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Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1866-04-27

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Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1866-04-27
MIN the Evil I'm the Bud.
mr.. WHITTIER,
1sl 9outh Clark Street, Omac03Os ILL.,

Has for many years made the
treatment Of private disease . his
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on to old standing cases. which
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Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1866-04-27

THVHIS COMMODIOUS DOWNTOWN HOTEL
i has been thoroughly repaired and return
| shed. and is kept upon system Of frst class
| istyle. NJ hUGGlNS. Proprietor.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-04-26
Political Matters.

The Massachusetts House of Representa-
tives have rejected the Eight Hour Labor
Bill by a vote of 100 to 81.
The Tennessee Legislature has before
them bills for incorporating forty-three oil
companies, showing that petroleum history
is repeating itself in Tennessee.
The President made a speech on the 18th,
to a party OF soldiers and sailors who had
called upon him. He gave his views on
the reconstruction question, insisting that
the rebel States were entitled to representa-
ton in Congress.
President Johnson has written letter of
coincidence and sympathy to the widow of
Hon. Daniel s. Dickinson, and, in conform
ity with last request of the deceased, has
appointed s. G. Courtney, Es son-in-law,
to the Office Of United States Attorney for
the Southern District of New York, made
vacant by Mr.. Dickinson's death.
Mrs. Clement c. Clay has had before the
President recommendations for her bus
bands release on parole from such officials
as General Grant, Senator Wilson, and
Thad. Stevens. They all express the opin-
ion that Mr.. Clay will observe his parole.
and that his conduct in voluntarily giving
himself up to the authorities entities him to
this much consideration. His release from
confinement at Fortress Monroe is expected
within few days.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-04-26
Il he Fenians.

On the 18th, party of English soldiers
crossed from St: Stephens, N. B., to Calais,
Me-, and got into fight with some Fenians,
who, with the all of citizens, drove the ''red
coats" out of town.
The War Department has ordered a small
detachment of regular troops to the Maine
border under Gen. Meade to preserve peace
and to ensure an observance of the neutral
ity laws. A fleet of gunboats has also sailed
for Eastport with the same objects in view.
Mr.. A. Pardee of Hazleton, Pa, has given
fifty thousand dollars to the Fenian fund,
and pledged himself that, as soon as hostil-
tiles between the Fenians and England
should commence, he would increase the
sum to one hundred thousand dollars.
An Eastport special says: "There is no
border war, and there has been none. No
fights have occurred at Calais, nor did the
Fenians capture any English Gag. There
is no excitement on this side the boundary.
The presence of a few Fenians, organizing
Circles, coupled with the Provincial Con-
federation scheme, is the foundation for
the sensations. The special dispatches
sent to the New York papers have been vii
lainously false, and they have drawn hither
many strangers, who came to join in the
strife. Gen. Meade will officially explode
the bubble"
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-04-26
Southern News.

A lady in Boone county, KY, recently
gave birth to twins-a boy and girl--one
of which had eight teeth, and the other
four.
A man named George Weeks was lynched
on Saturday, near Midway, Ky, ne having
confessed to the murder Of boy named
Nichols. Object, robbery.
By the breaking of the Mississippi river
through its banks near Baton Rouge, La,
the country has been overfowed for many
miles, and 81 looks like an ocean"
Thomas Shields, convicted of the deliber-
ate murder of Robert Taylor, was hung on
the Goth, in Libby Prison, at Richmond. He
was unrepentant to the last moment.
The boys of Norfolk are admitted into the
circus stopping in that city at the price of
one cat piece. The animals are said to
be the highly relished food of the lions.
Gen. Candy, at New Orleans, has issued
an order explanatory of the Presidents
proclamation. He says it docs not suspend
martial law, or suits already before military
courts.
At the Methodist General Conference al
New Orleans, on the 18th, telegram was
received announcing the extreme illness Of
Bishop Soule, and the expectation of hi
early death.
Gen. Forrest, who killed freedman some
| weeks ago, In personal encounter, hal
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-04-26
Incidents and Accidents.

