Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-11-16
DAILY DEMOCRAT
GEyEWAH. NEW ..

GENE1Al. NEWS.
Knes brooches hsve II last been intro
dueed in New York.
New York insurance. company wants
R. E. Lee TO BE- its president for el0,OOO .
year.
A Swedish nobleman has . copper minc
for which be has refused ~, 200, 900.
Nevada uses mahcgony for fuel. Luxur-
ious exsravsgsnce.
Oysters in Eogland bring forty dsllars
PEI bushel.
Gen. Grant owns 90. 900 let o. Four =
tenth, Washington.
I've bastalions Of the English army are
10 be viShdsawn frem Canada.
The Pope has thirteen vessels 10 his
navy, none Of them large.
New Orleans again agitates the subject
Of separate hsrss cars for the two coisrs.
There ore more than twelve hundred 70.
ristiss Of the postage stsmps OF oil nations.
Louisiana planters are trying to get rid
Of the negroes BY advertising for vhi'e 10
borcrs to take their places.
The now Spanish govsrnment is having
Isabella's etRgv punched out Of the postage
stamps.
Louisville, Ky. 10 to have new Chamber
Of Commerce.. and DR.. John Bull, OF that
city, gives $44, 900 towards the object.
All the fashion plates indicate tight PAN
taloons-tightsr than we have had tnem
for years past.
The Astor House consumes . million o.
toethpicks year, at cost o! enc nundFed
| dollars.
A statue Of Queen Victoria, to cost ten
thousand dellaYs. 10 to b erected ut Non
| trsal.
Hsrstio Seymour 10 one Of the 6sh com.
missisners Of the State Of New YORK, WIN
. salary Of $33s.33s per year.
Elegant bridal psssents 70 let u ses
peculiar advertisement in an English iaso'
ionabls paper.
The champion beer drinksr Of the United
States resides in Cincinnati. His measure
i 16o glasses day.
Ticknor 4 Fields paid Chss. Dickens
81 900 night for his readings, and made
3100, 900 On him ct that.
A "Honsymoen Oar" 10 to be placed on
the Pacific railway. when eomplsssd' 'of
benefit Of bridal parties.
Gen. James Shields, who vas at one Time
United Statssss Senator frem Illinois, 10 eiec'
ted to Congress from Missouri.
The Memphis Avalanche accepts the
| situatien," snd announces itself in favor o.
negro suffrage.
The Paris Siscls gets nine hundrsd thsus'
and francs . year for advsrtising-mers
than any ether Journal there.
A statisusan says man stands sixteen
chances Of being killed BY lightning t. one
Of being worth million Of money.
Gen. Grant will have control Of $4,000
| Offices and officers, whose annual csmpsn.
| sation amounts 10 thirty millions Of dol
lars.
Rely upon yourself. Never ask faver.
II is better to suffer than to suppliests.
The snow Was up to the wagon hubs in
the hill road near Windsor, VT, on the re-
cent election day.
Drunkenness 10 greatly on the increase
in the English army, according to official
reports.
A Buffalo lady recently lost her pockets
book containing 800. A poor little boy
found it and restored it to it's owner. Re-.
ward, lock Of gratituds and an apple.
The Woodstock (Ill.) Sentinel msntion'
the case OF = young mau living near No
Henry becoming 80 infatuated with Plan
Ghetto a. to lead to his insanity.
The we'll known Lorillards, Of New York
are building An establishment ct louisville
for re.drying tobacco. IL will employ
about 100 people.
Aman C) in Coventry, w.. recently
presented bill Of $30 against school dis
trct tor water that the scholars had draul
from his we'll.
An Ohio girl astonishsd the handssm'
young men Of . Cleveland dry goods store
the other day. BY asking for "thres yard
Of Grscian Bend"
A thread company at Holyoks, Macs.
employs three hundred hands and manu-
features three thousand dozen spools OIL
cotton every day.
A French newspaper, speaking Of a new
cemetery opened near Lyons, says: IN
Gascoins was the frst person who had tn,
pleasure of being buried in this delightful
retreat"
Cuba has about 100000 population
one>half negroes and Cinnamon 10000
natives Of European descent, and about
10000 foreign whites.
Bottles ars ne longer on the table oil
fashionable dinner parties, all the wines
/ - ~ - >k>~ 49,
served in glass pitchers Of handsome work
manship.
Al the recent municipal election in Que.
bee, shall boys brske open family tomb in
enc Of the city cemeteries and took oul
skulls, which they carried about on sticks
One manufacturer Of false teeth in Phila.
dslphia turns out about two million false
teeth every year. Mere than one half thu
whole amount Of this necessary article
used in this country is made in Philadsl>
phia.
make way, gentlemen ~ cried fussy
ef6cs holder to some people The ethel
night At . Political meeting. make way,
We are The representative Of the psoplsl'
make way yourself" replied . sturdy
member Of the throng, I'VE ore the pso.
pie themselves"
II seems that tall buildines are safe,
and better invsstmsnts than low onss.-
The tallsst buildings in San Francisco
have stood the earthquake shocks thu
best. We can only account for this iaet
upon the principle that they are construct,
Cd with more care and better material.
The executors Of the Edwin A Stevens
estate have offered Gen. Mcclellan q sal
AIRY Of $4,000 . year to supsriutsod thu
eompletion Of the famous Stevens Battssy
at Hoboksn, which, when afleat, 10 . b
tsndersd - free gin to the State o.
! New Jersey.
II takes e10.o 900 initiation free 70 snts,
The regular board Of the New Yeak Stool
Exchange. The fss heretofore va % 900
The anehsf Of the Msrrimac. wsiehin,
1000 pounds, has bssn raised, and il exhib
TIED q Nerfelk.
The verdi produces 4s9, 400 tens Of /.
baecs annually.
LEATHER &c.
III. STUCKRATH h CO.