Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1867-12-02
DAILY DEMOCRAT.


Raisius are being made 10 California.
French hcus 10y 700, 900, 600 eggs year.
Wild geese are huskins lots Of corn in
Indiana
Two hundred and ninety newspapers
are published ia Indiana.
Superior building granite has been dis
covered in Minnesota.
yermnnt has rejected bill allowing .
higher rate OF interest than per cent.
A Kentucky judge decides that green
lacks are not legal tender.
Sylvsnus Cobb succeeds Mr.. Beecher -
ser al story writer in the Ledger.
Tburlsw Weed compares the Blairs 10
the itch. Weed knows what the itch is
the itch for greed.
The total number Of deaths from yellow
fever 10 Menph this seasos VAS 1872.
The earnings Of the Chicago and North
western Railway Company in the second
week Of Noveubss we're $3.50, 029.
Corn sells Tor forty sso,s bushel and
cotton for eight csnts pound io Texas.
just one half Of the American exhibitors
in the Paris Exposition received rewards.
Colorado Objects 10 giving up any Of its
territory to the new organization Of we
ming.
The Cincinnati Gazette thinks Kathrina
hes too much of DIR. Holland. IL 10 good
poetry for al that.
Navigation in the northern lakes and
rivers has been generally closed BY tho late
COLI snap.
Lady Franklin has gone to Cashmere,
Persia, TO spend the winter.
| A Bostonian has inverted kettle which
will boil nine different articles at tine
each by itself.
Two tons Of prepared sponge for uphol-
STEERING are manufactured daily in Lebanon
n. H.
| Charlotte Cushman 10 said 70 be worth
100000 which brings an annual income
Of about $50. 900.
The value Of live stock sold at the Union
Stock Yards, Chicago, during the month Of
October, was 81 252 ,26o.
The Troy Times says one Of the supper
ten in that city is to erect mansion ut Z
cost Of $3.50 ,oUo.
Last year corn Was selling at GAINESVILLE.
Ga, At 81, per bushel il 10 now worth
forty cents.
Edward Harris the great wooden manu-
facturer Of " oonsockst, X. l. pays taxes
this year on tg4s. 900.
Two German literary wseklies, the Car
tenlaube aud the Daheim, have . circula
ton Of about $50. 900 copies each.
Boston says her merchants are doing
more business these dull times than those
Of any other city in the Union.
"Ths attaches Of the New York Herald
ere ~ bs unitormed."
A numerous spothscary in Boston expo
ses case Of soap in HE show window with
the pertinent inscription, "Chsaper than
DIRT"
leo has closed the Kennsbsc aud Psnob
scot river . earlier this year than in any
for the last half century.
Eleven million francs were received 70,
admission to the French Exhibition, over
five millions Of which were profit.
Tho n u Times counts Ssmmes' turn
ing lectures the last Of "Raphael's trans
'ig1rations."
Thackeray epeaks of . place in Irelan;
whore the sense Of elegance Vas % keen
that the servants brought up tho coal fol
the Iarlor crate on clean plate.
Tennessee 10 debating the passage Of I
dog Law, one Of the provisions Of which
shall exempt one dog in each family frou
taxation.
George ID. Prentice says Of FitE Greene
IIalleck, just dead. His soul WAS thing
Of eternal beauty and music aud sun
shine"
One Of the Boaton churches has moi
becn lighted since the general illumination
in honor Of the peace With Eng and II
1915.
Frederic Hudson, late managing editor o
the N. Y. Herald, u SIC, 900 . year, begar
in that office IS a messenger boy at q salarJ
Of q . week.
The larger grocers Of Philadelphia hAv,
been cheating Uncle Sam 70 the extent o
100000, by selling aardines, pickles, pre-
serves, etc, without stamps.
Oberlin College has gained suit whic
confirms its title 10 nearly 10000 acres o
land in Doddridge county, Va. The sui
|, has been pending Tor six years.
An old house still stands at Day ton, o.
which was the frst he~ed log house in th
city. In 1907 it was n tavern, and At off
ferent times served AS court house, jail, jus
tees office, tailor shop, store. military head
anarters, arsenal, ordinance bureau, LOAF
office, etc.
Somebody says that tie new Heralt
building at New York Somehow remind
; one Of AL old fashioned ~ bottomsiie up
With the ground tier Of port holes in tn
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