Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1867-08-30
THE NEW =.

The new postal treaty with England goes
into operation on October LIST.
The ram Stonewall called from Fortress
Monroe for Japan on Wednesday.
Major General Thomas has gone to Ten>
nessee.
Three suicides occurred in st. Louis on
Wednesday.
J.P. Cnssady Dem. has been nominated
for the Senate in the Council Bluffs Dis
trict
A fine block OF marble buildings, 5 stories
high, are to be built on the Lindell lot in
st. Louis.
A woman, q few dsvs since, victimiz ID
police judge in Philadelphia by means Of a
forged check.
The City Council Of Nav Orleans has sp-
pointed now school directors, "a Of which
are negroes.
Cyrus llamlin, son Of ex.Vicc President
lIamlin died at New Orleans on the 9th
inst, Of yellow fever.
The President has directed that Peninsu-
lar Island, in San Francisco Bay be reserved
for military purposes.
All difficulties in reference to tie Mobile
and Ohio railroads hsve been settled AID
trains are again running regularly.
Accounts from Arkansas and Mississippi
represent the cotton crop - suffering Sc.
vereiy from drouth and the worm.
Lieut.. Wallace, Adjutaat Of the 10th U.
S. Infantry, died at New Orleans on the
9th inst, Of yellox fever.
Rev. Mr.. Caldwell has resigned the pas.
torate Of the Main Stree. Methodist Church,
Dubuque, on account Of the failure Of bis
health.
new gold region is reported TO have
been found in the Black Hills Of Dacotah,
an outlying group Of hills belonging to the
Rock Y Mountains.
Jas. Flyiish and Bob Sweeney fought q
prize fight near Gloucester, N. j., on
Wednesday. Sweeney Won she battle aud
go. the purse of 800.
a young man named Alexander Ross,
Was shot and killed on Saturday, at Hsmil>
ton Landing. on the Ohio River, while hur-
rahing for jeff. Davis.
A had storm, which lasted five minutes,
broSe between 5000 and 1000 panes Il
glass in the railroad shops At Susquel,anns,
ON the afternoon Of The 2sth instant.
A woman named Gusti,, Miller vas fined
day or two since, in Indianapolis, Ind,
for inhumanly whipping her son, . boy
about six years Of nge.
| j. W. Winter, . clerk in the army paw
masters office, has been arrested in New
York on charge of forging . draft fos
$4,000 on the Treasury Department.
Mrs. Jane Walker, wife Of a proninen,
New York merchant, while in bath or
Wednesday evening. At her residence, in
that city. fell asleep and was drowned.
Harriet Craig, . resident Of Jersey City
committed suicide with laudumum. on tb,
9th inst, because her afIiancsd husband
had seduccd and deserted her.
Three hundred cavalry, under command
Of Major Elliott, have been sent from Fer
Hays. Kansas, to chastise the Indians Wit
attacked Major Armes, . few days ago OF
the Saline.
General Hitchcock has turned owe, III,
property Of the Office Of Commissary Gene,
raj Of Prisoners to Brsves Brig. Gen. Brock
in pursuance Of orders from the Adiutap,
Gensral.
A boom. to cost $780, 900, is being cor,
stfuc'sd across the Susqusbsnna rive, .
williamsporG It wilibs one thousand fee
long, and will bs finished 10 three months
The New Orleans Crescent says il seem
that the crops Of Louisiana are in wors
plight Is 70 cotton than any other Souther,
State; that Texas is next on the roll Of mis-
fortune, and that there is BY no means
very bad prospect in Mississippi, Arksn
sas, Alabama or Georgia.
| A wer>to>do farmer living near Sedslis
Missouri. was recently swindled BY . Gin
sey woman out Of $4,000. She pretended
a. clairvoyant, tnat . large amount q
treasure vas concealed in the mans orch
ard. In order to perform the incantation
necessary to develop the whereabouts Of th
neney, she insisted on hsvisg the ameuu
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