Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-11-30
DAILY DEMOCRAT


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Burnetts Goes ains fer the hair hes bees
tested BY millions, and 10 to-day mere pop
ulsr than ever.
Nsgrs eupriss in Alsb,ms prefer white
jufiss.
Cincinnati; has the smallpox bad. Che
hospital 10 nursing twenty nine sssss.
Greeley hasn't fsurd murdered negro
for week.
1t requires $sls.sil 81 to run tho city Of
Albany year.
The keeper Of the New. York City Hail
gets 81, 700 per annun. The Governor Ut
Shs State receives 81 1000.
The Mount Vernon estate 10 doing we'll
new, swisg to greater patronage than ever
before.
Robert Niekls sGsrs 70 wager IS, 900
that he is ".hs wsrld's prsstidigitatssr."
A nan has been hanged at Chesterfield,
Va, for horse stealing, which 10 ssill cap.
ital ofsnse in the Old Dominion.
4 New York paper thinks Gs.. Grsns
can not BE- . politician, because he paid
promptly for an overcast he bought in that
There are about one hundred and fifty
carpet factories in Philadelphia, using 900
looms, employing 5000 bands. and making
Goo. 900 yards Of carpet per month
The Secretary Of the Treasury estimates
the total revenue to DO raised for the hscal
year ending June, 1870, at $25o.oOo,ooo.
On earthquake day" in San Francisco
two thousand tslsgraphic messages we're
sent East.
California grsps.growsrs, it 10 said. get
emily thrss-quarters Of cent pound Ter
their crop, delivered At the wins-prsss.
1.-THE Pennsylvania Dutch lie the title Of
George Alfred Tewnssnd's lecture
There 10 . wine cellar in London extend
ing eleven acres under ground.
A csrtain Yale professor always studies
his lesson before hearing . class rscite
whom he is the author Of the text beck.
A valuable vein Of iron ore, covering IN
area efons hundred acres has been discov-
cred near Petersburg, Va.
The Troy, N. ", Time, notes . medical
consultation, at the bedside OF sick Isdy,
Of two allepathio and three homeopathic
physicians, and, strange 10 say. the patient
recovered.
The New York Commercial Journal says
there are mere stores, lofts. Offices and
Easements to rent on Broadway 81 this time
than have bees seen before since the sprts0
Of 1861.
In 1867 the United States imported
$4,000, 900 worth OF syslsts, but We new
export - many. A Providence, K. l..
company turns out 100000 syslsts pei
day.
The nut and sugar bsaring trees in vir-
ginia are beginning to attract attention frsm
farmers and merchants - valuable sources
ofprs6tsbls commerce. The pecan nut can
be raised in great numbers.
An English laborsr, when hungry, r..
Gently pulled up . carrot frsm hsld
through which he was PASSING, and sts it.
For this crime be vas sentenced 10 twenty
one days hard labor.
A Troy pig was recently exhumsd from
the ruins Of an elevator which was destroyed
by Gre . month ago, aud his pigship. trs,tsd
OF At lively pace. All he had to eat for {
month WAS wheat.
The ship Endeavor, built ct Salem
Mass, by Christopher Turner, in 1908
sixty five years ago, is still in commissisn
She is owned in New Bedford, and 10 new
getting in readiness for four years whal.
ing voyage. She was the first American
ship that ever passed through the Strait
Of Magellan.
"what 10 your notion Of the true physi
clan ?" asked a medical Professor Of . stu
dent, to which the lattsr replied: "Hs ii
an unfortunats gsntlemaa whe 10 every day
called upon to psrforo the nincls Of rec
oneilng health with intsupsranee.
"Brick" Ponsroy gives ~ HE Ii Cross
(Wis) Ds0ocrat, OF rather re0evss it t.
New York, and combines i with his daily
paper there - weekly edition, 70 b csllet
Pemsrey's Democrat.
Canadiaa weather prsphsts predict ,
hard winter from the num6s9 Of bears ant
other Wild animals nearing the abodss q
men. We wendsr hew The bears expressed
their fears before the men inhabited th,
region.
Brazil keeps . standard ef{eY Of s., 900 il
gold to any one who viii. invent . mode O.
preserving beef 80 that it will be suitabl,
for exportatisn, and though 1900 process
IS have been pltin composition for THU
prize, rome havo yet received 1t.