Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1866-08-04
DAILY DEMOCRAT.


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GsRND0AL NEWS.
New Yosk 4 70 hsvs . great billiard
tournsusst In Ssptsnsss.
The Pittsbasgsss have just insusuratsd .
hns Homeopathic hospital.
4 patent 6sh-sealse 10 the newest Con.
nestieut invention.
The 0swsgo millers gave 100 bbls. q
hour to Portland.
Mr.. p. 7. Baruum Is troubled With Ces'
grsssional aspirations.
A widow IN Beaver, Ohio, b only II yeafs
old, and she has child.
Ths tsiehlaysss o. Msuph,s. Tsua., have
struck for q ! day. They were getting %.
4 man found dssd on London doosstep
bad 10000 10 bic pocket. RI
| The e. drinkers Of this ceuntsy ceasu1o
%, 000, 900 lbs. annually.
A Society hes been organized IN Loadsa
for the promotion Of erisl navigation.
A massachusetts, paper says that General
Butler will run for Congress nsxt Nsvem-
Der. An
Michigan City convict lately drew .
thousand dollar prise Ut the Chicago Lotto
~.
The Bristol (Eng.) theatre completed
the Tooth year Of its existcnce on the soth
Of May.
Colorado reekeus on l,9O0, 900 bushels
Of wheat this year-40,00O aeaes At ~
bushels per acre.
The expenditures Of New York city end
county for 1866 are estimated ct e1e,O O0,s
600.
II is confidently reported that Ole Boil.
tho celebrated violinist, il coming to Amer
ica o. . professional tour.
A counterfeites, with 100000 worth Of
machinery and bogus money, vas captured
in New York last week.
Tho iucense burnt in the Chinese Ems
dire in idol worship is said 70 cost ovss
e460, O00. 900 annually.
John Hunter, the owner Of the race horse
Kentucky, won SIS. 900 on the raos ct Sara.
tosa on Wednesday That horse don't
eve him anything.
We see it stated, a. the last ''modern i'm
prsvement' in one OF the new houses on
Fifth avenue, New York. that "a pirate
chapel is to be connected with .it. The
proprietor, We are told, intends to keep"
. chaplain.
Arthur Peabody, formerly local editor Of
the Zanssvilis Courier, fsosntly received .
present Of $4,000 from bis uncle, NJ.
George Peabody.
Il is announced that to transport three
.t>1s ~ ,Ak -
the Illinois Central Railway, frow Chicago
10 Cairo, about $50 miles, costs al that
can be obtained BY the sale Of two bushels
Of it.
A German employed In . pottery q
Evansville, Ind recently fell heir 70 tl,s
076, 900. left him BY . relative in Germany.
He 10 said to deplors this wicked favoe Of
fortune, prefering to remain humble pot,
ter.
The Cincinnati Commercial aays young
lady Of nerve, few evening ago, walked
pension bridge 1t that city. and climbed to
the top Of one Of the towers.
Secretary Stanton has extended the War
Department advertising to the AJend Psst.
Of Philadelphia. lie has withdrawn his
advertising patronage from the Philadel.
phia Press, the Nashville Press, and the
Nashville Times
The Psussian soldiers daily ration con.
sists Of half pound Of meat, . sufficient
quantity Of vegetables and bread, coffee, .
little brandy aud some cigars.
1t is said that there are 1900 barrels Of
whiskey manufactured daily in new York,
Of which only 500 barrels are returned for
taxation.
A gentleman who has travelled extensive.
~ in the cast, states that in Egypt, whore
eunstrokc IL Of frequent occurrence, the
Arabs dissolve salt in water and pour il in.
to: to the sufferers ears, thus speedily slisv-
The Cincinnati Union says that they have
shoemaker in that city. . returned soldier,
who having lost both his arms in battle,
does the finest quality Of sewed work With
his toes.
Brown Brothers' new white marble bank.
ing house, situated upon the corner Of Wall
aad Hanover streets, New York, just CON-
pleted, has been badly disfgured BY some
malicious person or persons throwing vitrol
on it. The building 10 one Of the nssst
and most expensive erected 10 New York
this SESSION.
The gambling fraternity made haul Of
greenbacks, @lO,O00 in eli, from the guests
Of two Of the principal hotels ct Niagara
Falls, July 20, and then dscsmpsd for the
Canada aide. Faro banks were established,
it 10 said, IN each Of the hotels, and the VIC
Tins were plensiful The establishment of
the banks in ths hetsls was unknown To the
proprietors thereof.
A German Newspaper gives the following
account Of "terfible seene." A csspenter
returning home from long journey, found
bic wife dying. bic child dead, snd On order
to join the army pinned TO the door. The
com oination Of nisfortunes 90 ovsrcame the
wretched man that be fen to the ground in
fit and died lev minutes after. His
wife's BODY soon followed him 70 the grave. !"