Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-01-03
GENERAL. NEWS.


Mast has una lie $50. 900 by his libsllous
pencil.
The inventor of the needle gun was
iourneyman blacksmith.
The initials on ring alone identified a
ehsrred skeleton at Angola.
4 Paris editor has paid $4,000 in fines
since 1852.
A New ENGLAND couple, whose united
ages are 10, years, were married last week.
Negroes gamble and stab each other in
Memphis right merrily.
An explosive agent more effective than
nitro. gly cernc has been discovered.
An Indiansn lights his house with gas
froul hole in the ground in his back
yard.
A Catholic church, for colored congrc-
CATION exclusively, is soon to be dedicated
in Charleston, S. G.
DR.. Hayes claims to have seen nm ice
berg which, he says, would pay the nation
al debt If sold by the pound At current rates.
Last week Southern savings bank, es-
tablished by negroes collapsed because the
depositors withdrew all their funds TO at-
tend circus.
Gen. Sherman has received as a present
the silver bulls eye watch carried by the
Roger Sherman who signed the Declaration
Of Independence.
A Mr.. William Rogers, o wine merchant
Of Ohio, has recently purchased about four
thousand acres Of land on the Cumberland
Mountains, in Tennessee, where he intends
to try the experiment Of raising grapes.
Unexploded shells still clay around loose"
in Charleston, s. G. The people ere afraid
to touch them, and want them taken of in
some way or other. They 60 OF every now
and then, kill and wound those near and
destroy property.
A. Ii. LEE, Who drew tho Crssby Opera
House, is striving to get together the finest
private library in the United States. 7
The poets Of ST. Paul are about to enter
into competitor for box Of cigars, which a
dealer agrees to give for The best poem on
his stock.
Thousands of working women in New
York are earning less than So per week,
and trying to live on it. "God help the
poor"
The poet who won the French Academy
prize for an ode on the death 'ot Lincoln is
going to send 5000 to Mrs. l..
Apples in Northern Ohio have greatly,
degenerated in the past thirty years, and
peaches from spontaneous growth have
come to need care and cultivation.
tits singular fact that the city Of Lon
don has no official record Of its Lord May
ors, Aldermen aud Sheriifs. An attempt
has recently been made to supply this def
cheney.
When locomotives in MASSACHUSETTS, set
FIRE to woods along the railroad line, compa-
Mas are made to pay for it roundly. The
Cape Cod Company is now paying for ten
thousand acres.
Lake Mendoza, in Wisconsin, was stocked
with white fish fifteen years ago by exGov.
Farwell, and the piscatorial citizens of Mad
ison still enjoy the sport of spelling his
work.
Lsavcnwortb, Kansas, has over thirty
thousand inhabitants, six dailes, thirty
churches. nearly twenty schools, two
theatres and an indefinite number Of gam
bling saloons.
The Springfield (Mass.) Republican ami
msdverts on Amcs' bust Of Lincoln, cut for
The Boston State House, en- the ground that
it bears no resemblance to the subject Tao
Republican seems IL consider this fact
fault
George Francis TIsin claims to be worth
$50 ,000, 900: Jay Cooke is worth 10000
900; barney Williams, the actor, is worth
sl00, Gao ST. Louis beggar is worth
$4,000. and quite a large MI nber of the
same class in our city are worthless.
The theatres in Boston are more crowded
Sunday when religious services are held
than are tho churches. Church members
are observed to pass by their own favoritc
organizations 70 attend the theatres
Three hundred thousand dollars have
been invested in pork this season at Madi-
son, Ind.
A corked bottle was thrown out by
yacht near New Haven, with a paper tell.
ing it's location two months ago. It has
just been found and within only six miles Of
the original place.
A reporter in the Louisiana Convention
WAS threatened with thrashing by one Of
the negro members because he didn't make
good English Of the honorable gentleman's
speech.
The tubes Of tubular bridges are general
ly painted white, 80 Is to increase the radi-
alton and diminish the effects Of expansion
and contraction caused BY the alterations
oftenperature.