Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-01-22

The peep o Day" 10 the name Of "a.
per At Salt Lake City.
On The 18th ultimo Juarez was inaugura.
ted President Of Mexico.
Last year Cleveland expended 81 900, 900
in public Improvements.
Chas. Ockford STATED 60 consecutive
hours without rest or sleep.
Csrlotta, Maximilian's widow, has q per
sonal fortune Of e3,000.0OO.
Tie State Military Association meets At
Albany on the 2lst inst
The Maine legislature has refused to abol-
ish the State constabulary.
| A peat bed has been discovered at Pratts-
burg, Steuben Co, NY.
Jures in florida are composed Of eight
negroes and fsur white men.
The National Guard of New York nom-
| bers As. coo officers and men.
Prick Pomercy is seriously i'll with fever.
Alaska is TO have . newspaper in the
spring.
Napoleon has torn down % 900 houses in
Paris. lie is on rampage.
Whisky 10 three hundred dollars barrel
at Santa Fe.
Mrs. Lincolns old clothes have gone to
Warrington for exhibition, where she used
to wear them.
Boston spent $3.50. GIL in improving it's
streets last year, $50, 900 more than the sp-
preparation Tor that purpose.
Cheyenne and Salt Lake City ere free
from rats, and probably the only cities IN
the world that can mako that boast.
A fine black marble deposit has been
opened BY men blasting rock on the Dutch
ess and Columbia On. Y. Railroad.
There 10 woman, an opera-gos in New
York, who never heard Of Charles Dickens
till now.
Tho Russian ballet girls are educated 10
dancers at the expense OF the Government.
and not permitted to leave the country
without permission Of the Csar.
List year there were forty one murders
and sighty-two suicides 10 New York.
Only one unmarried man 10 to be found
in both branches Of the Minnesota Lsgisla-
ture.
Paris has new thing in earrings, be-
ing little globes Of rock crystal fiIlei With
Minnesota had four Post O13css in 1853,
but nov has Eve hundred and thirty eight.
The Mosmons have imported the maehin-
cry for and set in operation three woolen
mills in Utah. the past season. There VS.
one there before. owned BY Brigham
Young.
Mslbourne. Australia, twenty years ago
had population Of eight thousand. and
now il has one hundred and twenty eight
| thousand.
The velocity Of the gulf stream has pow
| srfully increased, lately, and the currents
along the coast OF Florida are 80 strong %
| to almost draw . steam vessel upon the
reels
An lows editor recently got married and
in the next days paper gave . thrss-col-
umn account Of the State Lunatic Asylum.
That fellow had an instantaneous apprecia-
| ton of the aituation.
The work for the foundation Of the New
York State Capitol at Albany is going on
briskly, and its completion within six years
and fos $4,000. 900 is already predicted.
Ninety thousand special constsbles have
been sworn in already in England, to pro-
tsct against the Fsnisns. Their captains
practice sum moning them. to see how rap
idly they could rise in case Of an emergen
oy.
| Senator Pomeroy, Of Kansas, is emulous
OF the fame Of Siias Wright IS \ farmer
Not long since = gentleman saw him haul
ing lumber in Kansas with mule team
He took pride in showing fifty-two acre
field in wheat. which had been plowed in by
the Senatorial hands