Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-12-03
DAILY DEMOCRAT



GENER Al. NEW0.
"what everybody says must be true"
Then B irnstt's preparations are reliable
Home Weekly. Philadelphia.
The Charleston Mercury has suspended
publication.
Ogle.hvrte College, South Carolina, has
dsfunted
Virginia has ripe s.ra- berries grown in
the open air.
Chicago has pane Of glass seven and .
half by titssu feet.
Vulgar sufians in London drug their VIC
tins with snuG in their beer.
England and Wales contain enc million
Of paunsrs.
Nasty lecture It Concord, N. H.. vas
not ~ attractive - anticipated.
Paris workmsn 90 to and from Their labor
10 the suburbs on veloeipsdss.
Free Spain 10 making free With the sacred
things, tearing down its churches.
When Autumn 10 married 70 Winter the
Wedding cake is always frosted.
California has gained 1000 new inhabi-
taa,s by immigration this year
OF the seventy tobacco factories in ST.
Louis, only three are in operation.
The whole Of the Upper Minnesota eoun-
try is covered with nearly two feet OF snow.
T-o little New Hampshire girls have
spun sasin sfthrsad from spider webs.
The friends OF Alice Carey have present.
Cd her with $1,000 cash. II. y. was the
presenter.
The London Quakers have commenced
sporting meustaches, though still wearing
the drab.
The New York price Of . velocipsds,
medium size, with no extra fancy work, 10
about sos.
Lotteries are oil the rags in Alabams
and the next Legislature will PROBABLY
charter Atty.
American steamers aggrsgatng more tnes
thirty thousand tens are now running IN
Chinese waters.
The aggregate liabilities and resources
Of the national banks on the LIST OF october
was 81 1885, 1857 .667.
One DR.. Weed has decided that chris.
tians cannot dance, but the facts seem to
b against him.
Stocton. Califernis, has an artssian we'll
. Thousand feet deep, which disehargss
$50, 900 gallons Of bet water daily.
Lake Nsnphrsmseog is frozen over. and
the steamer Mountain Maid has gone int
winter quarters.
Wedding cards, according to the latest
fashion, should be issued three weeks be
fore the event transpirss.
Ex-Qusen Isabella has set aside S40, 1000
to start paper eriticsing the acts OF the
Provisional Government.
Mrs, Ssgundi pays $4,000 . year for
house rent in Paris. Pretty good price for
female who 10 cut Of situation.
Thurlsw Weed and Henry J. Raymond
are negotiating for the purchase OF the Ne
tisnal Intelligeseer. Al Washington.
Sleep il more necessary than food. Ac
cordingly the brain 10 Of more consequence
than the stomach.
Wsmans Allocate is The title Of new
"woman's rights" journal just issued At
Dayton, Ohio.
The Worlds Evangelical Alliance for
1859 will, in oil probability, BE- held in the
United States.
II csst the government sass. 7os last year
to carry Mormon love letters in Utah, and
only $4,000 postage WAS received back.
A poultry raiser in Australia has pen
Of 10, 900 acres, in which he keeps ostrchss
for their feathers.
The tive daughters Of Chief Justice fancy
are copvists in the Department Of the In
terror At Washington, and are very poor.
Letters from Rome again report the So
rious illness Of the Pope, though his real
condition is closely concealed at thsVatiean,
Out Of the twelve couples divorced at
| the recent term Of the Superior Court Of
Connecticut, sigh. had been married since
1860.
Madame Anna Bishop, who 10 now in
| Australia, will shortly return TO New York
whom she intends to retire permanently
frcm the stage.
The whiskey bond 10 more common
among men in our city than is the Grecian
among the women. 1t comes on badly at
night. and generally disappears in the
morning.
| During the first nine months Of the cur
rent year over five thousand sales Of real
estate were reported in San Francisco,
while the amount involved in these traas,c-
tons aggregated $2l 100000.
An Adams young lady, in conversation
With friend, thus enthusiastically praised
. clergyman; "He is a peefect gentleman
| he parts his hair in the middle; talks horse
and plays billiards beautifully"