Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-05-30
DAILY DEMOCRAT.
GENERAL NEWS.

James Gordon BENEFITS income last year
was Si67, 900.
Montans expects to raise grain enough
this year TO feed itself.
A company to insure plate glass windows
has ben starred in New York.
The Empress Eugene is.forty-two years
| old.
The Hcoi lie bore has cost Massachusetts
! 81, 600 oCo; aud will cost $4,000, coo more
Chicago streets are being rebaptized into
avenues.
The Prince of Wales wants 10000
more income.
Goat Island, Niagara Falls, is to be light
I'd by gas.
Chicago IL going to build new draw
bridge over the river At Twelfth street.
Cslsden, the latest color fashion. 10 mix
turs o: pea-grsen and orange
Capt. John G. Goblin returns the largest
income in st. Lous-tlS2, 900.
A monument TO The rebel dead of Bull
Run is being talked OF.
Over twelver hundred milliOo tons of ice
are stored in New York..
A man in New Hampshire crawled .
quarter Of mile in.satisfsction Of an cleo
ton bet.
Davy Crockstts farm in Gibson Co.,
Tenn, consisting Of 300 acres, is for sale.
Vim. NJ. Evarts, ono Of the Presidsnt's
counsel, isa grandson Of Roger Sherman.
The Harmony Co. at Cohoss. made
| 1890, 600 Yards Of cloth last month.
The new Tabernacle at Salt Lake, holds
| 10, 900, and is already too small.
Vermont has copper mine at vershirs
which raises annually 5000 tons OF ore.
The American Antiquarian Society Of
Boston has find Of e6l sos.
New Orleans claims the most miles Of
street railway Of any city in the world.
The rebel dead on Johnson's Island are
to be removed to the mainland.
Napisr's elephants became 10 foot sore
that they were obliged to wear boots.
Wheat will Be ready for harvesting In
Georgia In about two weeks.
A silver wedding has been celebrated in
Indiana, much to the establishment of the
citizens of that State Of divorce.
Paris has sbsinthe clubs, the members Of
which pledge themselves to drink no other
liquid.
Ssratoga trunks are now made OF wicker
work, which 10 much lighter than ths usual
material, and about % durable.
An almost unbroksn grain Asld Of $780,
900 acres exists in Paradise Valley, Cali
iornia.
The wholesale price Of lager beer 10 TO bs
advanced from Sl2 to tll per barrel in
New York.
New York seems to have gone stark mad
on the monogram question. A monogram
dinner was given to bridal party the 9TH
Or day q which the surname initiate Of oil
the guests formed the combined initials Of
the bride and groom.
Bonner, 10 copying favorable notices Of
the press on removing 70 his new iron and
marble building. says no has but one thing
to add, which he accordingly adds, viz:
II is paid for
A legal decision has been made in New
York to the effect that bank 10 liable II
its paying teller pronounces check or GER
t6cats good, even although it be forgery.
provided the holder Of the check aot on the
statement Of the teller, and suffers loss
thereby.
The Sioux City Register says: "A large
number Of emigSant wagons are arriving in
cur city every day, and the reports are that
still more are coming. The influx Of pop
ulation this spring il much in excess Of
that Of any previous year, and from pres
snt indications the farming population Of
our county will be nearly doubled during
the present summer"