Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1867-11-18
DAILY DEMOCRAT.
GENERAL NEWS.

Sunday is the great market day in Buff
islo, Kew York.
II 10 feared that the Dutch dykes are
giving way.
Coal in walrussa is good for nothing, az
ter oil.
Eyvptiau cotton 10 being introd icel into
South Carolina.
There are 12ooo blind people in the
United States
Coolies are cheaper in Jamaica, selling at
go apiece.
Suicides for the last eish. years in Eng
land average 800 year.
manufacturer in Normandy, France, has
lost IS. Oo0, 900 by the fall in cotton.
Chris,y's Minstrels are popular in Lon
don. They have performed $50 consecutive
nights.
In Vienna, last year. the legitimate births
we're ~ ,9i3, and the illegitima,e 1892.
Philadslphia claims to be the greatest
manufacturing city in the world, except
| London.
A Sabbath school teacher in Col umbus,
| Ca, offers circus tickets as rewards OF msr-
IT,
The councils Of New Albany, Ind, have
decided 10 permit geese to run at large.
prudent resolution, perhaps.
TIE Minneapolis Tribune says that the
lumber mills there will soon be obliged to
shut up for wan, Of legs.
A French doctor says that the fermented
milk Of mares will cure consumption.
Southern Illinois has sent enc million
boxes Of peaches 10 market this season.
The Detroit papers announce that winter
has fairly begun in that latitude.
The drought in Central Illinois is greater
than has been known for many years.
Three men were caught poisoning horses,
in Trempeleau county, Wisconsin, recently.
This is far worse than stealing them.
The Germans Of ST. Louis have succeed
ed in obtaining the repeal Of the Sunday
liquor law in that city.
Hiram Powers, the sculptor, has made
t2oo, 900 by his art in Italy during the past
twenty years.
Picapockets, disguised as Quakors, rob
bed numbers Of the Friends at their recent
yearly meeting in Baltimore.
The young lady who burst into tears has
been put together again, and is now wear
ing hoops to prevent the recurrence Of The
accident.
Quebec is prepared for siegc. Eighty
guns are mounted and seven years provis
ions for 5000 men are always kept OF
hand.
Gen. Sheridan 10 yet in the show busi
ness.
Prof. Alexander Herschell predicts I
grand meteoric display in this country scm'
time in November.
Washington 10 to have sseiooical gar
den. The animals will begin 70 assenbl,
about the time Congress meets.
The Church Union, Of New York, nomi
mates Fred Douglass for che Presidency.
A recent arrival at Paris is that Of com
pany Of Aiassouas, among whose tricks sr'
chewing glass and tearing out their eyes.
The Chinese claim to have discovered
America from the West thousand year.
before Columbus.
Robt. Lincoln is said to 10 . smart law
yer. lie calls his mother insane, but doesn' 4
think il is hereditary.
The Chicago Republican says that "th'
practicable demand Of the age 10 for 4 wo
man who can cook . beeisteak.'
When people compare the difference be
tween pass book and cash prices, they find
it pays them 20 buy for cash.
1t ia reported that Hon. John Morrissey
Won ga, 900. wager on the election o
O'Biien, the Tammany candidate for Sterit
Of New York.
The New York Sunday paper gives is'
Of men in that city who have made large
fortunes by the war. Is Occupies four col
umns.
Dickens refused to make an engagement
to give one night of readings in Rochester
unless guaranteed 81 800.