Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-11-18
DAILY DEMOCRAT



Burnett makes the Best Cologne Watef
In the world Ladies' Hand Boss.
The Greg Of pscaos in Texas this year 70
said to be enormous.
Wisconsin has tried peat for domestic
fuel, and likes it.
There ere 600 old clothes dsalsrs 10 New
York city.
OTwe large velocirede factories. are now
running in New York.
The Londen policemen have Oil 'ass'y
been armed With cutlssse'.
Michigan has paid ons-sishth Of its csess
debt within year, ard new ows'"s' W."
| three and half millions.
A wsx suggests that . suitable ePeeisg
| r. MANY eheiFs would h.: 20 Leses nave
mercy On - sisssabls singers T.
Mining il Montana 10 ever for the season.
Ths wesshsr 10 very ssld, With 10 snow.
A bill will b presented to the next New
Jersey Legislature for the coneolidation OF
Jersev CITY. Hoboken and Hudson City -
one city.
Gold 10 found ia twenty five counties IN
North Carolins, and the annual yield 70 20.
tima,ed At &5s0.0oo.
A writer on adulteration in food says
there are fifty substitutes for coffee. and
! 1873 for tea.
Shooting buffsloes from car windows 10
. favorits sport on the Union Pacific Rail
way.
Chautauqua Lake 10 said 70 DO the high
ct navigsble water in the Uaitsd Statss.
The iron cross on the new Pittsb urgh
Cathedral is to BE- illuminated BY gas jets,
on the evenings of festivals and holidays.
The jets will DO lighted BY electricity.
Philadelphia has taken steps to import .
thousand English sparroWs. which will be
let loose in the public squares and parks
next spring.
Two old bachelors Of indianapolis made
Z novel b.. On the election. The loser was
either to marry within elk weeks o. feffeit
$500.
Eighty and ess hundred bushels Of
wheat and barley 70 tbs acre are reported
from various parts Of California. Surely,
in that part efths world. ten acres ought 70
be enough.
General Suttsr, the diseovsrer Of geld in
California, keeps himself mostly in Wash
ington.
1t may not be generally known that New
York horses chew tobacco, but they some.
times do. On the ferry boats it is not IN
usual to see men giving horses 'quid.'
which the animals not only chew, but swal-
low. and there 10 popular idea that the
stimulant 10 good fer their wind.
The Paraguaysns rspulsed the Brazilian
allies, Who attacked them 10 . strongly en-.
,rsschsd position Ct Villsta, o. tas gath Of
September. The loss sfths Brsziliaa army
vas very heavy.
lie stated that during the past yssi
$4,000 persons have been added to the Bap
t,st coamuuiou, and that the members o.
that church now number in the United
States more than l loo, 900.
The NEST elegant building 10 Troy viii
Do the nsw Sta,s street Methodist church
which IL now nearly done, and will eos
100000.
The Pail Mall Gaz.tte, one Of the very
best OF the Londen dailies, cost its propris
tors E40, 00O-say 5000, 0oO-befors it BE-
. gan 70 pay. 1t is four cent paper.
The Secretary Of the Navy has decides
to materially reduce tho expenses Of TIA
department by ordering home some Of tn
larger vessels from distant squadrons, an
supplying their places BY smaller clssss'
vessels.
Knspp's cannon foundry, in Essen, Prus
siA, occupies nearly thousand acres, 24'
Of which are covered With buildngs. Ter
thousand men are employed in the sstab
lishment, and their yearly wages amour
70 something over two and quarter mil
lion Of dollars.