Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1866-04-07

n lortisth birthday u TIE Eopssss
Ea1Dais sceass In Nay aezt.
On. Braee 10 3 casdidses f. the Pref
dsssy Of the Mobile and Ohio kailfoad.
Gold 10 It discount and grssnbaeks ct
per 10 Montreal.
The prospects, Of IN abundant peach crop
in Kentucky are reported good.
Preparations for the Paris exhibition Of
1857 are being vigorously pushed forward.
Another revolt recently broke out in San
Domingo, but Was speedily suppressed.
The light BY tho burning Of Pixies Opers
House was seen BY persons sixty miles
away.
The Hudson river Was lower at Pough- |
keepsie, New York, last week, than it hes
been for number Of years.
The war in New Zealand, which has late
~ been brought to . close, cost the British |
government 43,s2O,000 during the year |
1865.
Although the wheat crop has suffered
somewhat, there will be an average yield
through Middle and Yves: Tennessee.
The Petersburg Express says: The
bones Of many soldiers, not few OF them
copfederates lie bleaching on the lines
southwest ofths city.
A auadrille Of 80 intricate series Of fig
urea has been introduced in Paris that it
has been christened Trigonomctry.
The new island in the Grecian archipeIs.
60 has assumed the shape ola crescent, and
is apparently part Of the crater Of an enor-
meus volcano.
The State Of Texas is so large, and the in
terests OF the east aud west sections SO dis
similar, that some Of the citizens are in
favor of division of the state.
Among the novelties in ladies' fashions
are little bells to be worn upon the wrists
Of white kid gloves. and even upon the
edge Of the Pamela bonnets.
Gen. Glenn. Evans, OF the rebel army,
who commanded Gordons old division
when Lee surrendered, has turned his at
tention 70 religious preaching in Cass Co.,
Ga.
North Carolina papers are full Of state
ments going to show that plantations III
that section are being rapidly bought up by
Northerners.
The land Office has assigned to the State
Of California, under the act of lS4l, 1000
acres Of land in Humboldt county, which is
one of the finest agricultural sections in the
State.
In Georgia, where Sherman s army mad
= sweep Of I'll the carriages, the ladies now
20 visiting in carts; They call them cartts
de pisete, and console themselves with the
thought that they are in the height of fash
ion.
There are 100 blacks attending schoo
in Richmon5, and in the largest schoc
the teachers reads the proceedings Of Con,
gress every light, thus keeping the schoo
fully informed on the public news every
day.
N. D. Potter, editor and proprietor Of thu
Cir cinnati Commercial, died IT his res
dencs in Cincinnati on the 4th
"Conscience money!" Of large and SINAI
amounts, is daily being received At Wash
ington.
4 call is issued for National Woman
Rights Convention in New York on t.,
10th Of May next, to consider the question
Of suffrage, and other matters.
A vessel will sail for Repulse Bay, in III
Arctic regions, about the middle Of April
ny which Captain G.. f. Hall will rccciv
he tirst news he has had during the pres
mt year.
Il Three young workwomen in good heal,
entered in the service Of a Paris manufat
, tursr, who engaged them in filling boxe
With those dangerous toys known az Pha
roahs Serpents. After continuing thei
work for some days only they were seize
with alarming illness. and were Obliged t
, bc removed to the Lariboishire Hospital :
Their lives have been saved, but their heal t
is forever gone.
Four gentlemen from Worcester, Mass
have purchased a plantation of one thous
and two hundred and twenty acres in Mad
son county, Mississippi. They propose /,
keep about twenty pIaughs running, an
will employ from thirty to forty ncgroes
| ana no less tban thirty mules. They III
tend to raise tins year about five hundrc
scrcs Of cotton. and from one hundred an
hfiy to two hundred acres .! corn All tn
articles Of consumption ars also raised o
the plantation.
An interesting phenomenon occurred /
J England on the Slh ult - fall Of water i
! semi solid state far de.,s or than SNOW, W
not hail or ice; in short, natural snow bali
: A correspondent of the London Tine
; writes that about two ana "a half Inches {
these balls gave orc inch of water; there
) fore their density was u ,out half that
halt, and five times that of ordinary snow
Their shape was usually paramidal. the has
being uneven somewhat y &c the llower Of
cau,itlower. The re var cd from about III
inch in diameter down to tenth abou
} two tenths was most usual.
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