 9,35l. Ireland sends |
3,55o Gcrmany,6o Engand, 3.4si
nd other countries 5,5s7. The largest ar
iyals ware in March, being 3 .905.
The quartz mines ofIdahowere discovered |
y an old trappcr of that country in 1915.
md We're frequently pointed out to cmigrants
cross the plains to Oregon. The richness
# these mines was never fully credited, how
yer, until after the discovery Of gold at Ban
,ock City
The first locomtive introduced into the |
Stand ofCaylon was landed last month from
he ship Palmcrston. II was placed on a
bamboo raft, and was to be drawn to the |
'ailway station by team of three elephants.
The cort Of the public schools of Chicago,
or the year, has been sl4s,4s6. in average
If about Sl3 per scholar The city schools |
und amounts TO 81 OPS, SG3, and the schools |
IRE supported from The ayails OF this and by |
aXation.
\ difficulty has arisen in the Imperial |
amly of Austria respecting the presumptiye |
light of Archdukc Of Macmillan to the Aus |
rian Crown The Council of the family !
warned the Archdukc to resign his right in !
.asc the Crown should revert to him, but |
he Archduke hcSitatcd to comply with this |
request.
The Baltimore Sun says that butter is sell |
ng in that city at from 60c to s per pound |
md large number of families have ceacd to |
purchase it. With butter at zoe, and rising. !
,nc of the New York papers sarcastically
the issue and sale of 'butter GER
tificates'
GIN McKINsTRy-Ex-R Brig. Gen Nc
Kinstry is about opening new banking
house at st. Louis under special charter
from the Legislature.