Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-01-17
DAILY DEMOCRAT.
GENERAL NEWS.

Msins makes esO, 1000 worth Of spruce
glm, yearly.
Twenty ne Senators 20 Out Of office With
Andrew johnson.
Often man drives q pair Of grays, vai.
be himself is driven by duns.
Bishop Simpson favors Chinese for ser
Tant..
The Neg York and New Haven railroad
nca's It's cars by steam.
Tw Albiao gray SOU rrels. white as milk i,
ssrs recently killed in Missouri.
!. Congregational caurch at Ooerlin pre-
poses to exsomnunicate Free Masons
4 The democratic state convention Of ILL
nois has bseu called 10 meet on the 5th day
Of April.
sIrs An. Perkins, Of Worcester. Mass. ;,
has 6led claim for half million Of dollars
against Russia, with the House Committee
o. Foreign Affairs.
The Early county, Georgia, Nsrs ears
there will be worry little cotton raised in
that section the ensuing season.
The Wasecs (Minn.) News says one hun
dr.d and two houses have been built 10 that
town during the last three months.
The democratic state convention Of Penn
81 ivania, has been called 20 meet at Harris
burg on tho 4th Of March next
The trial Of Ex-Confederste Lieutenant
| Rraine, for scizing the steamer Chesapeake,
i, liked for the 9Th instant.
The largest brewing Arm in England,
Nsssrs. Bass 4 Co, are said TO manufacture
! Al &c fkan
in gold a year. They are said 70 have
PROBABLY the largest brewing business Of
the world.
| lfpegged boots are occasionally dressed
with petroleum between the soles and the
upper leather, they will not rip. II the
soles are dressed with petroleum they will
resist wet and wear we'll. The pegs are not
affected BY dryness after being we'll oiled.
A couple in Oregon got tired Of living TO-
gethtr, and mutually signed . paper, which
they drew up for themselves-th wife Civ
aud Wishing him all the hippiness he could
get, and the husband giving his wife "a
little rat col ored mule
The rapidity of the growth of the State
of Wisconsin 10 illustrated by the fact that
Bates county, which two years ago had not
= population Of 500, now has 8. 100 persons
between the ages Of five and twenty one
wears, and has forty five school houses
Wisconsin and her sister States Of the
Northwest are rapidly filling up with set
Hers.
Cleveland, Ohio. last Friday. st the age Of
sixty i've. was the writer many years ago
Of Oil Grimes" and of the "Baron's Last
Baualc,' He had one Of the finest private
libraries in the country, comprising some
| 90, 900 Volumes.
In the Missouri Senate, on Thursday, q
bill vas introduced to make il compulsory
for parents and guardians to send their chill
drcn, between the ages Of nine aud thirteen
wears, to school At least four months each
year. under penalty Of from ten to thirty
cents PER day for absence without satisfae-
tory cause.
The schools Of Milwaukee cost las. year
S., 900.
Paper. all over the South greet the happy
New Year with the glooniest prediction.
One hundred and seventy two buildings
we're erected in Kansas City. No., during
the las. year. At . cost Of @692 900.
Maine journals say that manufacturing in
tina, State during the past year has been
without pIoiit.
Dana ha. already spent $500, 900 in es
tablishlns his new paper.
The Houston Telegraph says that thieves
and thief Killing are going on in Texas at .
rate no, appreciated by the public.
1t stated that Gen. Fitzpatrick, United
States M.nster in Chill, will resign in June.
L9uis.aa has now got its third Governor
under iac construction plan.
Hon lleary +. Elicit aud VIM L. Harris,
Of the Supreme Bench Of Mississippi, have
foliowei lie example Of Judge Handy, and
resigned.
/. is sia.si that DR.. W. IL. Russell has
accepted the position Of Paris correspond
ent Of the London Times. The salary is
SOC, $50 IN gold land found in house, car
rages, serssnts and secretaries to do all the
work.
At Qlncv. Illinois, is German with .
curious boo imark. l. is perfect deer,
about tie sza Of silver dollar, on his
right check he form and ou. line OF the
deer are as reflect ~ could be drawn by an
artist, aud show q der in the act Of leapng.
1t is of a osigh. red color.
Theodore Rousseau. the most orig in Il and
expressive Of contemporary Frcncl land
scapc painters. died at Yarbison on the
morning II tie 22i Of December, 1867.
Last year there were 1855 deaths in Gin
cinnatl the osses by fire we're 81 900, 900,
$500,ooo more than the insurance the city
expenses, s., $50, l2l7l.
Rev. Abert 5 Hunt, IN unmarried Meth
ods' minister at Brooklyn, N Y. received
for Christians present from his parishion-
ers an lr.t.a fabber model Of a young lady,
stuffed with $40 in greenbacks.
Mr.. |. tireen Garland, Of Jacksonport,
the gentleman who was convicted and SEN
fenced to the Penitcntiary BY the military
for insulting the United States flag" 10
again at liberty.
| The Mobile Adreriiser suggests that
Dickens reason for not attending church
here 10 because be is not interested in
American politics.
There have been only 127 deaths in the
city OF Raleigh, n. c., during the year just
closing, OF which number 80 were white
males, % white females, 80 colorcd walcs,
and "a ccloIei females.
Mr. Joseph Aspnwall. IN ex- president Of
the Detroit Board OF Trade, died last Satur-
day week. he was a Yorkshireman by
birth, and went to Detroit in 1889.
| 1t is suggested by the Southern Opinion
that Virginia, North and South Carolina,
Georgia, Florida, Alabama. Mississippi,
Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas be blotted
from our maps and statutes, and that there
De written in their places Hayti, North and
South Guinea, Dahomey. Ashanta. Sahara.