Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1865-08-26

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Gen. M broel.r i. now lying .ns'r-
ously III q Washington. d. @.
A valuat horse had its leg oxen IN
Dies Moinel the other day, while boy was
hauling wo with it, through cal lcss"ess.
The Johd lon Country Agricull ral socie-
u will hold their Eleventh AM ai ts"' -
Iowa City, ptember l2o' sn' ''"'
We resre. learn, through 4 vate sources
that Hon. Bernhard Hem in critical
state of healtl At his house Fairfield. His
disease, of the leart, is pr bounced incura-
bic He canned live long It fArthest.
Henry Clay n pa p, led through Bur
lington few days. hing on his way to Mt.
Pleasant, to settle up bone business. lie
has purchased pro- fty in Pennsylvania,
A young man famed Tyler, near wap-
clio, on the III inst, had his leg caught in
the maehineI Of . threshing machine, AMI
completely pushed above the ankle, making
1 ',,a" necessary. So says the 6sp"'-
A building at Independent, on the D. V.
Railroad, was destroyed by FIRE last Sunday
night. 1t was Occupied by John Bsrtholo-
new as store AMI post Office. The con-
tents were all destroy including mails and
mail bags. Loss sa,SH
Bishop Simpson, Of n Methodist Epis
copal Church, will pres at Burlington
next Sunday, at the re-ops ing Of Division
street church in that city. The Bishop is
expected to preside at the Del Mones Con-
ference, which meets At OsceolA next week.
A man named Mack was arreI \ed at Bur
hngton last Saturday for steal pg goods
from II. j. Jarvis, his employd to the
amount of 1925. On searching his premises
the missing goods, and several art )es that
had not been missed, were found. 10 says
the Hawkeye
Just as clergyman, at Burlington. 7 h Sat
urdny evening, was about to Join d couple
in marriage, h>'0sc> vered that the cense
was issued jIlinois Ate; an Al hiking
period Of dispense, thA party starte 10 the
river, 81 boats cross the storm deep,
and had themselves ticd up in IlIno1
The iowa Wesleyan University, mount
Pleas ht, will commer ( its next erm on
Wed esday the 2oth, Miss. A. d Dark
ersle3 of Conpcctic& has beer cbovo,
tcacl,tr Of music, and Miss Laura lore, Of
Baltii ore, teacher Of raw ing and ainting.
All b porably disci Urged soldid within
the pan konizng bounds of the University
will be omitted the cOmins<esr tuition
free.
.re+as"s>ss Ie1w-~~xro.
The freed negro q huge instN ution.-
lie is not only ably bodied generally but is
a good feeder 4 10. lie is carnivq Fous or
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS may lequrc,
and can Of nivoroSs also upon rcasion
There fe sew FalI s<khS freed neg + las A.
warfwould .. the questi of feed
ing lin is, i grtcerics and provisions
are o high, of CO hsidcrablq Importance.
vi believe cos! ofpayiy the fiddler
for his dance nas i s. yet b Il considered,
and We thersI re ypy III following from
The lbany Algnxin rca to the inquiries
of a orrcsp@26ent. he correspondent
asks ifSkstks can kme the amount al
ready spent in this tction; what, proba-
bly,, is now being tnt each day; and IN
der what APPROX iation of Congress is it
bei"g paid ~ to which the Argas an
swers:
Not beina in the secrets Of Government
expenses, can give no information at all;
but, we ~ ask, in behalf of an interested
public, thu administration papers to furnish
it. WilltM New York Tribune for instance
10 so? WfASe it because its North Caro-
lima corresponding stated that ION the road
to Raleigh he saMihc negroes coming in
from the country to Il Y city ''ior rations.n
In the cost of these, bus far, under what
authority they are distributed, and how
long the distribution is to\onlnuc, the peo-
pie are justly interested, Ad naturally de
sire information. While IBIS withheld. it
is likely that \may abound
but rough estimates foot up\amounis i'm
posing enough TO make the t\iling citizen
shudder if he thinks of the BSrden of tax
thereby increased.
1.-TWO hundred thousand ratbns issued
daily Ga small estimate, proLlblA at cost
Of about forty cents each, is an cHpcnditurc
in this way Of $4,000 day-dSer half
million of dollars per week, and nkarly Mir-
" millions Of dollars per annuml Add TO
this the salaries paid TO the sol al ant .r,v-
erend' parasites Of the negro, the Nv of All
perintendents Of frcedmens' camy and vii
lagos, and other expenses connect Id there
with, and the grand aggregate mus approx
innate to about ~ OF the entire Cd 81 Of the
Government b(forsNhe war; /
OF course hese tikurcs are supl bsitions,
yet they sem wal ranted from thc data
which Is pfmi;tcd 4 reach the y I bic, and
ilincorrec3 can be tved so by ii Sc whose
'phlanthjb py' de,n4 hds or COZ, ktcuancas
such exp1 hditurcs of the tired sury. I'll
TO, vent ated before it will be d duty of
Congresl when it hcets, to as britain. by
resoluti4 Of inqq ~, or othd wise, how
% %sss bee" y Thy the 'sf 'y Depart
publicai papers, IAN enlightey the people in
the mat II. wSFhope they tFill do so, and
vent the growth Of the idea hat vast sys
TEN Of Pauferism is h6hg encouraged.
practically by teaching Thy NEGRO dependence
at the outset q his freedom and
'ndependcae. 4
A NOVEL CunE OF HY&Roruon,A.-A
trenchman who was bittep o. mad dog
and seized with hydroplfbu, suffered so
that bis friends reso!vey tossufroca,e him.
Four OF them extended feYther bed on the
i'oor, threw the unhspf ~ nan upon it. and
covered him with the jccohd bed, on which
they placed themselt les to press upon to
smother him. Durifg this time his wife
was held BY main brq| in the adjoining
room by some Of lkr relations. The une
happy woman remfinfd at first apparently
stupefied, but whfn,A frishtful silence had
succeeded tie tu6Tlt, she seemed to break
loose IRON her at9thy the full horror Of
the scene rushed Alpon her s,;cl