Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-05-22
DAILY DEMOCRAT.


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The Ksndtscty tobacco crop promises
we'll.
"Nasby" returns an income Of Is, 2s5 for
1867.
The Suex canal will be completed in Octo-
Der next.
The Louisians sugar eros will reach 5o,-
oC0 hogshesds.
Miss Anna Dickinson will lecture in Eng
land the coming ssmmss.
A tract Of grousd on the field Of Bull Run
has been dedicated as . cemetery for dead
rebels. E
Madame Sehnsidsr waited 5000 for
singing one evening q private seisss 10
London. N
Young Issland's htast fslly 10 hAsdksr-
chiefs With Objectionable" pieturss IN the
corners.
A New Haven baby Weighted II pounds
q its burth, asd now, tve Desihs old.
weighs st pounds.
A lady has been expelled from church
ehelr il New Yosk for repeatedly reading
novels during service.
The latest novelty 10 . wicker Sarategs
trunk.
Every person who plants shade tree in
Worcester, Mass, is paid dollar BY the
municipality.
Robert Blythe Of Sedalia. NO., hung him
self, Wednesday, from tree. On bone
lying beneath the tree, be wrote, in strag-
Cling letters, with . pencil. Farewell
world"
The amount OF the California Crop Of Ger
calls the present harvest 10 estimated % fol-
lows; Wheat-twenty millions Of bushels /;
bsrley-ten millions {; oats-two and half
millions.
The hanging Of Samus! Mills. last week,
10 the first case OF capital punishment in
New Hampshire since 1649, when Rev. Enso
G. Dudley, Of Grafton, was hung fee muir
dsrirg his wife, in order To marry . school
teacher to whom he had become attached.
Barnsum's giraffe. valusd at $4,000.
died at Bridgeport, Ooanscticut few days
age.
Il 10 :stassd that 10000 men will lay
800 miles Pacific X. X. track this year.
Potatse bugs hsvs 'put in an appear
anes" ct Peoria. Ill.
John Norrisssy has returned 10 New
York from the Hot Springs, Ark.
There we're l ga arrests in New York
city last week.
In Chicago there are 50 Evangelical Pro
tsstant Churches. 4
A brilliant meteor passed over the city Of
New York last Sunday evening.
Work on the Washington street tunnel,
Chicago, 10 bsisg posscutsd.
There wsre six suicides in New York
from the Let to the 9Th Of Nay.
The Algerian Arabs stasvs at the rats Of
50 . day. 81
An artesisu we'll At St. Louis S.O2l feet
deep gives 40 sign Of water ~.
Forty Ave streets iu Chicago are to BE-
paved this summer With NicAoloon pave
msnt.
Cholera and gunpowdsr have fought neck
and neck 10 the Paraguayan war, but It 10
thought that cholera hes como out ahead.
Two hundred and forty mon will be en-
ploysd BY the government this year In the
survey Of Lake Superior.
A reader writes that be takes NO stock
in the new womAn's club" He says the
" old woman's club" 10 enough for him,
and frequently toe much.
Paper money lately issued BY the gov
eminent Of Italy Vas engraved in this
country.
Among other results Of the heavy all
winter SHOWS, il IN extraordinary yield Of
wintergreen berries.
1t is said that Chicago viii sspsnd
81, S65, 900 on parks. streets and other pub
lie works this seaoOn.
Commodore Vanderbilt Is ssvsnty.six
years old. and looks like . Methodist
preacher.
In London champsgs 10 made out Of Pc
troleum, and sold at}eightssn cents dozen
bottles.
A Chicago girl. Of sweet nineteen nov
sports her fifth husband. His four prsds-
csssors enjoyed married life for six months
to year each.
-''Our vet weather has ceased At last,
We hope. Ali kinds Of fruit will 30 abund-
snt here (including psachss) il not injured
by frosts after this. The small grain and
grass look remarkably fins." SO writes L.
B. Fleak. Esq from Brighton.