Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1867-03-12
DAILY DEMOCRAT.


1t cost 81 ,792 to carry q IN OIL etters
across the Atlantic.
Ciic.ro is the centre Of Ave Thousand
miles Of rsilrosd track.
RAILWAY WORKING. There are about one
hur bred ard fifty thousand mtn employed
or The railway Of Great Britain.
The SUN Of shad in the Georgia and
South Carolina rivers has been small this
Q .asop.
Mrs Jennie Nash OF Maryland, logged
her dcfamsr, Babcock, one day and married
her lover Bachelor, the next.
Mr.. William Gilmore Simmis. besides
the serial be Is contributing 70 Democratic
monthly, has completed novel plsssingIy
entitled THE Ghost Of Ny Husband.
Ststson, of the Astor House pays rent
Of t57 900 wear without the stores, which
rent for - much more.
Murray, the London publisher, is said to
have made three hundred thousand dollars
last year by his publications.
The Duke OF Rutlands estate extends to
tershire, England.
A foot bridge is 70 be bailt at Niagara
Falls, across the rivera little below the
Clifton House.
In st. Paul negro boy in blue" slept
on, in the col four nights without q : u.
within one square Of where Tilton was lec>
turing humanity and the elevation Of the
imam and brother"
An exchange says ahat extensive exam.
nations in western Pennsylvania show that
the lruit has not been injured by the hard
freezing this winter. The same report is
made from New Jersey. There is now
every sson to hope that fruit will be sbun>
dant this year and an & consequence will te
cheap.
A singular accident happened At Malone,
New York, last week. A boy named las
,ngs who was sitting on fence watching
q freight train pass. lost his balance and fell
cT he struck his face d,wn in the snow,
and slid head forward down the embank-
mcnt, under the wheels Of the train, and
was instantly crushed.
A Lafayette. Ind, paper says Miss
Fannie Short died recently from skating.
Six or eight weeks ago she exposed her
self on the ice and though blessed with q
fine constitution and perfect health fell .
prev to consumption and died. She was TO
have been married in the Spring.
rooR woman and her little child lstsly
settled in Western city and were greatly
reduced and in need Of food. The child
- l.. -. I'll
to kill il and have pos-pic. mo, no,
said the mother, that would be wicked,
and God would surely punish you" "rhen,
said the younester, looking up, "lst's move
back to Boston, there amt any God there. "
INFLUENCE OF WIvEs.-It WAS not oil Z
dream which made TN wife Of julius Ce-
scr 80 anxious that he should not 30 to the
Senate chamber on that fatal ldss Of March;
and had he complied with her enreaties he
might have escaped the dagger Of Brutus.
Disaster followed disaster in the career oil
Napoleon, from the I me he ceased 20 feel
the balance wheel of Josephine's influence
on his impetuous spirit. Our own Wash.
iuBtoiis wueu iupoitSht 4uoSttouo WeIe SUI
mitted to him, often has said that be should
like to carry the subject to his bedchambcr
before he had formed his decision and
those who knew the clear judgment and
elevated purpose Of Mrs. Washin gton
thought al the better of him for wishing
to wake her his confidential counsellor -
Indeed, the great majority Of men. who
have acquired FOE themselves . good and
great name, were not only married men
tut happily married = both paired and
| matched.