Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-11-27
DAILY DEMOCRAT
GENERAL. NEWS.


Bsnners chances for cabinet Office Or,
considered good.
Senator Stewart, Of Nsvsds, will BE- re-
elected.
Horace Greeley 10 famous ~ thu Bsa,
Bruumsl Of 'hs metropolitan press.
Without countiog Alaska, the United
Safes has 1 500 600, 900 acres Of land.
The Yale College libraries hare nov
81 900 volumes.
Sess,nabls hints to farmers-ye whc
havs steers prepare to shed them new.
W1kxs' Spirit pronouness Weston, th,
pedestrian. a humbug.
The supply Of auiuioe 10 South Ausrie.
is diminishing.
General Kinks 10 talked Of st Washing
ton for Public Printer.
TIE fa,orits phrase Of . Leading a." bull y
iu Wall street. can't bear IT,"
Half q dossn or more new churches Or,
building in Brseklyu.
An %, 900 acre tract in Florida 10 to b
colonizsd BY Auburn On. ~ capitalists.
Boston is to have . first.class illustrated
weekly.
For IL ye,rs, the papers say. Florence
Nightingale has not lett her room.
Quite . lively business is done, in New
York, in cat skins, which sell 1t ID to 90
cents each.
Cough 10 making another farewell lecture
tour at 5000 per night.
West Point has 2,273 graduates and
2,447 non-graduatss.
There have been 6s, 627 ,s4s, 1913, SIC. 22l
souls since the creation, it 10 estimated.
The increase Of licsntiousnsss in thil
county 10 pronounced before the Scisn'
ti6c Congress to be very great.
Cranbsrriss have advanced 81 per barrel
The crop 10 greatly below that Of last year
Speaking Of the exit Of the White Pawn
the st. Paul Dispatch says the girls Of thu
ballet we're barsioeted up to the neck.
Mr.. and Mrs. Colfax, il il said, propose
to spend portion Of the coming winter ia
Europe.
Coed bootmakers are scarce in San Fran.
cisco, and command high wages.
Private letters from Concord. N. H.. On.
nouuce that the health of ex-Prssidsnt
Pierce 10 better.
The prison choir at Sing Sing is said 70
be surpassed BY but few in the country,
either within or without prison walls.
Rev. Dr.. Tynss church has dispsnsary
in one of its apartments. where the psor
are literally supplied with medicines.
The Vermont legislature 10 discussing
laws compelling children to attend ssaesl,
and regulating the legal rate Of interest.
Leland's new hotel At Long Branch ID
said to b six hundred feet long.
An exchange says that one Whitney. Of
Medina county, Ohio. FIRST advocated . Pa'
cifc railroad twenty -four years ago.
Dartmouth College celebrates its esntsn'
NAL next July. The whole number Of stu
dents at present is $40.
Kinahan CORVALLIS, financial editor OIL
the New York Herald. has purchased thu
Albion. one Of the oldest weekly papers il
New York.
Six tons Of white fish were recently .aker
at one haul, from Lake Erie, near Farport
Pa.
Queen victoria's cousin, the Duke o.
Cambridge. il obliged to scrape along on I
salary Of $3.50, 600 year.
Jumps Of white silver ere are used il
some parts Of Nevada - u circulating me
dunn, and answer the purpose very well.
The Portuguese introduced tobacco irta
Japan about $50 years ago, and new they
raise and manufacture their own supply.
A parson in Chicago held forth las. Sun
day on "ths way to hell" When = mat
gets to Chicago, he 10 too ussr hell to neet
further directions.
Brigham Young's newspaper organ in
forms troubled world that the lesson 0
the recent earthquake 10 IN admonition +
oil people to embrace Mormenism.
The Madison Democrat advsrtisss for lad
competitors ITO when IS cents per l,0O'
ems will BE- given"
A lady Of St. Louis 10 circulating petit
ton for the Pest Once in that city. Gen
Fullerton 10 now Postmaster.
Why is q married man like tallow can
die! Because be often goes out at nigh
when he ought not to.
The problem for modistss now 10 gar
ment tina. will permit females to bsstIide tn,
velocipede.
To the many inquisitive friends who wan
to know how far we are going up Salt river
We rep'y, "Yuba Dam"
Bakers loaves are no large. now thar
they were when -four was sold At Eve or siz
dollars per barrel more than at present.