Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-08-27
DAILY DEMOCRAT.
GEyERAI. NEWS

Franc. promises ,5sl ,Ooo. 900 gallons Of
wine.
Florida denies TIA, it his or hiss had the
yellow fever.
i, is nov Il se DAYS ioaruey from Pans
TO Turkey.
The late Mrs. Commodore Van lefbilt
was a cousin Of her husband.
The bugs have stripped whole fots'o
fields in Ohio.
The Jarareus celebrated fourth OF Ju'y
by burning up hail Of Jeddo.
There are $500. 900 sheep in the State Of
Ohio.
Maggie Mitchell is building . block IN
New York.
The Connecticut ost crop has been very
much damaged by the hot weather.
The Norfolk (vs.,) journal says that
there are IS 900 Virginians in Ohio.
The New York bar has beea recruited
BY 900 lawyers in the last year.
The productive labor Of Massachusetts
is over | 100000 daily.
A Cincinnati lras has found out . new
way Of making his old potatoes look new
and he does i.
The Saginaw Valley, Michigan. 10 stated
will ship this season ostr icur h"no'eu
million feet Of lumber.
Locomotiv engines weis used ior the
first time in New England. on the Boston
aud Worcester railroad, April, 1854.
A hundred and City native Japs ness
Christians were dro~nsd, by order OF The
Pagan Miksdo, recently.
Reuben Skies, Of Bennington, Vermont,
in drunken 6t, chopped OF The hands and
and feet Of his infant child.
That part Of newspapers now mcst read
by young ladies is the column Of the ot1ciai
Advertisements headed, Proposals"
Many wheat fields in England have bees
Get on tire by sparks from locomos'vsssand
entirely destroyed.
One Of the richest men in Manchester,
New Hampshire, twenty years age, 10 nov
getting bis living By saving wood.
Cincinnati pays a million dollars salaries
10 its eleven hundred and seventy hvs
employees, from mayor down TO sewer
cleaners.
The Manchester Unity Of Odd Fenovs
numbered ct their last meeting no less than
400, 900 mem bers, with capital Of f3.00o-
600 sterlisg.
1t la. been calculated that it would take
1907 tons Of gold TO pay the principal Of
the government bonds in coin.
There are now, 1870 convicts in the
within the past month, caused by cxp'ra-
ton Of sentences. ~
Two men il Kansas have paid eight hus-
bred dollars and cost, Of court and lawyers
fees, before they could Get judgment on
the ownership OF cali, worth about elk
dollars.
Geo. p. Roweli b Co.. advertising agents
paid out $4,000 last week for their ows
id vertising, which shows that they prae-
tice what they preach 10 che public.
A dreadful rumor that thirty bushels Of
salt were thrown into the Congress spring
to give it pugency obtsins at Saretoga.
The once celebrated MoCracker, general
inspector Of American diplomacy abroad, il
in New York.
Russia sends $4,000 criminals to Sibs-
ria every yerr. One fifth Of them dis from
the fatigue Of tho journey, which is Fer
formed on f1ot.
Hungary is 50 abort Of agricultural Ia
borers that it solicits from the government
tho loan Of thirty thousand men from the
regular army 70 enable them to harvest
their crop.
Two fools lately walked across the
bridge now building At Niagara Falls by
holding with their hands 10 the upper o..
bic and placing their feet on the lower. A
strong wind vas blowing. OF course the
foolhardy fea, attracted great crowd.