Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1866-10-19
DAILY DEMOCRAT.



At Wheeling boy u nineteen has just
married woman Of 6fty-dve.
Alfred Buchanan was expelled on TIE 2oth
ultimo. from Malta Lodge Of Masons, nor
wich. Ohio, for un- Masonic conduct
A man in Montreal swellei up and died
FROM applying coal oil TO bruise. lie sa'u
he felt ali sfre.
A New York milliner has just paid $780,
600 cash for palace on the Fifth avenue
for business purposes.
The steamer Ashland landed d Boston
on Tuesday, . plank eight ieet and hait
vide, cut from one Of the great California
trees.
There are about 5000 negro "tramps
10 the South, and the contributions they
lew in begging and stealing are not less
than 6ve million dollars.
Count D'Orsay, Eugene Sue and most Of
their associates composing the roll o. the
..young men Of $780," in France, have oil
been moved down in the meridian
Of their intellectual fame BY coffee, wine
and licentiousness.
The old house in which Dean Rich0oad
was bern, il still standing in BARNARD. w.,
and 10 pointed out to strangers % the birth
plscs Of the great railroad and political
king.
The United States Treasurer recently ~
eeivsd the following curious notc, sncloesne
two Confederate pestaGs staops:
ssOctobef /, 1856.
"R nder unto Cesar the things that ere
Cesar's, and unto God the things that an
Gods.
"Yours, penitentially.
'.CoxsciExCE SrRiCKEN."
The Virginia annual Conference Of the
Methodist Episcopal Church. So 18th, will
meet in Norfolk on Nov. 2lst
A lady in Jersey City on her death bed
accused her husband Of poisoning her. The
poor man was quite startled until, at post
norton examination, consumption was clear.
~ shown IS the cause
About the beginning Of last month YES.
sci was wrecked on the east coast Of ireland.
The crew we're saved by the people on shore,
and the daughter Of the Captain Was saved
by . constable, through her clingng to his
whiskers, and he bravely brought her on
shore in this manner.
The earl Of Leicester, husband Of Amy
Robsart and favorite Of Queen Elizabeth, a.
tor, ished the England Of bic time BY spend.
ing 16O, 900 on the castle Of Kenilworth.-
This sum il equivalent to f300 900 At the
present time, OF 81 500, 000-the amount
which Ne~ York dry goods merchant, A.
T. Stewart, is now spending for his marble
house on Fifth avenue.
A saloon keeper in Wausau, Wis, com.
plains in letter to he Central, that some o.
his customers have joined the Good Tenn
plars and now refuse TO pay the bills they
had contracted when frequenting his saloon
The Cambridge (Mass.) School Commit
tee adopted . resolution that corporal pun
;shment shall not be inflicted on any girl il
any school without the consent Of her pa
rents or guardian, which in each case mus
be first obtained. And that corporal pun
ishment shall not be inflicted in any schoo
without the consent and approval Of tn
Principal.
The Friend Of India newspaper relates
that the Rsjah Of Kolapoor, just before BIZ
death, yielded to the persuasion Of thos
about him, and allowed himself and wivs
to he weighed with rupees. the amount {
be distributed to the Brahmins. The Rajal
weighed only 1000 rupees, while his tw,
wives weighed 5000 rupees each, making i,
oil IA 1000 rupees.