Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-07-24
OAILY DEMOCRAT.



Charles Dickens intends to write an au.
to biography.
The Hoe press patent extension will pro.
baby fail, a. 1t ought.
$4,000 for the season 10 the renting price
Of Newport cottage.
Armstrong. Of the Cleveland Plsindsalsr,
has been buying t3o, 900 mansion.
Grant is travelling as private individual,
90 a. to get used to the feeling.
King. editor Of tho New Orleans Times,
10 Gym & of cancer.
All the mag strsiss elect in Shelby Co..
Alabama, arc negroes.
Lesvenw0rth, Kansas, makes Tic FINALE
hummer iail-birds crack ssone on the
streets.
Tomatoes are rotting BY the million in
upon the vines in Florida for the want Of
shipment.
The United States navy is shown By
statistics TO be superior to that OF any 9TH
or nation.
On "Wednesday the Jews of Memphis
held q meeting and Grant was severely de-
nounced
citizen OF Columbus, Ohio, who was
peddler 80 years ago, reported an income
Of over 800, 900 Tor 1867.
Wade Ham ton is about to take editori-
al charge II a newspaper in Columbia,
South Carolina.
Governor Seymour will make his head
quarters for the campaign at the Buttertield
hotel, in Utica.
Albert b. Richardson's "Bsyond the
Mississippi" sold seventy five thousand
copies in twelve months.
The Queen declined to marry King Thso.
dore, but has testified her tenderness for
his memory by adopting his son.
There are 10000 tonsment houses in
New York city, containing ON an average
four isoiliss to each story.
Some joker out in Ohio has paid money
to make Grant director Of the American
Bible Society.
The people Of the South, unlike those Of
the North, don't hold bonds, but bends
hold thsm-and won't b. rspudistsd.
Wicksrshsm, the Radical candidate for
Treasurer Of Memphis, is dsfaulter to the
tune Of tll,OOO
The wheat crop in England in reported
better than the average yield for years
past.
Ausa Dickinson bore letters ffeu Beech.
Or TO John Bright. She will also DO likely
to bore Bright himself.
The CinsinnaM Cemmsrcial calm Gen.
Grant - remorsslsos old hs-gsat" That
isn't respectful.
Human bones have been found sixty.
eight feet below the surface Of the grouad
in digging . we'll $50 miles west Of Omaha.
Female BARRIERS, long known in Paris,
have recently bssn introduced In New
York.
A brick chimney in Worcester, Mass,
ess hundred feet high hss bsea Moved feur
hundred feet. without Stays OF prop. II 10
detached from any building.
Eurepsan letter writer's agree that the
weather last menth swss intensely hot.
Thousands Of tourists we're driven out Of
the cities to The mountain districts.
A Russian has invented an ingenious
place Of mechanism BY which, when . per-
son places letter in tho postal boxes, .
receipt, dated and signed, Is returned.
A man in Harlem. N. Y. is said to have
in iris possession . coin Of the reign Of King
Soloman. 1t has bssn pronounced genuine
By . Rabbi, and the professor has offered
$50 for It.
A'husband complains bitterly at The
price Of ducks" His wife recently bought
three for 1926, viz; A "duek" Of . dress,
. duck" Of bonnet, end "duck" Of
paraso.
woman in Canada disagrssng with her
mather-in Law. took her up and quietly
threw her into forty-foot veil.
A certain young man sent five dollars to
. swindling firm in Boston, who promised
TO teach the art Of gaining > young lady's
affection. The directions were simple.
He was told to touch with his hand the
sympathetic cord" in her loft thumb, look
into her eyes. and then take his leave.