Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-11-25
RTATE NEWS.

About 1000 hogs have been slaughter
ed a, Dss Msnes this month.
The total voc Of Iowa, being 196, 900,
indicates . population Of over one million.
The new Walnut street bridge ct Dss
Moinss 10 being reconstructed, TO prevent
total self destruction.
The Cedar Fal s Gazette states that the
mills in tina. city ~ill lose heavily by She
declns in flour
-Aarshalltown is to vote upon purchas-
ing a tsn-thousand dollar fire appara,u.-
including steamer.
Judge Cris,, ~ Sac county is abou, to
leave the State and live wts. Of tho Nilsson
RI. What are you going to do with your
csurt, Judge'
A movement has been made in Marshall.
town to induce the sxtsntion Of The Eldora
railroad, down the Iowa River to that place.
It will probably be dene.
The 7imss says that . farmer in Mar
shall county lost fourteen head Of cattle
from effects Of eating smutty coru-ths
smut being indigsstibls.
-Stole for the asylum q Council Bluffs
is being dressed At Nebraska City. and 10
obtained from the western part Of that
county.
The wife q Col. VIM. T. Shaw depart
cd this life at Ansmosa on the 10Th met.
She wae said to be most es,imabls lsdy.
aud her death is regretted by . large circle
Of acqusiotancss, 70 when she had end cared
he self aimee her residence ia Anamess.
The Cedar Rapids World stssss that
coal has been discovered on Cedar river,
about three milss from Cedar Rapids. Mr..
Hatch, who 10 working stone quarry 10
the vicinity, struck vein Of esal the other
day. which promises 70 be from feet to
eighteen inches thick. Tho quality Il said
10 Be very good
The DoSsqus Tm.s describes "A en-
tirsly new style Of cats which Was recently
received % psssent BY msn il that city,
from . friend in McGregsr II isa young,
half grown Maltese cat, with only two lses,
and they the fore legs. There 10 no ssmb.
lance Of hind legs. Physieians will unds,>
stand when We SAY this remarkable cat has
no peisis. There 10 nothing but the spinal
column, and, lacking the ether iupsr-
tent bone structure. Nature has not
made the vain attempt t. make
quadrupsd oas Of the feline. Not
wishstandinE ,hia iusus nature The cat 10
not an unsightly object. but 10 a sprigh tly. !
playful cat, and moves - grasefvlly @ any
kitten, though not after the same manner.
She does cot drsg the pesterior part Of her
body, but carries i: free from the ground
while loeemoting
The DnSuaus Board Of Trads has 70.
solved in connection with cheap traaspsr.
'ation that the moss feasible plan to secure
this end, is to provide seu,inusue linss Of
water communication between The Nissis-
sippi river and The Atlantic Oesaa; asd
that this plan can be mcss readilp sndsad
vantagcsusly accomplished BY means of the
Wisconsin and Fox river improvsment.
eeosseting the Mississippi with Green Bar,
and thence, BY the lakes, Erie Canal and
Hudson river to New York On enc hand
and By the Ohis river, the Ksssvha Oanal
TO the Atlantic ssaboard near The mouth Of
he Che apssks Bay - the ether; 18th q
which routes are in climate favorable 20
the transpestisn Of grain in bulk, and he
latter comparatively free from distractions
By ice and il is further rssolvsd that those
lines are not antsgsnistic and should b
esoneeA