Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1867-08-30
THE NEW y.

The new postal treaty with England goes
into operation on October LIST.
The ram Stonewall called from Fortress
Monroe for Japan on Wednesday.
Major General Thomas has gone to Ten.
nessee.
Three suicides occurred in st. Louis on
Wednesday.
J.P. Cassidy Dem. has been nominated
for the Senate in the Council Bluffs Dis
t.ict
A fine block OF marble buildings, 3 stories
high, are to be built on the Lindell lot in
st. Louis.
A woman, few DAYS sioce, victimiz ID
police Judge in philadelphia by means Of a
forged check.
The City Council of Nav Orleans has ap-
pointed now school directors, "a Of which
are negroes.
Cyrus Ilamlin, son of ex>Vicc President
Ham lin, died At New Orleans on the 9th
inst, Of yellow fever.
The President has directed that Peninsu-
lar Island, in San Francisco Bay be reserved
for military purposes.
All difficulties in reference to tie Mobile
and Ohio railroads have been settled and
trains are again running regularly.
Accounts from Arkansas and Mississippi
represent the cotton crop - suffering Sc
vereiy from drouth and the worm
Lieut.. Wallace, Adjutaa. Of the 10th IT,
S. Infantry, died at New Orleans on the
9th inst, Of yellow fever.
Rev. Mr.. Caldwell has resigned the pas
torate Of the Main Stree. Methodist Church,
Dubuque on account Of the failure Of bis
health.
A new gold region is reported to have
been found in the Black Hills of Dacotah,
an outlying group Of hills belonging to the
Rocky Mountains.
Jas. FIyfish and Bob Sweeney fought
prize fight near Gloucester, N. j., on
Wednesday. Sweeney won the battle and
go. the purse of 500.
| young man named Alexander Ross,
was shot aud killed on Saturday, It Hami>
ton Landing, on the Ohio River, while hur-
rshing for jeff. Davis.
| A had storm, which lasted five minutes
broke between 5000 and 1000 panes Ct
glass in the railroad shops At Susquelanns,
on the afternoon of The 2sth instant.
woman named Gus.i Miller VAS fined
. day or two since, in Indianapolis, Ind,
for inhumanly whipping her son, boy
about six years Of age.
j. W. Winter, . clerk in the army psv-
masters office, has been arrested il New
York on charge of forging = draft for
$4,000 on the Treasury Department.
Mrs. Jane Walker, wife Of pro,ninen.
New York merchant, while in . bath on
Wednesday evening. At her residence. in
that city. fell asleep and WAS drowned.
Harriet Craig, . resident Of Jersey CITY.
committed suicide With laudumum. on the
9th inst, because her affiancsd husband
had seduccd and deserted her.
Three hundred cavalry, under command
Of Major Elliott, have been sent from Fcrt
Hays, Kansas, to chastise the Indians who
attacked Major Armes, . few DAYS ago on
the Saline.
General Hitchcock has turned owe, The
property Of the office Of Commissary Gene.
raj Of Prisoners to Brsves Brig. Gen. Brock.
in pursuance Of orders from the Adjutant
General.
A boom, to cost 100000, is being corr
struc,sd across the Susqusbanna rive, Il
will'amsport. II WILDE one thousand fee,
long, and will be finished 10 three months.
| The New Orleans Crescent says il seems
that the crops Of louisiana are in . worse
plight Is 70 cotton than any other Southern
State; that Texas is next on the rol, Of mis-
fortune, and that there is BY no means q
very bad prospect in Mississippi, Arksn,
sas, Alabama or Georgia.
i A weE>to.do farmer living near Sedalia
Missouri, was recently swipdled BY . Clip.
sey woman out Of $4,000. She pretended
40 clairvoyant, tnat . large amount o
treasure Was concealed in the mans orch,
ard. In order to perform the incarnation,
necessary to develop the whereabouts Of Ii,
money, she insisted on hsviss tLe ameun
/ un0f3nnnA an1 that Il A. n.lA