A little girl in Story county was rece ntly
scalded SO badly by upsetting a cup of cof-
fee into her bosom that death soon ensued.
A Mr.. Evans, living near Salem, ILL.,,
died from lockjaw on Tuesday. A mashed
thumb which had taken cold was the cause.
Thomas c. Norris committed suicide, on
the 18th. near Franklin, Ind, by sticking
his head under the main crank of saw
mill.
A married lady in Bridgeport, Conn,
took dose of medicine to produce an abor-
ton, and after four days Of intense suffer-
ing died in great agony.
A destructive fire occurred in Battle
Greek, Mich, on the night of the 18th,
completely destroying the Battle Greek
House and several adjoining stores.
Lieut.. Louis Ohrem, of the Veteran Re-
serve Corps, committed suicide in Washing
ton on the 10Th, by shooting himself with a
pistol, the muzzle of which he placed in his
mouth.
A queer accident occurred at the Reed
we'll, on Cherry Run, Pa, one day last
week. team Of horses, attached to an oil
wagon, became frightened at the locomo-
tive of the Reno Railroad and ran away.
The wagon tongue came in contact with an
oil tank, broke through it, and about 900
barrels Of oil were thus lost.
An armed mob, represented as numbering
from % to 200, attacked the tanks of Harley
Co., at Shaffer, Pa, on the goth, drove off
the watchmen, and set fire to the tanks,
which were entirely consumed The mob
defed the people, and prevented any effort
to extinguish the flames. The guilty parties
are known to be teamsters who are out of
work.
On the 18th, little girl and boy, children
of Mr.. Stanbeck, living three miles west of
Princeton, were burned to death. They
went into barn to play, and while there
set some straw on fire near the door. Being
quite young, they did not know enough to
run out of the barn until it was too late,
when the devouring flames wrapped around
their little bodies until they were charred
almost to coal.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-04-26
Congressional Doings.

The Senate was not in session on the
18th. In the House, Mr.. Garfield delivered
brief, eloquent, and stirring eulogy on the
martyr Lincoln, and then the House ad-
journed.
Ia the Senate, on the 10th, bill was re-
ported for the establishment of assay offices
in Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah,
Idaho, Montana, and Minnesota. reso-
luton was introduced for the appointment
of Commission to report as to the proper
place of bridging the Mississippi river......
The bill to establish volunteer militia force
was reported, from the Military Committee,
without amendment......O On bill relative to
the Sioux City and P4ciic Railroad, a high
ly personal colloquy took place between the
California Senators, Messrs. CONFESS and
McDougall.. The Senate agreed to con-
ference committee ON the bill prohibiting
the sale Of liquor in the Capitol
were adopted inquiring into the propriety
of passing bill to punish claim agents
who swindle soldiers, calling for the report
of the evidence in the Wirz case, and ask
ing the President for the official correspon-
dence with the French Government respect
ing the withdrawal of French troops from
Mexico...... Mr.. Stevens offered q resolution
to furnish three copies of the Washington
Chronicle to each foreign Minister, Consul
and Commercial Agent abroad. .....The bill
for recognizing the army was considered,
and some further amendments adopted,
among which was one that two of the
twelve regiments of cavalry shall be com
posed of negroes A sharp personal con-
troversy arose in the course of debate be-
Messrs. Ingersoll of Illinois and Eldridge
of Wisconsin. No final action was taken
upon the bill.
In the Senate, on the 18th, Mr.. Grimes
introduced bill regulating the appoint
ment of officers of the navy. 1t provides
for one Vice-Admiral, II Rear Admirals,
% Commodores. so Captains, 80 Command
ers, 108 Lieutenants, and I60 Ensigns..-..
1t was stated that the cost of the public
printing for the last year was S1,750, 600,
of which only S690,O00 was for Congress
1.-THE bill for the relief of the naval con-
tractors was taken up, and its discussion CO.
cupied the entire day.
1 In the House, on the 18th, the considera-
ton of the bill recognizing the army was
resumed. The motion to strike out the part
relating to the Veteran Reserve Corps was
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-04-26

