Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1866-08-14

fhs Kinds radi( Il I'VE noDisaIsd Go.
! y. saash, sfChlsaso ~ STATE Treasures.
Gen. Thomas L. Price has been nsmins.
4 VI ~ Ceagrsss By the Conservatives o.
the ysasssoa City district, No.
II. radicals arc very wreth because sh'
| Fsd,r.l patronage At Washington is given
Y, ..Ass,sessss6'. papers. end wishdEss"
| IRON The ..loyar' press. How they are to
heb theusslvss does not readily appsar.
RI. Democracy Of the sixteenth Ohio
disssist have nominated Judes Van Tssnp
6or Congress- against Jsae A. Bingham whs
Nss b i sominated v fhe tadfal
~ report Of GenetAls~ NesdmfFsshd
Fullseton on the corruption and frauds Of
~ uapagsneas Of the Freedmsn's Bureau.
vil1 - Published - democratic easpsiss
iauneak u ~ tpstiWony i n ensSesp.
&ck GSs&rs a2ras1t. ~ ssdIc3 -
snd but little faslt With Il.
s PA{atl lp6s DIston state that
Gen. Butler Will BE- . candidate before the
nopinatisg copysatipn. in, the Fifth 4eq9,
acIasastis district, iCr ihs seat In C5neress
nov occupied By Hon. Jho. B. Alley.
Hen. Apthoay Thorntep has been se>
EdSan1l "a iGt Ulssresi y u. democracy
Of the Tenth illinois district.
The democracy Of ths I'll Illinois district
In convention At jacksonville, on Tuesday,
eppiqelsA An. Johs9 M tsoieea for
State Senator.
Arthur p. 0orman, Who was dismissed
Apso Ais position - postnastsr Of the Uni
~ SpAss Ssseaes Ae~uss he would mot
join in The radical abuse Of the President,
Ao tssa sppssotsd esllsstsr Of the Fifth
nesylenA >heise. OF 81 SAT-
!. Gov. Wells he's issued IN address to the
peeeie X tosisiapa - reference = The late
,suavsntisa riots, in which hs stssupts Ia
detsad she astiea- Of the convention, a.
thoash he admits that bis purpose 10 call.
ing The convsatieo and IN sajsst u The
radicals n hsslsg Il convened W 10 ssb.
vert the existing State gsvssnnsul
" y, u Statsd % high authority that Gsp,
Grant hes requested Secretary Stanton "a
furnish for publication eli Of Gen. Shsri>
das's liapa1sha 10 srsfsesacs y W. Nsv
Orleans rist, IA order y set u rest the vari.
ous contradictory sspests esaessning them,
- veil - - place Gen. Sheridan correctly
bsfers the eoustry IL the matter.
Tnr tins eflaying TIE corner stone u NE
Dousls Aoauosot, q Chicago, be- bssu
a4sd fps ,Thurqday, Sept 9Th. Mr.. Seward
tsiesriphs that President Jshnsen end hia
Cabinet will arrive in Chicago ON wednss-
day svssiug, ess.s stb, end ssueis thsss
two nights and one day. TIE event will
doubtless call together large crowd, maxi
! ing notable period Ia the history Of Chi
ego g q ..xl.IlM UCS
Leprosy Revived.
II il stated 10 sos ofths foreign jour
| mails that this terrible disease Of the Spirit
Wal Era, and which was epidemic through
out Europe from the tenth to the sixteenth
century, is now develop ng Itself in various
| psrts Of the world vilh all ito ancient 70 :
pulsivs chasaetsristics. 1t prevails cxten>
sively in two widely .sundercd countries,
the West Indies and Norway. In the lat
ter. according TO statistics recently publish.
~, thsre are no less than two thousand
lepcrs. The tubercular form Of the disor
| Her, which 10 much more common, and, uus
fortunately, much more horrible than thai
which affects the joints, is pronounced By
the physicians incurable. II would b.
more modest in the faculty to say that they
have not discovered cure for Il. In 81
probability the antidotc exists, although il
has not yet been brought to light. Mean
while, it 10 satisfactory b know that 4 Il
MT contagious. aNultitu1ss Of lspsrs PER
ished miserably ID the early agss, abandon
ed to their fate m consequences e The sai-
versal belief that whosoever touched then
must necessarily shasc in Their calamity. -
III b not kAown thai the distanpcr 10 ab
solutely incommunicAtive in that way, 81
though, like scrofula and some other cuta
neous and glandular dissassss il may b.
transmitted 10 families, terrible heirloon
From generation to generation. The malad]
is very rare in this country, and losi
msy We be excmpted from the scousgs. =