Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1867-10-23
DAILY DEMOCRAT.


Kansas has 800, 900 population.
Lsnion burns $4,000 tons OF coal daily
John b. Cough is so years old and %
years sober.
Dry goods are going down. Raw mste>
rial is daily declining in price.
A single 'lead" in a Montana mine has
been sold for $3.50, 900.
Thirtv.two whites and 1899 negroes voted
at the Mobile election.
ring If New York cotton Spectators
have lost n cool million recently.
An old negro woman lately found q, 600
in gold in q stable at st. Joseph.
The French country people use black cur
rant leaves instead Of tea.
Trading profits are unprecedently low in
England.
The Democratic majority 10 Psnnsy lvania
i, 922. BY the official returns.
A single mile Of the Western Mass.) r.
Il. cost 100000.
Wisconsin has just built her frs, locomo-
tive.
The Belgians claim to have first discov>
cred the frat uses Of ccal.
John Bright writes to the wofkingmen
that the Reform bill does them precious lit>
lie coed
The native Catholics in JAP an are prose.
cutcd to the ceath.
There are G2 Spanish newspapers pub
lished in Mexico.
1t costs $500, 900 per month to run" the
city OF New Orleans.
Belle Boyd is meeting with considerable
success as tragcdienne.
Three Wall street operators have made
over 100000 each during the past two
months by gold speculations.
Salina, Kan. is SO healthy that ito radical
citizens killed negro the other day TO start
graveyard.
A machine has been invented for printing
letters Of OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES or more at
one impression.
In Germany there are in proportion four
times AZ many specialized people in the city
40 in tho county.
The new German Hospital at New York,
is 10 be one Of the finest the city possesses.
Las, year the returns Of private carriages
in Philadelphia amounted in value to $500
600. This year they are 100000.
London is to have church to the memo
~ of Abraham Lincoln, in connection
with the recently established "Lincoln
School"
The Italian common people, to guard
| against the cholera, wear IN image Of .
heart, inscribed, "Stand of the heart oil
Jesus 10 with me y
On dit at Cincinnati that the Democrats
won $50, 900 from Republicans who bet on
too large q majority for Hayes at the recent
| election.
A lady 10 Whatsly. Mass, has made with
her own hands 1920 wallets since the %,
tablishmsnt Of . wallet factory in ths'
town.
Fourteen New Orleans editors have been
sick with yellow fever this season, bot only
one has died.
There are over 1000 billiard tables il
New York.
The Pacific Railroad Directors have re-
solved to use petroleum a. fuel for theil
locomotives.
! Oysters in London are sold at five cent?
apiece.
England boasts Of a ''lady swind!er' oil
''high rank" She is the Hon. Mrs. Ger
aldine Meuricc.
MAY your whole family be jammed into
one ccfiin." is an expressive Chinese oath
Two or three new and magnificent hotels
are talked OF in tho vicinity Of Fifth Ave
nue. Broadway, and Twenty>seventh street
New York.
A recent dodge o! thieves is to pretend
drunkenness and insist upon shaking hands
with tie intended victim. If he wears q
valuable ring it is liable to be missed after
wards.
The Queen Of Spain is initiating thu
Queen of England. and writing . book to b
called 1.-The happiness Of Nations" What
do they know about that in SPAIN