Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1867-07-23

CHICAGO, July 90 about 3 O'Clock this
afternoon. George Evelett, travelling agent
for Mesers. Rounds h James committed sui
eide by taking poison. No cause Is assign
ed. lie leaves wife in Philadelphia.
A system Of counterfeiting street railway
tickets, of this city, has been discovered and
one Morgan, of Cincinnati, arrested for the
crime. A boarding house keeper named
Champlin, Al Randolph street, lie implicated
and has also been arrested.
On Saturday Leo Brown, of Springfield,
was bitten by a rattlesnakc. He killed the
reptile and then drank a qnart Of whisky,
and felt no harm from the bite or remedy
The Illinois Teachers Institute will con
vene in Springfield, August 8.
The Executive Committee Of tho Board
o; Trustees Of the Illinois Soldiers Orphans
Home, meet at Bloomington tomorrow.
In the Iowa Swamp Land case. Orwg has
been held liable to the State tor $4,000.
Gen Sherman arrived in Madison ON Sat
urday, TO spend week
The corner stone OF the new Catholic
Cathedral ,at Indianapolis, was laid yesterday.
Work on the Keokuk Rapids, at Keckuk,
is TO be begun at once on the plan OF Gen.
Wilson.
man named Sorrell has been arrested
in Washington for expressing the wish that
he could blow up Congress and the Capital
with gunpowder
The conservative State Convention Of
Alabama, has been called TO meet ct Mont.
geometry on the 81 of September. The col
ored people ar, invited to participate.
Gen. Sickles has fixed the registration
districts and appointed registers 10 North
and South Carolina. but as yet has an.
nounced no time for beginning the registra-
ton.
The New York Constitutional Conven
ton is opposed to female suffrage BY fifty
TO twenty one.
The Common Council to night authorized
the renewal of work on the Illinois & Mich
igan canal, which question has been in
allegiance for some time, and provided for
the issue OF the necessary bonds for the en-
| terprlse.
| A couple OF desperate fellows confined
IN the county Jail, commenced TO conspire
for their escape, hut we're discovered lay
well along in their work in time to Illustrate
their plans.
CHICAGO, July 23.-The Republican State
Convention of Wisconsin is called to meet
ct the capital, September 4th.
The wheat yield in Georgia 10 larger than
for many years. Corn cr,p abundant.
The evidence in the impeachment case
will amount to about 1900 pages printed
matter. The committee had one more
meeting Yesterday, and adjourned to meet
November 18th, one week before converting
of Congress.
1t is predicted that the tobacco crop in
Kentucky will not exceed two thirds Of the
usual yield.
To meet public demand there will be
issued from tho Treasury department, N q
few weeks, an additional fractional curren.
CT, rate of denomination - cents. Princi-
pal embellishments on the face Of this note
are an engraved likeness Of Gen. Grant on
the right hand, and 1t. Gen. Sherman on
the Left.
CHICAGO July % -Yesterday afternoon
a party of about five hundred Swedish EN-
igrants arrived in this city, BY the Michigan
Central aud Pittsburg, Fl. Wayne 4 Chica>
60 railroads. They came over in the steam>
er City Of Paris and are expected to settle
in Knox and Henry counties.