Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-09-30


In Milwaukee they call harness mske'
"horse-milliner.'
Indianapolis Prssbytsrisns are wagini
vigorous var against dancing.
Lynn i. doing 100000 year ii
shoes.
There are 100000 worth Of window
glass in Stewards new store.
Male dressnakers are the most fashion
. able lust nov in New York. Female taiori
have no. ys. achieved SO high position.
Somebody has estimated that in 1877
there will be 50, 900 miles Of completed rail
way In the Usitsd States.
Why iss baby like wheat. Answer
Because it 10 6rsi Graded, then thrashsd
ssd fiaally bscsaes tbs flower Of the fam
lily.
A Worcester Yankee has raised four hun
bred pounds ofsquashes from four seeds.
ANN made So. 900 gathering mustard
seed in Southern California, last year.
The Titusville Herald says that the com
ing winter promises to be the busiest eveI
known in the Pennsy lvania oil egiona.
All the Eastern watering place hotels ARE
suddenly closing. There has been regular
stampede within the last few days.
The citizens Of Minnesota are to vote on
the question Of negro suffrage at the cleo
ton IN November.
The surveys for the suspension bridge
over the Hudson river at the Highland
have been completed.
The Italian who invented the practical
and practicable flying machine broke sew
sral bones in testing it. Who will next in
vent this machine,
After the lst Of January next, the regis
tration fec on eli letters registered in and
addressed to any part Of the United States
will be 10 instead Of 20 cents.
A Partisan Bafnum offers the city 100,
600 francs year for the exclusive privilege
Of selling tickets Of admission to the sewers
eatacombe and absttoirs. This 10 running
the business into the ground.
Half the Canadians who went to Rome
for service in the Pope's army last winter,
have deserted. some enlistingin tho italian
army, and some INDUCING in extreme pow
erty at Naples and Leghorn.
Ohio estiuatss 141 100000 bushels Of
wheat, corn, and oats. against lis, 900 ,000
last year. The number Of cattle 10 500, !
600. and Of hogs, 100000.
Nova Scotia appropriates half million
dollars for unforeseen purposes. "a fond
very convenient to draw upon il forcble 20.
cession should b determined on.
Why are kisses like tho creationi Be.
cause they are made out Of nothipg, and are
all very good.
Two cents, placed 1t interest for 1000
years, will pay OF the national debt. Try
it, somebody.
When old Zachariah Fox, the great msr.
chant Of Liveep9el, was asked BY what
means he contrivsd - realize 90 large for.
tune % be possessed, bis reply was,
Friend, BY one article alone, in which
thou mayess deal too, If thou. pleasest-
civility."
The October number Of Packard's Month.
~ will have long article on the interior Of
the New York Tribune Office, ito workings
and the people connected With il, written
by one ofthe Tribune editors.
A Justice, better versed in law than Cos
pei, not long since married . couple in this
way: Hold up your right hands. You
solemnly swear that you will perform the
duties Of your office Jointly and severally,
according to your best skill and judg nent,
so help on God. Fec one dollar"
The Old School Presbytery of Indiansp.
oils declared that dancing was 4 proper
ground Of discipline, according to the rules
os that church, ~ expressed in chapter first
section third. Not only is dancing con
demned, bat members are not to counte
nance the same BY their voluntary presence,
The Journal Of the Telegraph says tina,
the Western Union Telegraph Company
will erect nearly 5000 miles Of wire before
December next, without satisfying half the
calls made upon it, 90 great Is the demand
Of the present year for means Of communi
cation.
The Hudson River Railroad Company il
erecting in New York freight station to be
43S fee, long and 4o5 feet wide. It will
thus cover . lot containing l76,5l4 square
feet 1t IS to be three stories high. 1t will
be ornamented outside with statues of Com.
modore Vanderbilt and others.
St. Louis courts say shaving is neces
tiny anu tuc odt UGH tucle u)II teu tic TSLOl
while the church bells ring.
An old weatherwor trapper Was recent
~ seen sauntering along the main street oil
one OF our Western villages. Pausing in
front Of little meeting house for moment,
he went in and took q eat among the con-
gregat on. The preacher Was discoursins
on the text OF the "sheep and the wolves"
and, having evidently been drawing con-
trast between the two subjects, says be
We who assemble here from week 70
week and do our duty and perform our par,
are the sheep; now, who are the wolves r
A pause, and our friend the trapper rose to
his feet. Wa'al, stranger, rather than
see the play stopped, will be tie wolves y
The preacher WAS vangnished.
- Fight init Sigel.''
The Louisiana, NO., journal, in confrma
ton OF reports that have reached - FROM
other sources, says:
Gen. Sigel has declared himself in favor Of
Seymour and Blair. He is welding q vns,
influence with his old frienis and comrades
The Germans Of St. Louis have formed Z
Seymour and Blair club. and many of them
who belonged to the Grant Tanners have
left that tdnnet! Institution and Joined The
SeymOur climb Thav s4foochx ,r;x C:..ls,