Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1867-05-29

An English gentleman u Bufnasn, Advee-
tises $500 reward for the arrest Of the per-
son who killed HE cat.
A gentleman residing near Bangor, Me,
while taking down an old barn. recovered
his watch which was stolen from him twelve
years before.
The orncr Of wcoien nil in Austria re-
Gently committed suicide, because ct the
recent marriage Of his daughter her veil was
accidentally torn IN two.
Since Psrepa Rosa has been hired 10 d.
the singing il Dr.. Tyng's church. y, New
York, an exchange suggests thas Edwin
Booth should be engaged 20 read the scr>
vice. "a
Amer desperate 6ght q two hours, .
lobster was captured near Flint Island, last
week, which weighed thsss hundred pounds
and was four feet long, with clews, nise
feet.
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The engsavngs ere vel executed, but the
sotes sse oseeiGh sA a On inch narrower
shaa the eseuins.
The New York I,sjspsnlswt snsssoces
thst tsswiil not hereafter be N shy sense OF
degree On organ Of the Congregationalists.
but weekly religious journal, abandoning
the discussion Of doctrines and creeds.
The Ellis Locomotive Works At Schenec-
tady ere nov employing 450 men, aud torn
sne cut q finished locomotive every week,
having . contract for twelve from the Union
Pacific Railroad Company.
An old dog at Rockport. Mass. sixteen
years old, deliberately walked into the water
on Monday. and drowned himself The re
cent heavy tax laid upon his race Is suppos'
Cd to have been the cause Of the deed.
The,e il a clergyma0 in East Boston who
does not want any salary His society has
forced Al 800 year upon him, but he man
ages 70 give most Of it back in different way q.
Every seat in his church 10 taken.
A boiler will make steam faster whom the
pressure is high than when II 10 low, with
the same IRE, % il is economical TO carry
high pressure-even IL il is not necessary
to do The work-and 70 work tho steam
expansively.
A resident Of New Albany, Ind, applied
for . divorce on the Sd instant, on the
ground Of On obstinate and incurabls pro-
psnsity 10 steal on the part Of his wife. Al
tes long discussion, the Justice refused "a
grant the divores.
The latest invention in the billiard line il
. table eight feet vide and fourteen feet
long, The size 10 Immense, its proportions
odd, yet the table has that peculiar merit
usually espssssed BY the trits phrase
40 fair for one player - the other"
The other day . dog got into the sheep
fold of General Singleton. near Quincy, H.,
end destroyed four hundred dollars worth
Of his valuable South Down SHEEP. With
hydsopbobis and sheep killing, dogs are
generally becoming . nuisance.
Frank Delone, OF The 0reenleafsAw mills,
Mesber County. Mimi, was engaged edxina
off . lot Of boards, when his foot accidentally
became entsngled. and brought in contact
with tho saw. which run the length Of hil
leg. He did not long survive.
A little daughter Of Sheriff Dissos way, oil
Of Bethlehem, Penn. during school hours,
complsined Of . sudden pain in her eyes,
and was permitted 10 retmn home. She
had only gone about five hundred yards
before she became totally blind, and all cf.
forts TO restore her sight have proved fruit
less.
a brother in law Of Dennis Mccarthy,
who was drowned in Fall River in F >bruary,
lad dream lately, that the drowned man
came to him and told whore his body conld
be found. So strongly was he impressed by
the vision tina, he followed its directions in
the morning, and found the missing body in
the spot described.