Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-12-03

$500 ~ss>~ Nessh& soV Raot o90oQU.
Six Iswa Insurance companies have
complied with the new insurance lay.
The Missouri 10 frozen ever at Sioux
CITY. Pedestrians cross on the ics.
Henry Clay Dean has returned to Iowa
after several months absence in the East.
". A. Ballou has purchased the Story
county 1Eges, and vii. make il lively pa
per.
The majority for the suffrage amend
msnts 10 the Sd Congressional district Is A.
es2,
There was snssh up on the Nerth>
western rsilread. near eqsa~ creek las.
week.
The "wicksdsst woman" In Ottumws
was found concealed 10 . salt barre! says
the Courier.
-Dickisson county has the grsatsst
number Of lakes Of any in the Stats--about
forty Of them.
Hen. Charles Mason has left Burling>
ton for Washington, d. c., where he will
spend the winter.
Burlington 10 agitating railroad cen>
nsstion with Carthage. No., in order to get
. Southern outlet BY rail.
"A man BY the man Of Wilson robbed
depot d Psstvills eft26 on Tuesday night.
Hs was sent to the waukon Jail.
Sioux City counts upos deublisg it,
population and business within the next
twelve months. It 10 good peiat.
The Siseurasy vindieassr is T. b r..
Moved - Wsshisgten in January. when
that tswn will have three nswspspsrs.
Iowa City 10 TO lecture esurssd By the
Y. N. c. A. which has engaged Tilson.
Anna D., b. r, Tavlsr. n. Tain 1 %.
Tho prepristers Of The Cedar Rapids
World want 70 sell cut ct low figures.
Got sick Of trying 10 "run cut the Times.
-Dss Moiass authorities are a@ietsd
with the hess question. They want mere
and better. 600 feet mere have been Or
dsrsd.
"A Railroad 10 being built from Ksekuk
across Missouri 70 Glasgow. The grading
through Mason and Knox counties is nearly
completed.
The Council Biuds DeWocrst has sus-
psndsd. The Bsele blows its horn in til
smph. having sustained itself nobly against
6sros opposition.
--On account Of "incompatibility Of tenn
per and the devil 70 pay generally" siz
couples we're divorced at the last session Of
ssurt q NJ. Pleasant.
The Sioux City Journal says that q
Mr.. Poor. Of the wInnsbago Agency. was
robbed Of 5000 when on his way from his
store to his house. last week.
-Fslter, convicted u the Benton count ,
court, some time ago, Of the murder Of his
| wife in Tama county, 10 to have q new trial;
meanwhile he 10 in jail in Iowa City for safe
The Ms0regor Ntrs says that for the
first time in 6ftssn years. Mrs. Aiken. Of
| that place, received . letter from her hus-
band 10 California. He Is coming home
again.
The Ksskuk Censtitution says that
Mr.. Skinner, of Montross, seized four tons
Of Ash at single haul lsst Sunday. They
weighed from ID to 10 lbs, and filled four
wagon bodies
The Muscatins Journal rays that A. b.
Cornwall, produce dealer At Dswnsy, has
failed on account Of decline in grain. Liza
bilitiss tl2. 900, and The nsighboring farm.
srs are sufferers. having sold him on time.
The Dallas Gazette says tho Des Noines
Valley Railroad mortgage and trust deed
amounts to 81 600. 900. and was flsd for
record at the Recorders Office in that eoun-
y Nov. 90. The stamps on this mortgage
amounts to &4,69l.
The Mt. Pleasant Journal says that the
Iewa Reform School was formally opened
On Thursday last (26th ulD. Professors
MeCarty and Ainsworth are in charge
Mrs McCarty is matren eight boys in at
tendance. Whore is itt
| Tho Iowa City Republican says that
DR.. G. A. White, State Gsslcglst. 10 now
ensconced in a corner Of the cabinet Of the
University, which he has had partitisnsd
off, whore he is settled down to his winters
labor Of working up the material collected
during the summer.
Hon. J. c. Baldwin, Of Council Bluffs
has given Z building lot TO the Baptis +.
church Of that place, the lot 10 to BE- sold
and proceeds applied 70 the erection Of .
house Of worship. The site for this has
been purchased with the aid Of subserip-
items from the Baptist :Churchss Of the
State.
The Nerth Missouri railroad ears are
new runnisg y Csatssvills. . new tswn on
the Iowa line. Strong Efforts are being
0ads to have that part Of the read ssrth
Of the State line flashed to Ottumwa, lswa
BY the Let Of January next. % - = fern .
ssosssting link with ths network Of lswa
railseads.
-Win0sssst seems destined . - rail-
roadsd. The Asdissnisn SAYS that Mr..
Tracy, Of the O., r.. l. I P. r. r. has agssed
- isea and stock ito branch II witusrset
will grade and lie Il. This will eost them
elSo. 900, and On Tuesday afternoon they
CT together q Tie Methodist Church, whore
arrangements were made to build he read.
The following sss che s6iesrs Of shs
Dubuque Board Of Trade. elected as the r.
eat annual msstisg: Prssideut-Wm
wsstphal; Vice Prssidsnt-J. r, Gibbs !;
Ssssssary-T. L. Bowman Treasurer
A. Babbags Dirsetors-J. T. Hancock !;
b. L. Hsthsrinstsn, Jshn Thompson, Il.
Reuse, n. Lsursy, H. L. Stout and W. P.
Large.
Tho Bloomfield Republican s.ys that
"ths mortgage On the St. Louis / Cedar
Rapids Railroad bed between the State
line and Ottumwa, was recorded
at the Recorders Office, in this
city last week, to secure the North
Missouri Railroad Company for irsa with
which the track 10 now being laid. Rove.
nue. stamps amounting to 46l5 were nse.