Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-04-23
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". Palmer. OF Polk City, died few
a.ws sro. NJ she ripe age Of one hundred
and Ave years.
--Dss Moines is iioodedswit counterfeit
shin -plas.ers.
Mr.. Thomas Murray, farmer OF
Manchester, while in stats Of intoxica-
ticn, fell into ditch the other day ara
was killed.
Senator Grimes has just given 'he
splendid sum ofslo,ooo for Puo"' NV
rary at Burlington, lows.
The crop and fruit prospects OF Van
p,,en county were never better at this
| season.
| The laborsrs on the Dss Mo ines Rap.
ids improvements struck foi 81 day last
week, and got il.
N-The delinquent tax Of Ksokuk amount
to s.l3s.sl total collection during the
past year t45. eSl25.
Tho vito Of . Dubuqns merchant F.
Bssdes has run away with Max Schroeder,
in former days. away of in Germany,
Max and Mrs. Basder-then . bouncing
lass-had gone to school together, and
were cooling lovers. The old gentleman,
however, bioke of the match. and In due
course Of time the girl married Mr.. i. and
came t. America. settling at Dubuque.
Last year, the fiirted Max alsos came,-snd
last week he claimed his stolen ride from
the arms of her husband, and flew with
her, no one knows where. Sc left two
children, and great many disgraced re-
latives.
A SHARrEg.-The Des Moines Register
says: early last week gay deceiver
arrived in this city. and pretended to be .
gas filter. Being German he soon ingra-
tiated himself into the confidence some Of
our citizens Of that nationality. Wishing
TO build him . business house no succeed
ei in getting Charley Camp to stand res
ponsibc for him. A carpenter was en-
ployed, and the house built near the corner
Of Court Avenue and Third streets. All
went we'll. and no one smelt mice. Du-
I ring the week, he managed to borrow
small sums Of money-&l0 and t15-from
various persons. On Saturday the house
was finished but 10 and behold the gay
gas filter had disappsarcd-lcaving house
on Mr.. Camps hands. which he has no use
for. II is sudpossd that he got away with
5000.
Thirteen hundred Muscatine children
% 60 school.
Iowa fur nishcs ons-third Of oil the whsa
which passes into the Chicago elevators.
A Chickassw county farmer sold Nv,
fat steers for $6Os.
Mrs. Bappe. Of West Union, gave brit
, recently to three boys, Weighing in the az
, gresase 2li pounds.
, The Maquoksta Sentinel Democrat
has been revived.
! An old gentleman by the name Of Viii
r ting, aged 20, hung himseliin his own WOOD
shed last Sunday night a week, in Newto,
I The Linn county Signal mentions I'll
0 names o. thirty fseo persons who are spoke
. OF in connection with the nomination a
r candidate for Congress by the Radicals q
a this district Anxious fellows these to len
4 tn r talent for the salvation of the coun
4 Try.
4 The keokuk Constitution tells OF a bo
about ten years old who was lost in tn
J. woods near that city, and was two days an
. l nj, III Ill r.. Il
' lie was a. length found by Newfoundlan
doy, whea he found assistance 10 help hin
homo.
Tho Waterloo Courier states thu
y . little girl aged eigh, years, daughter q
George Smith, with little boy, were eros,
> ing lover prairie road along the edge Z
which a prairie fire was burning, when he
= clothes caught fire, and Notwithstanding tn
r. efforts of both the children, she was burne
10 to death in very few minutes. The littI
T. boys hands were badly burned in his efTo,,
!, y to extinguish the fire. Mr.. Coley reache
the child in few minutes, but she was
r. corpse"
al Tho Des Moines Register says tn
< jeremiah Conking, aborcr on consiru
ton tan on the Pacific Road, while jun
ing from the CHOOSE car to he tender hi
tie train was in motion near the depot ye
terday, missed his footing and fell dow
beneath tbs pondcrous wheels, which pas
:, ed over him, crushing in his skull, brsakir
his back, crushng his left foot nearly off
the ankle, and severely injuring him inte
:. naly. His recovery is consids red i,nposs
BILE. Unmarried, and without relations
this portion oil the country.
Of The Grundy County Alias is the nan
.ds cfa new Republican paper hailing fro
- Grundy Center.
has The grasshoppsr nuisance promises
his witt Iowa this season in greater numbe
tho than ever before. The Adams County G
g. sstse says: "The eggs that were deposit,
wn in this section are coming out young glas
he hoppers at rapid rate. Thousands Of the
St can be seen on the south hillsides almo
TO- any where in the country. At the prese,
in writing they are about Is big - Mississi
u pi River musquito, and look a. IL the
IS might Be good for what corn will DO plants
nd in this section.
in The Southscsst published at Bradfor,
&C says the grasshoppers' eggs (which vel
h deposited in the earth last fall, are hatchin
p out quite rapidly, and thousands Of youn
n grAsshoppers can be seen on the south nil
at sides, in this section Of the country, upo
70 almost asy day. The recent frosty night
'g- appear o.havs had no effect in thiunin
Of their nambsrs-as Ne had hoped would b
the cass-bat. a. consequence they ~,
to be growing fat 1t 10 thought that
.r soon as they get wings they GET wings ths
M. will take up their Zine Of march for Il
East"
!, Mr.. ellison Shook, who lived in II
vicinity of Whacl,vr MsV,ro co.~tr -