Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-09-15
DAILY DEMOCRAT.
GENERAL NEWS

There is to be great Imperial horse
show Al Mesccs rex; year.
Tie U8-e sshoc Falls 81 Niagara have re-
cedcd six ieet il The last year.
Marylsnd horses are dyi's in great = I'm.
bers from the epidemic.
presie mt johnson pas ais al r.-hand
eritsr s. 500 yssr.
whealeg, Inc lessee Of Nialo'a Theatre,
has retired with fortune Of 800 coo.
The British Treasury vas sser' Il
revenue l..t gear sls,ooo.oeo
Bayard Taylor arrived a. New York from
Europe on w ednesday.
Young men Of nineteen at S.l. Lake
must marry or pay Bri ham $500
Tho leading lecturers have reduced ,heir
prices for the coming SESSION.
George Francis Train ia IN an Irish piis-
on for debt, aud his daughter drives sly
lisn'team at Newport.
Til. Italian GoYermen. has sold ,he to-
ba,,o monopoly for twenty years for $40
600, coo.
Tennysons income from his works is
adou. Z 600 pouads per snnum.
The Grand Lodge Of the United STATES
Od4 Fellows will NEE, q; Baltimore on Mon
dap, September Fl.
PENNSYLVANIA has four thou,snd miles Of
railway, or mere than any other STATE IN the
Union.
The Killbourn C;ty WIS Mirror reports
that $4,000 womei are picking hops in
Columbia county, ia that State.
Chewing the leaf OF The red saihed pan
tain is said to be certain care for tobacco
chewing. Bu; which is worst?
AGerman s,atis,cau has found that UNI
vsrsal,y the deaths ars most rumeio Gus IN
Tho frs. four months Of the year
A Soa,hern weather prcpho. predicts
that the first fross OF the season will oicur
OF the Esd Of SEPTEMBER.
A fas. Turk broke tie Baden Baden
tank nine times in succession. lie Is the
mos- desperate gambler Germany has sesn
for years.
The gushing and muscular girls Of
Broos Ivn are organizing Base Ball Cub,
and, # course, will b. really 10 make up
match.
Franklin Pierce, whe has hsea danger
ou.ly IN! is now hopeful Q. recovery.
One Of the weal.hie., citizens Of Nash
villa received bankrup, notices from his
debters, during last week, amounting to
the biz sum of s20S,o0o.
valuable jewel, stolen from the Royal
Treasury at Lisbon two years ago, was re-
Gently recovered at Athens. II vas dis.
mond worth $3.50. 900.
The chief restaurant Of Ilomburg, Ger
many, employs two hundred and fifteen
persons, among which figure thirty cooks
and sevsnty-6vs walters.
The grain crop in California this year
will be immense. AZ least 20,o00,0oo
bushels Of wheat have been harvested. The
grape crop is also above the aversge.
Flora Temple, the famous trotting mare.
is stall living, At the age OF twenty three,
and lstely presented her owner, Mr. Welch
Of Chestnut lille, Pennsylvania, with =
'oal, which will rival her cid exploits, per-
haps.
1t costs 500 o cut down one Of the Zig
trees of California. 1t ought to COS.
million.
A party OF surveyors has lately discov
cred offensive ruins en- the banks Of the
Little Colorado river, in Arizona, which ex
tended along the banks of the river for
mics. I'll. walls Of the buildings ere n
some cesos SIX or eight fss; high, and cd
csnals can BIZ plainly seen,
I.isssid that Thad. Stevens biography
is to Be wri EN- BY Mrs Smith his mistress
in the Kentucky style
Sturgeon rays: rio world maintains
lis players and tddlels far better than the
Christian c. urch.remuneralcs its minis
ters and ANGER or an ac:er viii receive
more taan lie most learned and eGiiy ing
divine
The Roman Catholics are building, in
Columbus, Ohio, cathedral one hundred
by one hundred and eighty seven icet in
dincnsi rs. with tower tso hundred aud
fifty fest in height. Ihe style will be tina.
known stiic E.sy English.
Til, State If Michigan i about T. erect
soldiers monument. which will cost s74.-
600. Q: this sem SIS 900 has already bsen
scared. |. viii ntain eleven pieces Of
s,siulrY, t-o ba5 Q reievo., and four a.
legoriesl figures