Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1867-11-04
DAILY DEMOCRAT.
GENERAL NEWS.
Thurlow Weed is . millionaire.

Thurlow Weed is . millionaire.
new city railway is under construction
in New Orleans, on Canal and Claiborne
streets.
They are building and improving church
es in Toledo, Ohio, 70 the amount Of s2l0,-
Geo
Green Bay Wisconsin, is putting down
the Ncoson pavement, and building .
court house, to cost $oo.0oo.
Oxford University. Mississippi, has two
hundred and tn students, and is otherwise
prospecting.
The distance from Philadelphia 70 San
Francisco, BY way OF Chicago, j. three
thousand three hundred miiss.
The house in which General Zachary
TAYLOR was born. near Orange Court
House, Virginia, is now used - harm.
The squirrels have almost all disappear.
ed from the woods Of South Caroline sioes
the var.
Judge Ludlow, Of Philadelphia, has desi
ded that 20 dazzle the eyes Of people with .
looking glass is equivalent to an assault and
battery.
The Wabash river 10 now 50 low that the
ferries have Suspended operations, and
teams ford it as eli points with perfect safe
~.
Four inca cleared over Ave thousand dol
lars from q claim at Gold Run, California,
In twenty -four days.
The continued heavy rains have nearly
destroyed the cotton crop in South Florida.
The Atlanta (Ga.) Opinion has suspend
ed publication. The Opinion was Re-
publican daily paper.
The Buffalo Express says that Sunday is
now actually the important market day Of
the week in the cattle yards Of that city.
One hundred emigsants daily pass over
the Grand Trunk Railroad on the West.
A first class hotel is TO be put up in Prov.
idence next year. II is greatly needed.
The dram shops of ST. Louis received
over 100000 in September. according to
their own returns.
There has been large cranberry crop
in Wisconsin and Michigan. Prices are
low in consequences.
Queen Marie Of Hanover has been con.
verted TO the Roman Catholic faith.
The real estate sold during September in
San Francisco amounted to . million and
one quarter dollars.
The aggregate amount Of the city debt Of
Chsrleston, S. c., is FIVE million two hun
dred and fifty thousand dollars, bearing six
per cent. interest.
A large cave has been discovered In
Berks county, Penn. II Is three hundred
yards deep, and ends in yawning chasm.
The chasm has not been explored.
Darcy McGee, having signed the pledge
is no longer Tum'un.
Charles Astor Bristed cal's prohibitory
liquor laws aquarian legislation.
The queen OF Portugal will soon foist
another pensioner upon that unhappy ns-
ton.
The condition Of the empress Of Austria
10 such that she must be sick abed before
she RECEIVERS.
Isaac D. Snow, Of Bangor, Me-, accident
ally put his foot into pool Of molten iron,
and before he could take il out there was
nothing left Of il.
Oliver Wendell Holmes has taken up his
residence in Montreal temporafily-long
enough to make 1.-The Guardian Angel" u
British subject, entitled to the protection
Of English copyright laws.
In Alexandra, not long ago, a negro ate
so large biscuits ON . wager and WAS car
ried, not quite dead, by the spectators in
triumph.
The distance from Windsor castle to
Balmorial is Coz miles. and it costs about
$l0 900 for the queen and her attendants
In Aeau al AhaA