Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1866-09-05
DAILY DEMOCRAT.


GENERAL NEWS.
Fros,s have been quite numerous IN YER
mon, during the past week.
A gentleman from Pitt-burg, Pa, intends
to start glass factory at St. Paul, MINI.
The hop crop of New York for 1865 IL
estimated to DC one.six.h less than ina. o.
1865.
Wendell Phillips assures the Boston Com
aon,ceaiA that he viii not accept nom'n'
alton 10 Congress.
The corn crop in central Kentucky Will
exceed any former crop; tobacco, hemp,
wool and sorghum are also very line.
The Ldeyenaent says tha. 20 map siau
be next President VI the United States VINO
DOES not ask permission Of the negro.
The grape crop 10 Missouri, which during
the early part Of the season promised . large
Yield. will be partial failure, owing 70 ne
mildew.
The receipts Of internal reyenue on Sata
day, Sept. LIST. were q, 7OO,OOO for the
week ending same day. tlO, 1885. s3l 63; and
total for August, t3S, G43, 340.sl.
The prin ing department of the treasury
department. for the week ending Sept LIST.
turned out the following amount OF traction.
q currency: 30 cent notes. iG2,W0; 10
cent notes, $l09, 500; 10 entnotes. $751;
900; total, 362, 800.
Now that patent elastic heel has been
Invented, we hope 10 hear no more Of tn
light fantastic toe"
New Orleans is the only city We have
heard Of that paid more income tax IN $50"
than 1865 The income is t69, 1o3.
The New York Herald says there are
over two thousand places in that city where
games Of chance are played e, money.
\ dispatch 10 the New York World says:
The President has come - an irrcvoeabis
decision tia, Mr.. Stanton must leave the
Cabinet"
Chang and Eng are coming North "eau.
The H,s on Post calls them the strongest
Union m,n III the country.
A monster gun has been c,st in England
which, with u charge of enc hundred aud
forty rounds Of powder, will throw shot
wtig' ing eleven hundred pounds.
The phi cipal indi vidual owners Of the At
lantic Telegraph Company stock are Hons.
ID 'niei G.och. A. Il. Campbell and John
Ps.,dcr, members Of The English Parliament.
and Cyrus W. Field, Of this country.
The Rev Rod,nan Mel cod, the Missiona.
~ Of the American Society at Great Sat-
Lake City, is preaching 4 series Of powerful
sermons against polygam and he Mormons.
The latter have several t,m,s threa. encd his
life.
Dean Richu cnd left m estate valued At =
million. and . half Of dollars. To his five
sons aud daughters he gives $50, 900 each,
and transferred from himself TO his wife the
care Of the balance Of his estate.
A Western letter, reinarking upon the
rapid settlement Of the country, says Quin
cy. Kansas City and St. Joseph are destined
to be places Of not less than lOO.00 poo
pie each. Quincy is the great N"rthern
gateway to Missouri, Kansas and Colorado.
On Thursday, one Of the marines at the
Navy Yard. Brooklyn. was sick, as was sup
posed Of cholera and, II all appear ances.
died. While the funeral procession was
conveying his body Ia the tomb h. retnfnei
20 consciousness AMI unccremonously
sicked the top Of the coffin of, and 0 ject-
cd to going IN the direction Of the cemetery
quite 50 soon. His decision vas, Of course,
respected.
Ex.Gov. Henry Connolly, Of New Mexico,
did at Santa Re, Aug. 18th He was ap
pointed Governor Of the territory BY Mr..
Lincoln, and served in that capacity for four
years.
The London Gdzcttc says that Mrs. Sink !
er u llcfpntaine gets e. ,0O0. 600 Of the
f35 o0n, COO which was beqncathed I" the
Church family, and Of which Mrs. Walker,
OF Hartford, was supposed to be the only
descendant in this country.
Ms. Alexander, Caldwell county, Ken
lucky. killed her husband. aged 60, and
vas afterwards found dead in the yard. She
committed murder and suicide because her
husband refused to be married again, after
q short separation.
On Sunday week daughter Of Mr. Tick
man. o. st. Mary's Ridge, three years. vas
burned to death while her parents we're .,
church. She was playing with matches,
and her clothes caught on fire from them.
The Medical Department has furnished Il
soldiers. up to May Its. 1866, the follpw.
ing artificial limbs: Arms, 2,l34; legs
3,7S4; bands, l44 feet, ., ata cost o.
1857 us
In Rockford. on Wednesday. William
Kinghorn, . neighboring resident, va,
thrown from wagon loaded with grain and
run over BY the wheels. lie died in few
minutes afterwards.
Areward Of $3.50 is offered for the arrcs
Of one Frank Jasper, Who murdered Lewis
Cochran on the morning of the 25th instan
in Hancock township, Hancock county, III
Jasper is about nineteen years Of age, fvt
feet eight or ten inches high. dark complex
ion, long. dark hair, has . rather smooth
small face, and light blue eycs. Has q seal
on the top Of one foot, caused BY IN *. ant
Vas formerly from northwestern Missouri
Ku,nor says that the con6scatiOn Of Sants
Annals Mexican estates hes not left hin
poor. lie 10 reported to have SIC, 900, 00C
in gold on deposit in Great Britain.