Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1865-06-15

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The slave trade is still activs O. some
pats Of theene0 a. Afin.s cngg.nas
Mobile and Cairo will b connected BY
railroad again h month Or Two.
Dir Hugh Rose has returned from India.
To 4seu0s he eonnAnd h chisf II IfslaaA.
Paris s1ccds 40 .illieos Of dellsu. pr
anhum on il poles.
The French 0ovuenment u rsnovipe IN
eetton which b - stsss In Ricanend.
The wheat crop in MisAions never prom.
is4d - Dsa . new.
No passes ~ needed for eoiag 70 Rich
mend nov. The IRE IRON DelHmses Il %.
President johnson usually eives audience
Irbout Eve hours in the dsy 10 thess who
wish to Gee him.
Business is rapidly reviving ct Charles
tor, South Carolina. New stores ore open-
ing daily.
A correspondent writes: "Ofall the cities
have ever seen North q South, in peace
or war, Nashville u the distisst.
The last chief Of the Polish insurrecticn
hes been captured, and he 10 now In prison
ct Wansw.
T. Fifty nine steamers Of over one thousand
| tons burdsn sach have been built ct n. I.
siace the war commenced.
New York has contracted with Messfs.
Brown. Dsvean L Knapp 70 keep her
streets clean for ten years, ct, e40o, 500 .
yar.
The British are foetifying the south
shore of the st. Lawrence, opposite
Quebec.
A Russian lady recently presented to the
Peps . pair Of slippers, in which wsrs placed
l0O, 000f. IN bank notes.
The Niunesotians think the lndisns will
not trouble them any more this season. A
great immigration IL flowing into the State.
The matter Of raising the sorghum o. ~
gar cane il attracting the attention among
The agricuiturists Of Wisconsin.
The hills Of Mexican, Pa, are covered
with plant destined to be . successful com
petites Of The Chinese len. A quantity Of
4 will be in the market the coming autumn.
An Indian doctor Who had been practising
several months ct Passumpsic village. VT,
in male attire, was arrested and found to be
woman.
A superior sheep in Licking Co., Ohio,
sleared fleece which weighed % lbs, ? OF,
and had left . frame Of admirable capacity
for mutton purposes.
Miss N. Davis, . beautiful young lady Of
Chesterfield, w., daughter Of prominent
citizen, was shot dead last week by = dis |
carded lover, named Sublett, who is under |
arrest.
A Hartford plumber has accidentally dis |
covered that smoke from little charcoal fire |
under . tree will sufTocate hundreds Of
worms upon it. A little sulphur placed
on embers answers the same purpose.
The Cincinnati g o,nmercial, Of Saturday, |
says that the notorious guerrilla, Quantrell,
died in the Louisville Military Hospital. on |
Wednesday, from the effects Of wound re- |
cieved on the 10th Of May last.
A Mrs. O'Brien, whose husband belonged
to on Of the West Virgins regiments and
was killed in battle, has brought quit for
S. 900 against Mr.. Jas. Palmer, = rebel
sympathizer, for the injury she has sustain
cd by the loss of her husband.
An excursion round the world is being or
ganized at Antwerp. The voyage will last
two years, and the principal ports in both
hemisphcrcs will be successfully visited
1t is chiefly intended as means of educa-
tional travel for young men.
A Richmond letter writer notes the fact |
that Gen. Lee responds audibly to al the
prayers in the Episcopal service including |
that for the President Of the United States, |
which is ignored by most Of the congrega. |
ton. Lee still wears the Rebel uniform |
without insignia Of rank.
Mount Vernon is once more accessible to |
visitors, portion Of the 10th New York !
having 5een sent there Is guard. Mr.. Her |
bert, who has had charge oft siv years, says |
the place has never been visited by the Con- |
fcderate soldicry. 1t is in rs good order as
before the war.
Christopher Reeves, lumber merchant |
Of Detroit, was found dead near the grave |
Of his wife at Elmwood cemetery last Sat |
urday. He had committed suicide by shoot |
ing himself through the head. He wrote |
out his will on his wife's tombstone before |
committing the act.
Some bold thief stopped train on the |
Peru and indianapolis Railroad the other |
night by pulling the engineers bell, and
while everybody was trying to find out why |
the train stopped, the safe in the express
car was taken out. 1t contained $22 900 in |
money, and neither money nor thief have |
been heard from since.
Az the audience were retiring from st. |
Johns Catholic Church, East Albany, 1t
the close of funeral service last Sundry |
week, . portion Of the flooring, fourteen It. |
square, gave way near the door, precipita- |
ting those upon it into the coal cellar be- |
low, and injuring nearly thirty persons,
some seriously.
A woman in st. Louis, named Anna B.
Schuerhug, has been arrested for inhuman
treatment Of her child, boy between 8 and
. years old. It is said that she beat him
with billet Of wood, and then hung him up
with rope by the neck, until life was ap
parently extinct When taken down by two
physicians, he was almost dead, but they
succeed in restoring him to consciousness,
and it is thought he will recover.
4. m. STOr1T.