Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1867-08-29

lea neo YaJlen IN Susue uoVVt Vnc tnIUs
The town Of Palmer, Mass, uses an oil
freight car for Jail
The human race gains 1000 . day in
Ures, Britain.
DIR. J. G. Clarke. . dcn.ist. committed
suicide a. Goshen, Ind., on Saturday.
The Democracy Of Mas-achusets. viii
hid . State Convention ct Worcester on
Oct. LIST.
TX President Buchanan IN still confined
10 bis room At Whcatland, but is irnprcv>
ing slowly.
A severe tor ado visited Bellevue, Ky,
OF Saturday. blowing dom esversl houses
and doing other damage.
Theo jones, deputy tailor Of Hudson
City. N. j., was yesterday morning shot
dead at Union Hall by W. Kir,ley.
In Galveston. on Saturday. there we're 20
in,erments; for the week. 1853. There were
% deaths on Saturday and Sunday.
Intelligence received 1t the liaytien Con-
sulate at New York, that the ex.Empeftr
Solouque had died of spoplexy.
Election returns from Colorado are ,x-
tremely mengre, but It Is believed that the
Legislature will be Democratic.
The Union Pacific Railroad is completed
four hundred and foriy.ive miles, over
which trains are running regularly.
The United States Commissioner At Rich
mond has decided that the Civil Rights bill
does not apply to foreign negroes.
The Mobile Times says it is nov . settled
fact that the cotton crop Of this year Will
exceed sny yet realized
The Santa Tabernacle at Salt Lake CITY
is now finished. II is 259 feet wide and
will acc snmoda,e 10. 600 persons.
The corn crop in Brown ard Pike couns
ties, H., is almost n total failure, mary
fields not containing . dozen ears TO the
acre.
The unsettled bounty claims are being
settled IN the Office OF the Pay master t;en
eral at the rate Of four thousand . day.
There have thus far been eighty-two
deaths from cholera among the soldiers al
Fort Hays, Kansas.
The yellow fever is still on the increase
ut Galveston. Daring last y eek there were
40 deaths there from the epidemic.
Over one million barrels Of oil have been
shipped through OIL City since tho LIST Of
January.
Ia Washington the building now going on
greatly exceeds what has been known at any
previous period Of its history.
A severe tornado visited Delleview, Ky,
just above Newport. on Saturday, blowing
down several houses and doing other
damage.
One morning last week $4,000 blue fish
entered the fish wires At Eastman, Mass,
and ultimately found their way to New York
in boxes.
John Savage has accepted the Office OF
Chief Organizer of the Fenian Brotherhood,
and 10 sanguinc that he can effect reunion
Of the two wings.
1t is reported that the Merchants Union
and Adams Express companies have recent
lv entered into coalition against the other
Express companies.
Travel on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad
continues suspended, owing TO the strike
among the employees. who have not receiv>
cd any pay for four or five months.
1t is probable that The Dominican Repub.
lie has sent messenger TO Washington TO
treat for :he sale Ut SANTANA 10 the United
States, but he has no. yet arrived there.
The campaign in Ohio is becoming
very lively. Gen. Hayes and Judge Thur
are on the stump, flanked by the best
talent of both parties.
The great National Horse Fair at Jack
sonvlle. H., commenced on Monday morn
ing under the most favorable auspices
a large number Of entries have been made
and II is expected to be grand success.
The engine house and machine shop Of
the Lafayette and Indianapolis Railroad,
at Lafayette, Ind, were destroyed by fire
on Saturday night last. Loss about $2o0,>
600; insured in CINCINNATI company.
A grape grower in the Miami Valley saws
he stopped the rot in his grapes by strip>
ping the leaves away from the lunches, SO
they could get sunshine and air.
The qusnity Of gold annually used by
the French jewelers. and godsmiths is es>
t,ma,ed at seventeen tons, while the mans
uiactured silver amounts to eghty>nine
tons.
Some Of the Lowell manufacturing cor>
porations pay round city tax rhc Mer-
rtmack, tins year, pays $50. 1853; the Mass
sachusctfs, S22,0o2 the Lawrence. SIS,
463, the Lowell Sl7.aos; the llsmillon,
Ga $50, and the Boot, : ) 800
Samuel Re d, leading editor Of the Gin
cinnati gazette. and Henry Reed, leading
editor OF the Enquirer, are brothers. and
two OF the best Writers III the country. One
Of them IS a Radical Republican. and the
other an ultra pro>slsvery Stales Rights
Democrat, and they are n, unlike in charac.
ter, appearance and manner ms in polite
Prof. Hayden, geologist, SAYS that the
portion oi Nebraska along the Missouri,
river. extending two hundred miles back
= the richest agricultural section in the
United States. and the finest grazing coun
Try ON the continent.
An order has been issued by the War
Department that no Officer OF the regular
army will TIC officially addressed by any
other title than that attached 20 his lineal
or brevst rank or wear any other than the
uniform prescribed for his lineal::or brevet
rank.
Washington is to have new Masonic
temple, and the fraternity in that city are
making preparations for tho corner stone
lapng. Upon the completion Of this tenn
pie. il will be dedicated to the use of the
order with most imposing ceremonies and
. grand demonstration.
In Omaha. on edneaday evening last
Nswcome and Charles Goodman, rivals for
the affections Of social evil' known -
big Hattie met in u house Of i'll 70 ne,
quarrcled, came to blows, and in the scufle
Newcome drew . revolver and shot his an
tagonist INJECTING mortal wound
The report Of tho Directors Of the Chica.
60 and Northwestern Railway, which has
now nearly 200 miles Of track in opera>
ton, shows that the earnings Of thai i'm
mense corporation for the last fiscal year
exceeded $4,000, 900. The net carninss.
after deducting the operating expenses and
taxes, exceeded "a. DOC, 900.
As named Shairer was threshiug wheat
for farmer in Central Illinois, on Tuesday
night, his machine took FIRE from friction.
burning eight hundred bushels Of wheat
belonging to the farmer. ShaGer, in trying
TO cut the belt Of the machine, no a. 10
take il away from the stack Of grain, was
caught in the machine and his Log torn of.
He died soon after.
At she Pasis Exposition 10 Q machine by
means Of which n rabbit aktn NAV he coo.