Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-10-14
DAILY DEMOCRAT


00IU0It9 AatsiutVu ~ GHSpS.Se ~ ~
. remove oil uupleassst condition. - the
6kin. 4.
Roberts, The rsnian, has bought prop.
erty in Amity street, New York. for slle.-
600.
The Libby prison is to b i'ied up as
msnufactory Of fertilizers
Horses cell for ten cents spices in some
parts of Australia.
TIE total potato crop Of the State Of New
York is about 5.oo0.ooo bushels.
Apples keep perfectly when packed With
dried issvss. ~
Arizona has been flooded and nearly
ruined.
The population Of Jacksonville, III. 10
sssicated q 10000.
Milburn will BE- ophthalmically operated
on in Paris instead Of Berlin.
The fetal receipts Of shs ls.s sosnty fair
held ct Albion, New York, were hftses
dollars and thirty Eve cents.
Professor Peck, formerly Of New Or
leans. bat recently cfNsw York, receives
salary Of 81, 900 to write for the New York
Ledger.
A Worcester gentleman has picked
second growth Of Strawberries from his
vines this season, soms Of them fully ripe.
Some correspondents At Rome express
the hslisf that the Pope will never sss an
other December.
It 10 reported that six thousand foreign
ere have been illegally naturalizsd in Phil
adelphia.
The msanest thing out-countsrisiting
nickel cents, which 10 practicsd upon sn
extensive scale in ST. Louis.
Grace Church, New York, the place Of
fashionable worship. 10 to become house
Of merchandise.
The 81. Asdrs~s' Clab Al Ch8loton hes
it, old seal first used in 1919.
Wild rice Is nov gathered By the Indians
10 Upper Minnesota There will be thous-
ands Of bushels in the Ohippsws country.
The potatos rot is fast increasing in
Maine. In many towns only one bushsl 81
sosnd petatses il obtained out Of nine
bushels.
During August the New York post okcs
sent 39e, 900 letters. and received 1853. 600,
besides : money order business sf $780,
600.
A watch is on exhibition at Waterbury,
Connecticut that dates back to the year
1858. Il 10 of rude work msnShip, having
no pendulum spring and no minute hand,
only 90 hour hand, and cat-gut cord in
place Of . chain.
Chinese printers At Hong Koag receive
115 per month wages. The Pekin Gazette.
On ofacial paper, which 10 said to have been
publiehsd for . thousand years, covers ten
pages, each four inches wide BY ten long.
The frst Of the royal line Of Bourbons.
Hesfy Nv, II France, Was Born in the Oas-
tie Of Pau three hundred and fifteen years
ego. The laet rsigning Bourbon in Eu-
ssps, Issbslla II, Of Spain, has just taken
up her residence ~ an exile in the Castle
Of Pau, which hes been assigned her BY the
third Napoleon bourbon royalty may q.
pire within the same walls which gave it
birth.
The highest mine in the world 10 silver
mine. and is that Of Potosi. in the Andes Of
Peru. 1t is situated IL. 375 feet above the
surface Of the ocean. The deepest mine IN
tbs world is salt mine. II 10 the 80 called
new Sezwerk, in Wsstphalia, and 10 1850
feet below the surface Of the ocean.
A correspondent Of the New York Eve
ming Post. writing from Norway, says =
"Wnile Was ct Christians. some smigrant
bad written from Chicago that she was re-
celving three dollars . week and very
nourishing food in . small family. Az
twenty-five or thirty dollars for female SER
vice, ard fifty dollars per annum for man
servant, are the usual wages in Norway,
this letter produced an effect in various
Norwegian famiies."
Il 10 intended in Philadelphia to ''inau-
gursts' the plan Of having regular "opsn-
ing days" Of gentlemen's clothing, % has
heretofore been tho custom With millinery
goods.
Swearing On the Bibls val 6rst introduc.
ed into judicial proceedings BY the Saxons,
about A. D. 600. 1t WAS called . corporal
oath, because the witnese touched with bis
hands some part ofthe holy scriptures.
The Gloucester (Esss.) ldpertiser tells
the following story s. Some hquer bought
1t third-rate grog shop in this town WAS
accidentally spilled upon tho purchasers
boot, when it curled up the leather Just the
same - if il had been nsar.a hot stove.
Mr.. Henry Burden. proprietor Of the sx-
tensive iron works near Troy, New York, is
erecting . fins church building for the use
ofs Presbyterian congregation At that
place. The church will cost over $50, 600,
10 to be built. finished and furnished
throug bout, at Mr.. Burdens expense.
Lincoln, tho capital ofNsbraska. is aeity
Of most surprising growth even in this very
progressive age. Seven months ago. there
stood on this tewn site two log houses used
BY farmers - dwellings. situated one apart.
Now, there dwelis here thousand souls,
and many Of the business houses and resi-.
dences are Of a fine order, being built Of
brick aud stone
Every brick in newly erected Catholic
church at Atchison, Kansas, contains q
quantity Of fine gold. For long time the
workmen and bricklayers noticed small
spscks in the bricks resembling gold, but
which, Of course, they little thought Was IN
reality the precious metal. Recently the
architect, having pulyerized several Of the
| bricks, ascsrtained beyond doubt, by tbs