Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1867-09-12

The Germans use grape seed for cofe'

The Germans use grape seed for coffee.
Aaron Jones' lighting ardor Is Cooie d
down.
Angus, Belmont has been importing
English brood mares.
The Prince Imperial Of France is agsn
doomed by bis physicians TO an early
death.
The skull of a murderer, left IS relic b.
81. Louis physician, has ben stolen.
The lightning melted ring from the
finger Of youag lady a. WilbrahsLs.
Msss., the other dsy.
Cticsgo is overran with young men out
of employment.
Twenty OF the leading New Orleans
editors were Confederate officers.
The Long Branch Press sage: "Is il
| ascertained that We have had nearly forty
thousand visitors here within the present
season.
| "Gris," the "Fat Contributor" saws ne
vas asked to write . 'iake of on the
Black Crook. He replied that he couldn',
see anything to take Of.
The Strssbourg line Of railway has just
introduced a new carriage" Il is, IN
fact, three story railroad car. The ground
story is the fret class the second class 10
au second. and the third above.
Carlyle says that man carries ender his
coat a private theatre" wherein IS acted
q greater drama than is ever performed on
the mimic stage, beginning ana ending III
eternity.
The Postmaster at Prescott, Arizons, in
4 letter dated July 2lst. says there are
probably ten indian massacres TO every one
reported.
In the vicinity Of Monroe, Michigan,
farmers and GARDENERS have planted. within
three years, 81 900 vines. Many OF the
vineyards are now bearing, and the yield,
both In quantity and quality, surpasses the
expectations Of The most sanguine.
Cash business is the word for this fall
Il will be better and safer for all. Pass Il
around.
A disabled soldier, with hand organ,
earned 800 on Washington street. Boston,
n day or two since.
A Maine exchange attributes the small
apple crop in that State to the discourage
mens OF the trees by tho prohibition Of
cider.
The suit Of Judge Noggle against some
twenty-five prominent Evansville, wis. y
citizens for libel, is to be tried in Scpten-
Der.
A young man was killed in Chicago.
while playing base ball, the other day. he
WAS hit in the stomach by bat which slip
( ped from the hands Of the striker, who was
twenty feet distant from him.
The Milwaukee Sentinel Of Aug. 30th
saws that over one hundred barrels and
casks Of hghwines were seized near that
I city the day before. by the United State s
revenue officers. who also shut up two dis
tilleries.
A farmer in Waukesha county, Wis,
raised ~ bushels Of spring wheat to tho
acre this year.
Ex-Governor Brown, Of Florida. who died
las, week, had been . Free Mason 60
years.
Buffalo has received $3l 900 for licenses
to 300 liquor shops Of that city.
A six year old boy, at Trenton, y. J.,
who was locked up in dark closet las,
week by his teacher. became insane from
fright, continued 10 scream at inter
vals for two or three days, and finally
died.
The Texans do not relish the idea OF ar
Indian reservation in their State. Game Is
scarce there, and they are afraid the noble
red men, unable to supply himself from his
happy hunting grounds. will take TO hcae
roos,s and hog>pens.
Less than one.qusrter Of the births in
Boston, last year were from American pa>
rents on both sides. Less than forty pei
cent had any native American blood Sew
en,y>fve per cent. had foreign blood, and
sixty per cent were purely foreign.
Camp Meeting John" is credited with
the following A Baptist clergyman object
cd to the Methodist policy that there wal
3 too much machinery to it. The veteran OF
"A hundred camp meetings retorted, "les
there is a good deal OF machinery, but i
; don't take so much water to run It as III,
Baptist does.l
: A great meteorological curiosity has beer
r placed in the museum Of the Hartley lnsti.
], tuition Mt Southampton, England. II is
> large piece of stone, resembling sandstone
: which bends with slight pressure ike in
. dia rubber or gut,a percha. 1; WAS Gu
( up in Delhi. East Indies, who's s.vcra
4 specimens had previously been found.
. The macAerel feet is making lis re
appearance on the Eastern shore with car
, goes of fish. Tue mackcrcl are sold rs fas
: as they arrive, and prices have advanced
Last year eisht vessels arrived during IN
, month Of August There has been quit
, a falling of this season. The probahl,t,
: now is that fully two thirds of the fleet wi
! make but one trip.
1t is estimated that s 900 Of tnc business
] mon Of New York live in the neighborin,
town, and enter and leave the city daily b.
the cars. rhe neighboiing towns call thi
Kind OF population New York outsiders.
The Grand jury at Nashville have in
: dic,ed over thousand persons for drinkin
r beer on Sunday.
! A negro woman who was sold and sepa
/, rated from her husband twenty.thrce year
ago, met him in the street in Louisville
Ky. They had grand time over the re
un ion.
New York pays $4,000 annually Z
, the teachers Of the 225 public schools 0
. that city. There are 1900 teachers, o
whom all but 200. are females.
1t is proposed to erect n monument i,
Berlin to the T. al who first introduced tn
potato in Europe. At the present time tn
\ extent Of land under potato cultivation il
France is 2,0io. 1854 acres; in Austria it il
l,3os,l4s acres; in Gredt aritain, 49s, 81:
acres; in Sweden. 1854, 900; in Holland
265.S67; in Wurtemburg. G7,ois; in Den.
mark, 90. 1856 acres.
The Beardstown INinoidn says 18th,
, alligator belonging to Van Amburgh's me-
nageric, made his escape from his cage or
Saturday night, after the show was over
lie made tracks Immediately for the bay,
and commenced series Of mannuvers which
soon gave his whereabouts Sunday NOR
ming, the showmen, assisted by some 9th
ers, by the aid Of net. captured, to his
apparent discontinue, the joyful animal"
The Rev. w. S. Howe, of Ste,eon, Me-,
has been expelled by his church, and is un,
der arrest for adultery With an orphan ser.
want girl.
i. The Boston Transcript quietly remarks
i that A I. Stewart says he has won succesl
n ny conducting his business on the basis o
e truth. Tha; is to say he never suffered BIZ
. money to lie at simple interest.
S A fellow named Church was lodged il
:. the Randolph (Mc.) county Jail few day
einea rhavuaI 9Th kcrsc~ eh~ca