Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1865-08-12

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rear Cincinnati.
The man who comes on the stage exactly
4 his cue il prompt, but the INA" VINO doss
'ot come At all is prompter.
Fifteas murders have been committed int
sIgcfiell county, Tenn, within the latt two
weeks.
The citizens Of indianapolis, owing TO
he rapid increase Of crime in that city. are
the question Of a Vigilance. Com
nittce.
No healthy man ought to remove into
Caledonia county, Vermont The afflicted
people there required 3,l74 gallons Of liquor
asst year 40 Inedscine.
REVEALS ofreIgion are reported at Ches-
ter Conn. at Somerset, n. T., and u Ply
mouth, Wis. Toward three hundred
conversions have occurred in these three
places.
W. Drummond, late ~ the Iowa 9th
Cavalry is rendered colectorship in s. G.
which he will probably accept The salary
's about 81, 900 per srnum, with attendant
fees.
The National Bank Of Virgins, At Rich
mond tas taken . million Of dollars of the
asst government loan THIS does not look
As il Virginia was disposed to repudiate the
national debt
The excitement al Cincinnati last Sunday
evening included the destruction, by fre, Of
the immense star csndlc and lard oil factory
II WU. n. Woods 4 Co., and ths shooting
Of ihrss lnes st dance houss just outside
the city.
A solemn New York religious journal &C
tnauy INDUCES in . pun Over the harris
ca,se xnd says men must leok eethow they
break their promises Of marriage or they
viii be hdrriW,d to death" Well observed
grave Ojseroer. M
At Grass Lake, Mich, Sunday and Mon
day Of INST week, two murders were com
nittcd-onc . returned soldier named Shor,
who WAS poisoned by woman with whom
he vas on y drunk the other citizen, named
David cmolk, who was stabbed by Short 5
com ,aniOn, 4 soldier named Thompson.
The loss of whaling vessels destroyed by
m, Shenandoah, and belonging to the city
~ ~
insurance of $4,000.
The Metropolitan Employment Agency in
New York, for soldiers and sailors, is in .
very llourishing condition, and doing great
amount Of good.
Thomas Morrisscy, "a years Of are, was
accidentally drowned at Glen's Falls, n. Y,
last Wednesday night, by falling from the
"big dam."
Nashville is suffering from the acculnula
ton of filth IN the streets, so in Chattanoo
ga There nrc bitter complaints about It in
the papers Of both cities.
The radicals who go for negro quality are
evidently trying to attain their onlect, not
by ciesaiing ,ne nsser zap, out y ,cscling
themselves down.
Hannah. Mary and Charles. children Of
i emily drowned in Sprogle's Creek, last
Wednesday, evening, while iording the
stream with horse and carriage
The Temperance Convention at Saratoga
have adopted resolutions against the use OF
intoxicating wines in tn, communion ser
vlce, and also against the manufacture and
use Of native wires
The New York correspondent Of the Cir
cinnaii Gasctt, saws that Mr.. Horace Gree
lev, of the New York Tribune, has salary
# 81, 800 year. and Mr. Frederick Hudson,
of the Xerdld, has 200.
The rebel Gen Wade Hampton has writ
ten n letter discouraging the idea of the emf
grafton Of Southcrners to foreign countries,
and recommending all who can do SO to TAX,
the oath Of allegiance.
The "oldcst inhahitant' reports that
Washington was never so dull as it is this
season. There has been tremendous scat
,-ration Of soldiers, whisky sellers, prosti
tutcs, Government cle Ks and gamblers
John Surratt is secretcd at Montreal or in
its vicinity, and Canadian detectives are in
search Of him. Sanders is drinking him
self to death, and Beverly Tucker is about
leaving Montreal on account Of mp, cunios
ty.
\ SAVAGE RBroRr.-A John Bull, con
vcrsing with an Indian asked him if he
knew that the sun nevei sets on the Queen 5
d,minions. "No. SAID the l. dian "Do
Won know the reason why. asked John
~
man in the dark was the savage's reply.
london spreads over more than 1870 square
miles. contains $500 mics OF streets, has
$500 houses, u population of 5000. and
assessed annual rental OF over 500, 900, 900
A steamer. flying the American flag will
leave New York for Southampton and Bre
man On Saturday next, the frs: trip of the
kind with that ensign, in over four years.
The census Of Massachusetts, as far as r,
ported, reveals the fact that OF twent, towns
and cities, twelve have decreased, while on
" eight have increased. in population since
1860
Eastman, who absconded from Brooklyn,
after having as was alleged pcrpe,rated
svindes TO the amount of nearly s 1000,
oc0, has been found in a lunatic asylum in
England
4 robust oountryman meeting physician,
rar to hide behind a wall: being asked the
cause, he replied :" Its so long since I've
oeen sick. that am ashamed to loon ply
Si.ian IN the face.
1t is estimated that there are now about
o,c hundred thousand Americans travelling
~ Europe, spending some OF the wealth &C
CURED by tn war. As an offset TO these.
uh"re have arrived during the past twelve
months. about two hundred and fifty tbous
aud emgrants from Europe, each one bring
NJ money or labor to bc used in increasing
the resources of the country
"Brick' Pomcrov thinks tbs is a oueer
world, because il. Washington Mrs Surra,t.
woman innocent OF murder was hung and
Miss iiariis, who killed a man, was tried
and found not guilty; while man for stab
"ing slightly woman vino had ruined him.
was sen, TO prison for eight wears,
wo young men were sitting on door.
yep N Springfield, Mass, the other day.
"hvn young woman with an infant IN her
arms came up and laying the infan, in the
zap OF one oil them, babe him take good care
OF u, Tor II belonged to them. She then
SIX, dadde,i.
On Moniay last while tram Of cars was
crossing the iickahaly bridge on Miss &
Tenn. X. r., the bridge gave way nr,c;,;.