Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-01-08
DAILY DEMOCRAT.
GENERAL NEWS.


The population Of Spain is $4,000, 900.
There Is tree in Western Austria $50
feet high.
The United States imported $3.50 l5l
II. 81 WOO! last year.
Pike'snex Opera House will sea, ] 900
persons.
The births in England last quarter were
s-,ls9.
The Lincoln Monument in London is 10
cost 10000.
New York pays Ter clergy men 5000
00L per year.
They have fog in Si,ka 800 days out Of
the year.
The population Of Cincinnati 10 275. 900.
There are 500 newspapers in the State Of
New York
There are 10000 dwelling houses 10 The
oity OF New York.
There 10 . religious sect in Germany
which worships in silence and darkness.
Deer hunters in Southern lll,ncis are
meeting with great success.
Fernando Wood pays $1,000 . month
for his house in Washington.
New York paper says the most brill
liant thing about Dickens readings is his
diamond ring.
The Western Union Telegraph Company
has capital Of s40, 100000.
The new Catholic Cathedral at Boston will
cost . million and half.
Mush and milk sociables are popular in
Michigan.
General Gustav spends his years Of sus-
pension in Europe.
Engenie doesn't play the piano-no even
the one sent her by Francis Joseph.
Mr. and Mrs. jeff. Davis will spend the
winter in Mississippi.
1t is not generally known that Queen
Victoria has more heather than Christian
subjects.
The ossss by tho late tornado at st.
Thomas will reach $s,000,00O.
Trains between London and Liverpo
run 81 miles per hour,
The bar bers in Washington have petit
toned FOX Sunday law.
sporting man in Liverpool, dying re
Gently, left fortune Of 81 100000.
A Cab Company in Paris owns 4, 800 We
hices and employs 1000 drivers.
There are but two manufactures Of wire
rope in the United States.
johnson has pardoned 5000 persons on
special application.
The Methodists have founded n College
at Lucknow, India
Daniel E. Bandmann, the eminent German
actor, is playing in London.
The revenue Of Italy 10 about e32 ,o0o. Oot
rer annum. Her debt 10 f137.320,O0O.
The Archduks Heinrich Of Grstz 10 e
marry charming little German actress.
Napoleon has built IS new bridges acros,
the Seine, At cost Of Is, o00.0 900.
Collins with bells, in case Of premature
burial, have been patented in France.
Dickens irst appearance IS . public
} reader was in Peserboro. IA years ago.
There were 10000 sewing machinel
sold in the United States last year.
The Oxford University was founded A
, D. $50 That Of Paris, A. ID. 192.
Dickens has concluded to lecture in Can
ada before returning home.
Colonel Hoe 10 fitting up press to print
OF both sid OF sheet ct the same time.
J It is said that Dickens invested $4,000
! in iivetwentes last week.
The Prince Of Wales has subscribed on,
hundred pounds sterling to the fund for th'
} wounded Garibaldians.
Henry Ward Beecher has given 81 600 Il
| f,,.l f,,s tha he nf (,au aesa cnilc q
Senator and Gen. Sherman have bough
I acres Of land in Washington, and pait
Sls 900 for it.
John Doe died Of = heavy spree in tn,
New York Tumbs His suit against Rich
ard Roe is nor discontinued.
Elizabeth veromque, the heaviest woman
in Paris, has Just died. She weighed iiv'
hundred and twenty English pounds.
The IIadson Day Company, which for
merly divided sixty or seventy per cent.
now modestly declares four.
A Reverend colored preacher and radica
orator in Texas has had the misfortune Il
incur a fine for 'using vulgar aud indiscree
langusge'
The New York Journal Of Commerce
would Ike to know if it ever occurred L
Wendell Phillips, in his moments Of self
examination that he is bore?
Amasa Walker is said to have moro or
ders tar msgazine articles on political econ
omy ard finance than be can attend to-
Ten years ago he could hardly get pub
Usher.
A Chicago paper asks whether Genera
Grant is in favor Of purchasing foreign ter
ritory. 1t Of course wants to know wheth
| er he is land Grant.
} 1t is expected that Col. Roberts will re-
sign the Presidency OF the Fenian brother
hood and that Gen. O'Nel will be elected
in his place.