Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1867-10-30
DAILY DEMOCRAT.
1,EyEsAv. NEWS.

G.eela,'s salary is 81 800. He is worth
rs crnts.
Utah has church property worth nine
hundred thousand dollars.
Pualc-spirited B,s,onians demand pub
lie Park Of three or four hundred acres.
In one ward i'm Milwaukee there have
been expended sl25, goo IN street improve
menis.
Twenty-ssven thousand dollars in bullion
vas shineed from Central City TO Denver,
on tic 20!h inst
The new Unitarian Schoo! at Boston for
rreparing yourg men for the university,
has begun with thirteen students.
The United States Government has sent
. steam fire engine TO Alaska. Query: To
melt the ice =
s. s. Cox thinks that either Thurman or
Rsnney will get 70 the U. 9. Senate before
Vallsnd CHAM or PendletoD.
Cornell University will open its doors for
students next September, with an available
income Of $4,000 year.
The new Central Congregational Church
building in Boston has coat &270.000. The
pews are appraised At from $50 TO 1000
each.
The sales OF real estate 10 Pittsburg have
been greater this season than At any period
Of its past history.
The Government pays $751; cents a
bushe for corn al Fort Arbuckle, in the In
dian territory.
The porgy oil manufacture in Maine last
year amounted TO $4,000, 900 in value, and
the guano to 100000.
The dome of the State House At Boston
has been painted light drab color, and no
longer locks like huge pumpkin ripening
in the sum-.
A black lead mine has been discovered
near Lewiston, Maine.
A fountain 10 about 10 be erected in Bos.
ton, in honor Of the discoverer Of ether.
St. Joseph. Missouri, claims I'll increase o +
46t per cent. in her population last year.
Ninety thousand dollars worth Of Nicol.
son pavement has just been laid in Colum
bus, Ohio.
Pittsburg. Penn, has two hundred and
one firms who did business Of over $780,
600 last year. The most Of them ere man.
ufscturers Of iron, steel, glass, DO.
The nominators Of Grant are trying TO
squeeze letter out Of him, and they think
they will get one before the November cleo
tons.
The Philadelphia North American com
piments man for making an "ofi-hand and
sutoschediastic' speech.
The rumor OF years ago, that Louis Ma
poleon had lost his mind. was recently re-
| vived. His trouble does not lie in that di.
| rection.
A New Jersey family, W name Budd, are
said 10 be claimants for an English estate Of
two hundred and fifty millions-in Air
shire probably.
The Norwich. Conn.,, water works will
cost $233, $40. The capacity Of the reser
voir is to be 1873, 900, 900 gallons.
A Bolivian commissioner has been in
Philade. phis purchasing machinery for the
Bolivian mint, which his Government is
about 30 remodel after the American plan.
Fletcher Harper is the editor of the new
Harpers BaZsr, and better than Fletcher,
more sprightly, versatile and enlightened,
could not be found.
The Montreal authorities offer, an an in
centve TO prompt payment Of taxes, 10 re-
ceve % per cent. Of the amount in silver.
ST. Louis has the largest skating rink in
This country. One thousand skaters can
perform their evolutiops 1t one time upon
it, and four thousand spectators sit and
look on.
A Wisconsin paper says the sanount Of
lumber put into the rivers o! that reg ion
this season is only abont one third the usu-
nj average, or in round numbers fifty mil
lion feet
The Concord (N. H. Statesman says it
has been informed BY one Of the trustees OF
Dartmouth College tina. Mr.. John Went
worth, OF Chicago. had given I Il 0 900 to the
general fund OF that institution.
A census of Minneapolis, Mimi, shows
$50 population. The nativties are -
Minnesota, 1919; New England States, /,
502; New York, 7o7; Ireland, Gil; Germa-
ny, 497. e..
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