Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-12-29
DAILY DEMOCRAT
STATE NEWS.

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Six divorces in Heary county this
term.
A directory Of Cedar Rapids has jsst
eeen completed.
A woman owns the lssges, bre~.rv in
Auseaiins.
-McGregor is 20 have railroad bridge
next season.
Small pex has broken ou, in Lake
tswnship. Muscatire esunty.
The dialogue 4 Sioux City road 10
ssnplsied 20 Webster City.
Scottish Rite Nss anry is being sorisd
in Bsrlingtoa.
-Musca.ins has The "worniest- mau in
lsva: IS feet Of tape worm.
lone dog killed IS sheep near DEBORAH
at one killing. . few nights ago.
The Signal. formerly published At Ma
rion, has been removed to Cedar Rapids.
-Ic Dabuqas horse railroad pays At the
rate Of 8 per cent per annum.
oos = wi QSIotSb SvOt VI
ESQ .ooo-sbeut So for each inhsbitant
-Aoatszama is WORKING % cure tie
location Of The Iowa Central Raiirosd
through that town.
w. W. Bsebc, = leading uan stnorg
the horticuturis,s OF the States, del in
DIALOGUE last week.
"A fins large grey eagle vas killed the
ether day about eight miles north Of Pair
field.
The Dubuque Metal Stamping Works
we're burned Christmas msrnins. Loss,
$50, 900; insured, $4,000. The Hsrali
reports building, machinery, and stsck, .
complete wreck.
Dubuque has received wharfage On
27.ooo. 900 feet Of lumber and IL 600 cords
Of wssd during the past season. Forty -ons
different steam boats have been there. Her
lumber Wharfage was t2,sls; wood.
essoo7.
-T~elve wiodsvs in the Isvs City
Catholic church will cost 37.7e0
-Con6denss men are growing fat On
Burlington green -herns.
Sheriff LAtta, Of Dss Moinss seunty,
got run away with; Get throwa from his
buggy and his leg broken sought the
hospitality Of citizen, and was rsfsssd Cd
nissisn; laid on the perch Gil nigh. the
owner Of which took bin hems in the
morning for dollar. Brutal.
A couple Of fools in Nonona county have
been guarding about the ownership Of .
twenty Eve cent 6ssr beg. At last accounts
they we're IN the district court with costs
already amounting 10 nearly $500.
The Alton Tribune understands from
good authority that = number Of cases Of
small pox exist in the northern part Of
Ringgsld county. Four deaths have a.
ready occurred, and several others are re-
are reported very lew
The frst sermon preached in
Iewa. is said BY Daniel Mcneil in the
Burlington Rswheys to have happened this
way:
The L. S. troops we're sent twice frsn
Fort Armstrong (Roek Island in the sum
msr and fall Of 1888, and drove the whites
rom Shskoken (now Burlington) and 1t
one time q think it was in Septsmber, ( the
soldiers destroyed the goods Of those white
intrudsrs. So soon SIS she treaty s,ipula.
tians would permit, many families from
Warreo county, Illinois, took possession of
their several claims. and moved their fami-
lies int the Black Haak territory and in
the summer Of 1884 Mr.. Barton Ii. Cart
wright crossed over with bis pillow and
team and broke prairie for some Of the set.
tiers fren Warren county. He Vas then .
young man, ard but recently licensed to
preach by Methodist Quarterly conference
in Warren county, Illinois. He broke prsl-
RE during III. woek, and gathered the few
settlers together on the Sabbath and preach
ed to them, and | have no doubt that Mr..
Cartwright is entitled to the honor Of hav-
ing delivered the 6rst sermon in Iowa. He
is yet minister in The Rock river Confer
sncs OF the N. E. Church. claim the
honor OF having advised ard directed our
honored citizen, J. ". Grimes, TO settle in
your place, which be did.
MINNESOTA has now population Of 42o,-
00c, an increase Of abou..o Per cent. in
three years. At this rate her population
viii exceed 600, 600 in 1915, when the next
general census il teken