Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-01-31

0os thousand letters are mailed from Re
okuk every day.
Two more Wards have b.en added TO
Council Buff.
During the year 1887 sher. were 2ss mar
riages 10 Jobnson county.
The Iowa city Republican opposes any
chang. in the Supervisor system.
Mlscat;ne is called upon to raise $loo,-
600 stock, for the railroad from thss place
to Council Bluffs
The Des Moinss street railway track is
now laid TO the railroad depot. Now it ends
somewhere.
The German Turner'S Of Burlington are
to have . grand ma'querade ball on the 25;h
Of February.
Id DIngersoll-the brilliant "LinAensale"
delivers . lecture on "Four years at wash
ine,on,' .. Ejdyviile, this week.
The Courier says that the railroad Of
fee IT Muscatins was robbed Of over $500,
While the agent was absent. The thief get
in through . window.
The Wspsilo Republican says that coal
be near Harrison, Louisa county, has been
on Ere for siI CT eight weeks.
The leading business men Of Dubuque,
in council assembled, have determined uI'
on starting . substantial insurance CO .npa-
ny. which is to have no connection wa.t-
ever With the board Of under writer's.
Junius Berkeley formerly n Webster City.
Vas 10 have been hung in Colombo on the
l7,h inst, flr murder, A. we learn from, the
Freeman
Tbs girls Of Musca.ins are sghins for
. lodge 10 some vast wilderness as We
learn from the Journal The elsie Of man
would probably SUI, them better, suggests
the STATE Reaister.
The Guard says tha. on Monday Of last
week, Bloomfield vas visited by disastrous
Ere, winch DESTROYED property wortl el2,-
ooa. I be careiessnes. of 9 barber caused
the calamitv
The Herald says that some burglars en-.
tered the Congregational church q. Du-
buque the other day. and helped themselves
to things generally, including $50 from the
pastor private drawer in tie study.
Tae Hamilton Frcem1. estimates ;n.:
one fourth q al The grading on the lire OIL
the D. i S c. r. + between lows gas
and Fo.t Dodge is now completed.
j. c. Thompson, of Manchester, Delaware
county, who was sixty years old, well of.
committed suicide the other day, for fear
be would become burden 10 his friends. |
Mr. kenney, foreman Of the Iowa CITY |
Press ot6ce, received ateiegram announcing |
the dangerous illness of hi. mother 10 Tama |
county lie wen. TO her at oocs. She soon |
diei, bis father is very sick. and to FIJI his
cup Of ,ttiictien, be was thrown from
sleigh and bsdy iojared.
A little girl Of John Franklin, &c months
OLD, was sca'ded to death last week in Bre
ner county BY having a pan OF scsding
milk up.e, upon her.
Mss Mary Allen, Of Burlington, dau -h,er |
.! Hon. Robert Allen. representative in the
present Legislature from Dss Moines coun- !
~, tad one Of her legs broken the other
day By Jumping from buggy while the
horsss were running avaT.
A bashful young couple from the country
recently went 70 sigourney, got married.
stopped over nigh. At = hotel. called for sep
ara.c rooms and occupied them separately.
4he Aers thinks they were very extrava-
CANT in going to such ~ Unnecessary ex.
pense
The oi.umwA Courier says tina, the house
OF Mr.. Howdyshell. Of Composine, Wapello
county, took fire few days since, and was
snvelopei in flames before its inmates were
aroused. Mrs. Howdvshell mans ged TO e,-
cape badly burned. with txo Of her children,
whil. sister Of Nr. How'd, shell, q Young
LADY, AID two children perished in the
flames. Their bodies we're finally recover.
cd from the ruins, the children being liter
ally burn. to an unrecognizable mass, while
tee Young ady bad both Of her lower limbs
burned of ab,ve the knees, aud one OF her
arms vas pulled ous Of the socket in exnica-
ting ner boiy from the desris.
To'sl iosse. by Gre in Buriin gton during
ths pas. year, si7s 800; tot, insurance.
%lca GO.
Coal mas bsen discovered in Washington
equity.
The Dabaque people desire Congress to
amend the act Of Congress approved Jolly
25tb, 1866, entitled, An act to su;horise
the construc ction Of certain bridges, and TO
establish them ~ post resds," 60 - to pro-
vide that a. such bridges - may be con-
structsd in part within this State aud u
cross either the Mississippi or Missouri
rivers. shall be % constructed % to allow
the passage over the same Of al kinds of
vehicles, such as wagons, carriages. slegha.
etc. drawn By horses or cattle, and for oil
kinda Of live stock to be driven or led, and
Of All passengers in either direction.
The only place - GnA
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