Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-12-16
DAILY DEMOCRAT
GEYERAl. NEWS.


Michigan has cash balance 81 million
and more.
The looming man" is said TO be John
Chinaman.
The Republican majority " Tennessee,
- otiicisl,y reported, i. IL. Goo.
A company 10 boring for oil south Of
Quincy. They are sanguine Of susce,s-
Fig snd bansma trees In Florida have
been hurt BY frost.
Industrious Cabinet msksrs-Wa shing-
ton correspondence.
The New York Times refsrs to the Erie
spssulators a. gentlemen Of the read"
The pork packing season .. lsdisnapes
lie 10 ever. About 1000 hsgs have been
killed.
The New Albany (lnd.) Second advent.
lists put the end Of the world on the 10Th
Of next July.
Hon. Hannibal Hamlin will be . csndi.
date for Uui.ed States Senator.
A couple Of Msd,ssn avenue (Nsw York
bsl.es have sent to Paris for toiisttss to
wear at charity ball.
General Grant. . speech at Providence /:
mo, sir" He will DO obliged to repeat it
often within twelve months.
The Government holds fifteen hundred
million acres Of land now. That ought TO
be worth enough to pay the national debt.
Their is fair prospect Of having . tun.
mel under East river, connecting New York
and Booklyn.
Weston has postponed his walk 70 St.
Paul until the 9Th Of January, and will re.
turn to Bangor. Me-, to start again.
The sale Of all sharp weapons and utsn-
ellis 10 forbidden in Cuba, except scissors,
razoss, forks and table knives.
1t vas not Mrs. Partingtsn who thought
ed" must be great newspaper boy, b
cause his name was attached 10 20 many
paragraphs in the papers.
Gslesburg wants . railroad through that
place, from Rock Island to Springfield. and
will ask some legislation in their behalf
this winter.
There ere "a, 500 sum.ssliers in Pen
nsylvanis, and 16,s79 school tsaehsrr. Cost
Of supporting schools. s.. S6S. 759: value
Of liquor consumed, 1881 ,4S7 900.
The Providence Journal advocates the
purchase Of 81. 900, 900 worth Of live oak
timber BY the Navy Department. that il
may DO housed, seasoned and prepared feI
use in any emergency.
A man in Rochceter On. ~ the other
day poured can 81 kerosene over his wife
and attempted to set fire to il. The wife
had been behaving naughty. The kerosene
wouldn't burn, and the woman's lie wal
saved.
The Quincy Ill J Wing, Of last Saturday
publishes building statistics. showing tha
fifteen public buildings, twenty seven brick
stores, and two hundred and thirty dv'
dwelling houses, we're erected last season
IN that city, at . cost Of 81 ,S32, S01.
There was great excitement in the cour
room At ALBANY when the jury pronounce
Cd the verdict AGO uitting General Cole whs
shot his wifs's ssducer. The Judge wal
unable to suppress the cheers and applause
Of the crowd.
A Northampton, Mass., girl recently in
troducsd to her sistsr man whom the lat
ter had never met or heard Of before, Ant
told her she might - we'll get married new
a. ever, and here was the man who woult
make her good husband. And that SAM
evening they we're married.
| The following are the returns Of sslss .
daily papers in Chicago, for six months
ending September 3oth. % returned to thu
Assessor Of Internal Revenue TRIBUNE
el6I, 1856; Times. *IOl ISL Journal, $43
557 Republican, 81. Boo; Post, $50 $50
State Zeitung (Gsrman) &Jl ,406.
WEsroN 10 getting to bs - great nui,
} ance o. Train. IF Providence, corns, Q
some visitation should interfere and reduc