Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1867-08-10
NEWS.

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The New York dry goods trade Is improv
ing.
s na'or Howe, Of Wis, starts next week
for 3 visit to Europe.
j. Norfolk. Va, ,nrl.e i a drug in the
market a; tso cent per pound.
Asaldiers' mem rial all, 10 cast 3d.
on = > ias bult IN Dedaau, Mass.
Napoleon ! said ihe editors 81 French pa
prs we're sceedinglY stupid.
Aherr fold in B s,on Of Monday for ~ a
ton. which Is the lev est point II mas touch>
cd for SIX years.
i coil sion on the n. J. Northern Rail
iosd. Wednesday evening, killed a fireman,
ad vi red a brskesmsn.
The estate Of the late John Bryant, OF
Boston, figures up three million dollars, and
that Of Francis Skinner over one million.
Jake Thompson is said TO have a good
chance for appointment as Secretary Of the
Interior in the New Dominion OF canada
The Illinois State penitentiary commits
sioncrs have had only 3 bids for convict la-
hor. one Of which was rejected. They VII
advertise again.
4 widow lady named Morse, Of Madison.
Wi. died Wednesday night from the 81.
f.c,s of an overdose Of morphine, taken by
mistake.
tiss said that several New England man
utacturers have united in q scheme to i'm.
nor, Coolies 70 do tho rough work Of tie
factories.
The first train drawn by a locomotive
burning crude oil went from It'd oute 10 Ira
taas ,nal ard Tho t,,n @aa
sue c~sful.
John McCienahsn, for fifteen years M
attacte OF tie \ y. Herdld. died in Brook
lyn. his native eity, Of consumption, at the
age Of thirty >two.
A man in st Paul has a ticket Of the
Cun,erland Mountain Road Lottery. dated
in 1868, and signed by George Washington
40 treasurer.
An exchange says the proprietors OF the
kni, goods manufactures a, Cohoes, New
York propose TO su pend Their work for
the benefit of the mills and the trade.
The proprietors Of the London Time
presented each Of the members OF their nu,
merous s,aif with a fortnight's salary 10 de>
fray the expense Of q trip to Paris.
One Of the railroads which centres at
New York, the New York and Erie, has -
90 freight and coal cars, 500 passengs
cars, 800 locomotives, and employs $50 en>
gineers.
The Boston Transcript says that there
. will be an unusual display of meseors on
the night. Of the 9th and l0th of August.
. Oar star eazers should therefore be on the
look ,out TO behold the shooting stars.
Three citizens and ex>soldiers Of Otturn>
wa, SAYS the Courier, have recently been
: aopnin' ed 10 li%cn,enancies in the regular
=, army. TO wit Captain Stuart. late Of the
! l7th Iowa volunteers, Colonel John +. Skcl.
,, ton. late Commissary Of Subsistence. and
! Captain /. y. Barnes, late hifowa volun,
teers.
The fall bonncts, We und erstand, are en-
tirely 10 revoiutioniss the present circus
; ticket patterns, and millions csn live again
furthe las, two seasons ladies who doubt
ed their ability TO hem . dolly have been
i. doing successful duty as their own m'llin-
+, crs. The result hes been that the ~Irotts
, of the head gear modistes have been CONS
: parati,ely small.
+, a novel wash tab race came off neal
Troy, last week. The distance. ore third
, Of a mi'e, was made in twenty minutes, the
contestants using their bands as paddl ; in
j. stead Of oars. Two out OF the three com'
/, p,iitoI> fcll overi GARD during Il e race bni
t " ith no more serious Consequences than $
| srvere v%eifinr.