Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1869-01-15

J THE best stock of bccts and shoes 10
the city 10 to be found At Child . Cs.'s.
WAyr,p.-A situation BY . practical
book keeper. Speaks German. Address
"P," p. .. boz 352.
THs days are growing longer and still
more delightful. Such magnificent wealth
or is rare, even in Iowa's delightful climate
TnE clerk OF the st. Louis Board o!
Health, announces that the smallpox is
becoming epidemic in tha. city. Tbs same
disease is very prevalent in Cincinnati.
RssEavsB STATS for the concert on Sat.
urday evening can new be had st Grikgs
Watson Days-securs them ea,ly as the
indications are that the house will be EIisd.
LArfRs REMEMBER. AT no place in TIE
city can such bargains be obtaissd as at
Streets Bazaar. Everything in the notion
and variety line will be found here. Go
and see the goods.
SKArrSe Although the weather is
warm in the middle Of the day. At night il
freezes easily. The skating 10 Ans. We
understand there is grasd masquerade to
come Cd some time next wssk-of course
every body will 60.
TELEGRAPH BusIssss.-During The year
ending june, 1858. the Western Union Tel
sgraph company transmitted 6.952 900
messages. Their receipts during the same
time we're &c, ,o52 .oT3, an increase Of 8 per
cent OF the previous year.
| WESTERN Esrsaralse AND WESTERN MxN.
-Thats the motto that 10 believed in by
our business men, and among the foremost.
in the way Of practical illustration, il
Robert krauss, who has the most complete
stock Of goods for the wholesale trade that
ever came into the city.
SsIrH 1 Co., 2l Brady street, will include
n their regular Saturdays furniture sale,
Jan. 10th, the following articles, one each !:
Ladd d Webster, Singer aud Sieat sewing
machine; two hand machines, carpets
creckery, beds,ead' and matrassas, stands
chairs. baskets and pals, locking glasses,
second hand stoves, &c.
PsRsoNAL.-O friends Edwin Smith
ani wifs take their departure in few days
for the sunny south -tha. 10 TO say to the
orange groves Of Florida, via New Orleans
thence to Charleston, Richmond, Wash.
ingson, and round home again. May they
eojoy every mite ofthat trip.
$50 PER DAr.-Ths best evidence that
Smith Co, 81 Brady and 10 West I'd
street, are selling great bargains 10 the fact
that the Jews are circulating . petition to
tho City Council to make auctienesrs'
licenses twenty dollars per day. Go and
SEQ their immense stock Of goods Of ell
kinds, and get soms Of the great bargains.
ArrRrciArsD.-The following from the
Chicago Pest, indicate that DR.. Powers,
formerly Of this oity, is appreciated amsng
The lecture by Rev. DR.. Powers, rector Of g.
Johns Protestant Episcopal Church Union
Park, before he Church Missionary Union.
TUESDAY evening last, on The Heart in Human
Atari, il spoken of in the highest terms a. .
most .schsiariy and eloquent discourse fully up
10 the rank ef the reverend lecturer Is an orator
and man Of letters Il
0ua WESTERN RAiLsoAp.--J. Ii. Sanders
OF Sigsurncy, informs the Os.umwn, Cour-
ir tha. the people of Ksokuk county are
going to work at once to get the right OF
way and grade the track frsm Washington
TO Sigourney. distance Of twenty niue
miles, upon the completion Of which, est
mated to cost $so, 900, Mr.. Tracy, Of the
c. K. I. 4 p. Railroad, promises to pu,
down the iron IN run the road.
Tnx rapid sale Of Biningsr / Co.'S (l5
Beaver street, New York) "Od London
Dock Gin," has compelled our friends
Parks ( Hosmer to order nsw supply of
this pure and delicious tonic stimulant,
which i, especially adapted to the use Of
| tho Medical Profession and the Family
Since its first intsisc.ion BY this old and
| well known Grm, Established 1879 Bin
niger d Co.'S "London Deck Gin," has re-
| ceived the personal endorsement Of ever
seven thousand physicians, who have re
commended it in tho treatment Of nervous
debility. gravel, dropsv, rheumatism, fe-
| male complaints, and affections Of the kid
| ncys. Those who wish to have the pure
article will find il at Parks / Hosmsr's.
II there isa weak spot in any wsman's
armor it takes q woman to find it out and
thrust needle into the quick just there.
This was happily illustrated yesterday.
A noted wag; old enough to know better,
WAS in Gutter L Marxsn's store yesterday,
with young lady, who by the way. is cal
led pretty and. clever oo.3Whsn he sud
denly asked what was the matter With her
neck, and suggested that he cell one Of the
lady clerk.-thinking that there WAS ssms
disArrangement in her cloak collar. She
Indignantly replied no! I rather forty
men would zee il, than enc woman Its
said the ruse stepped the shopping for tha,
afternoon. The lady didn't rest easy
until she get home and Investigated the
matter with mirror. II soms one don't
see day Of reck oning, then ws dent knew
wsman's nature.
A FIsfrc ENcsuxfsR AccssDiSo ~ rnE
BuLss OF rms RISc.-Is isn't often that
Davenport has genuine prize fght. Bu,
to-day ws had enc, ssqusrs stand up and
jam each others ribs-a regular stripped
of, nsss punching, eye closing and mug
dsmelshing fight. One Of the parties was
named Hswari and came from Chicago, the
ether lives here aud answers to the name sf
Delaney. They didn't feel very friendly
towards each sthsr-not any to speak Of
There was some trouble about . wemau,
vhat it was ws didn't learn but, hewsver,
they agreed 70 settle il BY seeing which
could Jam the ether up the most in the
shortest time. So they selected . retired