Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1867-11-08
rIaH NEws.

The Republican majority n Wisseesin
hes dwindlea down 20 5000. The Lcgis-
lature will bs closer than nrst supposed,
owing ts tbs Democrats capturing some
6cubsfsi districts.
Ia Mianesota ths R.publlesss have ear
sisd The SsAes BY . email majority. The
Lagislasurs Vim - Rspskl'ean by re-
dsesd m.josisy. The negro ssssass amende
msnt is sndoabsslly ds6sassa.
A eeaelias vessel, ths Kats Doak, vss
bloen Ssho.e q Pee nasqssess. Lake
Aiebisas, during the secsss gale. and I've
Of her crew lost snsir lives.
The Uaioa PA.i6c, again aadsr the sfh-
sisns management Of 7. @. Dursns, will
reach the sommi. sf the mountains in
thirty five days. weather permitting. Next
season three hundred miles Of track will be
laid.
Salt Lake stages viii run from Cheyenne
next week.
A daughter Of DR.. Riddle, Of Rome. JEFF
fsrson county, Wis, vhi'o out playing on
Monday, caught her doshss on are from
IN out door ere, aud ~ss % badly burned
that she died the same night.
Bishop Straehman 10 i'll q his residence
in Toronto. Prayers have been said IN the
Cathedral for bic recovery.
A Mormon missionary has been trying to
convert shs good psspI Of Columbis. Tom.
His suesess 10 not mentioned.
The San Antonio (1exas) 1sp'ess says |:
I'VE hsss been shows spscinsn Of bit
uainoas brown GOAL. Aksa from > mine
opened by ths GAs Company = supply
their woshs. TIE eel 10 found near the
surface, ~ is Of ths ams extensive ssras
which. stretches acssss this State. This
COL .akss Rns gas, anS produces about ave
feet Of gas 10 the pound.
!, Al old German Of lodisnapolis declined
- sell any ssurkrautto merchant Of that
city because cabbags were scarce and he
had only put sp two barrels to use 10 case
Of sickness.
A boy eel Gre = sthrss bsrns The 9th
sr day in Salem, Oho. When caught and
locked up BY bis fsttsr, in IN upper room.
be jumped oat Of IL window end immedi.
diately set . fourth barn on fire. Evident
monomanis
The Little Rock (Ark.) Gazette says that
Ave thousand bushels Of corn. recently sent
to that place 10 b sold on commission,
were recently shipped to St. Louis. for the
reason that there VS. no market for it, the
home crop coming 10 % abundantly.
The now Califcrn.a State House at Sacrs.
mento is drawing near completion. The
building covers 60, coo feet, and the dome,
276 feet in circumf.rence at the roof, will
rise to the height Of s26 feet from the ground
door.
Twenty OF the twenty four piers Of the
new bridge over the Oaio, a: Louisville. Ky,
have been begun, and eleven Of them are 81
ready fifteen feet aooye low water level
The entire york is going forward with great
expedition.
The crops along the Arkansas river are
reported to be looking we'll, and the worms
have disappeared. Planters calculate upon
half cotton crop. This 10 considerably
better than nothing.
dispatch from Buffalo reports that
Distric. Attorney Dorsheimer, Of that city,
under instructions from the Treasury De
partment, has brought suit against William
II. Crsnnsll, Of Rochester, late Collector Of
the port Of Genesee, ssa defaultsr. The
amount claimed TO be due is over eight
thousand dollars.
A New Orleans paper announces the
death Of Gen. d. j. kiley. Whom the late
war broke out, Gen. Kley resigned com
y and in the Papal army, came to this coun.
itry, and took service on the staff Of Gen.
Shields. He afterwards served on tho staff
of Gen. Stone end as Colonel Of the Second
Louisiana Cavalry.
The latest accounts from Crete confirm
the report Of the total failure Of tho mission
Of Ali Pasha. The Cretans are preparing
for winter campaign sgains. the Turks.-
They declare that they will not lay down
their arms until the islaad is annexed 10
Geeses.
The directory Of the Lake Superior Rail
rad has bssa rsorsanizsd, and now in
cludes the names Of Edgar Thompson, sf
ths Pennsylvania Central Railroad Samuel
u. FELTON,. President Of The Pennsylvanis
Steel Works; Isaac lIinekley, President Of
the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Balt.
more Railroad; J. Moorehead, Of The arm
Of jay Cooke / Go. ana r. McConb. of
the National Pacific Railread. Ww. l..
banning i President Of the company, and
Samuel N. FELTON, Vice Prcsident. The
building Of the road is in active progress.
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