Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1867-10-19
DAILY DEMOCRAT.
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! New Haven had . slight 500" storm on
| Saturday.
They do no. allow whissling by steam 10
Detroit.
St Paul. Minnesota, is to have new Crs-
tom House.
West Virginia reports the finest grape
crop ever gathered there.
The Cauad ans held theis Thanksgiving
| Thursday last--for grea: harvest.
Great exci.srnent in the Massachusetts, IL
ouor market. A gallon Of ale was seized sy
the State constables at o Chelsea boarding
house last week.
A Detroit paper says, very sensibly, that
laws should be passed making the act OF
pointing gun or pistolst another lin fun
. punishable offence.
One Of the hardest snow storms experts
enced 10 the White Mountain region in many
years commenced on the evening Of Septem.
Der 29th, and continued with violence
| throughout the night.
Accounts from Iceland report that a ter.
ribe eruption Of Mount Hecla occurred
about the last Of August; SO terrible as to
nearly suflocate, with its suiphurous fumes,
| people al distance Of nearly one hundred
miles from the volcano.
An individual in Washington, who is
supposed to be posted in Treasury matters,
AYERS that il is his belief that the spurious
counterfeit 1880 bonds were manufactured
inside the Treasury building by means OF
duplicate impressions in lead Of the original
plates.
| The Minnesota Journals claim twenty
million bushels wheat a. the yield Of the
present harvest. There 10 no famine in that
| statement.
| The official canvass Of the Montana elec>
ton is given in the Montana Pos. Of the
10Th ult. Cavanaugh (Dem.) has a major
~ for delegate to Congress Of 1888.
A German in Chicago married a Norwe>
gisn bride on Friday. He knows no word
of the dsect of his wife, and she knows
the Warren street school house, under TIN
direction Of competent teachers.
Il These schools will in . great measure re-
lieve the pressure upon the day session
which might be further relieved by th
adoption of the half day system. We hav
before referred in these columns 10 til
sound practice now being adopted in man,
II places Of shortening the hours Of the Low
primary grades of public schools general
~ teaching but half day instead Of keep
ing the restless. tired little martyrs indoors
- is generally the case, the greater part Q
the day. Museatine has just adopted liz
| system in ito public schools, and the Jovrn0
Of that city says:
II We are glad to learn that The half Do
: sYstem has been introduced in the primer,
2 public schools il this city, and 10 in fore
psTous country ought to be about one ID
thirty, but the birth rate Of she native pop>
ulation in Massachusetts Is only about one
in forty. A similar state Of affairs exists in
most Of the other New England States. A
comparison made one year between YER
mont and England, showed the birth rate
in Vermont TO be one in forty nine, against
one in twenty nne in England. The only
| New England State where there is aheAlthy
| increase Of tho native population is Maine.
Alter referring TO the subject Of abortion,
its prevalence, and ss effect upon society,
| Dr. Allen said
| "For some time the physical organization
Of New England women has been changing
unfavorably for the production Of offspring.
This change has been brought about by the
| neglect of domestic labor and muscular ex,
| sreise, of wrong habits Of dress and diet, and
incorrect system Of sducation, and the re.
suit is a multiplicity OF weakness and pains
| which were unknown to our grand mothers,
and are unknown now to English, Irish and
| German women. The present system Of
| education tends to the excessive develops
| ment of the nervous temperament and this
impairs the strength of the system and rem
ders women incompetent to fulfill the du>
| ties OF maternity. The true remedy for
these changes in the physical organization
Of females will be found in increased physi-
| cal exercise and muscular development, res
forms in dress, diet and education, and a
more intelligent consideration OF the proper
purposes CT the marriage relation"
The Iowa Falls Sentinel publishes the
following particulars in regard to the Du
bu9nc and Sioux City Railroad "eplit:"
I'VE give place in our columns 10 lengthy
letter from Hon. Plat Smith, of Dubuque.
| iii reply 10 one addressed to him by divers
| and sundry persons in Fort Dodge. twill
| be recollected that Mr.. Smith resigned the
Vice Presidency Of the ID. & 8. @. X. X. Go.
some time ago, he alleging as reason for
| his course the general apathy Of the con
trolling Directors in the matter Of pushing
forward the road to the Missouri River.
| Mr.. John l. Blair, Mr.. Duncombe, Mr..
Smith and Mr.. Walker, have organized
| Railroad Company Of which they are the
corporstors, and they propose 10 the State
TO 60 on at once and build this 70 ID through
to the Missouri at their sole expense, only
asking the State to grant them, when the
road is completed, the remainder OF the old
Dubuque 4 Pacific Railroad lands, some
zoo, 900 acres. The d. 4 S. c. Co are also
moving vigorously in the matter Of prose
| cutting the work !; and here the war begins.
The land grant will be fortified TO the U.
S the middle Of May next Both these
companies want it, and il is now very cvi
| dent that the road will be pushed across
the State as on as vigorous work will do
il. Which Of the two high contracting
| parties will win no one now can foresee.
1t is very impoi tant matter and will not
| TAIL to attract the serious attention OF the
people generally in northern lowe, and Of
the next Legislature particularly. In com
mon with the mass OF the people in this
section, we have decided opinions upon
this question, and We shall refer to it again
soon. Meantime, the people may rest as
| sured that the road will be pushed across
the State at the earliest practicable day."
FOREIGN journal says that pine-applss
are now made in Paris from turnips. This
i. very useful eoft Of invention, but the
apparent change in nature 10 not without its
parallel in this country, il has been common
with the Republican party for great many
years TO make Senators and Congressman
from cabbage>heads.
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