Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-12-21


The keokax bridge 10 to esst $780,.
600.
Burlington city real estate 10 valusiat
$4,000, 900.
Potatoes at PAuora are only SO cents .
bushsi.
A Council Bluffs we'll digger has dug
half mile Of wells this year.
40 G-sgor viii probably have rair
road bridge within tao years.
-Keokuk folks are greatly pes.ersd By
thieves and burglars.
"A woman was badly gored by q COW in
Dubuque last week.
$40, 900 was paid out for hogs 10 Ma.
qusketa last week.
-Dss Moincs county has . tax valuation
Of 1928. $50 taxes levied. sl2l,135.
Burlington claims TO have erected
about 81 600, 900 worth .of new buildings
this year.
A brakesman named Quinn fell from q
freight train a, Des Moines lsst week and
VAS killed
Near Dss Mcines little child Of Mr..
Ialnes was fatally scalded BY falling into .
pan OF hot water last week.
The New York Tribune says there are
more agricultural implements ssld in Iowa
than in Germany, Spain, Italy, Turkey,
Russia, Africa and Asia.
/ A little son Of Mr.. Ainsworth. Of Clar-
india. aged three years, met with his death
on Tuesday last, by having = small copper
riset in his mouth. lie partially swsllo~
ed it, causing death instantly.
The Indianola Journal says: "A
short time ago, a farmer turned forty head
, Of cattle into a newly prepared stock field
a near the northeast part Of this county, snd
i, in two days one.fourth Of the number ed
showing symptoms Of poison from corr
smut, or something else not known
An Ottumwa paper says that 200 ne
!, grees and tasir families can find employ
. men, in Summit township, Marion county
Iowa, to work in the corn fields during th'
+, coming summer. Comfortable houses Il
live in will DO furnished, and liberal wagsi
will be pad.
II Tho Waver'y Republican states tina
the .pire, which was being raised from on
OF the towers Oft the new Methodist churcl
in that city, fell on Thursday last. q dis
), lance Of thirty feet, crushing all beneath ]
e Till it reached the ground. Fortunately
4 none Of tho workmen were under it.
i. Judge Claggett. Of the Csns;itution
;, has ose1 out hunting foxes near Keokul
w.lh horses and hounds. TIC party esp
red .wo fexes. The Judge declares tha
it .-aes longer to get res.ed than to &c
. tired in that occupation.
q The Leon Hons.r says hat the worl
! on Tho Cbil,co,hc, Leon Il FL. Dss Moine
IS Railroad will DO pushed vigorously forwar,
: along the liae in Missouri early in III
o spring; aud .bat sne contract for gradip
. and I; eng is to be ct fron. Chi lice.he /
; Princeton IN q short time.
Z Bro. Ilavens, Of The Sigourney Mtvs
rcceu " met with a painful accideOt-hi
= hand having been in some way caught in
- power press andso much lacerated that h
!. will probxbly never recover the use Of it,
. An editor, OF all other men, needs two 600
hands-for we know Of no others who hav
.. to scratch for living" 80 much - they
10 A Jasper county farmer has furnishs
;. the Newton papers with the following n
y cipe, which, HI says, il an infallibls cur
;" for dry murrain, which Is his name for th
81 smut-corn disease, now so prevalent "In
mediately after ascertainng that an animi
has the dry murrsin, give one quart Of ca,
: tor oil. ifrot relieved in one hour, Civ
. another pint. The second dose Is scarce
to ever required.
J The Ereeisior says Naquokesa 10 bless
;" I'd with one Of the finest jails in the Stat,
e and then goes on to tel why il is 80 in tn
ie following strain: "lf a culpiit 10 incArca
ID rated the public will not be troubled wit
al him again. 1t is so cold he will be frsze
J. 80 stiir that he can be laid aside until hi
n friends call for the corpse. The Counc
., will not buy a stove, and if they did ther
e, would be danger of drunken man burn
&c ing up, unless he were cnaincd to the floel
= The City Council Of Maqdokcta should b
awarded a leather medal for their praise
worthy ..endeavors TO promote the welfare Z
70 the people whom they represent"
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