Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1867-09-25

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The roads in Western Tennessee ere in>
tested with hiehwaymsn.
The tsnderest heart loves best the b,ld
and eousag eous one.
Oftentimes The most costly thing that We
get is that which is given US.
Impstisnce is,a proof Of inferior strength,
and destfoycr. Of what little there may be.
Women. We sometimes think, more cast
" pardon faults in men than exceliencics in
each other.
Edward White, the Milwaukee pork pack
er, Who filed his barrels with sslt end sand,
has been sentenced to three years In the
State prison.
A New Yorker Who earned his living by
buttang his head against stonswslls for .
consideration, butted himself into eternity
ths other dsy.
We are prisoners - often a. We bolt our
doors, e8iles a. often Is We travel, and dead
- often Is 10 sleep.
Somebody hes returned from Europe
Boosting that no spent $4,000. He prob>
ably left his wife at home.
Maggie Mitchell, the actress. 10 to be mar.
ried soon to Boston journalist, 70 whom
she has been engaged fifteen years. She
mus. be quite old enough to marry now
A correspondent of the Cincinnati Cons
merciaI says the girls Of the blue grass re-
gion OF Kentucky are the handsomest in the
country, but are good for nothing IS wives.
They are more ornamental than useful.
Could any thing be neaser than the negro's
reply to . young lady whom he Offered to
lift over the gutter, and who insisted toss
she was too heavy .'Lor, missus, said he,
Use used TO lifting barrels Of sugar"
The 7ranscript says that "Gen. Butler 10
getting in bad odor with the best men Of his
party" The New York Tribune charges
him with rascality on the currency ques>
ton. Call you this backing your friends !?
Joseph Jefferson, the commedian, is one
Of the wealthiest men in the theatrical
world. lie played in California aud AUS
tralia in the days when to play there was
to amass hard gold by the bag full. Sossys
the N. Y. Ecening Gazette.
A match will soon be made between the
Ward brothers and the Poughkecps,c crew
for . purse Of $4,000 aud the champion.
ship Of the United States and Canada. The
PoughkeepsiS crew il composed Of WIN.
Stevens, Homer Wooden, and William and
Charles Burgher.
Extensive smuggling operations have been
detected in Detsoit. The rascais involved
in this business are said to be employees Of
the Great Western Railway.
Governor Chsmbsrlsin's vote in his own
town Of Brunswick, Me, was 246 less this
year than last, while Pilsbury, the Demo-
Graf, gained 3s7 in his town of Aus
gusta.
Intelligence from Eugland says that some
heavy cotton firms at Liverpool are hnds
ing il difficult 20 meet their renewed obi
cations now falling due. and several fail.
urcs are reported with more TO follow.
The latest intelligence from Mexico is TO
the effect that lively canvass has conn
meueed for the Presidency. Elections were
active, and the opposition were neglecting
no opportunity 10 prevent the reelection Of
Juosez.
A Washington auc,ioreer, dsgusted at .
dull audience, put up greenbacks, and sold
a $50 bill, after slew bidding, at 1892,
aud s. bill for five cents lees than its face.
AZ sacramontal meeting held at Brooks
vile, Miss, short time since, Elder 7. Il.
Alton and all Of his people who psrticipat-
ed excep, two, were poisoned by the wine
used on the occasion.
Judge Bryan, Of the United States Court
Mt Greenville, South Carolina, has decided
that debts contracted in the purchase Of
slaves, are good, aud will be enforced by
the Federal Courts.
A cable dispatch from Hague says the
police Of that city have arrested u man
named Garderster, who had in his posses
sion five hundred forged 81, 900 United
States notes. They were made in Hague.
It is supposed the forger has acoomplices
in other places in Europe; also in America.
Got Him.
A father, living near Cincinnati, was one
evening learning his little boy to recite his
Sunday school lesson. Ii was from the
fourteenth chapter oil Nat hew, wherein he
ual who went about so wing tarcs.
u0t u tAI0 oehcO tu0 8oXtOuS par
ent.
"rell me. my son what tsre is"
You had EN-"
Johnny, what d. you mean 2" said the
astonished parent, opening his eyes rather
wide.
Last week, when you didn't come three
days" said Johnney, II heard mother tell
aunt Susan that you were off on stare.'
The Sunday school lesson was brouget
to an abrupt close, and Johnny vas sent off
to bed
The Presbyterian gives an account of n
member of Presbyterian church in OHIO,
who was suspended for having joined the
Masonic order. lie appealed to the Press
bytery, which sustained the appeal by a
vote Of fifteen to ten, and restored the par>
" appealing to the communion Of the
church. The PTcshytery. however, passed
q resolution that their action was not to be
construed as expressing appreciation of tho
order Of Masons or any other secret society
A Portland correspondent of the Boston
Transcript states that he was personally &C
ausiated with sixty nine members Of the
last Legislature Of Maine, and o. these sixty