Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1866-12-28
DAILY DEMOCRAT.


GENERAL NEWS.
Badness is getting 70 be fashionable
among men in New York because. il 10 said
the most elegant young uen in Paris have
lost their LAIR
Biackwood calls President johnson .
thorough lawyer and an excellent speaker
in radical circles they call him irunAard
and an assassin
A new iron steamer built on the Clyde,
will be put together at Newport, Vernon
next spring and launched on Lake Meme
phremagog. She cost 100000 IN gold.
A portrait Of the late Dean Richmond
has been ordered for the rooms Of The New
York Central Railroad Company in Albany.
A man on WEIGH railroad Was recently
seized fer debt.
The total cost Ct A. T Stssart's mansion
IN New York, with il furniture will mot be
lees than u 100000.
Iowa will b the 6rst state 10 ad0it fe-
males TO the right Of su4saos-at lsaae, 90
writes Theodore Tflten in . lsstof hom the
West
In the year 1856 thsre dis1 \ FtAncs sas
hundred and City fve persons oyer enc
hundred years old.
The Expenditures 10 Canada Tor military
pgposse aioeo the LEI Of JAM, 1856, have
been over two uilliens Of dollass.
A lady in Saxooy-ths wife Of . barristes
lately committed suicide in order that her
husband should ct her fife Insurance money
and free himself from bic debts.
Joseph Baker, once known on both sides
Of the Atlantic % leading in6del is now
candidate for holy orders in England.
It cost the government $50 for each
negro made free BY the war, and for evry
four negroes liberated one white citizen Was
slaughtered.
The editor Of GOOD Words asked Miss
Muioch the other day 81 write tale tor
him and she replied that she would do 20 II
liked, but not for less sum than $500
A Tennessee improvisstore, being chal-,
lenged to rhyme on 'Timbuetoo," immcd>
ia'elv responded:
IF I were niger in Timbuctoo,
Id eat the missionary and by mn book to.
A Main boy amused himself some years
ago planting apple seeds, The result is .
net profit Of seven hundred dollars from .
fine orchard this season.
h, mum 10 out West getting . lot II In
dams With which to stock "side show at
the great Paris Exhibition.
The Spanish Journals recommended the
establishment Of the :nquisition in Spain ~
the sole means Of saving society.
General Nathaniel r. Banks Was encs On
actor upon the stage in the city Of Boston,
and played the character Of Claude Aelnotte
in the Lady Of Lyons. Only think Ct the
helo Of Red river. playing the gay lover in
the city Of notions.
The bsnished Italian bishops are prepar-
ing to return to their doceses.
Tie Methodist Church hiss 81. S43 white
and 1912 colored members in Virginia.
1t is the duty Of Congress to legi.late 70.
the welfare Of the country and not 10 give
expression to personal or political animosi.
ties SarisQfeid Republican.
Texas lost by the war t25O, O00, 900.
There has. never been q divorce granted
in South Carolina.
The plea Of Americans in Mexico is no
passport to anything
James Stephens has not been arrested.
The Jews in Cincinnati are the first in
trade and wealth in that city.
George Peabody hes received the soubri.
quct Of the ~inter.
There are indications Of a famine in Mon
tana this winter.
Thad. Stevens takes tie ground that JEFF.
Davis is not traitor.
Mr.. judah r. Benjamin drives . dashng
equipage in Paris
The Pail Mali Gazette has El50,OcO in
volved in lidci suits.
A lady eight years Of age in Salem, Ian,
claims she is damaged sec. 900 BY . SANDER
cr.
An Illinois paper asks whether Gen Butte
Ter is looking to the presidency. lie squints
that way.-Lom. Jour.
A Nor h Caroliaa publsher advertises for
100. coo southern bank bills Of all denomina
tons; also $1,000 in specie.
Horace Grecly has bought . slip in DR..
ChaPin's new church. paying for 1t 81, 400.
Senator Wade says the constitutional
amendment will be forced upon the south
BY force Of arms.
An Egyptian temple. "a by 60 feet, is to
be one II the glories Of the Paris Exhibition. |
II is calculated that dancing belle in one
season traverses five hundr,d miles Of floor
A Methodist paper thinks that polklug
has no power to steady 'he reason and that
Waiting gives paralytic vertigo TO anima!
nature.