Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-12-22
| DAILY DEMOCRAT'


Senator S2ragus is prospecting for cettso
mills !, .Auycs;s, Ga.
81 j b. r4und this way in 4 min uts," 40
the second hand said TO the pendulum.
The Conductors Benevolent Assscisti, On
nov numbers ever 900 members.
Green Clay Smith has resigned the Gov
errorship of Montana.
Tia editor Of a Saratoga. N. T., paper
has gene TO the psor house.
Now York is to nave . banjo match for
81 900 this week.
Two crops or petatess have been raised
tbs season o. Florida patch.
The New York rag pickers can earn from
20 TO 40 cents per day.
Helen Western died in great poverty
Her effects we're pledged 70 pay the under
taker.
Awoman in Providence. within the past
eleven rnonths, has borne Ave children.
II is limited that the writers in the Pail
Mail Gszstts are all peers, and that even the
printers devil is . baron's son.
The Democrat says there are two thous
women in Rochester.
Baron Pothschid, by his will, left an
annuity Of . 800 francs TO every clerk who
has bsen ten years in his service.
A man eighty yesrs ofage, in Conway,
y. H., recently got married, and the dav
following dug his grave, to be ready, he
sad, for any contingency.
NJ Al - u,hl;sbaJ -,
either Of the Mexican States Of S.naloa,
Durango, Coahulla. Chihuahua ard Sonora,
Containing over coo 900 inhabitants. Du
range, with a population Sf 10000. has
only semi weekly.
I.abslla used to pay ner confessor about
IS ,0oo year, which was an allowance Of
cents each sin at.olvsd.
The Rev. Mr. Milburn, the welI-known
blind preacher, has hopes Of recovering his
sight. He is under the care Of Prof. Won
Grsef, At Berlin.
Mans ability 10 measured by what hea &C.
complshss What matters il If he pessess-
IS great talents and he dies leaving the
world no richer for his having lived in iti
1t is estimated that 100, 900 people daily
pass the Astor House, in New York, on
fso,, and 65, 900 in carriages.
An English Earl left his second son
100000 II he maYries widow be for
fsits $50 900, and il he does not marry .
maid within three years be ferfei.s the
same.
Barnum is in trouble with the insurance
companies They say the burning Of his
museum y - only . new humbug. The
case is in the courts. The aggregate Of the
policies is $3.50. 900, while the loss was set
st &3oo. 900.
The following ssnti.ent 10 attributed 10
Napoleon Bonaparts: "A handsome woman
pleasss the eye, but good womss plsasss
the heart. The one 10 jswsl--the other
10 = treasure"
A Negro woman on Long leland has lived
until her skull 10 soft enough to be squssz-
ed int any desired chronological develop
msns. II takss los years to get that kind
Of head.
The same old woman that recently in
quirsd how they turned the oil into "thsm
ere iron things stickin' down from the
| gasts.n' " (ths gas pipes). drew up 70 an
iron safe the other day, and remarked that
she never did like them awful cold air
| tight stoves
The Legislature Of Ohio has made il Oh.
| ligstory upon every banker and broker in
that State to stamp or mark every counter.
felt, worthless broken or altered bank notes
which may come into his possession, or lie
shall forfeit and pay not exceeding 500
nor less than $50 Tor each offence.
|
A Burlington lad stole live hog enc
day this week probably drove it to con-