Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1865-12-04

Wagon making is becoming business
Of magnitude at Dubuque.
The Burlington Harksye complains that
wood in that city is 81 to IS cord.
Bayard Taylor will lecture in DesM Dimes,
Keokuk, Iowa City, Cedar Rapids ard DE
Witt this winter.
There is paper mill at Cascade, Dubu
que county, with a capacity to turn out $500
pounds Of paper daily.
Fresh butter is plenty at Dubuque at
thirty cents per pound, and lard at twenty
cents.
V. I. Davids. Esq., has terminated his
connection with the editorial department
Of the Dubuque Times, and is succeeded by
G. l.. McCreery, Esq.
The Iowa City bulletin says that tue
Ladies Festival and Supper at that place,
on Friday evening last, Tor the benefit of
the orphans Of deceased Iowa soldiers, was
= grand success.
Of the mineral business, the Herald says
There is so little mineral being raised now
that sales are rare. smelters, we learn, are
Offering 500 per thousand pounds for first
quality Of ore. Pig lead is equally as scarce
and held at 10Y.
The ncx bell for the Second Presbyterian
church at Dubuluc, arrived few days ago.
| Ii Rcft,hc -, l.. H.
city, aud Was cast in New York.
Capt. V. W. Andrus, of Washington
will have TO pay the State Sl5 apiece for
thirty mu hets furnished to the Guards at
that place, but which they refuse to return
Gentlemanly fellows, those Guards.
boy by the name Of Clark was arrested
near brighton on suspicion, being stran
| ger, and having concealed his horse in the
woods while he stole corn for it, from The
neighboring fields 1t was asccrtainei that
hc had stolen the animal.
A few hundred dollars Of the fund for the
relief Of ,Didie families IN Polk county, re-
mains unexpendc,l, and the Des Moines
| EtJtstr suggests that II be appropriated
toward the erection of a soldiers monu
ment.
Thc Old SETTLERS Of Dubuque county are
passing away rapidly. Almost every mum
Der Of the Xytid chronicles the dccc..sc Of
one If them The last one mentioned is
that of Thor.a, Il. Brashcr, of Mosacm
|
2sth inst He hal resided in that county
sire, 1853.
The culture Of grapes bid, fair to become
one Of the most profitable branches Of in
dustry in this part Of Iowa. The SUBJECT
is receiving no little attention. 1t is claim
cd by those WAC have opportunities to
know, that no investment OF money and
labor can be mad that Will yield larger r,
turns. The krokuk Constttutjon tells us
that a German resident of that city, four
years ago las. spring, bought ten acres of
ground five miles from this city, on the
rapids, AMI TIE same season planted four
acres OF it viii, grape cuttings. While the
grape, were maturing during the recent
summer, he WI offered by gentleman o!
this city s., 900 for his chance OF his crop.
de refused t. sell, however, and his vintage
has yielded him 500 gallons Of wine, worth
100 a gallon, of $4,000 for one years
crop of grapes
TuH VALLEY l.AIiHoAp.-W learn from
Is. Callan. who has been engaged, under
| the dire ton OF Chief Engineer Utlev, in
survcN my the l,ne Of the Des MONIES Valley
Railroad west Of Prairie City, that the route
is now permanently located from Monroe to
this city. About half OF the grading be
| tween Monroe and Prai-ic City j. aheadv
| completed, AMI s'ioul the present favorl-
| ble weather continue two weeks longer the
| entire work Of grading to the latter point
would be completed The route of the road
as it is now located lies about mile and a
half south Of Mitcheltown, crosses Mud
Creek about twenty rods south Of the
bridge on the Des Mono, and Mitchelltown
road. crosses the southeast corner of Cas-
| sicily s farm, and runs thence to Little Four
| Mile, where II strikes the section previously
| locatedtO ncs Moines, and under contract to
Mtssrs Burton 4 Ilull- Ues Noines RcgiS
| tr.
The Council Bluffs Nonp.riei represents
the at,ical performances and balls as hghl,
successful there. A ball at soldiers Hall
| realized $lo0 for some benevolent object.
The Nonpario says burslarious entrance
was effected into Hollis shoe shop, from
which was stolen $3.50 in casa, supposed
to have been done by party of ''bum-
'ncrs y who are providing about the city
The corn crop of Clinton County is csti-
mate to average forty bushels per acre
public reading r, ON. embracing debating
department, has been opened at Lyons.
Clinton county. The house of Francis
Bunce, six miles from De Witt, destroyed
by fire with all its contents on Wednesday
week
correspondent of the Boston Journal
tells of a remarkable robbery in New York.
lie says:
THE broker was inside the counter, near
the safe. man came in without ha.,
and with pen behind his ear. He walked
around to the spot whore the banker Stood,
who was talking with gentleman, and sand
t" hun, 'i' aSc to move sir, and the bank
er I'D The fellow coally t Ok cat If the
safe several Thousand L. : bonds, and cool
" wa ked away, and has never been seen
from that time 10 tins. Near the closing
honrs Of business the bonds were sough, for
AMI could not be found. The banker turned
to one of the clerks and asked him for them
stating that he saw him remove them from
the drawer Fortunately the clerk was able
to prove an abb. and then the audaci,y Of
the thief was made apparent"
SEVERE FiGnr.-7Ie Corps dc -irri'que en-
gaged. On Friday evening last the Corps
de Airi4ne, to-wlt. odd Joe, made a re
conoisance in force along the east side Of
the square. He soon encountered the en-
envy at Dan STATIONS who without the least
nrO vocation IN .fpp's pavt v.,..,. "a ,.;..c...