Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-11-17
DAILY DEMOCRAT
GENERA Al. NEWS.

Cuba, with 500 900 inh aLilants. il taxed
t33, 900, 900 annually.
Rothschlld has cleared (220. 600 in 4
year off his Chat.al Lafitto vineyard.
There are Is 900 less pupils in the school
OF Maine than there were ten years ago.
A New Havener sat all day in the top Of
tree by way Of paying an election bet.
Grants friends say be prefers Thomas 10
any BODY else for General.
Gen. Mcclellan is abou. to take up liz
res dsncs permanently at Hobskep.
Brigham Young Is the third larges. De.
poster in the Bank Of England.
A titled fool in Londo has paid $i25 for
enc Of Mile Missions hair. pins.
Henry A. Wise did not vote. b.o,u,. h.
would not. he said. "touch either ons If
their damned parties wi h 10 foot pole"
Il is said that oil the foreign minister,
at Washington. including the English and
Turkish, are Roman Catholics.
Ladies whs intend TO avail ,iems.I,es ar
the privileges Of leap year, are reminded
that their time is short.
Mere than enc seventh &C ,hs Star. ~
Mississippi, It IS said, is advertised for sal.
under execution for debt.
The ex-qu.en Of Naples and tue x.oneen
OF SPAN are out Of employment, and would
Ike places as governesses.
An American named Robert M;tc,.J
edits Napolecns new official paper.
French company has rented for siv,v
years the right to plant fruit trees on ,hs
slopes Of railway embankments
Moro than 400 900 life insurance pol;cie.
are in force in the State of New York r,n.
resenting upward Of $1,000 COG. 600 il
risks.
Q. D. Hess admits that his newly organ
lied theatrical company is the best 10 the
United States.
Orc of the defeated candidates fer :
couaty Office in Troy expended 81 900 to
secure bis election.
A Poughksspsian sold his vots as he
supposed fer q barrel Of -four. given by
grocery man. When opened, tho barrel
was found 6lled With sawdust and sand
A Mississippi lady recently shot and
killed truly loyal negro who attempted IN |
outrage upon her.
Secretary Stewards MARI age is said to |
have been prevented BY the remons:rancs Of
his family against lis ringing that little
belle. The little belle was . Miss Esley.
0: Chautaque county.
The railroad bridge over the Hudson
river is to be constructed. it is said, in or |
or to connect the New England States with |
the Pennsylvania coal fields.
The New York Evening Mail saws that
hundreds of mice young men" in that city.
many Of them "society fellows" live entire.
~ upon borrowed money.
Eight steamboats, are detained By low
water among the mountains on the Upper
Missouri. and it 10 thought they will have
to remain until spring.
A plantation in Mississippi. which cost
$50. 600 ten years ago, was sold Lately ior
$269.
A scientific paper published abroad de-
c!ares that unit sleel rails are adopted on
oil railways the liabilities Of destrccti to
lifc will be perennial.
Four hundred and thirty FIVE new wells
were being put down in the entire oil field
Of Pennsylvania, November !.
In grading The Knox and Lincoa rail.
road, in Thomaston, Ne, . skeleton was
exhumed, supposed to be that offs man
who was executed hs a spy, By order Of
Gen. Wadsworth, in 1850
A boarding house keeper in Springfield
Mass, is said to be in the haoit, when her
boarders neglect TO pay regularity, Of pa
chg an extra fork by their plates, as =
silent nima' ION to 'io-k over"
The frst coins Of any metal issued BY the
United States were three hundred tons Of
copper c'n,s, coined At the New Haven
mint in 1887.
The Boston TRANSCRIPT. i, informed that
the gentleman who is said to have gwen
$50, 900 to the democratic cause, 10 Vim.
Bishop, Of New Haven, a we'll known resi-
dent, town born and capable of making
. check for twice that sum
The New York Herald says the Board
OF Excise Of that city isnow engaged N
licensing places for "the dispensation Of
unIectified aquafortis, patient lager, halle
iujah bourbon, oh be joyful gin, cons
pounded rum and riaed red eve"
A new method o laying down the rails
on the Union Pacific Railroad is about
being tried, by which it is believed the
progress Of track laying will be greatly
accelerated. The ties are to be placed arl
the rail. laid down simultaneously.
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