Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1867-12-10
STATE STEMa.

The Register says that the c., r. 4
P. road has completed passenger depot ct
Des Moines.
Col. Shane, formerly Of the 9Th Iowa In
fau,ry, has recently opened stock farm IN
Csro Gordo county.
The total tax levied upon Mitchell county
for the present year is s6a.9S5.
Polk county has 100 sub Districts. 7.1l7
persons between the ages OF and 81 years;
l06 schools $3.50 pupils attending average
Attendance, 2,T39 number male teacherF
= fomtls, 81 /; average compensation d
male teachers Pes week, $1,000, femse
$500 aggregate number Of days schools
have been taught during the past year, g.
Cos; average cost Of tuition per week 10
winter schools, 29c; summer do, 25c ; az
gregate amount paid teachers during The
year, ga, l44.s9; s brick, frame II, log
8, fetal. 70 ; total value school houses, tsl,
1900. repairs and furnishing, $6,7l254,
Libraries, &25, rent, $4,000, fuel. 81, 1872
SO; appropriation for teachers fund. a.,
92O.t7, annual spportionment, tl2,175.l3,
value apparatus, &5l5 9o-all Of which We
copy from the Register.
The Courier says that three new buildings
have been completed in Muscatinc this
year the aggregate cost Of which was over
100000.
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Government lands were sc,d at the Fort
Dodge efIice in October.
The same pepper says that A. 3. White
has been buying up the refusal Il al the
gypsum beds about Fort Dodge, and has
got cut specimens TO DO placed on exhibi-
ton at Chicago, indianapolis and 81. Louis,
with the view OF attracting the attensing Of
capitalists. and ultimately leading TO the
| formation Of company for the purpose o.
manufacturing plaster of paris at that point
Mr.. White las bought thirty one sores Of
very fine gypsum land, and has got the re-
fusal Of the most Of the remaining gypsum
beds around here. We have no doubt be
vii. succeed in this Lew enterprise, for any
person Of business sagscity must see a
once that there will be vast amount O
money made out Of these gvpssm beds d
no distant day. We believe he paid IS high
a. $50 per acre for some of the beds he ha.
, bought.
Tho Oskaloosa Consssvaler says that q
/ two young ladies' were riding on horseback
near Spring Creek, about ore mile east o
town. an animal in human shape. assaulted
them, and pulling one Of them from hc
horse. attempted to violate her person, bu
the other lady returned TO house near BY
, and gave the alarm. when The villain, afte
having threatened to choke. kill, etc, faile'
in his attempt for want Of time to accomplish
bis hclish object, and fed but has not beef
, found.
t The Hawkeys says that the work on I'll
Burlington Bridge goes on outstanding
the inclcment weather. Four Of tho pier
+, in the river are completed, and another on
u done all but the cap stones. The diver
II commenced yesterday to drive out the SAM
and ell in the stone around the piles of TIT
draw ier. The caison for this per is nov
being put together. l. will probably b.
three or four weeks before the stonelayinI
y on it will be commenced. We are told tina
the stone OF the draw pier can be laid in 4
Z days Of good weather
|
:, Tue New Tammany Hall in New Yori
has assumed gigantic proportions. TIL,
side walls are UP aud the frame Of the roo
is on, and The building towers high abov.
its neighhor--the Academy Of Music Their,
is s. much work yet to hc done, that
; don't SIC how it can be finished for ssyera
months; but it will surely be ready for
glorious Democratic Publication over the
election Of q Democratic President mex
year When it Is finished il will be, per
haps, the hugest political headquarters il
the woodland the handsomest A mag