Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1867-12-09
DAILY DEMOCRAT.
GENERAL. NEWS.

The Roman States owe x95,0oo,v Vo.
The North German Z,ilyerein has four
hundred and Thirty tso members.
Dickens receives sixty letters day re-
ques;ing his autograph.
Oil wells are being worked at Assam, in
British India.
E,thsy years since Calcutta got beer
from Philadelphia.
A hslrbot,le Of wine daily for each ir..
habitan, l. produced in Italy. !
Henry Wsri Beecher has his paper man
uf,ctrred expressly, the ruling being far
enough apart TO admit Of legiblc inter
lining.
Honduras wants to borrow three thou
sand infants, because many Of it's young
people have died of.
The prospect Of building railroad from
Rock Island to Alton, thence TO 81. Louis,
| is being revived.
There are 40, 900 children in Manehsstss
| Eng, Who do aos attend school,
I, has been prophesed that we are to have
thirty -four heavy snow storms this winter.
The city authorities Of Elmira. n. Y, win
allow no gift concerts OF shows to :ake
place in that city.
An unprncipied scoundrel 10 stealing the
stoves from the district school houses in
Rock Island county.
The frame work Of the Paris exhibition
building, which is to be sold, weighs a.
900. 900 pounds.
Brunette powder is advertised in London
aud Paris.
Kansas City MOI papers quote horses
at from $50 to s45.
From the Rocky Mountains to New York
is only four days journey.
| There is . man in Brooklin. N. Y, who
feeds his family on 800 year.
The original name Of Brooklin was
| Breuckelen.
| Louis Napoleon is accused of loosing l.
600 600 francs 10 three months gambling.
California is gong extensively into the
culture Of castor beans.
An African conuror, who eats half =
wine glass, is exhibiting in London.
Commodore Mutt will soon lead the love
y Mss Minnies Warren TO the altar.
The New York Academy Of Music lets
for 81. 200 for one ball night
Usury laws have been wholly abolished
by the North German Parliament.
Detroit claims that ten thousand Of its
population are emigrants from the British
provinces.
The FIJI cannibals haye murdered and
eaten Rev. S. Baker, . Wesleyan mission
ary, and six natives.
| /nocst.,l - ut,J
wing medicine. OF course he'll be .
Thompsonian doctor.
There is female base ball club at Cold
water, Mich.
The New Bedford Mercury thinks the
present style of bonnets are better cslcula-
lated for kiss than blow.
Admiral Porter says he never saw very
old sailor Sailors generally die young Of
hardship and neglect.
There 10 fig tree in Ceylon over two
thousand years old. Il WAS planted two
hundred and eighty years before Christ.
The London Times has . subscriber .
hundred years old, who has read that paper
since it was first started.
Mr.. Charles Dickens Is writing a story
for the Atlantic Monthly, which will be com
me need in the January number.
The last valuation Of the property Of the
State Of Ohio 10 $l,14o. 900. 900 nearly one
half enough to pay the national debt.
John Perry OF Oxford. Conn, died in
1926, and left one thousand dollars in gold
buried near the centre Of town. 1t still
awaits q discoverer.
x,Whte fish are unprecedentedl abundant
At Green Bay. The Advocate knows Of TO-
600 pounds that were shipped by express
one week
Divers are diving for sunken treasure in
the by Of St. Thomas. In one Of the
wrecked stesmers-the Rhons-t there are
five millions Of specie.
An Alderman was heard the other day
getting off the following specimen of what
be called corporation" logic: IAN hui
man things are hollow; I'm human thing,
therefore I'm hollow. II is contemplate 70
be hollow, therefore I'll stuff myself IS full
as l'm able"