Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1867-12-16
DAILY DEMOCRAT.


Ths bed OF the Monon saheia river, Il
Pi,ls,urg, is sprinkled every day 70 lay the
dust.
There is lively young woman in scran-
ton. Pennsylvanis, who wants TO run & 10 Z
race for ~ enty dollars side
The c,y gas Of Boston costs $4,000 a
week. The city is going ~ p.sitioa tie
next legislature for leave to build rev
works.
AK. II. Stephens is TO be in New York
during the latter part OF December, when
he will address tie people.
A large Union School At Coustantinopls
for Christian ard Mohammedan children 10
one Of The fret fruits Of ihs SultAA's visit to
civilized Europe.
Editorial dignity can hardly be very
highly regarded In Canada. For threading
m editor in Guelph, man Gas fined two
dollars and half.
Milwaukee has officially decided the val.
ue Of . mans beard. In . fightA rufiau
awarded him fifteen dollars damage.
The Supreme Court ct Boston has de-
cided that hack drivers cannot collect extra
charges, even where previously agreed
upon.
Rome contains 2l5, 1873 inhabitants, an in
crease Of twenty per cent. in ten years
The population comprises 5,l9A regular
clergy and monks, or one to less than forty
two PERSONS. There are also B ,2l5 nuns.
Aman in Sutton, Vt, hid $500 in United
States bonds in . straw bed, and when the
straw WAS afterward changed and the old
bed dun. into the pig-pen, he suddenly re-
membered his treasure-too late. The pigs
had made litter OF his bonds.
A newspaper firm in Mississippi has re-
Gently flied . petition in bankruptcy.
Among the assets given in schedule b is a
list of subscribe Who are in arrears.
Daniel Webster used TO say that the
word would in Rufus Choate's hand
writing, rsssmbled a small gridron struck
By lightning.
An old lady Was found one day last week
ia Louisville watching by the bed side Of .
dsughser who bad become alunatic through
starvation. Neither had tsstsd food for
several Gays.
Henry Wsrd Bescher received &25 900
tae story was longer than WAS anticipated
an additiossl Eve thousand has been paid
VIM F. Story. Of the Chicago Times, has
sued the editor of tho Princeton Patriot for
SANDER, claiming 100000 damages. The
charge, il 10 believed, Was undue intimacy
with . colered woman.
Clement c. vAllandigham is 10 lecture be
fore the students Of the Wesleyan Univsr-
sity, Ohio, on the 18th. The Republican
students invited Fred. Douglas and Wen
dell Phillips, end the Deoocratic students
went to work aud secured Mr. vallandig
ham.
The ETERNAL WoaD.-No fragment Of On
army ever survived 30 many battles IS The
Bible no citadel ever withheld 80 many
sisges; no rock wss ever shattered by %
many hurricanes and 80 swept BY storms
And yet it stands 1t has seen the rise and
dow nfAll Of Daniels four empires. Assyris
bequeaths . few mutilated figures to ths
riches Of our national museum. Media and
Persia, like Babylon which they conquered
have been weighed in the balance, and long
ago found wanting. Greece family sur
wives in its historic time: ''Tis living
Greece no moro; and the iron Rome of th'
C@ssrs is held in precarious occupation BY I
fee 10 hand. And yet the Rock that fore
tells all this survives. While nations
kings, philosophers, systens, institutions
have died away, the Bible now engsge'
mems deepest thoughts. is examined BY thu
kesnest intellects, stands revered before thu
highest tribunals, is more read and sifsed
and debated, more devotedly loved, ant
more vehsmently assaiied, more defended
and more denied, more industfiously trans
lated and freely given to the world, more
honored and more abused than any booh
the world ever saw. II survives all changes
itself unchanged; IL sees al things decay
itself uncorruptible F; it secs myriads Of 9th
Or books engulfed in the stream Of time
ret it 10 borne along triuuphsn,ly on thu
wave; and will be borne along till the mys
tic angel shall plant his foot upon the Sea
and swear BY him that lveth forever an,
ever. that time shall be no longer. 'Fo,
oil assh il - grass, and all the glory o
many - the flower Of grass. The grasi
withereth, and the flower thereof falletf
away; but the Word Of the Lord snduresi
| forever"