Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-10-27
DAILY DEMOCRAT.
GENERAL NEWS.

BuREsrr's CoLoaxs WArEs.-In ieleaev
and livelipsss Of perfume it is unrivalled.
IN. Y. Dispatch.
With the Parisians Saturday ia The favor
lite day for marrying.
Canada has been under English law Sc
vsnty-six years.
A brig full Of PEANUTS from Africa arrived
last week in Boston.
There is emo missionary in China to every
four million people.
New York averages one Thousand violent
6e.,hs per annum.
Georgia talks Of moving the capital back
to Miledgeville.
American slssping csrs are to 10 intro
dused on 0erman railroade.
Fashienable ladies' 10 Paris wear ANAL
gilt chan psgns bottles for earrings
Thirty i've million dsllars 10 the annual
income Of the British Royal family.
Portland 10 receiving from the West two
thousand barrels Of -Four day.
~he solcaso near Virginia (Nev has
been surveyed ard located for oil land.
Over eighteen hundred persons died last
year at Madsas from bites Of ssrPsnss.
Eleven thorsa,d acres of land were taken
up in Ws.hiu. t,u Territory during the
month Of June.
A farmer in Washington Territory orsgs.
Of having eaten brssd from -four made OF
wheat sown only four months before.
A single firm in St. Paul shipped two
hundred barrels Of c,snberries in one day
last week.
1t il stated tina. &C, 900 Eallonss Of vine
will bs made this year in the vicinity q
Burlington, Isws.
Pennsylvania has cast her electoral vote
for every successful candidates for Prss'-
don't eince The foundation Oftha Government
Am,oss, recently captured ct 81. Mary,
Nova Scotia, weighed 800 pounds. The
antlers extended nine fsst.
Charleston negroes mako . living ~
digging up. exploding and selling shells Tor
old iron.
The people Of Minnesota, at the coming
general election, will vote on the question
Of sbol,shiag the pressat Grand Jury sys'
tenn
A workingwoman in New York tells Miss
Anthony that working on a machines wears
. weman out faster than with q needle.
A man sighty-thrss year old, in London
derry, N II. has not taken any food or
noufishmsnt for dny-six days. He
drinks little cold water. has his senses,
and 10 able to turn over In bed.
Among the enormsus estates lying loose
in various parts Of the world. waiting to be
elaimsd and divided BY American citizens,
10 the Abeftson estate, worth some $780,
00o. 900, 10 Holland.
The number Of children attending school
in the United otatss, according to On ssti.
0ats adopted BY the Bsstsn correspondent
Of the American Publ shsr. 10 5000, 900.
For these thsrs ere cen year manufactured
10000. 900 text books, eosting elS, 75O, 900.
A Oslifornia correspondent OF the Gin
cinnati Commercial. who has been travelling
on the GENIAL Pacific Rsilrosd, says. at
costs ten cents . mic Tin con) to ride on
il, and if vou tender your fare in green
backs, and insist on their reception. the
conductor halts and pushes you off the
train. A few days ago . passenger offered
. grecnback dollar for . ride Of ten miles.
He was promptly ditched.'
The party who are digging for gold On
Kelley Island, in Lake Erie, in compliance
with the directions Of PlAnchette, ha We
worked eight or ten fest into the old lime
atone formation without any developments.
A sad affair occurred at Owosso, Mich,
few days since. Two Saginaw ladies'
went thithert 10 meet their aged parents,
whom they had not seen for years. As
ths cars from the cast, containing the old
people, approached the depot. the mother
caught sight Of her daughters, and in ber
eagernsss to embrace them. stumbled and
fell. The cars ran over her, severing her
bead completely from her body.