Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-11-12
DAILY DEMOCRAT
GENERAL NEsyR.


P.rsumed tooth. icls are the most rec.nt
vanity.
Sara ess rei,ices at tic discovery of q
new mineral spriag.
Snsw 10 eighteen inches de.p on TIE top
OF Mt. Washington, n. h.
The C',ciona.i police nov hsvsasystsm
Of rocket signals.
A woman vas recently shut up eleven
days in . church vaui. 10 Sweden.
The gentlemen of leisure amuN them,
selves With canoe voyages in Wisconsin.
In New York one Of tho hotels has ss-
tablishsd London cab line Of its own.
There we're $50 weddiogs in New York
last week.
Nassachuse,ts has one nile Of railway to
every six square miles Of territory.
The French are to be allowed to sing the
Marssilla.se.
Quebec has . teminary old enough to
celebrate ito two hundrsdth anniversary.
A Buffalo justice has denied that 1t 10
crime to steal IN umbrella.
The Austrian army and navy are to be
put on war footing Of 6O0.o0o men.
The crops in the Southern States this
year are valued at $500, 00o, 600.
A cargo Of two hundred German imml-
grants recently landed at Galveston, Texas.
Wild geese are reported as swarming IN
the vicinity Of the Illinois river nsar Peoria.
nangtroes have increased to such an ex-
tent in South Australia, that they starve
out the sheep.
IL 10 reported that decree is posted on
the gates Of Yokohama, Japan, forbidding
Christianity.
II is estimated that one-halt Of the TWEEN
ty-fvs and fifty cent currency in clrcula
ton 10 counterfeit
The national debt now amounts to 81
GAL ,0O2.57 with sll3.s1S,o2o IN the
Treasury.
The manufacture OF silk goods in this
country is on the increase. Paterson prom
ises to become the Lyons Of America
An old German astronomer positively
asserts that both continents Of this planet
will be submerged in 900 100000 years
Two hundred French factory girls will
sail this month from Havre for New Or-
leans, to work as servants.
Norwegian children are required to At
tend school from the age Of eight until
confirmation.
Since the overthrow Of the Bourbon mou-
archy in Spain, 500 Jssuits have fled across
the frontier to Portugal.
New York has an anti tobacco club.
.k:cI .nal for the rnnQA oil
net smoking.
Indianapolis expects to slaughter 20. 900
hogs this year. The work will bsgin this
week, probably.
The Indiana farmers are selling their corn
in the Geld at 80 cents a bushel, to DO fed
to hogs, which sell for cents pound.
The champion drinker Of lager beer in
Cleveland has accomplished 100 glasses in
ono day, and invites any man to best it.
The people Of Wsedsport, N. r., have
invented new church entertainments
"mush and milk aociabls.'
Gold is reported to have been found in
New Hampshire and Vermont in quantities
sufficient to pay miners.
The Government receipts in the fiscal
year ending June 80, 1868, reached $780,
600, 900; expenditures, 1877, 100000
A man in Lyndon. VT, while digging
we'll in his cellar, recently. struck line
sulphur spring.
A knitting factory at Dix IN. ILL.,, has just
been established, which will turn out 3 lO0,-
coo worth Of goods this season.
1t has been decided in Wisconsin court
that the imposition of tax upon non
residents selling goods by sample in the
State Is contrary to ths Constitution OF the
United States.