Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1867-09-27
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THE. NEWS.
Business in New Orleans is nearly at
stand still, on account Of the epidemic.
The latest accounts from the cotton
crop in the South wea: are more unfavoraole.
The receipts Of new cotton at Monsgom>
cry, Alabama, average ore hundred bales
daily.
The Mayor Of Jersey city lest week iss
sued l7O vetoes Of resolutions granting lq.
uor licenses.
The Atlantic Cable Of 1866 ia now 10 /
good working order, the 'epairs having been
completed on Monday.
There was . severe frost in Northern
New Hampshire last Wednesday night,
which did much damage.
Lands for Tho cultivation OF grapes. on
kelleys Island, Lake Erie, bring ten and
twelve hundred dollars per sore.
The rebel Con. Sterling Price is i'll as St.
Louis, and not expected 10 live from one
hour to another.
A hunter ia Maine killed bear last week
measuring six feet in length. aud weighing
nearly 400 pounds.
In some parts Of Indiana, where the
drought has destroyed the pssturage, the
farmers are beginning 10 feed their stock
A Baton Rouge, La, planter raises this
year, from five acres Of land, one thousand
dollars worth Of "psrique' tobacco.
The attendance At the Wisconsin State
Fair 10 very large, and the exhibitions are
said to 10 the best ever made in the State.
Alex. Bryce, brakeman on the Chicago
and Alton Railroad, was killed at Pontisc,
on Friday, being run over BY freight train.
The only daughter Of "Spotted Tail"
the celebrated Indian chief, 10 "6nishirg
her education a Omaha. She Was learn
ing to sing Iitalsn and plsy the piano.
Work has been begun on the Lawrence
(Kansas) and Galveston Railroad. Its
thought that it will be completed TO Ottawa
bv the first of January.
A citizen Of Connecticut has invented .
printing press, which he claims will strike
off four thousand copies Of the New Testa>
msnt per diem, or fcur hundred copies of
newspaper per;minute.
Le,ters from Lagrange, Texas, say the
number Of citizens remaining in the city is
barely 600, YET the in,erments reached q
in two days, the disease proving falal in
nine cases out Of ten
A wealthy farmer named Daniel, living
4 few miles south of Bloomington, ILL.,,
committed suicide on Wednesday, by shoots
ing himself through the heart No cause
for the act 10 known.
Wednes lay night, IS the down train on
the Jeffersonvil!e Road was taking supper
at Seymour, Ind, some graceless scamp
| stole the locomotive and ran il ten miles
down the road, where i. was abandoned.
A.erriblc hail storm visited Philadelphia
and other cities ''of Pennsylvania on We'd
nesday evening, doing great deal Of dsm>
age to windows. especially those looking
north. A Reading, Penp., dispatch says
the stones we're ss large o. hens eggs, and
some measured eight inches in circumfer-
ence and weighed thirty ounces.
Two young girls by the name Of Strang,
aged nine and twelve respectively. were
drowned IN the Msquoketa river, at Cas-
csde, Iowa, on Saturday. September 2lst.
They were driving cattle which went into,
and swan across the river. The girls, sup.
posing the cows we're wading, kept on till
they got beyond their depth, and were
drowned.
| About six thousand dollars have been
subscribed by The citizens Of Cincinnati to
aid the yellow fever sufferers in New
| Orieaus'
! General Banks, Chairman Of the House
| Committee on Foreign Affairs, has accepted
| the invitation Of Senior Romero to accom-
! pany him TO Mexico. A similar Invitation
he's been extended 10 Senator Morton.-
They expect to leave on the 9th Of Octo.
bcT
| As Mrs. L. II Brooknan, Of Dixon, ILL.,,
and smother lady were riding near that city
on Thursday. the horse became frightened At
| drove of hogs and ran awAv. Both ladies
we're thrown and Mrs. Bsookman was
almost instantly killed. The other lady was
seriously injured.
A newspaper controversy in Nashville,
between Major J. d. Walker and Colonel
J. A. Smith, ex.Fedsrel officers from Indi-
ana, eliminated in pistol 6gat yesterday,
in which Walker, the attacking party, re-
ceived three balls in his body, and will
probably die. Smith was unhurt.
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