Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1867-12-17
DAILY DEMOCRAT.
esENERAI. NEWS.


The salary OF the Mexican President,
Juar,z, is So, 900 per snnum.
Pencil directions will hereafter cauae let
tsrs 70 BE- sent to the Dead Letter Office.
Armies were raised for the drst time in
Minnesota this seeson.
What is better than promising young
man. paying one.
The New York Iudependsn. 10 now tho
lsrges, paper in America.
II is estimated that 200, 900 Of brick WAS
manufactured At Leavenworth during the
pas; season.
OF oil the States, Rhode Island 10 the
meat dsnssly populated.
Over thsss husdrsd nee buildiaes havs
BEEN erected this year ct winons, MINI.
At st. Paul, MIMI, the estimated cost Of
the buildings put up during the year 10 over
one million dollars.
"Yankss Robinson" Snowman, has gone
into bankruptcy with liabilities stated At
$4,000.
There are said to be over 1000 base ball
dlubs in the country.
Louisville has eighteen public school
buildings, valued at S546,oc0.
Hannibal, NO., claims the palm for build
ing enterprise this year, over every other
city in the State except st. Louis.
The ey-elector Of Htsse- Cassel holds more
American bonds than any other man 10 Ger.
many.
The Blade says that Charles Dickens Of.
fered TO read in Toledo for $4,000, but the
offer VAS declined.
A Pennsyivania editor is serving two
months in prison for libslling the treasurer
Of his county.
One hundred millions OF dollars worth Of
property is frozen up in the New York
casals.
A boy about eight years old offered him
self at the polls in Springfield, Mass, last
Monday. to vote in his fathers place, who
was out Of town. Ingenious youth.
The Hastings Mimi Gazette says that
she ice on the Mississippi At that point is SO
strong that teams can cross freely.
Gov. Fenton has approved the plan for
thc new capitol At Albany, N. u. and the
work Of sxcavating has commenced.
There we're three thousand bales Of cot
ton raised in ono southern county Of Illinoia
this season.
DARCY McGee, The renegade Irish crater,
who became the licksplttle Of the Canadian
loyalists, has an CELEBRATED ancls." Hil
hesrt was always On ulcer.
Within ten years, six evening paperl
have been started in Indianapolis. Thu
longest lived was I've years. and the short
est three days.
Dickens hes refused q, 900 Chicago o.
| fss he runs his own seadiugs, and II there
b money 10 bs made out Of them, he pro
poses TO make il.
1T. L." painted on piece Of clapboard
10 the only mark over the grave Of Lin
coins father.
The iavsntesy Of ths sstate Of Eliza
Howe, Jr., inventor Of the sewing machine
| 6lod ia the Probate Court d Fairfield, Con
necticut, amounts TO 36l6,000.
The New York Express says that fifty
thousand men are out Of employment il
that city, end three thousand girls ere look
ing for "places," and can end none.
The Connecticut legislature has passed I
1 I4V MAKING IL CItWIOol VueuC0 W ueuous
hotel or boarding house keepers out Of thei
bills. This will make "freuch leave" un
popular.
John Brown, Jr., Of Put in Bay, son o
old John Blown, was taken TO the Lunati
Asylum at Nswberg Ohio, last week. Th
disease is hereditary ia the family.
A hacxman At Bridgeport cut of his fin
ger in . hay cutter few days since. tool
the disembered part to his wife. who sews,
il on, bound 1t up, and from last accounts
it is healing up finely.
A woman was bsnished from town b,
the authorities Of New Haven, because Oh
allowed man not her husband, to kiss her
But that Was in 1913; they do things didss
emily there now.
Most Of our exchanges agree that the Fl
MAN cause is gaining in strength, by il
complications with the rights Of nsturalizs
American citizens. - the late great meet
ings in New York, st. Louis and Bostol
give evidence.