Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1867-05-10
DAILY DEMOCRAT.
GENERAL. NEWS.

Buffalo boasts ole span OF Sly,oou no''
ses.
The State Of New York 10 to have new
Capitol. costing not less than s4'ooo'ooo.
A town in Maine snakes thousand
quarts of shoe pegs osy.
California shipped to New York during
the last ear over 10000 barrels Of -four.
Milne has Il, 900 900 acres of forests, and
every convenience for ship building.
New York had one hundred and forty
fashionable marriages last week.
A street railroad is being built in Terre
lIaute.
Madame Celests travelled eighteen thou
sand miles in 6fiy-nins days
A New jersey farmer has been ilued g..
600 for poisoning eight cattle.
The ladies' Of Montgomery. Ala. have al
driven chgnons of and agree never to wear
them again.
The Columbia Herald s.ys that il 10
fixed fact that Brownlow will not die until
the Tennessee school fund is exhausted.
A Chicago bil.poster offers the city
SO 1000 for the use OF l60 feet Of the rail
ing around the Court House square.
The Government officers have seized
Kellogg & Co.'S distillesy in Memphis, fos
alleged revenue frauds.
Gen. Mcclellan and family are in Swiz.
srand and will return home early in the
Fail.
The Liverpool packet Hibernia has been
burned to the waters edge i New York
Loss, 100000.
No less than six bridal parties put up d
the Spencer House in Cincinnati on Satur-
day.
Joseph Leslie, who shot Miss Taylor ct
Sharpsburg, Ohio, has been found guilty Of
murder.
Dan. Rice-not the great clown, but .
State prison convict-has escaped in
Ohio.
The illinois Stone Company, Of Chicago.
have sued the city for damages caused BY
the labor riots.
There were 27S deaths in Chicago last
month. lf mob Law continues there will be
= worse record for May.
The project Of building another hotel at
the corner Of Central Park and Fifth Ave.
nue., New York, has been abandoned.
Bryant's Minstrel Hall, No. 572 Brosd>
way. has been leased for . restaurant, 1t
$l5, 900 year.
Correspondence from Dublin Indicates
very plainly that another aad more sHtsn>
sivc Fsnian rising 10 sxpestsd In lrsaAsd.
A negro prsae her in Tsnnessss, has alb
seconded with horse and buggy, aad $500
belonging to bis c0ngroeation.
Charles Brown, colored messenger 10 the
State Department ever since he No sppoin-
ted by Daniel webster, was the other day
buried in Washington.
ThelAce trimmings Of . dreoo lstely fin.
ished bp Boston millinsr foe New York
lady cost alone $4,000.
The London Spectator fiippantly Gays Of
an event which caused every true Briton's
heart 10 leap for joy, that 1.-THE Princess
Helena achieved her fret baby successfully
last Saturday afternoon
James Adams, proprietor Of q .pretty
waiter girl" saloon in st. Louis, was SEM
fenced or Wednesday to be imprisoned six
months and pay fine Of 800 for employ
ing girls as walters contrary to law.
A company has been formed In Meriden,
Conn.,, for the manufacture Of hats BY
machine which wsavss them whole. The
capital stock is $4O0. 900, and it took $75,.
900 to buy up the different patents used In
the machine.
In England the mines yield annually 1861
600. 900 tons OF coal. and her coal product
does the work il locomotives, furnaces, etc.
Of SOC, 900 men in the same period.
Irwin Davis, formerly . waiter at the
Massasoit House, 10 Springfield, Mass, is nov
one OF the richest men in California, HE in.
come being from $4,000 to- 100000
month.
Several wooden and cotton factories are
being erected in North Carolina and goods
Of the very finest warp will be manufaotur-
ed much cheaper than can be secured in the
Eastern markets.
Orders have been given to the Paris thea
tres to put no pieces on the boards during
the Exposition that may wound the feelings
OF foreign visitors. 1.-The American War"
has been prohibited on this ground.
Mr. Martin Leonard. OF Pittsford, Yer
ment, from eight hens raised last year for>
ty.five chickens. sold seven hundred and
ten dozen eggs for $162, besides using one
hundred and ten dozen in his family. Mr..
l.. says his hens are . greater source Of
profit to him than his sheep.