Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1866-10-11

Ex-rebe, Gen. 10. Shelby u running =
wagon train in New Mcxice.
Increased activity is observed At the Fc-
MAN headquarters in New York city.
A man. who vas insane from spiritualsm
committed suicide at Pittsburg Last Satur>
day.
Ser;oua inundations have occurred In
France. interrupting telegraphic communi :
cations.
The steamers Mollie Doxier and Ben.
johnson we're sunk in the Missouri river
last week.
The 3rss elk Dies pattern evse oads IN
California vas completed in San Francisco
last week.
Montgomery Blair he's declined the noni.
natieu for Congress in the Fifth Maryland
District.
The proposed visit Of the Seventh Regi.
msnt. Of New York, - Paris next esmmsr,
il already attsactisg considerable asaeosseo.
Hard things ere said about king Victor
Euanusl- some even demanding ebdsca-
tioo, lie 10 held responsible for oil Italian
bluuders in the late crisis.
fsesty>tso stnnsss and eight pecp4-
lers arrived and cleared from the Of por'
Shsboygan during the month Of September
The Russians ere . very scientific people
Ifthey get drunk, 40 they ofte" DO. It shows
itself ia hugging and kissing-0at being
confined to the male sex, the practice . no
very popular among the American visitors
A race horse having been killed IN Soutf
Carolina. BY lightning. the owner said Their
was some consolation in knowing that moth
ing but streak Of lightning ever caught
him.
A little girl in the employ Of the W"l
cottville Conn. Manufacturing Company
possesses most wonderful arithms,,csl pow
err. She counts 1000 percussion rsps ant
puts them in twenty boxes Goo VI sach) II
one minute, and never makes mistake.
The editor Of the Shcboygan Jexr~a
chronicles the arrival at his residence dur
ing last week Of . democratic individos
weighing twelve pounds. lie thinks h
! might b. prevailed upon to stump ths
county this fall I he is sufficiently we'll
supported.
The Surveyor General of Colorado say
The gold yieh Of thal Territory will bs very
large this fall, several new end valuable
mines having been discovered. He est
mates the yield ct $l0, zoo, 600 year.
A little boy thought no would have som
| fun At place on the ESie reed BY kickin
"a the wheels Of the locomotive which had
temporarily stopped. He continued this
until after the engine started, succeeded ID
kicking himsslf under the wheels, where
be left part ofons leg and part off foot.
Henry Ward Beecher hes truly said thai
"ous theory OF government has no place fel
. State except In the Upion." Gen. Grant
with equal truth has said, that "thc citizen.
Of the Southern States are anxious to return
to self.govefnmeut within the Union, q
soon - possible and that they accept the
result Of the war in good faith.
The Yale Banner, for the new college
year 10 out. Its catalogue Of students show,
six hundred and eighty six members Of tn
college. which can be classed - follows 3
twenty seven theological students, twcnty-
three law, thirty one medical, one hundred
and thirteen scientific, one hundred seniors
one hundred aud seventeen juniors, one hun
dred and twenty six sophomorss, and 0ns
hundred and forty nine freshmen. In tn
L;onian Society, there ere two hundred and
forty nine members, and in the Brothers il
Unity, two hundred and fortv-three.
A woman residing In Frankford, Penn.
has been held in $4,000 bail to answer to {
charge Of iil-trsatmsnt Of her step>daueht'
or, about lS years Of age. II is stated that
she ha. been in the habit Of be sting the girl
Sometimes she would knock her down and
beat her head against the floor. Last wints
she compelled the child, in nearly mud,
state. to 30 into the yard, break the ice in
barrel, and wash herself. The girl hes besa
treated SO inhumanly that from bright, in
telligent child, she has become almost q
idiot. The last act Of cruelty, and the on,
which aroused the indignation Of the neigh
bors, was beating with baseball club.