Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1866-03-21

Cincinnati has lately increased the sala-
ries ofits city officials. Policemen now re-
ccive 81 900 year.
Folly would do but little mischief if it
were confined to fools.
Californis has lately made her Grst piece
Of cotton cloth.
Oil borers at Lodi, Indiana, have struck
. spring which yields five hundred barrels
daily Of superior sulphur water.
The farmers in the southern counties Of
Indiana report the wheat crop almost ruin
ed by the severe weather last winter,
We are told to weigh our words, and
most people would need but q very small
pair Of scales.
News from Denver say that all is quiet
aloug the entire route to Salt Lake, and
little approximations is felt Of . renewal of
the lnd.iaD troubles.
The newly born child Of the Queen Of
Spain died on the 14th of February. 1t had
',ne hundred aud twenty names.
At revival meeting in Louisville,
watch was stolen FROM the pocket Of cler-
gyman while he was walking up and down
the aisle asking sinners to repent.
The yellow hair Juror is raging in Lon
don, and women with the darkest tzesses
are dyeing them carrot color. Grayness
or badness in two years is the penalty.
Bayard Taylor has introduced q new NJ
ter melon, which keeps through the winter.
He obtained the seed from volga, Russia,
from . mellon grown in Persia, ON the.
shore Of the Caspian sea.
A Worcester man wrote to his brother in
Mexico 81 years ago and has writ en- sew
| eral times, one Of his letters being sent in
December. That letter and the one being
sent six years ago, were received in Mexi.
g. by the same mail.
The petroleum men, begging Congress
from the relief Of taxes, say that not ten
wells in one hundred in all the wells drilled
IN the United States have paid, in oil, the
cost Of drilling Only two per cent. of the
wells gush spontaneously.
There is blind lawyer at Stafford, N. H.,
who in addition TO doing comfortable law
business, carries on farm, claim agency
and two stores, in which goods are sold an
nually to the amount Of about $4,000. !.
A family Of five persons residing on a
farm in Derry, New Hampshire. for peri
Cd Of fifty three yeass, during which time
there Wa neither birth, death, or mar
rage in the family. Neither did they dur
ing the time put letter in the post Office,
take one out, or take newspaper.
A new life insurance company at New
York proposes to insure patrons Of ho0neo.
Psthy 10 per cent. cheaper than other
lolks.
"What will you take first IN Canada pr
asked quizzing Yankee of a faithful Feni-
an. "HSs whisky punch was the prompt
reply. ~,4
Elder Jacob Knapp and Boston Corbett,
the soldier who shot Wilkes Booth, have
been working together in q revival IN
Newark, N. Y.
The CAristian Hmes, London, states that
the Emperor Napoleon recently invited the
principal Jews Of France TO > conference on
the subject OF the return of the Jews to the
Holy land, in the course Of which he enter
ed thoroughly into the whole subject, and
intimated his disposition to use his great
power and Influence toward that end.
The New Orleans Times says that there
will soon be held in that city an impressive
Masonic ceremony-the holding OF what il
called by the fraternity lodge Of Scr
row"-tbc occasion being the commemera.
tion Of the members Of the v ystic tis's who
Asve died daring the war. Upon the inter-
esting occasion, the Hon. Albert Pike, who
. the Grand Commander Of the Supreme
Council Of the Southern section OF the Uni.
ted States, 10 to take the leading part, and
. to be assisted BY other Masons Of rank.
The burning Of oil wells near Fr,uklin.
Pa, 10 curious phenomenon. It caught
IRE two weeks ago, and has been burning
with unabated vehemence ever since. defvs
ing I'll attempts to qusnch It. The flame.
cover atract q foety fest squsrs, and msunt
6xty II one hundred feet high, emitting %
much light that neWspapers may b read bv
il in the night four or 1--WE miles distant.
The earth is baked flve hundred feet from
TIE we'll, the trees are budding and he
Greas growing in the vicinity from it, heat !
and ths spectacle = aezaeting crowds Of |
spectatofs.
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