Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-04-24
DAILY DEMOCRAT.
GENERAL NEWS.

| The fifty-psr cent Limitation clause Of
the Bankrupt Law expires June LIST.
Troops are being distributed at the stat
ions OF the Union Pacific X. X.
Brown. who murdered his own child at
Cana.n,'N Y, viii be hung Nay IL.
There are l57 sholessle and l.s26 retail
liquor dealers in Cincinnati.
Santa Anna, once repused enormously
rich, is now bankrupt.
Austria paid $4,000 to get Asximilian's
body back.
A we'll known hair oil manufactures Of
N. Il. returns an income o! 81, 900.
There are 2,ss9 gevessosnt clssksbips
il wsshisgtou.
The Western Usion Telegraph company
owns 90, 600 miles Of lines.
work On the barber At Michigan City,
Ind. 10 being vigorously pusbeS.
Chicsgs sold t750,0o0 worth Of real
estate last week.
The Paris masked balls realised 81. 900
this year.
The new Masonic Temple in Boston eess
t45s,6S2.
New York has one thousand one humid
red John Smiths.
Let the slandered lake comfort-iti Is only
ct fruit trees that thieves throw stones.
Ii is quite natural that any belle should
have ringing laugh.
he charter elections in New Jersey have
gene ally resulted 10 favor OF the demo-
Gratis.
Insurance in Chicago covered about 20
per cent. Of the Losses by fire last year, %
per cent. in Cincinnati, aud ~ per cent. IN
st. Louis.
The kentucky tobacco crop, Of last year.
which 10 now coming into the market, 1t 10
announced, is Of excellent quality and large
in amosnt.
General Gibson J. Pillow and sx-Gevsr-
nor Isham g. Harris have formed law
partnership, and taken up their residence
IN NsmphiS
The town Of Wsterville, Albany County,
New York, gave democratic majority last
fall Of 500. This spring the democratic
majority is over ,ooo--a democratic gain
Of ZOO
A call has bssn issued in Maryland for .
state convection 10 reorganiss the radical
party. Il will require the aid Of Q search
warrant in order TO fnd the party for feor-
ganization.
An old bachelor in New York offered .
young lady pony for q kiss; she gave
bin the kiss he refused her The pony
she sued him; he pleaded me considers
ton :" the court decided that kiss WAS
l.. .-n>A~ lks>run0
over"
The municipal ticket at Patterson, N. j.,
Was carried BY the dsoocrats last Tuesday
BY mejsrities varying from SO 70 1913.
The Gettysburg Asylsm Lottery Scheme
hes played out.
John Bell, Of Tennessee, il in . critical
state Of health.
Fruit about Columbus. O.. was net dam
aged Seriously BY The cold snsp.
Hereafter ballots in Ohio must BE- printed
on white paper.
Colgate, whose name became familiar -
most users Of soap, 10 dead.
An epileptic Michigan convict sleeps five
days At . nap. He eats nothing during
these periods; and no means have been In
vented to keep him awake.
Professor Agassiz says he has never made
predictions regarding the weather, well
knowing that meteorology 10 not ct sufBci-
emily advanced to justify the attempt"
Leonard jerome. although not - rich -
he hiss been, is not Bankrupt yet. He 10
said to have . million or two left out Of The
dsJris Of his fortune.
George Francis Train 10 still in prison in
Dublin, on charge Of being in debt to On
English iron company. He employs his
time In writing lattsrs and editing The
Elephant and Castle, q weekly publication
made up chiefly Of psrsonsl "reminiscences |
Eldredgs 1 Brother, Of Philadelphia.
have in press . new work, By Professor |
Hart, Of the New Jersey state Nsrmsl |
School. entitled, "In the School Room /; |
r,Chapte:s on the Philosophy Of Educa
tion."