Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1867-01-02
DAILY DEMOCRAT.


lsEvE8Aa. NEWS.
The restoration OF the South is 6nancisl
necessity.
A scribtler says life - too short 70 drink
poor whisky or TO make love to ugly women.
Seventy one deaths by FIRE have occurred in
New York during the past two weeks
The Emperor Of Brazil has emancipatsd
all his saves.
A convention Of colored soldiers and sail
ors viii be held in Philadelphia, January &.
The President is reported in good heath
and excellent spirits
The English Parliament will probably
a. ;. mLbIs on The 9th u February.
Some one advertises in Dctreit iournal
for partner in the nursery business.
Widowhood in Greenland 10 said to 10
appalling.
There ars 10000 female drunkards In
Brooklyn, Mes York.
There Is . Law thal every. house in Ant.
werp must BE- painted oncs year.
Georgia bee nov seventy eight manufae-
tories Il calicoss aMd weolen AID cotton
goods.
bill 10 before The Alstsus Legislatu. .,
TO divide the school fund. pro rata, between
the white and black school.
The rebel artillery Captain C. s. Lums-
den was accidentlv killed IN Louisiana saw
mill.
A project for new Atlantic cable, to be
owned BY the Americans only ID being agi>
tated.
The cost Of the new opera honse. Paris 10
now placed st four millions Of dollars. Il
will be ready in 1869.
When wc are alone re have ou- thoughts
to watch, in orr families our tempers, and
in society our tongues.
A lady in Derrom lately presented her
husband with four children ut one BIRTH.
Too expensive.
The Louisville pork packers will kill no
more hogs and pack no more pork on Sum
day.
A sudden outbreak Of the cholerA in
Rome has flied the inhabitants and the
tourists with CONSERVATION.
A physician kicked . woman down stairs
in Albany, who had called to see her sick
son at the aims house. It is thought that the
doctor will find kicking rather an expensive
luxury.
johnson Noble, Of Kentucky. an ex rebel
Congressman, has been pardoned by the
President.
At Toronto, the Feniams In iail had big
Christmas dinner provided BY their iricnds
and sympathizers.
Il Is thought that the government has
been cheated out Of 100000, 900 by the
evasion Of the whisky tax.
Ben. wsod, With tis recent faro WIN
nings, end some other pocket money. has
purchased = handsome row OF stores on
broadway.
eoopls Of Hartford doctors, both over
seventy, had = street fight oil to themselves,
he other day, in which canes and fists were
freely used.
A LIFE INsURAxc CASE. - An advocate
in Dresden has been arrested on = charge
made sgainst him by the Germsnia Life As
su'sncs Company, Of Stcttin, Of having
poisoned his wife in order to obtain the
amount If policy on her life. The lady
died susldenly shortly after her husband had
insured her life for twenty four thousand
thaers (ahout three thou sand six hund ed
pounds sieriing. Il appears that insurance
offices in Germany ,stspulate that poet NOR
tenn examination shall follow the death Of
4 h,.a nus1 a.,
without any objection being made But ten
DAYS after the funeral the company showed
sufficient cause 10 obtain an order I cxhu-
nation, and then = Berlin chemist. named
Dr. Sonneuschein, certified that he found in
the body traces of acetate of morphine
The husband is said to be in emb arrasaed
circn instances. oxlrg TO disastrous spccula>
tons. and Il slSre'ion Of the prosecutor
is that he poisoned his wife to raise money.
TWENTY tons. or. by superficial measure
met. fo,ty-eght and half square miles OF
postage stamps have been used during the
year enough to roof = large township,
with all its houses. churches, barns, gar
dens, forests. and farms; or If you oh lose
to make ribbon of them, enough 10 reach
nearly from the equator to either pole, or
twice the length Of the Mississippi river
So that it every body would be obliged
to use the Government stamp on the en-.
velopc itself, the mere omission Of these
little extra bits Of paper would light>
en- the mail bags by more thsn forty thou>
sand pounds, aud save in paper fifteen or
twenty thousand dollars. The Postmaster
General does not impart this information in
so many words, bot he essursa US that near.
y three hundred and nifty millions Of stan;
have been sold during the past year. besides
nearly forty millions Of s,smped envel>
opes; and . simple calculation reduces
the story to the more tsng,ble form we
have given il.