Daily Davenport Democrat., 1866-01-02
GENERAL NEWS.

The little horse Dexter made has 42O.
600 forhis owner. this year.
The Erie Railway has just negotiated a
loan Of "a 900, 600 in England for the COM
pletion ofits double track
The Plattsburgh New York; gas works
were wholly destroyed by fire last Friday
night; loss 100000.
| A good many of the wool growers Of
Vermont still hold this and last years
crops, and are waiting for higher prices.
Louis Napoleon gave one Of the pretty
young ladies' of his court . dowry of two
million francs.
A Prussian Count gets the whole Of nine
months imprisonment at Bonn, for mur.
dering a cook. What if the cook had kill
ed the C0unty
At recent city election, Pit Hole, Pa,
claiming II, 900 inhabitants, polled only
ll2 legal votes. The "oldest inhabitant"
had hardly been there long enough to vote.
Immense bones have been found in Ad>
ans county, Miss, which medical men be-
lisve to have belonged to giant thirty feet
high.
A Pittsburg merchant named Shaw bas
been arrested for placing his much abused,
but entirely sane, wife in an insane asy-
lum.
DR.. John W. Hughes, who shot Miss
Parsons, his intended wife, while riding
with her IN Cuyahoga county, Ohio, last
August. has been found guilty ofmurder in
the FIRST degree.
The daughter of the Confederate Envoy
Slidell, who was married recently to .
wealthy Frenchman, N. Erlanger, has left
her husband and returned to her father.
The earnings of the Maine State Prisou
for the year ending Nov. SOth. were $16,-
334, and the expenses were $l6,249. The
average number Of convicts for the wear
was seventy-two, against an average last
year Of ninety.
A LOT Of elegant furniture, including
| twenty-one pieces. has been presented to
Mrs. General Robert f. Lee, by some Of the
ladies' Of Baltimore.
A down east debating club is arguing
the question: :" Which is the most effect
i've agent in the reduction Of the population
OF civilized countries, cholera, or rail.
road switchmen."
The Trent" the historic vessel associa-
ted with the seizure of Mason and Slidel!.
has not long survived the American war
At last accounts she was at the Isle Of Does,
where she was to be broken up. Her career
is ended.
Miss Lydia Peacock, . maid Of 43 years.
sued Henry Smell, youth Of " years. for
breach Of promise Of marriage, in the War
rem county, Ohio, Common Pleas. at the
present term, and received $1,000 with
which to heal her wounds up.
Bierstadt, the artist, has made 1920. 900
with his brush in three years. He 10 now
building princely mansion at Bovineton,
on the Hudson, and drives the most sty lish
team in the Central Park-a pair Of spirited
Black Hawks, both Of which figured in the
| war.
A man At St Cloud. Minn., eat on va. er
the other day six dozen raw eggs in thirty
minutes, and then offered to bet that he
could eat four dozen more. He had already '
eaten three hearty meals the same day. We
should like to know whether the eggs sot
well' on his stomach.
An intelligent lad, ~ years old, who was
stolen by Indians 50 long ago that he can
not remember the time, recently ESCAPED
from them, and reached Mound Station.
Colorado Territory, after riding pony to
death and three days travel on foot. With
scarcely any food. He could speak little
English, but 10 fast learning.
Gen. Grant received - Christmas pres.
ent the centre mansion of what IL known in
Washington ~ the "DouelAs Row" II
vas formerly occupied BY Senator Rice; sf
Minnesota the other two by Douglas and
Breckenridge. This nakss the third coat
y residence that Gen. Grant has reeeived
9 aprsssnt-ese in Philadslphh, end h
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