Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1866-02-01
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intervals ofsass Of ths life Of daily editor.
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earstely u bankers counter till three
o'clock in the afternoon. asd then Tin six,
dashed OF these exquisite productions that
delighted the nation. Mr.. Saxs regarded
NJ. Drysat o. The fret ~ AossscAa poets.
Mr.. Halleck came next. but in Mr.. Long
cllow had powerful rival. A0
Az for young aspirants. Ar. SAKE va
disposed to ideal gently" With them, but
was rather sarcastic on young gents with
Byrsn collars:and misanthrepic ara. and on
young ladies who write odss to The ~eon.-
Altogether, the lecture Vas one not to be
missed for any trifling occurrence. n
SOUND SENSE. 10 good deal Of
sound sense eeushed In tho following, which
We take from contemporary, and We think
It equally - applicable to this place Is any
other:
I'm every hamlet, village, town Of city,
you will always find . set Of plodding. old
fogy, slow going, sleepy y-headed croakers
whO ore curse to any, cots ,nunity. They
don't deserve to live where there is the least
semblanos Of civilization, suterpriss or en-
ergy. They have 80 deeply instiiied int"
them the old stage coach ideas of hundred
years agons, that they can't bring their
minds to . proper understanding Of any
thing sppertaining 10 goaheadi y
This place 10 cursed with some such nuts
ances. You Aq't talk Of an> thing which
would tend to Improve tho appearance or
business Of our plaoe, but what they will
find something to say against it. We
don't need it--our town 10 not old enough
to afford it-in our infancy We ought to 60
possible or . thousand and one other
sqssaay neus.nsicaia aAsnuneate, whiear this
class of thinkers can always conjure up.
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None Of our public spirited citizens can
undertake to do ANYTHING towards improv
ing and beautifying our city, without being
silli6ed. 1t 10 fact that there is altogeth4
e. too much jealousy and envy among us
socially. relieiously and politically. And it
is equally sertain thst this evil will have to
bs remedied before we can 60 ahead ~ we
should. We want no croakers, no sloths
nor idlers; we want and must have workers,
and &c also must have unity of actjon. "A
long pull, and strong pull, end . pull
altogether,' would help us amazingly just
AUslcAL CoHvExRloN. N.--Interest in this
convention is continually on the Increase
full classes every evening, and liberal atten-
dance Of spectators in spite Of a'l counter
attractions. Prof. Fargo proves himself to
be the right man in the right place, and is
giving our singing people = lsrge amount Of
most valuable instruction. Even the casu.
Il observer already detects marlsSd ih-
provemcst in the class under Bio manage.
ment.
The exercises last evening pertsined 10 |
compass Of voice, in which the class was
thoroughly tested. The piano, flote and
violin vsrs intsodscsd last evening for e.
chestra sccompsniments with excellent !
eGest. ~. 5 AftIs3 ES Il
The exercises of this ouosont;on cannot |
fail to be interesting to the public generally.
The music is Of the 6rst class order-and %
ths price Of admission has been fixed 1t the
low price Of 25 cents, ailcan afford to attend,
and al who do will be sure to receive valu.
iostrsctioa from what they hear. Twenty.
four ladies and gentlemen were admitted to
full membership last evening. The Men,
delsshon Society is grand success.
Almost Mu.Dss.-The Rock Island
Union says:
Pat Kinney, as he Is familiAsly known,
living with his wife and less thar halfa doz
en- children, in the lower portion Of the city
got on . big drunk on Sunday last. and
while in that state attacked his wife with
such violence that her recovery is very
doubtful. Al near - 70 have been, able to
arrive at the facts they ere these: On Sun.
day Pat ordered his wife to proeesd to st
grOeeery and procure for him : Quart Of