been admitted to bail in Sunfower county
Miss, without examination, by Judge Yer-
! ger, under bonds of $4,000.
New Orleans is represented as perfectly
healthy and crowded. Deaths last week,
100: no tendency to any particular disease
Emigrants to Mexico are numerous, and
several new steamers are advertised for
| Vera Cruz
An attempt was made last week by the
federal forces stationed at Leesburg, Va,
to arrest Mosby, for appearing in the streets
dressed in confederate uniform. The ex-
guerilla took to The woods and made good
his escape.
Hon. Francis w. Kellogg, Collector of In
ternal Revenue at Mobile, is now in Wash
ington, and says that the negroes are work
ing well, and that the cotton crop in
Alabama this year will be three fourths as
large as that of 1860.
A case of cholera occurred in Richmond,
Va, on the 8,h inst. The victim was a
Miss Palmer, staying at the house Of ex-
Mayor Saunders. She was attacked during
the night, and died at 9 o'clock the next
morning. DR.. Coleman, the attending
physician, pronounced the disease cholera
The negroes at Norfolk, Va, celebrated
the passage of the civil rights bill on the
18th. While the procession was passing
through the streets, a difficulty occurred
between the negroes and whites, during
which one white mar was killed and his
brother and stepmother were MORALLY
wounded. Order was restored by the mil
itary
The James is taxing advantage of Gen.
Buffers Dutch Gap Canal" below Rich
mond, and so charging and completing it
that small craft now pass through it at high
stages of water, saving several miles by a
cross-cut IF less than one. Ten years hence
this will doubtless be the main channel,
though it may cost something more to make
it so.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-04-26

ance to the United States, and give hi:
parole of honor to conduct himself as loyal
citizen of the same, and to report himself in
person at any time and place, to answer
any charges that may hereafter be prefer
red against him by the United States.
The Omaha Republican Of the 9Th, has
some rather exciting news from Utah. 1t
learns that "the greatest excitement pre-
walls among the Mormons, and fixed deter
mination On their part to drive out or
exterminate all Gentiles. Eight men have
recently been assassinated, while the editor
of the Vldeae, with all other Gentiles has
been notified to quit the country, or fare
aOorse. Placards are posted up in Salt Lake
| City warning all Gentiles to leave imme-
diately."
A shameful April fool hoax was perpre-
trated by lady in Philadelphia, who sent
to the pulpit in Methodist church, notice
Of meeting to be held in aid of another
church. Names of prominent clergymen
were mentioned as to take part in the exer-
cises The preacher read the manuscript
to his large congregation without hesitation,
until he came to passage announcing that
certain layman would sing comic song,
when he became confused, suddenly re-
membered the day. and abruptly sat down.
A most remarkable flow Of natural burn
| ing gas was recently discovered while boring
for oil at Getzville, near Buffalo. A COM
pany has been formed with ample capital,
who are about to develope and utilize this
gas by introducing it into that city in mains.
contract has already been made with
the city gas light company, by, which they
are to receive forty thousand cubic feet of
gas per day, at ST. per thousand. The COM
pany have recently procured from Professor
Hadley accurate tests of the gas produced,
showing its superior quality.
Detective Major has made very volum-
inous report in reference to bounty jumping
frauds perpetrated under the calls for
troops. He traces the jumpers from the
time Of being sworn in till their reaching
the field. He shows that of the FIVE hun
dred thousand men called out and sworn in
by the Government, only one hundred and
sixty-eight thousand reached the field as
soldiers, although thousands of others re-
ceived their bounties. This wholesale sys-
tenn of fraud is shown to have been perpe-
trated in nearly every loyal State.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-04-26
The Tax Bill.
Somebody proposes the following new
amendment to the tax bill:

