Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1867-01-04
DAILY DEMOCRAT.


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Pskin 10 goias 10 have - An~tsaa co..
lsge.
Paris d the only largs city whess Christ
mas 10 not specially observed.
| Picture frames ere nov nads u eoopres
ED peat.
Butler intends to run for Pvssidsas 10
1868 ct Ill hazards.
Misery loves company, and 80 does mar
riageabIe young lady.
Forty,fve Popes have been cziled from
Rome.
Fosnsy 10 about to start % anti>C Cameron
nsw6pspes 10 Harrisbstg.
Thad. Stevens proposes 70 destroy the
State - Nssyhod, which nsvs IL ssesde.
Ohis has expssssa e7s, 900 The pest year
~ ~ oainteAases Of ievolid and crippled
soldiers.
II ~ new gua invsaAsa b Pasis ssods
81 Z. 900 halls per mioats.
4 slls dc nj, y Nslns, Wisconsin leA
e1So. 600 - ssn61 q sepAt6 asylum.
Csplse N lasss qsaeaisiss hss bsss found
OseseA Du1e 49, 10 vsitine, sgreas
nany dsaAes. We didn't zee any 10 bic
pses Of the history Of the var.
Dsaas Published asss nusial csmpsat
ions lest ysar than there were books pub
hshed II this eoantry.
An ex-mule contractor presumes to teach
General Grant lesson In loyalty.
A man has been fined in Detroit for kick
ing dog.
Three physicians In Chelsea, Massachu-
sets. refused to leave their homes at mid.
night, when called upon to attend woman
taken suddenly and dangerously III. A ply.
stefan from IN adjoining town was secured
just IN lime TO save the woman's life.
In 1900 it took weeks to convey in,clii.
gcncc between Philadelphia and New Or>
leans; now Il can BE- done in - many min.
utee BY electric Telegraph, which only had ito
beginning in l843.
A Boston Clergyman IL preaching asaias.
fitting hoops and says he cannot shut bic
eye to the Accumulation any longer
The steamer fash,gu With two thoussod
SIX hundred bales Of cotton vas burned ON |
Thursday near Baton Rouge. Sixty lives
were Loot BY the disaster.
A. T. Stewart u about to retire from
astive busisess. We believe be il not |
Wssth more than 45O, 900 900, aud should |
think b. Wooid semoin in business until he |
had smassed . competency.
A New York correspondent says that
NJ. 3esshO9s Ledger seosy 70 not . new |
idea on the part OF that gentleman. He
has bad the plas h his miud for many years |
md in his n0vel viii devote himeelf more !
to thoss mofAl and social subjects |
vhisa be eann"t handle With sslBeisas lsss- |
dom In the pulpit
A geed looking Msthodise clseeyman,
q Rev." L. r. Dunn, has been arrested in |
Louisville, for IL ruin Of young Miss
Nellie Davison, Of Indianapolis. ItWas ths
~ story. The fellow u nov making shoes
|of the State, At ave years' pesiteniiary
An Bssiish Judge, In charging he jury
10 railway case, oaid he thought that the
low railway passenger night b considered
In assault.
An Australian coionist has harnsssed up
! kangaroo and put him 10 lsbor-turnine
} machine with half.hsese power. lfhe
pete lazy, pin stuck in him makes him
Jump up; and whom he dies they cook and
Lynn. like other shoe manufacturing
towns, shares in the general dallnsss, and
reports the smallest internal revenue on the
sales in November Of sny month since the
law wont into force, and the prospee are
hat, for the current month, they will be
less.
Fifty years ago, John Smith arrived in
his country from Brechin, Scotland, and
he other day. in commemoration Of this
went, he invited seven hundred Of his
friends and employees to dinner. The man.
moth banquet took place in Andover, Mass.
where Smith has his factories
The Peer Negro.
The Savannah correspondent Of the Bos-
on Pest writes 40 follows:
Lo. the poss negro! have travelled ex.
through the South recently, and
he picture 10 the came everywhere. The
,egrs hes been suddenly thrown upon his
lwn resources. and il not prepared for and
lees not understand the situation in which
,is Northern friends ~ have been 20 long
lssirous Of placing him. There l. plenty Of
york for him to do, and his former masters
Ire anxious to employ him and willing to
,ay him; but beyond the satisfaction Of
lis immediate wants he will not work. He
3 not provident, and his mind is filed with
Jtopian dreams that tho rivulets will oil
'un whiskey; that corn cakes will grow
cooked to turning, on the road side, and
hat hogs with forks in their backs and
Knives in their teeth will come too him roast
ID begging to be eaten. When they do
work they demand cxhorbitant wages from
heir employers; are regardless Of their
contracts, and seem to think it part Of
l. a