Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1867-12-11
THE NEWS.


While a number Of persons were skAt-
ing on pond in Philadelphia, Monday eve
nin,, the ice broke, and three boys were
drowned.
A company o. Bangor lumbermsn has
been formed which has just bought $4,000
acres Of State land. in New Hampshire, on
which there is most valuable timber. The
company propose TO operate this season.
The Atlanta (Georgia) Waterman tells
Of . most extraordinary yield Of corn
two hundred bushels and twelve quarts
from one acre. Il vas raised in Richland
District, South Carolina, by DR.. Parker.
AT the Burmah Baptist Missionary
Convention. held in Rangoon, 10 Ameri-
can missionaries, IL assistants. OF native
preachers, SO lay delegates and 1919 other
disciples participated in the exercises. A
vast change since the days of Judson.
Tho Greenland whale fishery is very
posr this year. The Dundee fleet. number
ing twelve screw xhalers. had at last &C
counts but two fshcs. The Dundee steam
or Tay is thought to be frozen in, having
been last seen in field Of drift ice.
A man named Philip Kirby, a stranger,
was found dead, hanging by his suspender
to post in cotn-ciib in Peoria, on Sstur-
day. Little i, known Of him or the cause
Of his clf-destruction. He is said to have
lived in LaSalle.
A dispatch from Schenectady, New
York, Monday night. says: "Cansl navi-
CATION is suspended from Syracuse to Troy.
Boats containing over 100000 bushels Of
potatoes, 10000 barrels of apples. and
nearly 10000. 900 bushels Of grain, Of all
kinds, besides a large quantity Of other
produce, are frozen in. The Thermometer
averages degrees b.ow xsro."
A singular accident befell q girl at
Birmingham, Connecticut, last week. In
going down stairs she caught her foot
in her hoops and fell, striking her knee up
on one Of tho springs and cutting through
cords and ligamcnts, and opened tho joint
Il is thought that the wound will render
her cripple far life.
The new city telegraph has gone into
operation in New York. At present there
arc forty stations. ono hundred being the
ultimate number. Messages Of ten words
are sent for twenty cents, and tho same
rate for additional words No charge is
made for delivered messages, and when the
arrangements are complete all messages
| will reach their destination in fifteen min
u,es. The success Of the enterprise is not
doubted.
-General Easement informs the Chey-
enne Argu, that rails to lay one hundred
miles more of the track Of the Union Paci-
tic Railway will Arrive at that city this win-
ter. The san Francisco Rrlleiin, rejsices in
the reports OF The rapid extension Of the
railway towards the Rocky Mountains, but
thinks that the Western division Of the
road will beat the Eastern in the race to
Fort Bfidger.
A company has beens formed in New
York which proposes to deliver flour Of
all kinds in demand 10 any family in the
city at the wholesale cost by the cargo,
with an addition for the expenses Of wharf
age and delivery, which shall in no case
exceed one.dollar per barrel. Ia other words:
Flour which is selling by the cargo for
nine dollars will be furnished to any house
holder In New York or brooklyn for not
more than ten dollars and probably for
less affcrdiug saving oftwo or three dol
lars per barrel to the customer.
| The Tortola mystery 10 1t length soly
cd. The last foreign tmail brings from
England dispatch to that Government
from the Governor Of that island, by which
it sppears that hurricane swept over Tor
tola on October. Soth. lasting four hours.
Two-thirds Of the houses were destroyed !;
twenty two persons were killed in Road
town. the capital, and seven more on the
island. The crops were destroyed. and
the Governor apprshsndsd starvation unles
the people obtained supplies from ST,
Thomas or adjsesnt islands.
MIR Nortcn's marvellous Invention for
discovering water on the most arid land is
attracting immense attention in Paris, and
experiments are daily made with il in the
neighborhood Of Paris. The Emperor Ma
pcleon has purchased the machine. and per-
sonally superinsends the experiments going
on in the park of St. Cloud. The instru-
mens consists Of . long iron tube, termine-
ting in sharp point, which, forced into the
ground. has never failed within twenty two
minutes to bring water 10 the surface.