Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1864-05-07

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Christ Church, in TIartfort, Ct, has voted
t,fslO o to- buy r' ofEs~s'F ~
(he East Ttd Psee r. ei ne nps PSI
h .Ss now heAd ting ''n1 &5S&

Petroleum has been discovered in Monroe
county, N. Y, within mile and = hail OF
Rochester.
About 900 troops passed through the
c;tv to-day. am auth0ritatively nouneo
not to say anything about them, and
won't.
Several Rhode Island factories haze. re-
Gently engaged large number Of English
operatives fresh from the factories OF the Ola
county,
TIE as3ny consumes SO many onions that
Wethenfield Is looking up. Whereas on
ion scof in that lively Connecticut village
sold before the war at AZ cents a pound, |"
now commands %.
Several parties using Government horses
for pleasure riding came to grief in wash
ington the othcr..day. Some eighty Of these
gentlemen were overhauled by the Provost
Marshal and compehed to dsmount.
In one Of the Lynn, Mass, boot and shoe
manufactures, the labor is so systenizcd
that a lady's boot, after passing through
twelve On thirteen different hands, comes ou'
complete in three minutes after leaving the
sewing machine.
Rev. Israel Washburnc, well-knowr
Methodist minister, died at MiddleboU'
Mass, last Sunday, aged 67 years. lie en-
listed as private, in a Massachusetts, regi
me,H in lsG9. hut was afterwards Chaplain
Of the 18th regiment.
Anna Dickinson, in speech at Music
Hall. Boston. on Wednesday, denounced
Gen. Banks without stint. The Post re
marks that her sentiments did not seen
to meet with general approval, but Mis-
Dickinson scolded those who Missed SO We
hemently that they were fairi to Keep quic
afterwards.
II at the working womcn's meeting in Phil
adclphia is was stated by one woman tina
she received five Gems pair for making owe
ais With the aid Of machine she coul'
make six pairs a day-30 cents.
The government cavalry depot at st. Lou
II is an immense establishment Since DC
tober last II, 539 horses have been purchas
ed, at $3.50 each. making an outlay OF owe
81, 2O0, 900, and the stalls for the animal
number over seven thousand The numbc
of horses now on hand is 300. a CAM
Of instruction is attached to the depot.
The Commanding General at Ncksbnr
has issued an order requiring all nogroe
! living together as man and wife to be legal
w married. The rule was necessity, an
~ a consequence Of it one minister perform
cd the marriage ceremony for 33 coup.tsl
one single day.
The Norfolk correspondent Of the Nc'
York WorlI says that enormous groun
rents are fixed upon the various bushes
stands at Old Point. One. firm was requi
cd to pay 81 800 and another ST. 900 pe
month in this way. 1t is mystery whci
all this money goes to. OF course Gcner'
Butler dosen't sec a cent with his lovely an
blessed eyes.
The marble and stone cutters of Pitt
burgh propose to offer handsome mont
ment which will cost $4,000, as prem
. UNI to the county in Western Pennsylvania
l West Virginia or Ohio, which shall max
the largest gift in money or farm produt
r to the Philadelphia Sanitary Fair. I'll
monument is to be erected within the limit
of the successful county and to be il
scribed with the names of the soldiers frol
the county who have been killed during I'll