Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1869-01-29
DAILY DEMOCRAT


Gen = 0AH. NEWS.
Worthless limitations Of Burnett's Cocos
inc abound, Ill tending 10 incrsas. its pop
ularity.
Hamilton College has graduated $50
cltrgsmen.
s.. Paul hasa steam lire engine and
don't know how to work II.
New York city yearly Consumes $500.
00O,Ue0 cubic fest Of gas.
+ Twenty -eigh, thou,and persons visited
Ghard College during the past year.
The latest Boston nolion-for religious
meetings. fifty cents admission.
1t cost . nan in San Francisce t7S e
call his nsighbor id thief.
Cosn L Ten Brooks cell the best vslssi.
pede in Chicago. 1t US to t9e.
The City Pny stefan reports 2ee deaf ha
last year in st. Paul. MINI.
A party Of negro burglars gureted Q
Philadelphia lady in her bed room Friday
night.
A saloon keeper. at Stratferd, Conn +,
has found petroleum we'll in bis cellar,
and refuses $40 900 for it.
The London Spectator gives Nathaniel
Hawthorne the palm for the purity Of his
classical lslish composition.
A black walnut tree vas cut in Putn am
county, Ohio, the other day, which tnrned
out s 900 worth of lumber.
Skating rink proprie.ors all over the
country are complaining Of the mid
weather.
Montreal has fine new Academy Of
Mnslc built in the Italian style. 1t will
seat 600.
A child in Buffalo, N. Y, on Friday last,
while playing with . screw, swallowed it,
aud was choked 10 death,
An exchange says that "cutting Of cou.
poa from ihe marriage bond" 10 tho orna
mental synonym Tor having baby.
Philadelphia manufacturers Of sgricultu-
rsl implements are over ran with orders
from the South.
The Fifth Avsnne Hetsl, New York
pay the highss, rental Of any house in the
countrywide GAO = year.
Mayor KslbAeish, OF Brooklyn, N. ",
speaks, reads and writes fasn,ly German,
Scotch. French and English.
John C Breckenridge 10 going to resume
the practice Of law q, Le1ir gten, Ky, with
his former partner, James B. Beck, who
now represents the district in Congress.
The City 70 lroad Of San Francisco have
begun 10 tunigats their cars. In order to
lection from small pox.
Gustavs Mousseau, Of Lacrosse, Wis,
challenges any skater west Of Chicago 10
contest for the championship Of Wisconsin
and 5000
The London Times. with full supplement,
contains about twenty thousand lines, o.
two hundred thousand words, equal to .
five hundred page octave,
The Kentucky University claims $50, 900
from Uncle Sam-his boys in blue haviog
burnedup their Medical Hall during the late
Tne London Spectator, Of tho 26th ulti-
mo, says: The week has been marked BY
that last worst sgn Of coming war, the
proposal of conference to prevent it,
The Alaba ma State Journal says "Ons
Of the most corruptisg nuisances in Msnt-
gomery Is the great number of lewd wO-
men. Who have rooms over almost every
store in the oiiy."
G.crgias new Capital, at Atlantis, open.
ed on the l2th instant, il known as
Rimball's Opera House. and is said to be
one of the most msgnitic cent structures on
the continent.
DR.. Newcomb has arrived At Cornell Uci-
nivcrsitv with his collection Of shells,
which numbers nearly 8 600, 900 specimens,
Of l. geo species. He has been thirty five
ears in gathering them,
The Nil wankee Sentinel says there 10
strong effort being made to build wooden
railroad connecting Stevens point With the
Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad ria Cen
tralia and Necsdah.
At the recent festivities at Arundal cas-.
tie, Eng and, in honor Of the coming ofage
Of the Duke Of Norfolk. the tables groansd
under plate weighing upward Of . ton and
. half. and valued At $500, 900.
A Newfoundland dog saved the life Of
his drunken muster, . soldier. garrisone d
at Fort Preble. in Portland lar Dor, last Sat.
urday night The drunksrd was freez ng
in the snow. and the dog watched him and
howled until help came.
The income Of the Girard estate last year
was $4o5 1872. Of which amount $3i7,S76
was expended, leaving . balance in the Su-
perihtendent's hands of &ll2,447 The
sum Of $l35, Gas was spent on the Girard
College.