Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1865-09-19

DAILY DEMOCRAT.
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GENERAL NEWS.
Two soldiers ~ kineo ae0nh ,Auevsis.
Texas, on the s7dAsidDM q mdeeo
escaped.
Maximillian hsa issued decree ordering
az 16eo fDAtAA u6tled s6eetu, TO ui-
UoS4S Me- ~tesa1 - x
New York city has fund Of about 500,
900 TO be appropriated to the support Of
families of1nurdcred policemen. ~ *
All sentences Of death, 10 eaAss se sO,aisss
convicted Of des(rSqh, nave besn comnuted
by the President u imprisonment for term
efyefs!
bnlt At Bull Run. The New York Mercury
says that heretofore, it hash been much
Of place " stop at."a
= New York lady has recovered $4,000
dAnsses from s.sterskeeper, Tor suejecnnE
her to search under unjust suspicion.
Nashville has 1 population Of 90, 3
places Of su,usepents, 8 newspapers. With
9 msssin prospect, and sone 90 drinking
salo0os.
Boston Corbett has just been hcnordbiy
discharged from the army. lie has as yet
received aoSAiAg for bis shase in Bo0th's
capture. ..x..s.
A man has been sent to Jail in Troy for
talking about horse trade in church.
Two men were fined in Providence lately
for ssearipgip theatre. y 4A-sG
An Eastern paper states that E. B. Phil
lips, Esq, lhe rccently Appointed President
Of the Michigan Southern Railroad, is to
receivss salary RI $1,000 per assus6s
James Morrow, soldier in the regular
army in 1919. end the only surviving brother
Of the late Governor Morrow. died in Darke
county. Ohio recsnsly, aged 81 years and 3
months. -
An English bavk cleared from Charlie ston
on the ID inst, for Liverpool, with cargo
OF cotton, valued At $20O,OOO. She 10 the
first clearance from that port since the
blockade Vas raised.
A gentleman from Portland was left from
the Grand Trunk train, but Jumped into his
carriage ahdovertAok it At Falmouih.' He
claims that he made Ave miles in fourteen
minutes, and he certainly could not have
been much longer about it.
The Sheriff Of Madison county leveled
upon the passenger train ofths Tefrs Hauts
and Alton Railroad, Just AS it was about
leaving the Alton depot last week, for an
unpaid claim for State, codnty and school
taxes, amounting 10 &c. 900.
Exrebcl Secretary Benjam had arrived
in knslsnd from Ousa. IN thc steamer SEN !.
Sae'ssnds very near burning at sen: 5 ;
Gen. S S. Fry, aholitisn candidate for
Congress in Kentucky, win contest the
claims, ofhis Democratic opponent, Shank
in, to the seat Of in Congress. =
Simon Cameron, John Forney, John Co
vode, and William d. Kelly are all said to
be figuring for tie next United States Sen
atorship from Pennsylvania.
John Leonard, Of Gsnesee, N. Y, at
tenDted to kill his daughter ON Saturday
evening because she visited at the house Of
. negro neighbor. lie attacked her with
. bayonet, and stabbed her several times,
but not fatally.
Gen. Marmaduke, while on his way from
Fort Warren to New york, stopped At New
Haven for an hour or two, says the Regis
ter, OF that city in order to consign to the
proper hands the ring CT deceased fed
eral officer from that place, thus religiously
fulfilling pledge he had given to . dying
man, amid the very smoke and tumult Of
battle.
The steam boat burners who are to he
tried BY tho Military Commission in st.
Louis, are twelve in number. The proofs
are said to be overwhelming. II is said
the City Of Madison. the ammu milton boat,
exploded .. Vicksburg. which it vas sup
posed to occur through care'essness, was
really exploded through rebel agents.
The musical world will hear with special
regret Of the sudden death Of Mr. Edward
j. Firth, the JUNIOR partner Of the firm Of
Firth, Son L Co., the music publishers
The Vermont Standard, printed at
Woodstock, ~flaively says: ANY Improve.
ment noticed in our paper this week may he
attributed to. the absence Of the editor for
several days.
The trakesmen on the Lehigh Valley
Railroad went on strike last week. In
one day enough soldiers were found to sup
ply the places Of the strikers, who were
told TO look eisewhere for employment.
A we'll known pick pocket recently died
IN the EASTERN district, leaving property to
the amount Of t60, 900, all Of viii he accu-
INFLATED within the past five or six years in
excursions throughout the various cities Of
the Union.