Somebody proposes the following new
amendment to the tax bill:
For kissing pretty girl, one dollar.
For kissing homely one, two dollars,
the extra amount being added probably for
the mans folly.
For ladies kissing one another, two dol
lars. The tax is placed at this rate in order
to break up the custom altogether, it being
regarded by our IL. C.'s as piece Of mex
cusable absurdity.
For every Irritation, ten cents.
Every young man who has more than one
girl, is taxed FIVE dollars.
For counting in the kitchen, twenty-five
cents.
Counting in the par.or, one dollar.
Counting in romantic place, five dollars,
and fifty cents for each offence thereafter
Seeing q lady home from church, twenty
five cents.
Going from church without accompanying
a lady, FIVE dollars
Seeing a lady home from the Mite Society
FIVE cents, the proceeds to be devoted to the
relief of disabled army chaplains.
For ladies who paint fifty cents.
For wearing low-necked dress, one dol
lar.
VI cdCu CuIA Ul4 " laOy ACdO dDOtS leu,
FIVE cents.
For any unfair device for entrapping
young men into matrimony, five dollars.
Fer wearing hoops larger than eight feet
in circumference, eight cents for each hoop
Old bachelors over thirty are taxed ten
dollars and banished to Utah.
Each pretty lady to be taxed from twenty
five cents to twenty-five dollars, she to fix
Al L. II
thought that very large amount will be
realized from this provision.
Each boy baby, fifty cents.
Each girl baby, ten cents.
Families having more than eight babies
are not to be taxed, and for twins pre-
MUM o. forty dollars will be paid out of
the funds accruing from the tax on old
bachelors.
Each Sunday loafer on the street corners,
or about church doors, TO be taxed his value,
which is about two cents.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-04-26
NETRO-GEYCEEgINE.
Terrific Explosions.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 10.
A terrible explosion of what was supposed
to be nitro-g lycerine occurred Il o'clock to-
day, near Wells, Fargo & Co.'s building.
The explosion shook the earth like an earth
quake for circle of quarter of mile.
Samuel Knight, Superintendent of Wells,
Fargo & Co.'s Express, died in half an hour
of injuries received. G. W. Bell, Supervis-
or and Assayer, was instantly killed. Mr..
Wallub, John Gallagher, Frank Webster, and
William Justin were also killed. Eight bod
les were so mutilated that they could not be
identified.
Louis McLane, Capt Eldridge of the Pa
cifc Mail Steamship Company, and Judge
Hoffman, were bruised and cut. Felix La
mix, D. Stacy, jefferson Taylor, H. Blaine,
clothing dealer, Capt. ]. E. Ayres, Fred Leiz,
Frank Morris, and others were injured, bat
not fatally. Some will never be identified
as fragments of human flesh, bones ard
brains were found nearly two blocks distant
Montgomery, Sacramento, and California
streets were lined with broken glass, scarce
ly window for several hundred feet re-
naming nhoie. Wells, Fargo & Co.'s house
and everything in the vicinity, animate or
inanimate, were blown into fragments.
The damage is estimated at least $500, 900.
William Havens, book keeper of the Pacific
Mail Steamship Company, is ascertained to
be among the killed. The cause of the ex-
plosion is mystery. The freight agent CT
the Pacific Mail Steamship Company says
two boxes, each measuring about four cubic
feet, were taken from the steamers dock to
the place where the explosion occurred.
One box was consigned to Idaho City, and
the other 20 Los Angeles. Both were stained
with oil. The contents are not known.
Forty men are now engaged in removing
the ruins.
New YORK, April 20.
The steamer Arizona, from Aspinwall,
has arrived with $500, 900 in specie
terrible disaster occurred at Aspinwall
on the Sd inst There was a fearful ex-
plosion on board the steamer European,
destroying the ship and 400 feet of her
wharf. The cause of the explosion is said
to be from nitro glycerine on board
About 30 persons were killed among them
the captain and officers of the boat
The Panama Railroad Company splendid
freight house is pile Of ruins. Scarcely
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-04-26

Why do the birds feel depressed early
in summer morning? Because their lit
tie bills are all over dew
There, John, that's twice you've
come home and forgotten that lard" ''La,
mother, it was SO greasy that it slipped my
mind"
The month in which we are has been
an eventful one III our recent annals. In
April, the war began. In April, it ended.
In April, Lee surrendered, and in April
President Lincoln was mu- dered
-" How are you, john I'm deuced glad
to see you" VERY well, Charley. Come
and take drink, old fellow. .Tisn't often
we meet ssThats fact, John-and
when we do, it's meet and drink I"
"A man out west says he moved 80 often
during one year, that whenever covered
wagon stopped at the gate, his chickens
would fall on their backs, and hold up their
feet, in order 70 be tied and thrown in.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-04-26

The Hon. Richard Busteed, u S. Judge
for the District Of Alabama, has decided
that q New Orleans steamboat captain is
responsible for money lost at poker by a
minor when passenger on board his boat.
The cause of the fertility produced by
the overflow of the Nile is not occasioned
by vegetable but by animal matter, accord
ing to the researches of Gutenberg, who
found the mud deposited to be largely COM
posed Of infusorla.
There is a cat in the town of Goldsborc,
N. c., now engaged in the responsible duty.
of rearing nine members of family four
kittens and tGUe young rats She Is equally
as tender of the latter as the former. She
killed the mother rat and assumed the task
of rearing the orphan young.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-04-26
The Columbian" Gin.

