Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-06-15
DAILY DEMOCRAT.
GENERAL. NEWS.

The man who pays the largest income
tax in Newburyport, began for two dollars
and half = week.
$4,000 have been be. that il will rain
every day this summer.
The "Acqui,,al hats are the latest style
Of head covering.
There are but two sx Presidents Of the
United States now living.
Laramie, the newest city fer out west,
the present terminus OF the Union Pacific,
has been fixed upon as place Of summer
residence by tho Vice President Of that
road.
A piols negro girl in Memphis wanted
to be Methodist, so she dosed her father
with pounded glass because he enjoined
that che remain Baptist.
A Vermont paper says that the price of
butter has come down. so that the dropping
OF piece Of bread, butter side down. does
not nov cause financial crisis in the fam
lily.
The Union Pacific railroad locomotive
l0o," built at Providence. weighs 70 900
pounds, ard will draw loo heavily laden
cars. Ii Is now being tested on the Provi-
OtDc0 W oEcesteT TOhu.
| Now adays black is so much worn that
1t is not considered out Of place at anv
time; with . pretty bonnet and shawl CT
mantle, it is full dress enough for any &C.
casion, and in black . lady cannot be over
dressed.
| A Hartford merchant has paid 160.000
in rents for . store which he could have
bought originally for $4,000. His case
was probably that Of the old trsppsr who
offered the land 81. Paul now stands on for
pair Of boots, and didn't take it, for lack
Of toe boots.
Because the Brown University faculty
omitted 70 replace stolen rope asd bucket
attached to . we'll on The grounds, the stu
dents marched through Providence on
Thursday with banner labelled "Watss."
aud bearing all sorts Of utensils to receive
It in. Three leaders in The affair have been
expelled.
On the oceasaen Of . recent fashionable
wedding in Cincinnati, The bridal couple.
upon leaving the church in the carriage,
we're preceded, on Fourth stssst, and
somewhat delayed 10 their progress BY
wagon load Of baby wagons. These whe
Noticed the significant occurrence prenoun.
cd il happy omen.
London 10 10 give Napier $1,000 sword.
Maj. Anderson will summer at Pitts6eld,
Mass.
The capital stock Of the New York Sun,
10 $500. 900.
II taksr so7, 1000 Utah srasshoppsrs to
make Q bushsl.
Sir Robert Napier gets 5000 GOLD .
year for his Abyssinian victory.
Harriet Lane, the niece Of Buchanan, 10
now Mrs. Johnstons, Of Baltimore.
Vanderbilt 10 reelected President Of
the Hudson River Railroad.
Rochester has given house worth &25,-
600 to Dr. Anderson, the President Of the
University.
Thurlow W ssd is sojourning =. Saratogs,
and 10 said to be quite unwell.
Congress, being hard pushed, won't be
able to attend to " bat little bill Ghe tax
bilD this session.
Six illsgitimate children born In Hol-
yoke, MASSACHUSETTS, within . few days
past, have filled the minds Of moral people
with horror unutterable, and caused the
select men to look very grave indeed.
The statue given to Newport by August
Belmont, In honor OF Commodore Perry.
will cost $4,000. II il to b placed in
Teuro Park, and will be unveiled on the
goth Of June.
Quinn, being asked BY lady Why there
were more women in the world than men,
| replied: 1T is in conformity with tho
other arrangements Of Nature, madam We
always see more Of heaven than earth"