Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-05-07
DAILY DEMOCRAT.
GENERAL NEWS,

A German genius has recently invented
s,wstch which rursa year without. wind
ing.
The main shaft of the Bullion mine, in
Nsvads, is down 200 feet, the deepes,
shaft on the Pacific coast.
The Cocbeco Print Works at Dover, N.
a.. manufacture sixteen millions yards o.
prints each year, giving smplo, ment to two
hundred and twenty-five hands.
During tire late rebellion, the Govern
ment puchssed $4,000, 900 pounds Of gun
powder.
The Rocky Mountain Herald advcrtisss
for single women. A thousand girls, II
says, could get husbands and homes in Dol.
oradc, before spring.
Wives ars drug in the Novs Scotia
market George Kane, OF Halifsx, sold bis
wife latsly, to man named Nefbury. for
50, Nova Scotia currency.
Mr.. Lowell Lincoln, who was lest on the
steamer Sea Bird, was the FIRST child bern
10 Lowell, Massachusetts,, and WAS in the
forty second year Of his age. Mr.. Lincoln
vent to Milwaukee in 1866. and established
the first commu ercial college there, and
continued it until bis death.
The San Francisco paper publish list Of
unclaimed kilograms.
Yekahama, Japan. ia ! 500 miles from
London BY way of Suez, and 1920 by way
Of New York.
Tie New York hail thinks it . feather
In the American editorial cap that, though
wine was 40 free AZ water ct the Dickens
banquet, not one of the two hundred editors
present got drunk.
| II is stated, on good authority. that The
Northwestern Railroad Company have fully
| determined TO extend the Winona and ST.
PeteI Railroad westward to the Minnesota
river this year.
The principals Of the New York grammar
schools have held meeting and resolved
that it is insxpedisnt to abolish fogging in
those institutions.
The amount expended By the various
churches in Boston for music 10 some e4O,-
600 year. The highest price paid for any
one voice is $1,000; the largest amount
paid BY any one church Is 1000.
A colony OF one hundred miners from
Montana went to Peru. South American
about year ago. Half Of them are already
are fsarfully unhealthy.
San Francisco il thinking Of . suspension
bridge . mile isng over the Golden Gate.
In Cincinnati there are $3.50 retail H.
quor dsalers,-more than are engaged in
any ether business.
Philadelphia has voted 20 sxpend 81
600, 900 in extending her water works and
making other improvements.
Davy Crookett's farm, Of 800 acres, in
Gibson county, Tenn, 10 for sale.
A combined salt-cellar and napkin ring
is one Of the latest triumphs Of human
genius.
A widow lady in Virginia buried all her
family jswslry and gold during the war,
forgot the place, and was unable to find 1t
until terrier dog dug it up few days
ago.
Every sixteenth and thirty sixth section
of land in Kansas are devoted to school
purposes, making about 1900, 900 acres in
/ the State.
Tho savings banks in San Francisco,
which are mainly patronizsd by the work
| ing classes, contain 100000 deposits 10
gold.
A traveller break fasting at an Arkansas
hotel requested the waiter to take his cup
Of coffee out into tho yard. and pump some
Of the wator out.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hildrsth, of Oyster Bay.
L. L., were poisoned to death, Friday, by
eating horssrsdish, into which pokswesd
root had been grated.
A swarm Of bees left . hive on Pine
street, Manchester, N. H., and took lodg-
ings in post Office drop letter box ON one
| Of the city amp-posts.
John Yarnell goes 10 the tenitsntiary IA
years from Macomb, ILL.,, fer murder.
All the diamond cutting Of this country
| 10 done by machinery in Boston.
A mau was killed at Columbus, o., on
the 9th. By the bursting Of grindstone.
The Northwestern Sheep Breeders A.
| ssciation meets ct Belvidsrs, ILL.,. May 9th,
| 9Th and 7th. Many prizes are offered.
The tax Of one cent upon each box Of
matches produced last year thrsughout the
United States amounts TO about 81 $780,
600.
Charles Dickens expenses in America
were $50 coo, and his net profits 800, 900
in gold. He carried off three large packing
cases full Of all sorts Of presents.
William Glasgow, a member Of the firm
Of Glasgow Brothers, heavy grocsrs Of ST.
Louis. has just won half the capital prize in
the Madrid Lottery, amounting to $4,000
in gold.
John Morrissey, member Of Congress,
writes from Hot Springs, Ark, that he 10
rapidly recovering his health, and has not
been so we'll in thirteen years a. at the
present time.
MR. BBEcHRR wrises..to this weeks Led
ger Explain to me, If you can, Mr.. Bon
nsr, why it is that 30 many young people
are ashamed to have it thought they have
ne money. or why is il that they are
ashamed ef economy In the Management Of
slender means. and Of frugality in living
There is no disgrace in beirg an acorn BE-
fore being On oak. Young people frequently
wish that they were grown men; but they are
not ashamed of being young No one 10
ashamed TO have it discovered that his
strength. knowledge and skill are proper
toned to his years. But these same per-
sons will blush, and suffer shame, at being
supposed not to have money, under nircum-
stances IN which all the sensible world
knows that they ought to have nons!,
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