Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1865-06-02

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A nan in wazrsn, Vt has killed - bsan
this season.
q Avsung baby 10 Greak Bssrinston ~
seven Grandmothefs and three grsndMthen
living. q, ss. .s...-.4.s
Quilp's sdviss - wealthy unmarried b.
diss-hnsband Jour resurces.
The friends Of Shefnan and Stanton are
endeavesing 10 reconcile the former to the
latter.
The Legislature u oonSsedcut has adopt
ed . constitutional amendment permitting
negroes to vote. The question 10 now to Be
ssbaitsed 70 the people. 1888
A New Jersey paper prints silly story
that Edwin Booth will petition the Maryland
Legislature to change his name 10 Abrahan,
Lincoln.
The New Orleans True Delta aays that
Cairo and Mobile can be connected by rail
within few weeks. 1t is said that only the
bridges need repairing.
Already more than |, 800 claims for dam
ages by the war have been filed at WASH
ington By citizens Of Virginia The claims
amount 10 over $50, 900, 900, and there gre
more coming.
Strawberries, new potatoes. peas: and
beans have made their appearance in hoerai
quantities in Cincinnati.
John Morrissey, the bruiser, is building
a:nice four story house at Troy for his faith
a. Iobo is rich and filal
chair regenerator' has just been in
vented, which is warranted to bring out the
capillary substance" as the song has it, on
a bald. headed eagle or billiard ball in two
weeks.
The government is in possession Of addi-
tional testimony duplicating Gee Sandees
and Jacob Thompson in the dabolical con
spiracics to ssassinate the heads Of the gov
crnmcnt and Introduce the yellow fever into
Northern cities.
1t. Lovett, who was prominent in the pur-
suit Of Booth through Maryland, and who
has testified against DR.. Mudd inthe trial Of
the conspirators, was fred on by four men
while going to hisslodgings 1t W Washington,
GU Monday evening.
An attempt was made at New York, last
week to sell two government steamers at
auction. The best bid that could be obtain
ed Or one that cost the government $780,
600 was Sl5, 900, and they were Withdrawn.
SteaNers will be plenty and cheap. now that
the government is getting through With so
many.
X. f. Lee, late General, win soon leave
Richmond, and repair to his farm, situated
near the White House, on the Pamunkey
river, to spend the remainder of his days in
agriculture by the government.
His son, Gusts Lee, is already on the farm
alluded to, and is doing his ploughing in per-
son.
A daughter Of wealthy citizen Of New
Haven was recently discovered in New York
stealing a valuable piece Of dry goods, and,
notwithstanding the influence Of her family,
was sent to the ToomlK.
The distlllers and rectifers Of New York
city and Brooklyn have formed themselves
into m association, and raised fund OF 81 o.
900, pledged for the payment of an efficient
force Of detectives to ferret out illicit dislil-
lers and smugglers of whisky.
The rapidity with which President John
son dispatches business is remarked BY all
who visit the executive Office. lie takes
hold Of every rout ne II after in the order in
which it comes up and finishes it at the mo
rent with the aid Of bnt two clerks.
Mrs. X. f. Lee, wife of the late Gen. Lee,
has written to the authorities, claiming Ar
lington Heights as her property. She CON-
plains that the grounds have been greatly
abused by the government, and states that
she will visit Washington in few DAYS for
the purpose Of demanding them from Presi-
dent johnson.
The New York detective police gave O.
tice on Monday that among the recent ARR.
walls from-Europc are many notorious pick
pockets and burglars from London, and from
the fact that sundry cases OF garroting have
transpired within the past As hours, it is in
fcrred they mean business. The Mayor is
preparing special message to the Common
Council on the subject
The Canada papers are lugubrious owe,
what they term wholesale emigration from
Canada to the United States, which is sale
to be caused by the scarcity Of money arc
consequent inability to afford employment tt
the people. They place great reliance IN thu
abundance of the oming crops, to restore
the former prosperity Of the country.
The war department has received the but
Of tree some two feet through, from il
| font Of one Of our carthworks on the ole
battle field Of Spoitsylvania, from which tn
tree top had been literally shot off with bull
lets. Twenty eight pounds of leaden ball
have been picked out, and yet hundreds re
main imbedded in the splintercd wood. l
| attracts general attention