Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1869-02-24

Small pox is raging in several parts Of
New York State.
A Texas railroad vas sold, the other day
for $500.
Glasgow has . chimney 454 feet high,
the tallest in the world.
| A Georgia editor starts his paper With
the motto: "Hers.I ssise.my Ebenezer."
Csrlctta writes letters to Macmillan
svtry day. They are said 10 b, charming
~ composed.
John Wilkes Booths younger brother
identified the remains beyond doubt by .
peculiarly plugged tooth.
General Grants talk, when It breaks
out, makes tho Radicals madden than his
reticence.
The suggestion comes from Montreal that
some men might show their sincerity in
keeping Lent by fasting from the use Of to.
bacco.
Grant Is accredited with saying that be
chopped to be id il he ever came to New
York for rest again.
1t is reported that Queen Victoria 10 .
spiritualist and talks with her departed
Albert every day.
There 10 not in the present British house
Of lords single descsn iant Of the 20 bar
ons appointed to enforce the observance Of
Asgna Chsrta.
A daughter Of Hon. r. Fcete, Of Milwau.
kee, has hair I've feet and seven inches in
length.
General Butler said in the House the
other day,"I take back nothing" BE
should be compelled to take back" those
spoons.
False teeth cannot be worn at Austin,
Nevada. The atmospheric pressure il too
small at that attitudes, 600 feet.
An Indiana paper requests subscribers
not to leave any specimens Of maple sugar
at that office. for it might give the editor
the tooth ache.
The Pope is financially troubled. His
great difficulty 10 to make his yearly re-
ceipts of IS. coo. 900 livres pay his yearly
expenses Of "a. 100000.
Miss EIwood, of Buffalo, having been pie
tured in one Of Frank Leslis's publication
% appearing at the rink carnival immod-
estly dressed ~ Mercury. her father hes
sued the publisher for $50. 900 damages -
libel.
There are eighty tive places in Lewiston
Maine, whore liquors are sold. The pro-
hibisory law il In force.
Less than twenty years ego. . German
with iity dollars and bind horse, started
an iron foundry in Evansville. To-day hs
10 worth moro than 100000.
A summer boarder in q country village
says that at the meeting house they have .
beautiful chime of belis-in the entry after
the service.
The Hon. John Wentworth has prepared
1 history of tho Wentworth family, which
be is to print in elegant style at cost Of
$4,000.
Two negro wenches near Meridian, Mass,
whipped little white girl in the face with
switches TO II AXE her say "mistress" Ia
them.
The first lesson Of a student Of the veloc>
ipede in Providence cost him 4126. lie
went through show window.
! A Detroit paper says: "During the ex-
: citement in the female convention at Chi
csgo, . hair mattress maker offered t10e
for the privilege Of sweeping ont the bal
after the meeting"
An exchange Gays that Brigham Young
son Joe, smokes good cigars, drinks good
liquor, gets drunk. plays poker. ticks bill
wives and breaches the gospel.
John Allen has written John B. Gougt
4 Il At no has undertaken to reform. Mr.
Cough ssserts that Allen never signed I
!. pledge, and hever protested religion con
version, but that al stories to that et5cc
were invented for sensational purposes.
} Brownlow calls East TennesesA ''poIiti
. cal paradise" Prentice says it resembles
the ancient Eden only in having The devi
. 10 it.
i An Italion in Cincinnati WAS laughed .
n for his broken English. aud reported testify
: "You lsught at my Inglses! You spsal
Italyorg | make you SEEK"