Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1867-02-08
DA|LY DEMOCRAT.


A son Of John C. breckenridge is enem-
ployed in dry goods store in New York
The J O. o. F, in Tennessee has ex>
4 tended relief 20 the amount Of $547, 900.
/ Snow fell in the woods Of Eastern Maine
on Saturday night TO the d. pth Of five feet
/ Epes Sargent is writing another novel Of
| American Society.
Ben. Wood sunk 100000 in the New
York Niece.
The per diem prlssan infantry has been
raised 10 seven conts.
To live in Mobile comfortably requires
On income Of five or six thousand dollars
PIT annum.
Gov. Fletcher, of Missouri has sued the
81. Louis Republican f,r libel, laying his
damage 1t 100000.
22O4 new books in London last year.
| $4,000, 900 no, h.oi bisines. in Leav>
enw, rth last year.
The snow dsifts on the Allegheny Nouns
tains ere thirty feet high.
Sugar plsotasious are in the market nov
at unssusily cheap rates.
The Qusbse shipyards have closed for
want OF work.
A reporter has bsen elected an Alder.
man in Pittsburgh.
Wisconsin is to have Eve Supreme Court
Judges.
The latest victims Of the folly Of making
fires with kerosene are Mrs. Hills Of Rouss>
vile Vcnango county Pa, and Mary Dun>
lap girl in her employ. Both were hor.
ribly burned to death.
II the people Of Chicago 10 no, lose any
Of the little selfesteem now happily enter
tained by them we may soon expec, TO hear
Of their organized a stock company to pu!-
chase New York.-Eypt".
:. The lllinois Legislature proposes % ex>
pend 500 900 in getting historical painting
Of Mission Ridge and intend to have it con-
tain as nearly correc. portraits Of Generals
Grant, Sherman, Thomas, Sheriden, Hooker
Howard, Palmer and Logan - tho circus
instances viii permit.
| The Upper Dss Nsiaes, publishes at AL
eona, SAYS there are items Of Thousands Of
ceres Of choice Government lands in koss-
nth county which can -, be obtained under
tee Homestead oct.
| The railroads in this country employ
900, 600 men ard a, least 1000, 900 men
women end children depend wholly for their
support upon the railroad interest.
The DsnvilIs, Virginia psps: tells Of
ne ,ro who, on account Of n quarrel with
his wife, chopped of the head Of their ten
year old son and hid the body in the woods.
Mr.. Crane, = paper maker in Saratoga
| county has invented y paper which will
prevent conterfeiting. He runs minute
threads of eut'a percha through the sheet
Il cannot he inflated
II is stated that Beecher 10 bout sue
Tilton for publishing his Plymouth Church
sermons aud lectures contrary to his wish>
eS.
The sum total Of the cente nary contribu>
tons of the Methodist Church in 1866. is
g.. sos ,4Gl Of which sun New York ceatii-
buted 81 500, SOB.
| The number Of Free Mason lodges under
the authority Of the intel Grand Lodge
Of England has increased during the past
year from 1915 to l,14o, being an increase
| OF 65
| The Petersburg Mder says the difference
between Winters new poem and "Massa-
| chusstts school-masm" is that while one
is 1.-THE Tent on the Be,ch, the other IS
bent on the teach.
The Radicals Of Indiana talk Of impeach>
ing the Supreme Court Of that State for
having decided ,hat tho law imposing = tax
on doee II cOnatjtu ional