Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1864-08-09
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Major General william r. Smith 1.
'lyisltang At his former residence at St. Al
bans, Vermont
y. q. Thurston, Of New York, has beer
Appointed United States Consul at Quebec
rice Us. Ogden, RESIGNED
General II. Hobart ward, Of New YorlI
has been mustered out or the service. lie
las demanded a court mar tal.
Mrs. Isondcrback, Of Hickory township,
Illinois, aged sevcty-cight years, has recently
give birth to twin daughters.
The Dutch refincrs furninh the English
annually with sixty-fvc thousand tons of
sugar. m - r
Several acres Of land above the Powell
ton House, in Newburg, n. Y, have recent
" been sold at 81 500 per acre.
Civil engineers report that the volume Of
water which passes over the Falls Of Niagara
IS ninety millions Of tons per hour.
Nile Adelina PATHS engaged, it is said,
to sing in August at concerts in Boulogne
and Hayre q. q fee Of $40 for each concert.
Lieut.. Frank Brownel, the avcngcr of
Ellsworth, has been appointed Assistant
Provost Marshal Of one Of the subdistricts Of
ihc Dlstflct Oh OF. LOUIS.
boy thirteen years cid, in Hartford
drowned himself on Monday, in order to Sc
cape the cruel treatment to which he was
subjected by his father
q. p. Folsom, additional aymaster
United States Army, has been arrested in
Washington by order OF the Secretary Of
War; He is said to be defauter to the
amount Of alI 600
e5s- \ female bighamist has recently been
arrested IN Davenport, Z. w. charged with
having five husbands. The charges were
clearly established, and the woman was
committed for trial
The Montreal papers state that while the
woods III the vicinity of Montreal were on
tire last week, the smoke made the day SO
dark. that steamers were unable to proceed
on their voyages.
A false Blondn is in Paris. who, on ropc
ut the hight Of the column Of the Place Van
dome, cooks an omelet on a fire lighted by
his own hands,a letsf Fl down by cord to
the people blow.
Tho grand jury Of Albany county has
just refused to find a bill against persons for
violating the law OF 1868. to punish parties
for dccoying persons from that State 10 9th
er States to enlist into the army.
The United States has one square mile of
coal field to every fifteen square miles of
territory; Great Britain one to every thirty
miles Of surface; Belgium one to every
twenty two and a half, and France one to |
every two hundred miles Of surface.
Among the deaths in Philadelphia this |
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woman. rabd pet dog not only bit them,
but also bit a horse. The animal died in
three days. The children persisted on the |
third day after the disease was developed, |
in shocking agony
Last week the local editor Of the CO.
lumbus (Ohio) yournoi was cowhded by
female of that city, who took oftcnse at un-
civility in the paper. The next evening the
wife ofthc local, who appears to be the man
of the family, met the cowhider and gave her
a tremendous thrcshing with horsewhip. |
A little girl. eight years old, who was
abducted lew weeks ago from her grand |
parents at Providence, by who's sne was
legally adopted ana with whom she always |
lived and was taken by her mother to Mon |
treal and placed in Convent, has been re-
covered by her legal guardians through the |
agency OF the Montreal police
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