Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-05-14
DAILY DEMOCRAT.
GENERAL NEWS.

Movers trains ere continually passing
We .tward through Bloomfield.
Great building activity is noticeable at
Indisnols.
The new Mormon Tabernacle. at Salt
Lake City, contains 10, 900 persons, but is
too small for the congregation. A gallery,
cabable Of holding five thousand, Is to be
erected
A terrier dog in Virginia recently scratch
ed up dcposit Of family jswelfy and gold,
which bis mistress had buried during the
war. and had been unable 10 find.
The natural bridge Of Virginia, one hund
red and sixty Eve acres BLAND. and hotel,
we're sold last month for 1886 10 Colonel
Mike Hartman, of Staunton.
A story 10 current to the effect that
Congressman WAS hescsd Of thirty three
thousand dollars ct faro in Washington last
week.
A womsn sued the Boston i've cent saw
ings bank, on Monday, to recover her mon-
sy deposited before her marriage, which the
bank had refused to pay. and gained her
cause and 1859.
The first quadrupls sheet ever issued BY
any daily paper in Nsw York was printed
BY the Herald in 1858, and Was oceasionsd
By demand on the part Of Mr.. Robert
Bonner for space equal to the usual eight
pages, for advertising the Ledger.
Boston proposes this year to celebrate
the day which gave birth to our liberties BY
. submarine race Of one mile. across The
harbor, from Boston to East Boston, three
submarine divers in submarine aSmor be-
ing ready to compete for the belt.
A Cincinnati court has decided that an
unfinished steamboat 10, legally, .psrishabls
property" They seem TO be athss perish
able at al periods Of their existence.
In Putnam's Magazine. for May. NJ. O.
W. Elliott gives . sketch Of life In San
Francisco, which 10 net only gossippy, but
statistical. One Of the hstsls there must b
Q paradise for confirmed old bashslers.
Mr.. Elliott says; "But the What Cheer
Hotels . Yankee shoot grated upon .
California stock. and proves . most pfs6t-
able growth. All 10 done for cash, and your
bed is paid for before you get into II. A
large restaurant supplies four thousand
meals day, at prices from fifteen cents up
ward. Ample means are provided for you
to black your own boots free and the
library Of five thousand volumes 10 open 70
oil. There il no bar. The house has one
more pecularity-ne woman 10 allowed
within il the servants are oil men, and no
mans wife can sleep with him q this house.
II pays u the rate Of $4,000 to $4,000
per year"
A man in Minnesota entered Newspaper
office and paid for an advertisement Of his
lest dog. Az be turned to depart, the miss
ing canine met him At the door. Another
instance Of the marvellous powder Of advsr-
tising.
A wsll-ts-de Dssroites, in order TO get
clear Of his creditors, transferred Ill his pro-
psrty 10 bis wife. The latter has now died,
leaving will which leaves the poor man
psnnilsss unless he marfies the servant girl.
Served him right.
A Boston spssulator 10 reported TO have
made 100000 BY buying cotton At IA sssts
pound aud selling Il at 20 cents.
A Madison avenue On. Y. residence, has
. carpet on the drawing-rcom Of velvet
with large monogram in the centre. Il
cost $500.
Five New York ice companies have stor
Cd twelve hundred and sixty million
pounds during last winter. II was gathered
from an area Of four hundred acres.
A Georgia negro walked 10 miles to vote
the democrrtio ticket.