Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1867-08-06

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! Gardiner, Me.
sir Morton psto's estate viii pay only
cents on the dollar.
New York city receives about 800, 900
yesr for liquor licenses.
gen Lee has been offered the Presidency
Of the Icvington and Ohio X II.
Fred. Douglass has Joe, found his brother
Perry after separation OF 10 years.
Emigrsnts have been seeking Minnesota,
a, tie rate ETA thousand day, recently.
Philadelphia ia the largest manufacturing
city 10 the Union; she bsr ~ 900 operatives.
Fanny Fern acknowledges her particular
weaknesses 10 be glass Of ale and = good
cooked steak.
'Ifall the world we're blind, what mel
ancholy sight it would be- says an Irish
clergyman.
in the country .-Erchdsge. So fine that Il
is almos. impcrcepiibe.
A golden streams nswa from San Fran>
cisco, she sending of eAcl. month six tons
Of gold and forty tons Of silver.
A passenger train on The New York Gen
| trail road, last week, run ten miles in eight
minutes, the fastest time ever made in
| America.
The radical stump orators, say the papers
in North Carolina, are making good thing
by peddling cheap jewery 10 their audiences
after the meeting is over.
| A sleeping car on new plan, with the
coaches arranged at a right angle to the
track, has been introduced on the Pitts
burg, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad
! The car is sixty feet in length and cost $50,
| 900.
Nineteen widows, whose ages ranged from
fifty years up to century, were invited to
. the house Of an old bachelor, at Dorcester,
Mass, the other day. and all partook of .
strawberry feast, and on their departure
were presented with a handsome boquet .
piece by the old gallant.
The hard ware stores are doing good
business In Tennessee just now, and lead is
a premium.
The mortality from exposure is greater
among the London police than in the Brit
) ish army. Dyspepsia and sore feet ar'
common complaints.
A duel with pocket knives took place IL
Mississippi not long since. Both parties
were fatally injured.
II is said the coming public debt state
ment will show no contraction OF tho cur
, rency, while the gold reserve will be show VI
to be about ninety eight millions.
The Colorado Transcript says the ma
chinery for their paper mill has arrived, an'
mountain papers will be printed on paper o
home manufacture.
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t already at or around the point where tn
. city Of Cheyenne" at the base of thu
i, Black Hills. is supposed to be located.
The Fifth National Exhibition of horses
will take place at Springfield. Mass, on III,
2G,h, 2sth, 29th add 30th Of August. Nine
thousand dollars will be distributed in pre-
miums.
, Father Demortu, a Catholic priest at st
Mary's Mission, died from cholera on Thurs
day night, near Ellsworth, whore he hat
been attending cholera patients. He hat
been among PottawAttamic Indians severn
( teen years, and was much respected.
0 The crops in Kansas are looking very foe
Ii is said the Indians Will raise n large sur
plus Of corn.
: Wells, Fargo & Co. are hiring and arm.
ing men in Denver, and sending them ives
! to protect their line between Denver AM
Y Sat Lake.
: The chickens Of Indiana are dying of il
, great numbers from some unknown disease
unpromising for Thanksgiving chicken pies
The grain elevator at Milwaukee, tn
largcs; in the world, being go feet long, 81
! wide and 1870 fec, high and weighing 10,
A 900 tons,) is u be raised four feet. Fou
hundred holes have been cut through tn
foundation for the insertion of timbers. an
: under these 900 screws will be placed 70
lifting the immense structure.
s p Chase is taxed on au income {
500, 900 per year. When he went I
Washington, in 1851, he was not wort
10000, lie has been lucky iinaneier f.
himself, il not for the country. He ali
Jay Cooke have made loyalty pay-eh
u The Chinese papers are calling sttentio
10 the Coolie Trade as practo ed by the POI
tuguese, .and call upon civilized nations
Z put . stop to it. They also give instance
@ of kidnapping of girls and women who III
Il carried off in various ways for purposes {
prostitution. Men are violently carried 0
and shipped to South America IS coolies.
% There is such a rage in Chicago fol d
d vorces that a negro has sued for leg
= separation from a woman TO whom he ha
! never been married, although living wit
- him as his wife
A magistrate in llohoken has not onlj
discharged starving man. who had beer
l arrested for stealing q loaf Of bread, b,
> added bis beuediction in the way of cnoug
= each TO buy the fellow good meal Of vic,
uals.
A house in Rutland WAS struck BY light
: ming and an lriShman knocked out Of III
IS window on the street After picking him
IS self up he peeled off his coat and fell int
n pugli>tic attitude, calling on. for the Eel
\. low that hit him.
n Two reservoirs for the new water work
in Oswego, n. Y. are completed, each hav
ing capacity OF 1000 gallons. The con
u tractor has a new method for digginI
= trenches for the distribution pipe. Will
n four horses and twenty four men hs::cai
dig 500 feet Of trench in day. dom
the work Of one hundred men.
= Robert Dale Owen is engaged upon wha
" is likely TO prove his greatest work-"Abrs
!. nam Lincoln aud his Times" Three char
It ters are commenced, the first being en- title
!, The Hour and the Man."
I Osaxe Hedge.
d The Usage Hedge is we'll and favorabl]
t known in Iowa, and each season witncsse
: . large increase in the number Of hedges