Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1869-01-11
DAILY DEMOCRAT
GENERAL NEWS.

A Newark genius has invented sssa N
vslociusde
The fetal number Of deaths in Philadel-
phla during the year 1865 WAS $4,000.
A Sandwich Island acre makes four tons
Of sugar.
Harvard College hos had 81 Pssi5en.s
10 $50 years.
London has . Mormon church With 900
members.
There are II 900 English walnut trees In
Californi..
Itwas tie between The births and deaths
Ia New York last week-367 each
Colfax refuses to Lecture any more. He
has that done for him At home.
fact connected With the Verde recent sx-
pose Of liquor adultsra.iens.
An amber mine has been discovered in
Prussis, some pieces being re size Of .
chin's head.
There are 50 geo blind peops in Great
Britain. A large majority of them have
lest their sight ,ince childhood.
This Auburn Nous designate. the fresh
inpoftau.ns Of convc;s for the State Pr
son as 'dis'insushsd arrivals
1t i,es.itnstsd that the pecuniary value
OF VI chizan Univsrsi ' to the city Of Ann
Aroor IL about 1850, uo0 yearly.
The new oxygen light cost five times a.
much IS Ordinary gas and IS said 10 have
sixteen tines The Illuminating rover.
The Postmas.,r At Salem, Mass, is IN
ders cod 20 be defsu.tsr . the e1ten. Of
$4,000 to 100000.
A forty eight-yssr older in Sutton. Mass,
Who wanted 70 "kstsh up with his boys aud
girls, has been re aim t.sd to schss..
The cost Of supporting the pubic schools
81 Cincinnati during the last year was
eso5.o5s.2l. The average daily attsudancs
was 1852.
A man in Portage county, Ohio. has
scirrhosis Of the liver. He has been tapped
forty timss in 8 months, and yielded DO
tween six and seven barrels Of water.
A stable keeper remarked that . horse
railroad was . necessary evil, and ne was
wiling TO up with some incenvsniencs, as
tho street cars accommodated 10 many thou
sand citizens.
Rev. Dr.. Scudders congregation in San
Francisco are mere irrevsrently natural than
even Henry Ward Bssehsr's. They clap
hands and stamp feet when the minister
says something that they particularly like
A rsvivalist, enesuntsring an Afrisaa.
asked him, my good man. have you &c md
the Lord p To which Sambo replied in .
surprised manner, "Gslly, Aasss. An Dc
Lord lostr
The city Of Erie has just completed Ito
new water works. The water 10 drawn
from the lake nearly . quarter Of . mile
from shore. and 10 asised by steam power
23o feet.
An old green grocer who died 10 L,ndsn
last month LEFT fl5 900 to Dickens, en- con
dition that Charles reads the trial scene
frsm "Pickwics' in presence Of the grocsr's
family once . year.
A Califsrn Judge has just decided that
Cilnamen are not citizens under the mean.
ing Of the fourteenth amendment, aud that
ths State law excluding their testimony, in
cases in which white men are parties, cen
tinuss in force.
vein OF silver, fifty feet below the aur-
face Of ths grslnd, has besn di,cosdrsd ~
Joliet, H., while boring an artes,an well =
The pr essence ofsilver in the geological sys
tenn Of Illinois has never been hintsj o. by
scientific men.
A Harrisburg hstel keeper has had .
sweet boon, in the shape Of New Yorker.
who committed suicide, after staying 10 his
house two days. The land ord has banded
in bill for $500, on the ground that the
affair will damage his business.
A fashionable woman in Lynn. Mass in
going out Of her house. the other evening,
shu, the train Of her dress in the dosr,
which fastened with aspiring. and ~ no one
Vas in the house. and she did net have q
key, she was held fast until = small boy
happened along, climbed IN window and
released her