Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1867-10-22
DAILY DEMOCRAT.
GENERAL. NEW >.

The earnings Of the Atlantic cable last
year we're 81, 100000.
The Grand Hotel in Paris Is advertised
for sale At eli .ooo, 900.
Gen. Mcclellan has engaged his passage
to America for the iest week IN November.
The water OF the lover Ohio is lower than
a, any time for twelve years past
Never carry sword in your tongue to
wound the reputation Of any man.
Stewart, the merchant prince, proposes
10 found public library.
Gen. Lee writes that there are six hun
dred students at bis college, against four
hundred las, year.
The Chief Justice has just nov two very
uncomfortable customers on his hands
jeff. DAVIS aud-Ohio.
The editor Of the winchestes Republican
complains that it costs too much TO live. -
Why don't he quit!
Ben. Wsde said the Democrats ought to
be sent to HI. He is in 4 fair way to
know whether any Of them get there.
A Company in California expects to OBJ
tain five tuns Of borax day from Stake 10
the vicinity.
A French journal is to be suppressed for
publishing one Of Louis Napoleon's SPECIFY
es delivered in 40.
The Mobile negroes were afraid to vote
because they feared being drafted. Patii>
otto as well IS intelligent voters
Mary Pyle has been fined &4S in Phils-
delphia for being common scold. Ann
Dickinson no longer lives in Philadelphia.
Notwithstanding the present depression
10 that city, the New Orleans papers say
the signs Of good fall business Prevail
on oil sides.
An oil>bearing stratum three hundred
miles square and superior to any previously
known, has been discovered not lar fsom
Pekin. China.
Marcus Morton was elected Governor Of
Massachusetts, in 1888, by . majority of
one in q vote Of 102 ,0G6, after being can
ddate for sixteen consecutive years.
They have . queer idea Of prohibition in
Vienna. The police recently threatened =
| lager beer seller to fine him heavily II he
did not increase the size Of his glasses.
You are Just taking leave Of the world i,
and have you not yet learned to be friends
With every body and that to be an honest
man is the only way to DO wise one ?
An old German, who was stricken With
the epidemic at Houston, Texas, refused to
send f,r physician on the ground that his
means would not allow it. He died, and The
snug little sum Of $20, 900 was found on his
premises.
Lucy Stone said "There Is cotton in the
ears Of man. and hope in the bosom Of vo>
man." Lucy made mistake and got the
cotton in the wrong place.
The "silver nuisance Of Canada can
hardly DO appreciated by the more fortu>
nate dealers in greenbacks under Uncle
Sans rule. Silver is refused for any amounts
over legal tender.
Mrs. Ann Rumsey, daughter Of the cele-
brated Capt. Cook. who was murdered IN
the South Sea Islands, has Just died in Col'
chester, England. She was in her l04th
year.
Admiral Farragut saw in Sweden an en-.
tire battery of breach>lo,ding cannons Of
wrought iron, taken out Of vessel sunk
during the seventeenth century.
The Belfast Journal appears with thre
cockerels and one eagle. OF tho latter Il
says: "Beng out Of ROSTERS We substituted
another bird He can't crow, but screams
terribly"
We nesd not care how short our passage
out Of this life 10, so il be safe; never any
traveller complained that he came too soon
to his journeys end.
The Philadelphia Ledger tells Of school
teacher who makes the reading Of news
paper one Of the regular exercises Of the
school. and says the scNolars like il
greatly.
An improved nursing apparatus is ads
vertised. We don't believe the old way can
be improved verv much. Thore are some
things that are about complete At the begin
ming