Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1867-07-26

Keokuk il putting down some large cis>
terms for fire purposes.
Hay is selling in Muscatine ct e7.55 per
ton for the best. Wild At $500.
The Appanoose county crops are splcn.
did. So says the Citizen.
The Cedar Valley Times speaks in the
highes, terms Of the crop prospects up IN
that vicinity Harvest hrs commenced.
4 bet Of $500 was made in keokuk last
week that the population Of keokuk wou'H
be doubted at the expiration of five years.
The Gate CITY says that Railroad
Rridve across the Mississippi At that point,
will be commenced just az soon hs the
water sufficiently subsidies.
| An cid man in Chiekasas county PAID
taxes on the wrong piece VI land Tor nine
Years. his own having been sold for taxes
long ago.
The census returns of Appanoose show
! that they have 1899 dogs IL that county
| The Citizen estimates the expense oil feed>
inv them them 10 be ~. 374 per annum.
The Muscatine Courier says that w. A.
4 Clark. Of West Liberty has been appointed
Second Lieutenant in the 30t'' u >. lnisn>
try. Mr. Clark was . Captain in the 35th
Iowa Infantry.
Linn county census shows . population
Of Is 549--a gain Of nearly five thousand
in two vess. Cedar Rapids city has a pop.
ul,,ion Of 1925, Marion city, 1.S6S. Last
wear the number Of Of acres in wheat vas
1893; cors, 50.657 oats, ,46s.
The citizen Of Adair county held Rail
yo,d meeting At the Court House ut Fonta
nellie on the 18th, at which they Resolved
that We viii, contribute money, lands and
stock to the utmost 0: our ability for the
construction Of a road through this tier Of
counties"
The Fayette Observer thinks the gold
hunters in that region are finding more Of
tie precious metal thar they te about. II
then speaks of "vast fields Of corn. potatoes
and wheat on many broad and promising
farms" that make tie people glad. II is
among the growing crops that the most gold
is TO be found.
Alta recent temperance meeting held At
Clinton, says the Lyons Allocate. the Rev
G.. G.. Trucsdale took the press in hand in q
series of resolutions, and discovers that the
De Witt Obserrer is the only safe paper in
this country 10 tie to This is because the
Observer wont advertise Liquors. B'tters,
Schnspps. &c. The other Republican pa
pers Of tha, county feel disgus'ed.
The DE Witt Observer man has been to
the MsquoketA Cave in jackson county lie
refuses 70 attempt it's description, but says:
But we will say that the scenery is grand
in the the extreme, and we we're happily dis
appointed when We once comprehended the
vastness of the great wonder. We expect
ed TO find cramped up. muddy opening il
the hillside that would be anything but
, pleasant to enter and traverse and went
mere. for the trip than for any satisfaction W.
expected TO experience at the cave; but
We found the yawning hillside both spacioui
and dry, comparatively and one can go
to his hearts content and travel ever on :
new route. The Natural bridgs, few rods
, distant from the caves, is . great wonder o
nature and the caves themselves. thread
ed by streams of water. and the "bal
|, ROOM" "pulpit" and ''saloon," in neal
proximity. form features that must be ad
mired BY all who visit the place-and her.
: we leave the cave, for the longer we write
. We are disposed to, and We have sale
:. that room was too scarce in oul
. columns to admit OF . lengthy account
!, II is proposed by the Iroprietors TO erect {
: first class hotel on the premises, when, W
doubt not, the place will become famous a
;, a summer resort for the pleasure seeker ant
a invalid, without an equal in the Wes,eri
;, States. A public road has already been lai
;, out crossing The Natural Bridge, and "
shall soon hear more of these wo ks of Ma
:, lure than we have heretofore heard.