Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-02-06
DAILY DEMOCRAT.


Toledo erected l $50 buildings in 1857.
rhesdorus, Of Abyssinis, 10 Unitarian.
The Louisvillians are enjoying good
sleighing.
!, costs only ts per head 10 raise cattle
10 Texas.
Population of the District Of cO'umbi',
l26. 1000.
A billiard saloon and pawnstep are
open in Alaska.
There are over goo insane in Ohio un-
provided for.
A weather prophet says February vii. be
very mild. !.
S,vesal mills 10 Maine be been stoppsd
b. loo water.
There sss s,ssl nilss Of railroad in the
Ueitel 0satss.
nevnSroker 10 New York can make .
fortune 10 seven yssrs.
The mill 70 which Hsssy Clay carried
HE esist, still remains.
The First National Baak u Vicksbuss
has suspended payment.
Tn. new Sub Treasury Office ct Boston
il ready Ior Occupancy
Thu climate OF Texas enables green pea
10 be gathered at Christmss.
rhe Camden and Amboy Company have
cut of 800 dead heads.
Eighty.six deaths from consumption 10
Nav Bedford, Mass, last Jsas.
In Nebraska the Government owns as
600 900 acres Of unimproved lands.
People use ice, for want OF wases, teF
laundry purposes, ct st. Adams, W.
John G. Barry, Of vicksburs. Miss, has
worked at the lease" for seventy years.
A building on Broadway, nser Blocker
street. has been unoceupisd for two years.
Conviots in the Vermont State Prison
.xt;nguished FIRE In that institution . few
days ago.
widows Of English soldiers in the Asy-
linn are allowed but fivs shillings per wesk
10 live upon.
The Lorillsrd manson. Bfeedway AND
Tenth street. New York, 10 being altered
for business purposes.
All the rail mills in Allentown Pa. esl
partially idle, owing to . strike a0eng The
puddlers.
Ovners Of houses In Brooklin. Who B ave-
been Offering them for sale, are now will
ing to rent them.
The daughter Of n ex- Governor Of Louis
lana was in Hartford . few days ego In
destitute condition.
The New York Common Council pro
poses to give away yearly 100000 70 sec
tartan charitable institutions.
Thsd. Stevens has been elected Prssi,
dent Of . hose company in Laaeester
Penn.
Horace Greeley favors the confirmation
Of s. 9. Cox % Minister to Austria.
Some persons are trying TO persuade tn
Precedent to pardon Dunhau. alias Como
Yer, the psrjurer.
The Pope has this year seat 70 ths Qusss
Of Spain the golden rose, which b blessed
A. usual, At the mass, on Twelfth day.
William Gilmore Simms, the novelist ant
verse writer, is living in South Casolins II
very destitute circumstances. He is nea
so years old,
Hon. Joel Parker, who for twenty-on
veaas has been at the head Of tho Dam
Law School at Cambridge, has resigned
that position.
One OF . party Of musical friends refer
ring to an exquisite musical composition
said that song always carries me ava!
when hear it," "Can any one sing it,
asked Jerrold.
A State reform school 10 about 10 be start
I'D ct st. Paul, two miles and half nortl
Of that city. The building is TO be Of stons
and will cost about Gil 900.
Il is calculated that one newspaper Of
an average dies every week in the Unite'
7 States, which is too small q mortality 4
give much hope for journalism in the fu
ture.
The Round Table is candid, il not com
plimentary, in the following confession
I'VE are all rogues together, more or less.
. The United States Court It Clsvslsn,
has decided that II petitioner in bank
rupscy has not homestead from which b
may claim $500 exemption be may selee
, that amount from such assets - he hes.
1 The London 7ynses lost Eve thousan,
subscribers last year, and did not make Q
much money BY 10000 ~ in 1866. Bu
then its profits in that year were f700, 000
: or nearly five millions in greenbacks, so
10 not in suffering condition.
The old meeting house in Newburg, Mass
erected in 1905, was burned Saturday
: morning. The bell was among the oldss
: IN the country, having been cast il Lon
: don in 1906.
. A lame bcggar in New York 10 wortl
$4,000, which is securely invested in req
estate.
A Snow SoNc. (Ar, I'VE Gathe
Shells. One Winter DAY, with careful
foot, wandered DER the slippery way; tn
snow, in balls beneath my boot, made il
task upright to stay. Aud l 80 waddls,
in my walk, l jostlsd every one met s,
! that some in familiar talk, remarked "hs'
, very tight, you bst!" Repeat
l stopped upon one leg. with cane to clea
my hampessd tread bet - stopped bo
did peg" another snow ball 1t my head =
And thus. l said. Is down my neck l fol
the melted SNOWFALL run. we gather ball
and little rsck where'er they 90 OF whenc