Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1866-08-30
DAILY DEMOCRAT.
GENERAL NEWS.

OA{LY DEMOCRAT.
GENERAL NEWS. -
Commodore Mutt and Minnie Wafrc"s
now in Eagland, are ID beinarried. /
The ye;,hssa-g Obserrer mentions the
marriage Of Mr.. Rice to Miss Boyle. Boiled
rice is not 50 bad these cholera Goes.
A Young workman in Paris had al the
iron rails drawn out of his shoes by
stroke Of lightning without other injury.
At Louisville last week. s. Holsclaw, (iats
of Gen. Magruder's staff WAS married 70
Miss A. Lambert. niece OF Mr.. Clement L.
vallaudingham.
A doctor who has been trying to ess.b'
fish practice in Wisconsin, says that the
village 10 50 extremely healthy that : man
Vas murdered there on the Fourth Of July
fss the purpose Of starting > sraseyasd
The peopls Of Canada East are jusily
beas .iae Of he great libsfsli.y Of AeeeFsol
which, II the stefsmsaAs Published are 60
rect. subscribed in enc day 81, 900 10 81
to the Portland sufferers " the recent ~
rible conHagaration At that place. -
The following Il Prssssan recipe Tot the
sting Of bee: BEAT 81 onion 90 . nese
body to extract the Juice, TO which sddss
pinch Of salt Apply the mixturs 70 tn:
sting. and the pain and in6snatioo vii
cease"
The cropo On Sc. Fs0ncie river sso ready
for picking. Planters ore greatly embor-
assed in their efforts TO gsthef their eot<
ton, in consequence Of sickness among the
negroes, among whom the fever ana eGas
and congestive chilIs ere quite prevalent.
the latter proving very fatal.
A connecticut paper says: "Ths wife
Of John Aichsels, Of Bethany. 6nished hoe
ing potatoes on Friday, aud on Assdoy
gave birth to three daug h,ers-ons weigh
Ing eleven end half pssnis asether elsv.
sn and one fourth aud the third ten aud
three. fourths-sll as lively - Guinea pigs."
As On instance Of the value Of small
things, Il il ascertained that syelets, cost
ing bat seventeen Of eighteen cents per
thousand, are consumed TO the value Of four
million dollars pet year, 20 that over twe
hundred and Atty thousand millions u
thrse little eonvenieneiss sis annually used
IN honnsk,vta anoss etc !alf
An ..emierunt" who had been some bat
soughly dealt with BY the .wildcat" gently
Of Virginia City, thus expresses his opinion
Of that lively city 1T Gabriel happena y
light At Virginia City, thete'll be no resur.
fsclioa, fee they'll sWindle him ot1 Of his
bora before - en- aaks single tsoe." -,
The vhols population Of Liberia is ssai-
mats1 1t DIV. on Wheo a. 900 are rauk.
ed ~ civilized. The whole number Of votes
pollcd at the hst election was 200 welve
hundred and twenty voters ->one voter 70
sixty one souls. Is there no civil rights bin
to interposs between the down trodden mass
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correspondent Of an English paper,
speaking Of tho Atlantic cable. Gays that
from day light till two o'clock in the after
noon The cable generally works with great
difficulty, after which time the working
all through the night it works easily and
vel. The editor Of the Tel frapher has
often noticed this fact on land lines.
The Santa Rosa, Soncma county, Demo
erae relates that Buston, Jr.. son ofold Dos.
ton. and half brother ~ Lexington, Lancet,
Red Eye AID others, which have stood At
the bead Of the racing calender in America,
ended his earthly career up II the rancho o.
joseph Wright near that place, about two
week since.
There is nov in Paris Sisno, Muratori,
who profeecs to he able 70 make any dcscrip-
ton Of clothing shot proof The results OF
4 -. 1xra
lous. A thin jockct, weighing only two
pounds, which had besn..prsviously prepared
by him, is reported to have successfully
resisted Minnie ball. fred irom pasket.
The production Of beet root sugar in Eu-
rope during the last campaign, il valued %
follows :-Fnncs, 900. 00o, 0O0 lbs. Zoll.
vercin, 800, 100, 900 ne. Austria, laO, 200, :
900 lbs. !; Russia, 60.0O0,000 lbs. Poland,
Belgium, $4,000, 900 fbs. Holland, 1000
600 Ms. Total, 1881, 0OO, 900 MS. In LISA
aud 1876 the production amounted 10 only
800 ,2e7.O 900.
A steer Was recently photographed at In
diana polls, 1cdiaha, which was, seventeen
hands high, fifNecn feet hong. syd weighed
four thousand one hundred and eighty nine
pounds. He was raised in Shelby vile, ms
diana. The owner said he was Of the com.
mon atock, aud declared his Intention 70 IN.
sr>ase his weight to five thousand pounds.
A very singular phepomenon has lately
eccusrv'l In village in he cAntoh 81 WILLIE
franste. A woman eneeinte having been
frightened at the sight II negro, gave
birth to . little girl. half black and hall
white. Even the face Of the child has one
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