Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-03-09
DAILY DEMOCRAT.


A hoy" in Brsttleboro', w., has attend
ed the same Sabbath school for fifty years.
Thirty men, worth over 81 ,oo0, 900 each,
dined with Boston Bank Director,
Wednesday.
4 Now York scotsman has new seeding
potato which he. sells at two dollars per
pound.
An old Indian Chief finding his hair
coming out, explained IL by saying he was
dead at the top.
Money is at two per cent. per annum in
England.
In January, our oil exports amounted to
6,77O, 900 gallons.
The transfer Of Msximiiian's corpse cost
$24o. 900.
Minneapolis refused to vote t40, 600 to
save ST. Anthony's Falls.
Two a On have agrssd to skate enc hun
dred miles On The Hudson. for 81 900 side.
Hsmiltso eounty, Ind, boasts Of hog
weighing LOO pounds.
In New York city there are elk hundred
and City restaurants With drinking bars.
A successor to Bishop Hopkins Il to b.
elected 1t Burlington, Vt, March II.
The forty six banks Of Boston have t46.
00O, 900 capital.
There are 10000 Spaniards in Louisiana
principally In the parishes Of st. Bernard
and Nstshitoches.
The Californian tax on foreign miners
last year was but &c. 900, which was lev
led chiefly on the Chinsse.
The people of Florida ere now INDUCING
in green peas, peppers. fresh lemons, and
neW sour oranges, sweet oranges, lime
blossoms, roses and yellow jasminss.
In . church near Toledo Ash Wednes-
day was celebrated by . wedding, christ
ening, eight and . funeral. Thus oil pos
sibls tastes we're consulted.
The horses propose to hold Nationai
Convention for the purpose Of passing .
resol ution Of thanks TO Bosgonian Who
has invented . rubber covering for bride
bits.
Tho Springfield Republican ssys the
town OF Bedford, fifteen miles from Boston.
has neither minister, lawyer nor railroad,
and the ladies teach al the schools. Moth
| ing ever happened there, except the birth
Of President Storms, of Amherst College.
An athlete in Chattanooga. has carried
. barrel Of -four upwards Of sixty meters
two hundred feet.
Two young ladies in Boston, in practical
illustration of women's rights, last wsdnss-
day, shovsled the snow from . losg side
walk in front Of their fathers house, because
they were stumpsd to do it.
Coal shipments from Pennsylvania, last
year, showed an increase Of 271 $50 tons
anthracite and decrease Of 81 ,568 tons
Of bituminous from the preceding year.
my good fellow" said one man 10 an
other, slapping him on the shoulder, you
are one Of the meu We read Of" How 60"
inquired the other; where do you read Of
mo ?" I'm the police report"
The Burlington wis Standard says the
wooden factory there has bssa running
twenty years, hes two hundred and forty
spindles, and now turns out one hundred
yards Of cloth per day.
A Stats dinner recently given in Vienna
continued twelve hours. There we're TWEEN
ty-nins courses and fifty different kinds Of
wine.
A gentleman in Detroit has pair Of To-
dy's ehoes one hundred and twenty-five
years old. The toes como to sharp point.
There is mysterious talk Of now gold
mining region, superior to California in it's
best days, found within fifty miles Of Louis
vile, Ky.
The Springfield (Mass.) Envelope Com
pany, which was established only about six
months ago, is nov turning out 100, 900 en-
velopes per day, most Of which are sold in
Chicago. L. B. Plumpton 4 Co, Of Hart
ford, Conn turn out over 500, 900 envelopes
per day.
A NRw CuRRRscr-A proposition is be-
fore Congress TO call in the notes under 25
cents, and the small coins nov in cireus-
ton, and substitute for the whole of them
a uniform coinage Of one, three, five and
ten cent token coins Of the same material
aud relative weight - the present hvs-csnt
nickel coin. II is proposed that this coin
age shall BE- upon the basis Of ono dram 10
! weight for each cent Of represented or nom
insl value; the one. three, Eve and ten cent
coins TO be one, three, five and ten grams in
weight, respectively. Or, II the French
gram is not an acceptable standard Of
weight, that the troy grain shall be substi-
tuted in which case il ia OfopOaed that the