Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1866-10-09
DAILY DEMOCRAT.
GENERAL NEWS.


A N rmon Bishop, recently deceased.
leaves II wives and ~ children to mourn
his loss.
Rumor forecasts the marriage Of James
Gordon Bcnuett,Jr, and daughter Of Gen
Lix.
Custsrds boiled in brasa kettle poisoned
q family 70 death in North Carolina.
Law is like sieve; you may see through
it, bet you must Be considerably reduced
before you can get thIous n It
General Dix 10 expected to embark fos
Fnncc some time during the latter part Of
the month.
A lev evenings ego two Of The actresses
Il 0riswold Hall. at Troy. hsd . real fight
behind the scenes. Jealousy vas the cause.
Mr.. Daniel Drew contributes ground and
buildings for Methodist Collee- in New
York, . donation amounting to e25o. 600.
Col. Ely s. Parker. General Grants Sec>
rotary. and Chief Of the Six Nations. deliv-
cred the agricultural address At the Fair q
Albion N Y.
The sorghum crop in Nicollet end eSueus
counties, MINI hss been utterly destroyed
by the heavy frosts, which have visited that
section Of the State recently.
People are dying Of starvation in the
East Indies, at the rate Of 1900 . day in
thres districts! Last autumn's crop Of
rice was poor ono.
The papers in Mime charge the mayor
Of Portland With using the funds sent from
oil parts Of the country to relieve the su6es.
err by the fire, for radical clectionsering
purposes.
Sweden aud Norwsy are slowly rising
out of the sec, Ut the rate VI from one tenth
to one half of IN inch per snnum he wsse
cosst u Greenland 10 gradually sinking.
Mrs. Sturgcss Hooper, il she marr'es U.
s. Senator Chas Sumner, will be compelled
TO relinquish the interest Of 9lVO,OrO. be>
quexthtd ~ her AS long rs size remains
widow.
The Canadians are troubled with too
much silver. They don't knOw what 10 do
with il. W. can tell tpein-pass i, down
this way. We will exchange sh,n-plastcrs
q par
A Connccticu, peddier asked IN I'D lady
e. whom lie was 'ryinr u sell some articles
if she could tell him o. any road that no
peddler had ever Travelled. Il know Of but
one, and that's the road 10 heaycn." was the
reply.
Attorney General Stanb Try decided on
S. sunday, that ex Secretary Of the ln'.ri"r
Harlan had no right to dispose Of lOU.uaO
acres If ne Cherokee Indian lands to the
New England Emigration Society. The
whole matter will now probably result in Q
jud, ,al investigation, Is it involves some
i'us change.
Tho First National Bank, Of Yarmouth
port. Mas. was recently rubbed u go. 900
by = young man, son Of the cashier. Who
vas an employee Of the tank. The robber
was subsequently, arrested and he money
| receives 3D.
The Hsmiltop (Cansds) Times, Of Mon
day last, publishes letter CO. tanning N de-
I,berate propo-iti' n to form an organisation
to re,aiia,e on the dwellers Of the United
States side Of the frontier in the event o, any
future raid by fcnians on theirs.
A man named o. Bricn has swindled III,
servant girls in Hartford, CT, out Of about
$1,000. His mode Of proce' ding was % cal
on them at their places II work aud repre-
sent that he Vas the agent for the sale of Z
Bible which the Pope desired all good Cath
olcs to buy. The girls subscribed and pa'c
in advance, but the Bibles were not forth
coming
Two French peasants were discussing III,
Continental war, when one attempted to ex
plain 10 the other the nature of The tele-
graph. After repeatedly failing, he va
struck with brilliant notion. and exclaim
ed, "lmag,nc that the telegraph 10 IN i'm
mense long dog-so long that it's head is il
Vienna and it, tail u Paris. Well, tread OF
its tail, which is at Paris, and i, will yelp a
Vienna. Do you understand now what TN
telegraph is like. - "Oh. yes" replied tn
other, ~ have an idea what the telegraph
must be-"