Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-05-11
DAILY DEMOCRAT.
0nNEnAn. News.

Its thought by some that the Ahyssin-
lana belong to the lost tribes Of Israel.
twill cost $500, 900 10 grade and furnish
ties aud bridge timbsrs for the Denver
Pacific Railroad
The finest vsrisgatsd marble has been
discovered near Jonesboro. Ill The quafTy
is OF great value.
Jamaica Is going to try tea culture. Her
present staple beverage (rum). how ever,
will maintain its popularity.
Some fool in Paris lately paid $4,000
francs for little ,ooking-gass the sizs 81
mau's hand, because the frame was carved
in the 18th century.
The ladies are all ordering Celsdon drsss.
- and coral jewellery. Celedon . dali
- ereso-a mixture Of pea grssn and ~
ange- something like the tint Gf brewn
kitten ere In zeal celiar.
The latent hymsnial iashiea dispsHeos
With ereoosmss, and the sdict 10 for the
grosm y sppsae In full promenade suie,
7spck coat, light tsewsers, and solssd scarf.
The fashen i nos lavorably received ameag
the gentleman.
A certain aristocrstic residence in 4adi-
son avenue, New York. has carpet on the
draw ing room of velvet, ornament in the
centre, with large monogram. II cost
1900 to import.
House kseoing has been introduced % .
regular branch Of instruction in German
schools. Young ladies are required to
write essays upon the probable prices Of
feed, the weight Of fat or lean fowls, the
method Of fattening beevss, and in general
upon whatever pertains to the economy Of
the culinary art.
Smugglsrs have been doing good thing
for themselves by bringing in silks. opium,
cigars and other articles, inclosed In hollow
lses, bored - IL for water pipes.
3Ths British subjsctsjrsscusd fren King
Theodore cost nearly . million sterling
apiece. But their country did iss manly duty
By them without counting the cost.
Ths:London Times thus begins An editor
ial Nov that Italy has come BY her own.
would she Do - kind - 10 take back her
organ. gsinders."
Against s27 ,e51.5 copies Of newpapsrs
circulated in this country in 1860, there are
now sstimstsd to BE- 100000. 900 sirculat-
cd annually.
There 10 chimney in Minneapolis made
Of three shsst.iron cylinders. The space
between the outer and the middle cylindrss
10 filled with ashes. The chimney made in
this way IL lighter and safer than one Of
brick.
Fashionable young gentlemen have just
adopted the fashion Of wearing the ladies'
long kid gloves with four buttons for the
street. Some OF them he'd better adopt
wearing thick blue wells.
japanese scissors are in the shape Of our
sugar tongs-of stsel-And sever articles
freely - the blades approximate BY pres
sure. Their looking glasses are highly
FURNISHED st.sl. They use very elastic
transparent elk paper In window frames
instead Of glass, and = more firm opaque
substance 81 the same, stretched on frames,
% partitions inside their dwsllings.
A whole family, (whits) consisting Of
husband, wife and tive children, were muir
dsred recently near Omega Landing, Aiss.,
on the Mississippi river. The murdersfs
were four negroes, two Of whom we're cap
tused ~ the Infatuated populass and burn
Cd at the stake. They made full confession
how they had waylaid and shot the hus-
band on his way home, then entered his
cabin, killed his wife and son Of ten years
with an AZ, and then binding the youngest,
. girl. on tho bed whore she WAS sleeping,
set FIRE 10 it and burned her alive. The Oh.
jeet Of the mrrdsrers Was to obtain some
msnsy supposed to have been received by
the family for wood sold to . stsambost.
The mob who took the murdsrers from o.
psssd Of negroes.