Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1865-08-24
DAILY DEMOCRAT.
NEWS ITEMS.

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Women are employed altogethsr In the
Royal {London) 6 - Factory
Bushwhackers are robbing farmers
houses in St. Clair county, Ill.
| The machine shop and brzss foundry OF
J. e. Hoffman, Milwaukee, with tbs wooden
building adjoining, was destroy cd BY fire on
Monday night.
New York City crowds its population Of
over 600, 900 into 5000 houses. Phila.
de'pha, With population Of less than 10o,-
600, has nearly loo, 900 houses
Agnes Dcvnney, aged l6, has sued Mr.
Ferdinand Couhenss, a journeyman barber
of St. LOUIS, for SIC, 900, because the latter
| promised to marry her and hasn't.
The New York papers are denouncing
the practice ofholding evening stock boards
as engendering the reckless speculation
which 80 frequently ends in crime.
jacob IInnzingcr was extracting the pow.
der from some II inch shells at the st.
Louis arsenal, when one exploded and in
stsntiy killed hin.
The Providence Journal speaks Of =
squa h vine in that city which grows Is
inches daily, and at last accounts was 60
feet long. 1t will soon get beyond the lin
its Of the State.
Steamers are charging s25 per bale for
Transporting cotton down the Alabama Kv-
cr to Mobile. Mobile papers say that as
most of the cotton coming down has been
stolen, they can afford to stand it.
A St. Louis paper says that 900 houses
Of worship Will be closed in Missouri ca the
Cd Of September, because the pea hers
will not take the test oath presented by the
new constitution.
The ssth anniversary Of the battle Of Ben
nington, VT, was appropriately celebrated
on the battle ground on the 10th inst Rev
Il, H. Chaplin was the orator OF the dav, and
speeches were als'smade bv Cows. Di,iing-
ham and Smith, Gen. Hooker, and Others
A soldier in one OF the camps near Wash
ing'fn fred II a deserter aticiA, !. ng TO IS
cape, the other day. AMI la,i il ,oung
lady; the bail passing entirely through her
body and woDndins another young lady
who was walking with her.
Luz Itpli' vi toIt " isUll.rttil, W., al
out ca 1aasse ai,el snake 81 feet long. and
inches in diameter, winch milks their
cows and devours the rabbits and other
small animals OF the vicinity. The serpent
i sad 10 be an anaconda, which escaped
from inenageric in that vicinity some ten
years ago.
"Traumatizin' is the name OF solution |
OF gutta pcrcha in chloroform, which is used |
for the closing Of wounds, and answers for |
this purpose better than collOdion. because
the latter contracts the skin and thus en-
larges the wound. A good formula for pre-
pairing the article is one part Of purified |
sutta percha and twelve parts Of chloro
form.
A safe at Geneva, III, c,oneng to A. ".
Harrington, Esq, was blown open on Mon
lay light, md robbed Of s 900 in gold
On Friday general Jail delivery took place
IN the same town, the keeper having gone to
n horse race, and left the key hanging on n
nail, whence the prisoners managed to
reach il with hroo tick 4 wool thief
and murderer are among those who es-
capped.
1t is stated ~ new discovery that won
deriul effects may be obtained by watering
fruit trees and vegetables with a solution Of
sulphatc Of iroa Ia der this system beans
will grow to nearly double the size, and
will acquire much more savory taste The
pear seems to DC particularly well adapted
for THIS treatment. Old nails thrown INTO
water and left to rust there will impart to
1t all the necessary qualities for foscing veg
citation as described
An excellent cement for uniting articles
Of wood with metals, glass, stone, etc, niay
DC obtained 10y dissoving glue in boiling
water and making it of the same consisten
y as that OF cabinet makers glue; then
ldd, while stirring, sufficient Quantity Of
wood ashes as to produce varnsh like
mixture. While hT, the surfaces to be
united must be covered or coated with this
Glue compound, and pressed together
" hen cold the surfaces will be found Arm
y united, and much force viii be needed to
separate them again.