The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1855-09-25

I udAttFS III tuNi 10 KNOW ufnnlIplN NDAI IHey
are stealing and perjuring themselves for,
intend sending and franking them to the
Lodge, in Iowa. | think my brot Ter Kno ~
Nothings can get along with one copy to the
dozen members.
As to the post master AT this place, regret
to subject him aud his efficient deputy to the
tax of mailing them, vet they must attribute
the extra labor To their own friends | IN
cludc them in the honorable exceptions men
toned above. When Know Nothingism ceas-
es to be republican in this State. Shall cease
to affiliate with it. In the mean time the
more its opponents stir this matter the worse
il will he for them. Their old system of At
lacking upright, honest department, and gloss
Ing over deformtieS in their own household
has had its day; the people have opened their
, eyes and the sooner they make their wills the
better, as the handwriting Is on the wall and
the ideas Of November, 1876, are approach
ing.
am, sir. very respectfully, your ob't ser
want. JAMES THORINGTON.
Editor Dreaming on wedding Cake.
4 bachelor editor out West, who had re-
cayed from the fair hand Of a bride a piece
Of elegant wedding cake to dream on, thus
gives the result Of his experience
~ PHt y uhN'F t''e head oi our plloW,
sni' our eyes S"efay rs an lhlaht' blessed
WIN az cay ~ eon'e,ehee' w soon snored pro
ul5louSiy. ne Sod OF dreams gentR touched
Us, ana l9 IN fancy we were married! New
was u niue rai1of SO HAPPY. II was my
i'Nt' "eare.'' sweetest ringing IA our
tlf5 e'eFs moment, oh tha' the dream had
broken oil here but no, some evil genius
put il into the head Of our duckv to have
pudding ior uil,hef' JUST 10 please her lord
:, ~ hungry dream we sat down to dinner
h " ea' the ,. pudding moment moment arrived: and !"
mug S''ce almost "haeufcd lrom slght the
Piate heiofe Us.
aeaf' saia We iordiy' did YOU MAKE
ti'is
~ ioNe' am ! y nlee
s''iQrl'"s-thr best bread pudding ever
"s'@a ~ my Wis.,
/ 'tom pudding aAeSy' suggested my
/ "lIe.
~ no. dearest. bread pudding. lalways
VIZ ioha y en-
= all that bread pudding" exclaimed my
VIE, "laie her llfs slightly curled with cont
N'ihlt
rrtMhlN' my dcar-reekon I've had
enough al the sherwood House To- know
"re1q puaaing, my t9Fe, ny all means
ilos3aha thi- y really teo bad--plnm
pudding i twice as hard Ia make az bread
PHa'ing. = more expensive, am great
or',. pel5'f. say ms = plum pudding,
SF ana my pretty "ite.' brow flushed with
eAciIenen''
/ Wy love, my sweet, my dear love- ex-
CANNED we soothnEiH 40 not get angry.
aih sure y y very sood' II IT Is bread pud-
uin9.
= on mean, low wretch, fereely replied
~ VIC n .'@heF tone, Won know II :
/ PUN ir pudding.
lhrn. ma an, 7 I - meanly put togeth-
+ or, ana 80 badly burned, that the deHal him-
Ned Wouian I know IT, tel you madam,
most distinctly and emphaticasly. and | viii
no' % c'ntraaiftea, that It 7 bread pudding
anu 'hf meahest klna al that.
= pun Poaa'hg' shfiek"d my VIE,
I y Shr hof!eu y glass y claret ~ my face,
nv Giass HseH tapping the ciaret from my
ho.5,
breaa Pualing gasPed We, pluck 70
w lAst' ana grasped = roast chlcAen ~ the
i'ie reg
lum pudding rose above the din. rs /
mao distinct perception Of feeling two plates
Smash across my mead.
bread pudding we groaned in a rage as
sWlit wings across the table, landed iii mad
am bosom.