Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1867-04-27
0ENRaAL NEWS.

GENERAL NEWS
A uegssss was arrested 10 Memphis, %
Saturday for having poisoned thsse negroes
with arsenic.
A Tesss farmer has tried the experiment
Of putting monkeys to picking cotton ard
10 much disguised BY bis want Of scccess.
The Independent has discovered that the
States that now need reconstruction are tie
Northern" That's what's coming.
A Hsvald dispatch announces . Wash.
ineton rumor that NJ. Seward proposes 10
swamp Alabama claims for British Amer.
ica.
A Baggage master ~ the Little Miami
(Ohio) railroad hes to pay seven thousand
dollars for sssaultins one Of the passenger
With . Ratchet
An editor in Connecticut. bswail.ng the
late political defeat, says We presume tits
q blessing in disguise. II %, il 10 the most
efFec,ual disguise ws'ss lately SEEM
The..rew India rubber neck and bust is
probably made Of that material because oil
finger marks esn be promptly erased.
Landlord in Buffalo, New York. rsfu>
ses 10 raise the rent Of his tenants. Basnun
left home recently to have IN interview
with him.
A Paris atatistieisn says that crimes
aeainstj the pers m are more frequent in
spring than in summer. and against pro.
perty in autumn and winter.
A female seminary was recently started
10 Sais Lake City. which ssecVeded very
veil uessi4hs principle depsd with asd
massjsd thu vhsle school.
LIE. our friends Who have apple orchards
Or even single sppls trees, remember that
the planting Of tomato wins near the trees
will keep the borers sway. The besele,
which deposits her eggs dCrisg the summer
months upoo the bark Of The tee, near the
ground. shuns every Tree near which . to-
mato plant. grows.
The store Of A. T. Stewart, Broadway,
corner Of Tenth, il to b ealsseed during
the present summer TO ain times IL present
size The new building viii cover no less
than IN acre and quarter Of ground.
Agsssix received $4,000 fo- six lectures
recently delivered in New York. That 10 ct
the rate Of five dollars minute, and 10 the
largest price ever paid to any popular lee.
turer in this country.
Over three hundred cities aud towns in
the north whic wenth radical last fall have
given democratic msjorines thu spring.
They have a machine in Philadelphia fee
making coffee. 1t turns out 200 bees day.
The material is chicory, black lead. soap
stone, and grounds from coffee pots Of folks
Who use the genuine coffee.
A man who had been grinder at the az
works in East Douglass, Mass, for IA
years. died last week, and on post moste0
examination IL Vas found that bic longs
were full Of dust from the gsindstons.
Gov. Ward, Of New Jersey has vetesd
bill for stationery TO members Of the legis-
latuse, amounting 20 about ,histy thousand
collars, having been informed that the
money was never expended for the purpose
indicated, but paid direct TO individual
members.
To OwsEns OF CASARIRs -Assy . PER-
eon has seen pet canary, or othes eirds,
In state Of psstufbet 90, P,ucaino ct hi0>
self continually and bis feathers standing
oil wrong. In vain is food changed. snd
in vain il saucer Of clean wster always
kept in the cage. The cause Of this wretch
sdness bas not Jet been found out. II the
owner Of pet in such difficulties will take
down the cage and lcok up to the roof
thereof there will likely be found mass Of
stuff like red rust. This red rust is MOTH
ing more OF less than myriads Of parasites
infesting the bird, and for which water il
no remedy. BY procuring lighted candle
and holding u under every particle Of the
top Of the cage till al chance Of anything