Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1867-08-13
DAILY DEMOCRAT.


Oae bar at Saratoga does a business worth
$242 900 . season
The Republican tickei ia Tennessee WAS
beaded by a wood cut Of an axe.
The present Empress of Morocco was
once a French peasant girl.
Drunken women are smarily horse-wbip-
ped by the Lafayette, Ind, watohmen. " hen
caught on tho streets.
The postal treaty between the United
States and Great Britain has been submits
ted TO the House of Lords.
An Adventist named Clinton Terry, res
siding at Windsor Locks, CT has neither
plowed nor sowed his land this season be-
cause Of the expected coming Of the mills
leuium.
The hay crop in England has been m in.
moDse one his season, and hes been cured
under the moss favorable circumstances
Harvest prospects are otherwise unusually
good.
Mexican advices state that the foreign
ministers in the City Of Mexico have not
been molested. but are awaiting orders from
their respective governments.
The steamers Wilson Small and Mary
Augusta collided of Poplar Island. Chess
psa.e Bay on Friday. The Small Was sunk,
and three Of her passengers.
The English ladies are adopting the fash>
ion Of wearing belts with . small dagger at
tsched.
1t is said that there are nearly three hup-
dred Unitarians spending the summer At
Mansfield, VI.
hoo A--fvo raA~a IF nwa ~aspa Ua0ka
ago started from Middletown. CT, for kans
sss. lie had only 81 Of money. and when
put off one train waited and took the next
going the same route. He got his food and
lodgings along the5way as be could, and ar>
rived safely.
William and Amssa Sprague Of Rhode
Island. are worth ga, O0O, 600, made 10 the
manufacture Of cotton cloth.
A boy in Montpelier, VT, while bathing
in the Winooski, the other day. found
sword which look - II it might have been
used in the Revolutionary war.
The Bishops Of the N. E Church South
have appointed Friday, Aug. 10th, a. q day
Of fasting, humiliation and PRAYER in all
their churches.
Helmboldt, tho Buchu man Of New York,
spent 1914 900 in the various styles Of
advertising, last year, Md made money
by it.
At Grand Haven, Mich, the work Of
driving piles for the extension of the south
pier ct the entrance Of the harbor 10 to com
| nence at once. 1t lie understood Ira Don
nelly Of Chicago, the contractor, has the
piles in readiness for the work, and oil oth>
OF preparations perfected.
Ex-President James Buchanan is ct Cape
Nav.
The Sultan recently gave 60 500 to be
distributed among the poor Of Londons
Paris eats two hundred horses a month,
and meyer say nay to horse meat.
1t 10 said there were over 26O. 900 mar.
rlsges in the United States last year.
Foul men were psostsated by sun stroke
in Buffalo, on Friday afternoon, one Of which
proved fatal.
In the Haytien Constitution, recently
adopted. the punishment of death for politi>
cal o~fienses has been abolished.
The Russian Government has issued .
ukase ordering oil the Jews in the depart,
ment Of Viarovia to cut their hair.
lner0 arc no less tubn uve law 9uilS Peuu
ing in English Courts concerning the steam
ship Great Eastern.
A red cedar post is standing in Sharon,
N. j., which is not at oil deoayed, though it
was put in its present position in 1879
lis years ago.
The Mayor Of Baton Rouge has issued q
proclamation prohibiting charavis. Thus
one by one the old and honored customs
are fading away.
A London dispatch states that the British
Government will Immediately send a large
body Of troops to Canada to repel threaten
ed Fenian invasions from the United States.
A large company of citizens Of Omaha
have organized TO travel across Europe,
through Siberia, and down the valley Of the
A.noor to the Psc fc. and thence TO Rossiar
America.
A young man named Gilman Willard re-
Gently committed suicide ct Cape Elizabeth,
Me-, in q very singular manner. He fixed
the anchor Of his yacht 80 that q Sigh,
movement would cast il overheard and then
tied himself to tho anchor. HE body wal
found fastened to the anchor deep under
water. He left . note bidding bis mother
goodbye.