Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1866-08-10

- 0D0R00 u3W0HD AWoAo -
y Tbs Postsmoush IN. H. Journal says
that Mr.. John seavsr. Of 1Aat plaess fss 81
wager Of $500 last Tuesday eemosnoa1
walking oue hundred mills in - many con-
secutive hours. How he was affected 10
thus related:
"Ou Wednesday afternoon. q tho Close
Of ths fret twenty four hours. he became
weary and f,lt . stronger DISPOSITION 70
sleep than he afterwards sxpsfienosd. This
80 driven %, but the e4Sgt ptoduoso b
severe headache. which eontioued during
the remaining days. On Thussday be fslt
dsowsy, but wss 90 excited that he would
sit down without Mapping. Every hour the
eircuiting Of the soem forty-two times wss
regularly performed, 10 times ranging from
tvessy y thirty aiautes. o. TT eoFn>
~ s6e ~ - 10 ~ d6consseeds ~ 81
pssssed ! SisA 70 Htasdeo fos3kss s45rt.-
lie advisess pussusd him, and BE- reserved
HE efforts, end, = be asprsssed Il, with .
1sRssmtnld Wiil y assessed.
"fridsy, the third day. be Vas more
wsksfsI, iis ssrveue excitement having
ased-probobly BY the strong tss,
which Mas Ais ooly bsserags. Hb nhsad
was bandaesd end bathed with run IRE
quently. He stumbled from ssakuess and
WEAKNESS bat 81 up without help. Satui>
day, the fourth end last day. va qps o.
wesrincss. achins limbs, aehing he'll and
prostration. He required to b supported
as he vent his hourly rounds. in the ninety
fifth hour be tainted and fell. Every hour
Of the iase 1bss he IVES bathsd al over with
rum and alum. In the ninety >niuth hour
he again fell in faintness. The last hour ct
length arrived, and With his assistants. 10
completed his iorty>two circuits N thirty
three minutes. He now received 1tesh On.
srey from the idea that be had accomplish
ed his feat, and, unaidej, he literally drag.
| eed his limbs onee moro around the hall, Ia
shew lhas ~ was still awake, aud, amid
shs shesss Of large audience, he retired
after nine o'clock.".
He did nol rsesvsr from the sickness
that ensosd Sss several days.
Axorusa Twsu1y Mns RAcs.-Ansthss
twenty mile match - Juse bssn tsoatsa 10
Jackson, Michigan, this time With the odd.
ID brutality thas horses were net allowed
10 rest, nor even y b spsnesd %. ffou
| The bs1isoine II III ssss y ~ M. The
match was made for d 900 and great d. 4
Of money was bet beside. Senc Of The
spectators, confident that the horses would
lest q thae thGs owners bed - bowels,
made bets that the twenty milss would b
deos 10 eighty ninstss. The time seesel'
~ made Vas seventy .one minutes and tea
seconds, whirh 10 very good time indeed,
though some minutes longer than The time
OF Tom Thumb, II the accepted tradition,
that that horse trottsd twenty miles with.
| IN the hour, b. authentic. The 0rst mile
Was done in 3:66, the tenth in S:l2, aud
the twentieth 10 SIS, LADY Susan" end
Lady Palmer" were the torsss, end
LADY Susan'' won. Ssd to say, neither
owner got bic horse killed, and the local
paper has the iopudsncs 70 tell usthat the
animals were not much Distressed, and
would b. &c 70 travel next day. The 30,
cisty for the Prevention Of Cruelty 10 AMI
mails should demonstrate agasnst such bru-
tslity, or, better still, procure legislation
that will reader it criminal.
TnE noticeable incomes In the Eigh
teenth, Twentieth, and Twenty 6rst wardl
Of New York are o. follows:
Richard Arnold, els2, 74s; Aaron Arr
| VOiu, ECOV, ZZOs II. w. aOOUns StVfsoVf
Loring Andrews, $751; $3.50; Stewart
Brown. tls7,72s; Robert Bonner, @i55,.
3O5 Henry J. Barley. el32.97O August
Belmont, t77,46l; Edwin Booth. $2i $50
Oliver Charlie, tl93.26s; Peter Cooper
t69, 1879 ; James n. Constable. &l35. 652
George W. Carleton, $ib. PAT; David BOWS
el65, l65; ex Gov. Hamilton Fish, $685.
1872; Q. Godfrey Gunther, tlO,l2l; Ed
win Eloyt, t24e,6 72; Seth B. Hunt, tl9l. )
| sos; Fletcher Harper. e25, 1897; Jame'
Harper. 90. 4ss (both Of Harper Brothers)
Robert Hoe, e79.0bl; Mayor jobs I
Hoffman, $3.50 John Knower, 1las.'
S45; John I. Lord. o1e0. $50; X. D. La
throp. $io1.ls5; John horrissey, (ex
pusilist) t64.lO0; Robert X. Minturn
tlO,3s2; Benjamin Nathan, Gill, go
WIN. Patton, tSl7.2s5; Geo P. Quacksn'
hos. tl4,149 Robt. L. Stewart, e2l7, SS7
VIM. Steinway, &54,77s; John Steward
$l07. 300; Moses Taylor, $685.. 4l9 Thee
dorc Timpsop, tll1,124; r. T. Wood
ward, til1,e22