Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-03-18
DAILY DEMOCRAT.


GENERAL NEWS.
St. Louis has thirty five -four mills.
Kit Carson wants to be An Indian agent.
Cheyenne boasts Of prairie fires at this
early season.
Peru is bargaining for some Of our iron
clads.
The peach and fruit crops # Missouri
leek we'll.
Russia is mixing needle guns in large
quantity.
Montana has so far produces 10000
600 per annum.
Wheat has been wintsr-killsd in some
parts Of Ky.
The past winter has been very severe in
Orsgso;
The Qsssn has never yet visited Wales
q 6andrughan.
Eastwood shoes are the lates. innovation
ct Obsrlin Ohio.
Tho net tolls on the Sault canal last year
were &c, s05.6l.
The spring immigration into Kansas hss
already bssun.
The supply sfBu6alo robes this year 10
only half IN average.
The product Of coal oil in Michigan last
year was $4,000 tons.
Lumber business has been light and dull
this winter in Canada.
An axe factory in echoes 10 filling eli.
900 order from Australia.
Twenty four tsa-laden vessels from Chi
NJ are nearly due II New York.
II. r. H., the Duke Of Edinbursh, has
been made Mason in Australia.
The real estate Of JEFF. Davis in the South
10 reported to b worth 100000.
A large Irish emigration from Springfield
Moss, to California, is reported.
10000 .oavss Of bread were given 10 the
poor Of Newark, N. j., last month.
The city Of New Orleans wants to borssw
4,0oO, 900 for twenty years, ct per cent
The Mexican Government has dstermin-
Cd to rspudiats the French bebt.
Paris editors ~ said to have been paid
$780, 900 for putting the Susz canal.
The California State debt has been re-
dueed over $4,000. 900 in four years.
$4,000 lives we're lost BY the late terrible
earthquake at the Island Of Formesa.
Accounts from Msine say this is the col
sst winter there for twenty-five years.
Over 100000 acres Of land in Missis.
sippi are advertised for sale under sxecu
ton.
Some south 0sruaa govsrnmsnts are
again ssndiog convicts to the United
States.
Gen. Lee hiss completed the manuscript
Of his long neglected memoir Of Light
Horse Harry
Boston city expenses for this year are es-
timated q t7,o56, 076, only $6,s47,b49 Of
which win Be raised BY tax.
In Maine there are no less than 1868
lakes, some Of which ere from 1900 to T.
600 fset shove the level Of the ssa.
A excellent bed Of coal has been dis
covered lev niles below Denver, on the
projected line Of tbs Denver Pacific Rail-
road
Buffalo 10 TO have . 125, 900 skating rink.
Eugsuis has 50, 900 dresses, yet her hus-
band 10 not model Of faithfulnsss.
John Mitchell dsnounces American Fem
ianism in the Irish Citizen.
A retail dry goods store advertises 10
''knock the spots out Of the cotton mar
ket."
A new hotel, to cost 500, 900. will BE-
erected in Norwich. Conn , this season.
The present estimate of the number Of
cattle in Texas 10 I, 1000 head.
"Look head, Pete" said . knowing
darksy; don't stand dar on do railroab.'
"Why, Joe?" "Ksse if dc CARS see dat mouf
Of yourn open, dey'll tink it am de depot.
and run rite into it,"
The Belfast me Age says that the ex-
pertinent Of building wire fences by road
sides. to prevent the snow from drifting.
proves to b. successful. II has been tried
10 that neighborhood.
A Providence girl was found dead, from
hunger and other things, last Monday, and
an examination showed her stomach and
and mouth full Of sand and stones.
A barrel or cask Of new sweet cider
buried 30 % to BE- we'll covered With fresh
earth. will turn sharp. clear delicious
vinegar In three or four weeks and better
than 10 psssible TO make BY any other pro-
cess.
There 10 spsck Of var in Cuba. An
English ship was suspected Of having Snug
glsd specie on board. An English war snip
went between her and the forts, and the
msrchantmsn sailed before the guns Of the
fort could be trained on her.
The rate Of freight from Omaha to Chsy-
enns are stated BY tho Herald ~ follows:
First class, 50 80 per hundred; scond class
% 70; third class. IS So; lumber in lots Of
5000 and over, $40; live stock, per car,
el25; grain ard over, ~ SO per hundred.
Passenger fare. Sal so.