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


A knocking bird in New York spsakstifiy
words.
A man in New Haven is said to have COM
mi,.sd suicide because his rent was raisec.
TIE even, in the Prince of ws's,' family
will take place in June.
great many yonns men are shooting
themselves for levs in Cincinnati.
rEByrcn, the pla, writer. is bankrupt.
MANY people are learning from an article
in the last P,ttaaa's ut white horses are
always born back, anu black cows are al
ways BON red.
A tax assessor in New hampshire has
been obliged to exempt dog with three
legs from the dog tag, - the Law provides
for no assessment Of fractions Of animals.
What about clipped ears or curtailed caudAi
ex.rsmitiesf
A plssssnt mode Of torture in British
India 10 to festen bag Of wasps on the
criminals stomach and then stir up the in
sects.
A letter at the Pest ONCE At White River
Junction bears this addrsas: "Ar. Jshn
Sullivan miles from Vermont. Care Of
Mr.. Brooks on 4 farm
Suits are being instituted by the Gov
eminent, all over the South, against rebel
Postmaat.rs, who befor the war had large
stocks of stamps On hand, and have since
refused to account for them.
5000 Tsxas cattle. ere snrouts for the
railroad in Kansas.
Indianapolis has raised $3.50 to secure
fhe s,ate fair for thrae yOarR
A South Bend woman followed her hss-
band TO Elkhart. and snaked him out OF
house Of prostitution.
Mrs. N. j. Bates, of Kendallville, is the
FIRST lady applicant in Indiana under the
bankrupt act.
A l00-pound sturgeon was caught by
"South- bender" At the Niles dam, the other
day.
Gypsy fortune-tellers are said to have
taken 81, 900 frem the foolish young women
Of Decatur county.
TIM" woman in black" has como to grief
in Erie, Pennsylvania, whore she 10 under
arrest for forgery. Her name 10 Mrs. Clara
Baker. She 10 handsome, stylish, and has
had large and brilliant career 40 . conf
dsnee woman.
The Postal law Of Congress .forbids the
opening Of . newspaper, by . person not
addressed or authorized, under . penalty
Of $40 ans-and stealing the same publish
able BY imprisonment.
An elm tree cut in Andovsr, Mass meas
ursd seven and half feet in diameter, and
twenty -four feet in circumference. One Of
the limbs was three feet through, and for
another, there were one hunrsd and twenty
seven grains, indicating that the tree was
more than that number Of years old. 10
produced nine cords Of wsod. This would
not BE- considered much Of . tree California."
A we'll knevn doctor In New York city,
worth $500, 900, has made Will directing
that his body shall be burned upoa his
death. He has also written book in favor
Of burning the dead.
The original "Old Oaksn Bucket" upon
which Samuel Wardsworth wrote his fam
Gus lines, has just arrived in Boston, having
been purchased from ito owner in South
Scituats, Mass.
Kansas reserve 100000 acres fer
school fund.
A blue rose il on exhibition in Cincin-
natl.
Fat 10 new the rage in fashionable circles.
Ladies' cultivate it. They are devouring
vast quantities ofbutter, mashed rsss leaves,
and such like.
The inventory Of the troSsseau of Bos-
ton bride, recently published, made msn-
tion of twenty dozen handks rchi efs, not
one Of which would do service for cold in
the head"
Paris 10 to have the most magnificent
fountain in the world. 1t will be composed
OF four waterfalls, eight lions spouting
water. and immense candalbra to light up
the whols at night.
Between the gliding and porcelain trades
an immense amount Ct gold is annually
absorbed. Tho porcelain trade alone takes
nearly $50. 900 Of gold . year, and between
gliding and porcelain. the annual oonsump-
ton Of England and France is estimated at
not less than forty thousand ounces, which
10 lost to currency forever.