Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1865-06-28
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A flock rseut four niles ID
lately, taxing 1T S;ssssieo.
Salt, . bu111hAek6to -.
per acre. $50 15
to BE- rel - - slflsh bue
The auobse r. she1shasin p6ra,sa.
that evsfy - @ohooin AT couSf IA
nearly svesy fnnAls 1870 - yss1S Gfags
Gov. Nnles. q N-insep1n. s6vesaH~ i.
State Convection - y bd1 4 Sc. PHnl for
the purpose Of takipg nsasurss - founl =
home for disabled soldiers.
The Canadians. Il ia MD. along the Dor.
der, are hcAsding our sseeubacks in censid-
erabss quantities undsv The bslisf that Aey
will very ssou be redssned in gold.
An Official Of the late Confederate govern.
ment has volunteered to raise the torpedoes
which still remain in the james River
The work is said to be in rapid progress.
A flash Of lightning catered . store in
Rockville, Connecticut, the other afternoon,
and lit Al oil lamp, which remained burn
ing, leaving no other mark Of its course.
A pssorams delneatng incidents in the
life, murder and funeral Of President Lin
coin, is on exhibition ct Providence, X. L.
Why didn't Stanton seize it, as he did the
New York paintings
BY the last census the population Of the
united Kingdom Of Great Britain was 90
03l 900, while that Of the Uuited States
was abaut 3l,4oO,O0 including nearly four
millions Of negroes.
Returns Just received at the Land Office
1882 acres entered last month at Ne
braska City. In the same month, 1892
acres were taken at Omaha City. This is an
addition to ordinary sales.
A man in Salem, Massachusetts,. owns a
farm which has been in the hands Of the
family for one hundred and twenty. five
years, and has been in two counties, three
towns, aud two probate districts.
It is rumored that two acres of oil terrific
ry, on which a well is being sunk, in Han
cock county, West Virginia, was sold to an
eastern company. a few days since, for the
enormous price Of 100000.
A special certificate has Just been issued
allowing the State Of Iowa to locate 1865
acres of public lands, an indemnity because
that quantity Of swamp land in Black Hawk
county, Iowa, has been sold by the United
States.
London becomes every day less ofa city
and more of a province. Its extent is fifty
square miles, it has ten parks tw, hundred
squares, three hundred and sixty thousand
houses with q population of nearly three
millions.
The Pennsylvania Central Railroad Com
pany, having given $4,000 for the founda-
ton Of . Pennsylvania Soldiers and Sailors
Orphans Home, the State added $75, 900,
and his worthy institution will soon be q
fixed fact.
A man named Sanncr, living near Doug
las, Illinois, had been tried and acquitted for
killing a Provost Marshal who was endeav-
oring to break into his house Mt night
Sanner was recently murde.o cd in his own
house by some person as ye! unknown.
A Paris correspondent ofthe Journal de
Genere says:-"I send you a very curious
fact. NJ. Plon, the publisher Of the Life
Of Caesar printed 10000 copies of the
first edition. He is said to have not got rid
Of more than %, 900 and he complains bit
terly.
A lawyer named Gayle, belonging in Ala
bama. has been brought to Washington and
lodged in prison. He is the author of the
advertisement published in the Selma Al
~eertiser last winter, calling for 100000, to
have peace by the LIST Of March, by taking
the lives Of Abraham Lincoln, VIM. Ii. Sew
ard and AnGrcw johnson.
There were 80 storms and much loss Uflife
from a recent storm in the Baltic sea.