Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1869-01-18
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A recent debut .. Demonic,'s cost psps
- ,ooo.
The Nex York soro-is is regularly ehsr.
tered.
Concord locks ~ snail b-ys found slidi z
on tho streets.
The English Governmsh b. ha. given the
Abyssian pfisone 600.
IN the nose i. tickles me" is Taerssss
new Song, and it tick!es Paris.
A bog weighing ore thousand pounds
sold in Dubuque last week for $1,000.
The f.m.l. clerks emp'c,ed by . large
dry goods house IN Boston get one per
cent on oil their sslse, besides regular daily
wages.
A Miussseta farmer 6ays: 1--WE raise
four hundred bushels Of pstatoss 10 the
acre. here, which would be . big thing il
~ didn's also raise bugs en,ugh to eat en-
oil up" =.
A lady in the upper circles" Of Now
York celebrated Christmas by an sops-
ment.
/ A female gambler Of forty five committed
suicide, in New York, when her husband
discovered her passion .,r play.
A street fight occurred last week in
Montgomery, Texas, in which four men
we're killed, all pestilent despeiadoes.
Tee construction OF the new blilding for
NapoIeon's off nal paper in PARIS ia carried
on at night, BY the use OF the electric light,
Geology is at fault sgsin. Coal has bsen
= a. ..s
fio Railroad. no article is ssi to be
abundant, and of an cxc.lent quality.
Disappointed Office seekers need not
starve At Washington. Soup houses are to
be established there.
The Nsw York Sunday Mercury says
Columbia College owns ten millions Of re al
estate, and unexpectedly sty Les that insti.
tuisn nursery Of sristoeratic fops.
The New York Sororis has set out 10
remedy the social esil, to educate servant
girls, to make grocers give good weight,
and to get up private thea,ricais.
The cheating groceSs and liquor dealers
Of New York, whs have been exposed ID
their irregularities, talk OF libel suits against
the papers that have 50 thoroughly shown
then up.
An attempt to poison a miller at St.
Johnbury, Vt, was make few days ago BY
leaving plug Of tobacco in his mill, with
stry cbnins enough to kill twenty men con.
csalsd in enc end oft.
News from Alaska states that Sitka 10
nearly depopulated. the Russians having
departed for their mother country.
Surratt 10 about 70 publish book Of his
wandsrings to eluds the United States au-
liberties, and will divulgc evsrv thing hi
knows about the assassination Of President
| Linceln.
The New York Sun says: "Fsur hsnrs
~ COED hard study 10 the morniss 10 d
much 40 should b. required Of any child
under fourteen years Of age, girls espsci.
ally"
A man died in Washington from "glan.
ders." He had driven horse suffering
from this disease, and the physicians, afsr
. post norton examination, and several
scientific experiments. have decided that
he caught il frem the horse.
Out cfall the Southern families that went
to Brsz! II the close OF the war, only seven
or eight remain. The Hastings colony,
| on the Amszsn, has been rednced to rom
nant. Those that are left are in destitute
condition.
A vein Of coal has been discovered six
miles from Msdisonville, Ky, only about
twelve feet frsm the surface The vein ia
. heavy one, and he auslity Of the coal is
said to he little inferior, if not equal, 10 the
renowned Pittsburgh
Austria is making preparations for war
in view Of a complication Of difficulties DO
tween Greece and Turkey.
| Fiftesa Of the leading papers in Lsaven
worth, Kansas City, St. Joseph and neigh
boring towns have formed an associated
press. Following the example ofths West
ern Associated Press, they will not admit
other newspapers to the benefits Of thsi
| contract.
| During tho past three months there have
hsen l50. 600 new rifles sen, from Provi-
idsnce, Rhode Island, to Europe. Ovsl
5000 have been sent to Cuba, and 5000
muzzle- leaders, transformed to brssch'
loading, shipped to Me xico.
Springfield. Mass., has case Of mari
tai infidelity." The parties to the story arc
. wife on her dsath-bed, dying Of a cancer
. lively husband and pretty shop girl
The wife is kindly kept in ignorance OF tb'
scandal, and TO avoid prosecution, as hi
wife has wiled all her property 10 him
the husband has promised never to mar!
the pretty clerk.
The latest stils OF the water velocipsd
consists oftwo floating tubes Of tin, in tn
shape Of cigars. They are connected b,
TIVE bars OF iron which support the wheel
This is moved by pedals like the fore whee
Of an ordinary vilocipeds. The rider sit
on saddle just behind the wheel, an,
easily drives his machine at ths rat. OF si:
or eight knots an hour.
| An intoxicated man recently laid dew,
on the railroad track near the Gown ton
KY, depot, and fell asleep. A little dol
belonging 10 house close by, seeing TIL
train approach. ran and jumped upon hi
face. and barked At and scratched him unit
he awoke, just in time to get out Of Oh
way Of the cars. The nan believed this Il
be divine warning TO abstain from drink
ing, took the pledge forthwith.