Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1869-01-27

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GENE16 %ws.
Greeley has bsdrh. nsvlco.,.
Boston ewnl about two million and i.
half sqasrs fss, oflaud.
The telegraph 10 isilurs in Mexico. The
people steaiishs wires As fsst as they are
put up.
Chicago wants 80, 900. 900 to complete
. sewerage system.
The deposits In the eve cent savings
bank Of New Bedford amount 10 = million
snl . half Of dollars.
One Of the New York papers thanks .
member fsrk"Hvs thousand pamphlets,
Weighing psthAps I've tens-'
In St. Cliis csunly. Illinsis, they pay
female sche(l, teachers mass wages, whom
they do . u1An's YORK.
The Boston Tsavslsr says "Uvsr four
headreA bills of divorce are % the docket
ofths Supesm6 Court for this seunty."
Lsuisville has twelve inches depth o.
The English House Of Lsrds IL sew the
emily hereditary chamber IL Europe.
A student Of the Assyriaa tablets in the
British Museum places the date Of Abra.
ham at 1890 before Christ, nearly 400
years earlier than Fishers chronology.
Al the Hartford, Conn, ministers meet
ing oil bat two, out Of forty. opposed NO.
mans suffrage Is unscriptural.
Madame Demsrsst the celebrated New
York modste, learned the millinery busi.
ness At LsnsingbuAg, N. Y, whore she WAS
plain and pretty Ellen Curliss.
A car load Of nisrse " csrins went west .
few days age from tho manufactory in New
York to point 900 pilss west sfOmahs,
on the Central Pacific Railroad, without
breaking bulk.
The Bloomington. H., Leader says ss0s
scouadrsl breks 70 pieces We oorssr steps
under the Prssby serian church 4 LssSy,
just Raished, tor the purpose Of abstrsctine
i've dollars in snail change deposited
there.
The Bsstsn Pest says '>ons Of the
nest popular reporters On the New York
Wsrld vas recently in . MaApacbusstts
slnshouss,"
A pesr maa in Ohis thinks h,Asslf heir
- @l4O, O0O. 900 in England, and i ies6ise
81 900 bends fsr ten dollars apieei to raise
money T. take him over.
The Champaign Oll.) Unisn (ays =
THE man Who 10 tse peer t. take ! paper
and pay for il vas at che Niger sh4w The
other night. He had kis wife and four
children with him, aod hft three dogs at
home"
Mr.. Richards, stClsvsland, Ohis, lie 10
great joy because Ms wife left him ) few
days since. She took oil the money hvsd
during &c years u jeint labor, but be thinks
it is cheap radiance.
The San FrsnoiscS Alta California iays
that California, figs afs taking the place Of
imported 6gs On the Pacific coast. Many
Of them are decidedly Superior in quality to
oil from Smyrna, save the very best.
The number Of b-ilding permits ISSUED
in RaltimoSe in 1864, Was 152 in 1856,
TO- in 1866, 1884 in 1867, 800 In
1868, 2.S76. The population Of the city 10
estimated ct least 800 900.
There b most lively excitement among
the heire 1T Law Of . certain rich man II
Mansfield, Ohio. who mystsriously disat.
psared about feur years age, but has nov
- "a W " " buCiL uku9t - tu0I
dlsspEu bintment.
TEefs are now 557 weslen mills in Ohio.
Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, wiseenjn,
lowe and Minnesota, with . capital Of
100000. These mills are consuming .
large share Of the Western wsol prodnc-
tion, on which Eastern manufacturers for
merry depended The large receipts ffom
CalDernia fail to supply the loss.
The celebrated horse ''Kentueky" has
ben finally Withdrawn from the turf. and
viii in future be devoted 70 the stud He
hao won in purses and stakes $40, 900, and
10 he~ owned BY August BelosJA, Sad
kept in his stables at Breoklyn, LII. Mr..
Belmont paid SO, 900 for him.
A silica mine has been dissbvsrsd in
North Stoughton, Mass, whieb premises
to become . source Of wealth. A joint
stdsk company has been forged = work
it. Il has been tested at<6evsral Of the
Target glass and c,ecksry lbsuo fastssies a
the c>untry. and prepsonssd equal v ths
best thss can beGoaained elsewhere.