Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-06-29
DAILY DEMOCRAT.



Chicago has . majority Of females.
A silver basket, filed With spseis. Wan Z
gift TO Chicago silver wedding.
The Chicago Illustrated News spent
500. 900
The New suspension bridge 1t Niagars
will probably be completed this season.
Oliver Optic has written forty books for
boys.
Senator Wilson says he 10 not worth Ave
hundred dollars in the world.
Cut nails heated red hot aud dipped into
Geld wstsr viii elineh % we'll - vseseht
nails.
An Ingenious Nsbsaskiaa sasehse gas.
hoppsss on boards spread With ~.
Eighty per cent, ofths Atlsatic esAls ".
csipis come from the American side.
White silk parascls ornamented With
feathers ere new oddity.
An object Of foul playa henpieksd hus.
bsnd.-[N New York Ledger.
Csburn and McOoole cleared $1,000
apiece out Of their prize tizz'e.
The prospects for An immense crop Of
corn were never better in Kansas than
they are at this time.
When in Hamilton, Canada West. Ole
Boil lost handsome diamond, valued a
e350, that vas set in one end Of his bow.
The best swimmer ia Philadelphia 10 Q
clergyman, Rev. Wheaton Smith.
II estimated that over tivs millions Of
people will b 10 New York city on the 9Th
efJuly.
The latest arrangements for railroads 10
. plas Of giving checks for ssals % veil q
transportation. A penon can send early
and secure . seat
A Chicago court has decided thst tsls-
Gsaeh company b responsible fes sssss In
trsAenlssiso ETA dispatch, even u The de-
patch = net repeated.
There Ase &C, 900 Germans in Texas whe
plant, eulbivats, sod geehss enc third Of
the cotton crop Of tAs Ststs BY their own
labor.
A husdssd thousand dollars worth Of
fractional currency il daily redsspM
Fsss thousaud sieht Ausdss1 asilsrs .
par is the salary Of the chief cook olths
Actor Homes.
Hon. John H. 0ilmsr, Of North Carolisa,
e out n slstssr 10 iaves " 0haseh aemisA-
ton.
Five ysassss steady nansallshsr 10 Cali.
Die, Il ehs prsoeat sats 81 wagea, sill give :
uaa . good hooss ~ farm.
Ons Of Hirsm q. Grants Boston Adnirsse
has presented him With . cabinet q volcanic
spscimsns.
A former slave u joan @. Drsekinridgs,
and bearing the ss0e name, 10 stumpipg
Virginia for Ne ps0sssass.
4 Swsde in Lsuislana agrees to bring
over several hundred Of his esuntsyms t.
do Geld work at ~ month.
Paris 10 locking q . plan Of . theatre
which may 10 made large Or small as pleas
urs. The WALLS are movable esd shut to-
gsthss like On opera glass.
Matthew vassaS, Of Poughk spsis. found
o. Of vassar College, died on the 23d. aesl
n years.
The enemies Of Horace Greeley will 70
jeice to know that be 10 to have his " Rec
Of busy lifs,' originally written
for the Ledger. published in book form.
A poor Vermont widow decorated .
" uV'S Btovey eIu ueTvoit, On suO OVSo uiSs
The little csmssssy 10 near Washington
and contains the remaiss Of forty Union
soldiers, including these Of her son. Az.
sisted only BY her children. she wovs for
y wrsaths Of flowers, and laid ono on
each mound
a man named Newton Stewart, while
in pleasure boat, near Philadelphit, on
Sunday, jocuArly msde The rsuark, refer
ing to the crowd On board that II ths
children were drswnsd there would b
more room. On landing ia Philadelphia
some time after, man rushed At him on
account Of the remark and struck him,
knocking him down, % that bic head
struck violently on the curb, causing
death in few hours. The asssilant e.
capped.