This Gin is the purest and very best article
offered to the public. 1t is the distilaon of tho best
American malt spirits and italian juniper berrias.
Th % who find diuretic stinulant necessary should
never be without 1t.
The proprietors of the Columbian Gin do not under
take to advertise it quack medicine yet they feel
guaranteed in saying that for those requiring pure
liquor, no better can be procured.
Imported Gins etc. are nearly out Of the ques-
ton, on account of the extraordinary high import
duties imposed upon them-which always payable
in goid-so that homemade article, equal In all
respects any imported should receive the attention
Of consumers.
Doctor Blaney, the well known chemist of Chicago
says: "IHs the very best article, both to quality
and strength of favor, that have tested"
For sale by all respectable druggists and liquov
dealers in the United States.
W. T.sHUFELDT Co,
Sole Distllers and Proprietorz
40 8. Water St, Chicago.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-04-26

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be given with each Package.
Each Prize Package contains some of the following
list of Articles.
Diamond Set, Lava Set, Pearl Breast
Pins. Finger Rings. Gold Studs, sleeve
Buttons, Gold Ear Rings. Ear Drops and
Crosses, Mourning Plus. Hair and Bead
Work, Ladies' G ola Finger Rings, Gents
Gold Finger Rings, and Fancy Bosom
Studs i'm sets, and many other Articles
of value.
Every package contains something of value, and en-
titles the holder to ticket. Send in your money at
once, and buy prize package. Send stamps to pay
the return of the package by MALL ticket will be
sent with each package Each ticket has Its duplicate
of the number which is registered before being
sent out. The drawing will take place at Crosby's
Opera House, or other public place, where thou
sands of ticket holders witness the drawing. The
duplicate tickets will all be placed in Wheel and
drawn out by some disnterestcd person. chosen from
the audience present the day of drawing list Of
the numbers drawn will be sent at once or
made ont, each ticket holder, who then compare
his number with the list of drawn numbers: the
moneys goods will then be held to his order, t. be
sent by Express or otherwise, as he may direct Our
enterprise is upon the grandest scale ever known AS
every ticket holder will obtain prize purchasing
prize package, and have good opportunity to
obtain Five Thousand Dollar Prize, person could
have in any similar Gift Enterprise
THE GARDEN CITY ENTERPRISE is so arranged that
the tickets will be rapidly disposed of so much so
that very seldom If ever any posponemeDt of the day
of drawing occur. And In case will the post
ponement be for longer time than weeks. The
articles contained in enterprise all of the 1oss
approved kind Of the best manufacturers, and all war"
ranted new and in perfect order list Of similar
tices will be made up after each drawing for the
next monthly distribution. All orders will receive
prompt attention.
Examine unprecedented club rates; every active
lady or gentlemen may take part In forming club
Don't waste your money on foolish anusements but
buy our prize packages and get something of reel
value. No blank packages Parties recommended
to get up small clubs first; when they become
quainted with the work they get up larger ones.
INDUCEMENTS OFFERED TO AGENTs-Club Rates
ANY person party procuring club of 5 or more
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-04-26

Office Order Express, in registered letters may be
sent at risk.
Garden City Gift Enterprise Co.,
P.O. BOX 4Gi. 1919 q. Clark st. Chicago, Ill.
liberal donation will be rendered at avery drawing
to the agents of the Soldiers Relief Fund.- for the
benefit of disabled soldiers and thei families.
LUCKY NUMBER-Drawn by Miss Libbie
Gee. of Coldwater, Mich, a Fine Enamelled Gold
atch, from the Garden City Gift Concert. Daily
drawing $40 900 in prizes. No one loses. Unlucky
numbers repurchasod Send stamps for circulars.
Address Gift Concert z. o. Drawer 6197 Chicago, ILL.,