Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-10-13
DAILY DEMOCRACY


George Palmer has won heat in Bassot
in 2:lsi
Voters in Italy have to pay tax and b
abe to read and write.
Programmes If the music are distributed
in some Londcn churches.
Victoria is in her fif.ie h year, and hal
| already thirteen grandchildren.
Agoli mine on the North PAcolst river
| in South Caro',na, is paying fiusly.
Charleston has = ten yesr.old mathcmat
ical prodigy.
An American runs an omnibus from Jop'
% to JerusaIsn, ovcr sosd nacsdaaiissd
Ter tbs purpose.
A boy nsar Buffalo WAS shot for cheering
for Seymour and Blair.
Dsmas Darnss began business life poor,
and is nov, At forty two, = millionaire Plan
tation Bitters did it.
Horace Greeley will have tho honor Of
running for Congress against Mr.. Francis
Train in the Fifth New York district.
Charles S. Cave, formerly a postmaster
Of ST. Pau, is now a conductor on street
railway car ST. Louis.
The North German Arctic Expedition is
reported to have been failure.
Corn Il rot,ing in soma parts OF Ken.
lucky for wan. Of stock to eat 1t.
al want 10 be an angel and bite Gabriel's
ear off," vas the remark OF an ecstatic pu.
gilistat Kit Burns prayer meeting.
A Now York paper. which makes . speci.
atty of light, cheerful reading, has sent .
second class man around to write up oil the
country graveyards. llark from tho
tombs !
Russia cannot be treated homWopathical-
y. A ukass has been issued prohibiting
the practice of the system, with penalty
Of 500 roubles 6ne and two years in Siberia.
Cotton promises very we'll in Egypt. II
there is no injury to it hereafter there will
be crop Of 100000 bales, sgainst ESQ, 900
bales last year.
The largest profit realized BY amy news
paper in Californis is said to be only
$4,000, and there are eoly four 10 the
State that approach this figure.
The bridge over the Delaware at Phila-
delphia 10 to be one perfect arch 1000 feet
long, and its centre 100 feet above the
water, permitting the passage Of the larg.
est vessels.
1t 10 said that grapes will keep. fresh until
spring il cut with piece Of vine on each
aide 81 the atom, one end coated with wax,
and the other inserted In vial Of water,
oil kept in . cool place.
A young rhnocsros has just been landed
in this country, the first for twenty years.
He will not GEL bis growth for some twenty
years, bnt weighs 1000 pounds, and eats
daily two bushels Of corn, one bushsl Of
potatoes, and three hundred pounds Of hsy,
drinking fifteen to twenty buckets Of
water.
The largest nauuihetsfy Of shoe pegs in
this oountry 10 ssid 70 be as Burlington,
w., whore one fictsry 10 accustomed to
transform, every day, four cords Of wood
iuto 400 Bushels Of shoe pegs.
There are at the present time 557 woslsn
mills in Ohio, Michigan. Indiana, Illinois,
Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota, with .
capital Of 81, 500, 900.
Ono firm in Wisconsin makes g., 900 10.
dies reticulss yearly, besides 5000 chill
dren's willow carriages yearly. For these
latter the firm owns ninety acres Of willow
plantation.
There Is steam engine in New York
thst runs one hundred and twenty Ave
presses. prints fifty different newspaper.
makes hoop skirts, binds books, aud runs
. mile Of shafting.
Later intelligence from South America
informs u that in Ecuador alone 10000
lives were lost by the recent appalling
earthquake. From the same cause the wa
ter along the Peruvian ceast has dscreasd
eight fathoms in depth.
In 1866 there were in Paris 1900. 900
persons. OF there 109S.0O0 were horn
out Of Paris; workmsn and their families
amount to 740, 0oO servants and door
keepers, $4,000; students, $4,000. and
vagabonds. $4,000.
The Maverick Bridge Company, in Bos-
ten proposes to erect . bridge from 600
to 1000 feet in leng, with three piers, the
two extreme ones b,ing distant 700 feet,
frsm Boston and East Boston, and the cen
tire pier 10 support a drawbsidso Of 400
feet span, operated by steam.
Business Of all kinds is oyerdone in San
Francisco. Hundreds Of skilled mechanics
arc seeking in vain, unless at very low
wages, for employment. NO employment
offered, except On the railroads or farms,
and the crops are nos nearly gathered. -
Thousands mus, be supported BY charity,
starve or 60 to work on the Pacific or other
railroads TIE coming winter
A boy who left his grandmothcr's house
in Vermont about sixteen years ago, to re-
turn to his mothers home in Chicopec,
strayed to New Bedford, enlisted on awhal-
ing voyege, went to Australia, married q
Scotch girl, became wealthy, aud with his
wife and five children, is now on q visit to
his mother, WHO had not heard from him
for long time. lie proposes to stay in
this country now.