Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1867-08-08
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The "odcst inhabltant Of Muscntin-
has been taking TO the touricr about the
+ Mi>sisslppi.
4 Misca'ine j. infested with "a gang %.
thieves. who are becoming more bold aul
successful every day.
The Omaha Repubii-dn says that NJ less
than one thou and buildings, Of all classes.
all be erected IN that city this year, 1t
says the RIVER commerce alone ha, mo- e
than quairuplet within "a single year. Ad-
led 10 this. the tTains Of the Chicago and
Northwestrra Rtiiread have brought direct
J from thr Etsi nearly. or gate rs much
general merchandise a. was imported h, all
the channels oi communication IN 1866.
some OF the friends Of lion. Plat Smith.
OF Dubuque, have Jast ties, fled their respect
lnd esteem ~ presenting hun costl,
watch tsiSul and chsis SlSo1 and cam,
with head of sohd god. Mavor Graves
made the presentation speech The same
party also Presented to Mrs. Smith an e'c>
CANT silver >et--a sa!yer, a pltc"er, ard two
sobets-c costing $3.50. The Times improves
he occasion 10 give an interesting personal
HISTORY oil Mr.. smith, extending back to
1859 when he c me Ia lonn fr IN Rensselaer,
county. New York, and settled at Maquoheta.
jackson county. He was then twenty Sin
years OF age, aud a carpenter 10y trade Be
my called upon by a neighbor one day TO
defend HIM IN u sur, he attracted the atten>
ton OF his opponent whose defeat he
causcd) who urged him to enter upon the
study of law. Working days and study.
ins nights and at odd spells Re soon made
himself master Of his new profession and
commenced lucrative practice. In ls43
he moved 10 Dubuque and began career
OF great prosperity. He has been foremos,
IN all public enterprise for the advancement
OF that city aud the northern part Of the
State. Tie IS now one Of the leading spirits
IN building = bridge across the Mississ mi
at that point.
PRorEssoR AcAssI1 thinks that this world
OF ours Is somewhat venerable in its Years
Reasoning from the nature and mode OF
construction Of the coral reefs along the
Florida coast alone, he finds that they mus,
have been commenced At least seventy
thousand years since, and probably two OF
three times that number this is correc,
Then tor this enormous cycle Of time. the
earth we live upon has existed in the same
physical cordition a. now, and the several
"sher periods Of its differing state, as ind
Gated by geolo.ists. must have been long
anterior TO the date Of its presen; aspec. =
Nha These PRIOR nai,Ions probably occu.
lrd Hs'lcd> as great or greater than the
present. The world must be rather Old ac
'o'a'ilS IN TINS mo le of demonstration -
nat small portion Of it, age dc our rec
ords reach.
4 Yorsa man thirty three wears old
named Albert W lls. vas srre.,ed ut w,
ces,er. Mass no, long aeo. where he has -
vile living, and taken To- Salem II. for en-
hezz!'ng eighteen hundred dollars from
Adams Express Company, while acting a,
The latter place as its agent His education
IS superb; he Is an excellent scholar. ,sn
converse uuently in German, French and
Italian, is ,olersbly conversant with Latin
and Greek. an admirable penman, and an
uncomnonly unique te!egrapher. He can
receive and transmit by sound messages by |
'e'esrsph At the same moment. He can |
~rte at one time or two sheets of paper. I
~" n'> right hand and left hand. In a
oeao''''i s''le # chirocrsphy Being OF
very courteous and preto.s;ng manpc,s :,
:, sain' ne "orkcd upon the feeling. of ,bs
.aie attaches of the prison and o. r..
~. " al and escaped. but was suhseou.n,
= ''''"e"' and Is now awaiting trial
II IL said that the pes,;,en,;., a.:
which has recently prevailed aro u,ssase
Arab tribes in the valley Of the E nnhss. .ne
is the 'e'i.able plague Of o,he. DAYS Tas
hrs' recorded general plague occurred n !"
about 16I. Another terrible plague SUI,
over Carthage B. @. 5SA. during when tbs
ieop'e sacrificed their children 10 apne.se
."e angry gods. plague in Rome and
s.e',".y, about u. c. 4Gl. carried of a hun
area thousand victims, and all alonr ,lo
ises; 10 lse4 .. when the great plseae of
no.aon swept fr' m siaty.eieht to ore
nunu'eu thousand persons-snd even down
20 'ne seVent OF the Asiatic cholera in 1899.
So-wn'en carried OF nearly a million Of
persons IN Europe ard Asia alone ill the .
49, ~ w. ".. = .ssee modern times hiss the /