Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1869-02-11

GENERAL NEWS.


| An ex .bangs wants TO know when
everybody did not complain Of the scarcity
81 money.
Five Police Comm issioners Of Pnilaiel-
phia are worth in the a.gregate about 81
0oo, 900.
There are nineteen light houses on the
Pacific coast, and il is proposed TO erect
sixteen others.
"Ve!osipsde CANDY" is now sold. The
manufacturer 6nds it necessary to give no.
tics that It ia not worked with tire feet.
Harriet uosmsr. whose father VAS .
doctor. used the srms end feet severed in
dissection, for her fret 0odsls.
Beeehsr says women mskss the best
prayers in his sonsrsgaGieu-oar womsn
make the best pies In this congregation.
Mantsn Marble has bought cut al The
other swaers Of the Weird. The price
paid iss enc quarter eft seesk vas tlo0,
GOO, exclusive 81 reel estate.
The local editor Of the Visksbsse Times
says: I'VE have before ~ insitasiors to
private musical seisee, q cock dght and
wedding"
An impious reporter tells Of Fen,on at
the French carnival hall % Caligu.a. accom-
panied by the pretty bar-msid Of Tamms.
ny as Clespa,ra.
In New York there 10 . city ordinance
forty years old. INJECTING heavy fns upon
any one who uses velocirede on the city
streets.
A Red River correspondent dsscribas On
Indian - being 'as grave yet resigned, -
. man over the corpse Of his step
What's 10 . name. Dan Rice gets 81 900
week from circus man for the use Of his.
while he INDUCES 4 AUDIBLE ambition Tor
true glory by editing country newspaper
In Pennsylvania.
Queen Victoria, it 10 expected, will break
the silence she has maintained since the
death Of Prince Albert, BY delivering the
speech from the throne on the reasssmbling
Of Parliament on February 10.
A negro girl, aged eleven years. eight
months and eighteen days, living near
Pulaski. Tenn. . short time since gave
birth 70 Tensile child. The asshss and
child are beth lisisg, and in perfect health.
The yenng bloods Of Paimvra. N. Y,
a1sss thsmsslves nightly. by taking down
the ''aigns" Of the various places Of bust
nssa, eDd pstliug them uP sssia in the
wrsSg places.
0sAst and Fanagut we're weighed at Bal
timors. and when Il was found that Farra-
gut weighed ISL aud Grant 1855 pounds,
the old sailor accused the soldier Of having
"bummerizsd" four pounds Of tobacco to
make up his weight.
A Bridgeport. Coma, Sunday School
teacher questioned his class In regard 70
the origin Of 0hristmas, with the following
result;
"whsrs was Christ born ,"
I'm Judea."
"Who frst knew that Christ Was bern -
Ibis mother"
An ambitious stable keeper 10 East
Broadway, New York, Ass IN immsese
sign on the front VI his establishment
''Hotsl Dc Horse
A Boston broken down merchant has
been given two Thousand dollars by =
former clerk, whom be had treated kindly
thirty years sgo
"Hs has hay seed in bic hair yet, il the
Nss York slang for legislator whose vote
can be secured by strategy instead Of
money.
Professor Marsh says know man
who. at the sge Of forty, entered the
Lawrence Scientific School At Cambridge,
Mass, became . boy again smsug the
boys. renewed his youth Of body and mind,
and probably made far more proficiency
than he would when twenty years
younger
cannot doubt that il A. I. Stewart
should dveftise for clerks ct one hundred
dollars per annum, and board. he wosA
have Eve thousand applicants before Che
weeks end. And 80 OF copying and music
teaching. Il Greeley.
st. Petersburg has . Seresis which
demands for their sex . participates in The
various branches Of higher historical.
pathological and scientific sdasstisn,
including the practical art Of medicine.
The lycsum ct North Stonnington, has
rendered the profound aud learned decision
that earthquakes, tornadoes, tempssts,
and other natural commissions. are net
mismanagemen..
The great New York dry goods house Of
Olsflin 4 Co.. sold merchandise to the
amount Of $4o,oOo.ooO in ls6s-A. 7.
Stewards job sales clone, during the same
time were $50, ooo. 900.
The R,ard Of Trade Of St. Louis have
indsrsed the protes. Of the Philadelphia
Beard Of Trade against that clause Of the
| bankrupt act known as the "ffty per
cent" provision.
Maj. Robt. Smyths, Of Mt Vernon, 10
IN aspiring candidate for the collsctorship
Congress, and he may win.