Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1867-08-27
NEWS.

Jeremiah Davis, ex.psesideut OF Yale
College, died at New Hhaven Conn.
Baker, the dsfaul,er Of the T~radssmep's
Bank, New York. IS held to hail in S2o. 900.
Elections for the first Parliament Of the
Dominion next week. 40 excit>
ing time is expected.
II is understood that the Assets of the
Unsdilla Bank. New York. will psy about
thirty per cent. Of its liabilities.
Within the past twelve months ever two
thousand persons have persisted frote coal
oil explosions in the United States.
Daring the las, twenty yeas 1000. 600
einigran,s have srsived II the port Il New
York.
The discovery of petfol,u m in large
Quantities in Western Texas ia declared to
be o humbug.
A movement, il on foet in Ne. York to
hold . grand industrial exhibition IN that
city in the fpr'ng Of 1868.
The rams Of last week have been very
damaging TO The crops in Connecticut,
Rhode Island and parts Of Massachusetts.
The merchants Of New York, on satur-
day, contributed 81 900 ia aid Of sick at
Galveston, Texas.
The ninety -niuth Commencement Of
Brown University will occur during the
first month Of September. A successor 70
President Sears is to be elected.
Plattsburg, n. y, August 2l.-L4st
night Piattsburg vas visited with . terri'
bile confiagrAtion. One church, one BANK
tao printing Offices were destroy d.
Owing TO the alarming spread r the yel>
low fever IN New Orleans, the propricty OF
Withdrawing the soldiers from the city Is
being considered.
Lamb Brothers, extensive woolen manu-
sac,urers nj Fort Ann, n. Y, have failed.
Their liabilities are ESQ, 600. An assign
ment has been made.
A chime OF forty-two bells is to be seen
aud heard in the Exposition i, is played
with finger keys, like q piano forte, 10 any
tune. Four years were spent in tho con>
.tsuction Of the instrument.
The Canadians are going 10 erect a mon
ument TO Malcolm Mckenzie, one OF the
volunteers who fell at the Fenian battle OF
Ridgeway, and, with characteristic econ
ony, have let out she job to the lowest bids
der.
The Tallahassee (Fla) Sentinel 81 the s.h
inst. says Madame e.. ID. Murat, rellrt Of
Tho Prince Achille Murat, died ., her Jeficr
son county plantation on Tuesday morning
last, after All illness Of several months du
ration.
The Arlington Mills AZ Lawrence. Mass
which were destroyed by fire in October,
have been rebuilt, and will be in full blast
again in two months. Three hundred
looms will be run and the product Of worst>
ed goods will average 10000 Yards a day,
or about 5000, 900 a rear.
II seems that DR.. Cummings made q
trtlllng error in his calculations concerning
the total destruction to take place in 1867.
Ia revising his work no found that be had
overlooked figures which add something
like . qnin.iliion Of years TO the race which
shis mundane sphere has to run.
In France the consumption of tobacco
increases rapidly. All sales Of tobacco are
made hy the government, and whilst in
LIS? the government received . revenue Of
out s6,oaV.COO from these Gales, in 1865
,his had increased TO $50. 900, 00o. A,
prosen, over Ga, 600 900 pounds are annual
" sold in France.
Tho Brown Universitv pedestrians have
returned from a "Trip uf niue hundred and
cisiy-two miles. They were taken, a, va
Fious places, for gypsios, returned soldiers,
F%enians, pedlers, railroad workers, race
horse riders, sailors, base bal players,
frcmen and ruiiians.
The trial Of Rev. s. N. Merrill for minis.
terial misconduct took place in Piattsburg.
y y, last week. lie confessed to the
principal charges against him, with one
exception, and Was suspended from the
ministry, until the next meeting II the
Troy Conference, TO be held in Albany in
April, 1865.
New York reports an entire failure OF The
apple crop IN many section of the State.
The New Jersey peach growers count upon
only bali acrop. 100000 baskets but Del
aware will raise aud sell nearly 2,Oo0,o 900
baskets. which ought TO insure reasonable
prices for the Consumers.
Pan Goriasn, . porter employ cd in the
Indianapolis postoilicc, was arrested last
Saturday for Systematic robbery Of let
tcrs. 1t was observed that German. uron
a salary Of sT20 . year, had been living
fast. and always seemed well supplied win
money lie vas watched, aud detected IN
the act.
a Nashville editor calls uuon his readers
to resolve with him, that "coms veal or
woe, wo will not buy = cents worth of
goods from a Radical merchant, or &c. our
boots OF a Radical shoemaker, employ a
Radical mechanic. ride in a Radical hack,
or patronlze a Radical teacher, q Radical
church or any thine else that 10 Radical.
The radical papers are exercised because
Ten. Grant draws pay for services in two
eihces-one civil and the other military.
what do they say of Howard, who regulars
y takes his pay Sc volunteer officer Of
the army, and with equal regularity claims
compensation ~ head of tie frecdmen's
bureau.
Tho newspaper carriers Of Indianapolis
have formed themselves into ar association
styled the Carries Protective Associa>
hon. They propose to establish a black
book, In which the names Of all parties in>
dcb;od to the amount Of two dollars or more
shall be entered, and thereafter the delin>
quent shall not be served with the daily
newspapers until he has liquida,ed all debts
to the different carriers.
The Indians recently made an attack ups
on a school house in one Of the frontier
counties Of Texas, and began firing upon
tho scholars. The young lady teacher, with
commendable hero'sm, %interposed her per
son to save her pupils, i vokins the fury of
the asvsges upon herself, when the fiends
Instantly fired upon her, md she fell dead
TO tho floor, her body pierced by several
bullets. They then attacked . passing wae>
on, in which a man was removing his FAM
lily, killed the man and one Of his children.
severely wounded his wife. and captured
and carried of with them his little boy.
GRAND Nsra0gle for tho Trade oF
the N isissippi.
There is already ~insugurated a great
struggle for the trade Of the Valley Of the
Mississippi. between that river and Tho