The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1855-09-05
Council ProceeainSs.
CouscIL RooN, I
Sept. 4th, 1850. !


CouxcM RooN, I
Sept. 4th, 1850. !
Council met.
Present His Honor, the Mayor, and Al
dermcn Patterson, Bridgman, Newton, Me-
kcc, Thomas, Haines and Timberman
Bill Of II. Taylor of Sl5 allowed for de-
posting earth on Main street
The Mavor read communication from H.
T. Brigham asking "a release Of Loo feet il
front Of lots |, and 3 in block No. >, which
was referred TO the Judiciary committe.
Petition from G. b. Smyth and others OF
block Is; referred to committee on streets
aud alleys.
The judiciary Committee reported in ia
vor of allowing to Alex. McCue one hundred
dollars, which, on motion, was adopted.
Committee on claims report adverse to the
allowance of the bills of Messrs. Lynch,
Knight and Simpson, for one weeks service
as night watch. Received and adopted.
Bill of Hugh Mcknabb for work on Eley-
cnth treet culycrt. $50 OF. allowed.
Alderman Newton offered a resolution au-
thorizng the Mayor to have abated the nui-
sanec at the foot of Exchange street, and de-
duet cost of same from the contractor Of the
| Improvement on said street, which was
I adopted.
/ Wharf Masters report for one month end
4 ing August 3lst 1921 Is was received, and
his per centage allowed 1882 Az
1 Engineers estimate No. 8. on Johnson
! street culyert for work done by Marshall 4
! Stone for S2237 % was received and allow ed
4 Bill of j. Il. Copelin for improvement on
the levee $500 was allowed.
1 Committee on the Third street grade asked
/ further time which was granted.
! Estimate No. for culyert loading on John
( son root latwon,, Seventh mad Ninth a, raots
Patrick Frizzle, contractor, for 100000 en-
buic yards deposited and measured in cxca-
yation at 203c. $4,000, fifteen per cent. being
deducted there was allowed as per contract
S2ii.65
Bill Of JAS. Linch for services for fifteen
nights a. night watch at ST 80; SD 80 al
lowed, being sworn to rs required by resolu-
ton.
The following resolution passed
Rcsoired, That the Mayor be and is here
BY authorized to take the necessary steps to
have the culyert across Eleventh street on
Johnson street contracted
Bill Of Jas. knight for fifteen nights SER
vice rs night watch at 81 80 81 30, being
sworn to as required was allowed.
The following was passed:
Resoired, That the Guy Engineer be and
Is hereby Instructed to Immediately contract
for the packing and covering Of the cusert
between Sixth and Seventh streets ON John
sou street, and also TO take the necessary
steps to grade Twelfth street between John
son and Bank streets, in accordance with res
olntlon passed previously.
Council adjourned to meet next Tuesday
at \. VI. Il. s. MERRlAM
City Recorder.
FAvoRTE AMERICAN Polsox.- We extract
the following remarks on '.thc fayoritc poi
son Of Amcrica,' from u work written by
the late A. J. Downing
In the signs Of physical health and in all
that constitutes The outward aspect Of the
men and women Of the United States. our
people compare most unfavorably with those
on the other side Of the Atlantic. So Gem
plotely is this the fact that, though we are
unconscious Of it at home, the first thing that
strikes an American returning from abroad,
is the pale and sickly countcnances Of his
friends and acquaintance 1.-The men look SO
pale and tho women so delicate. The national
poison which causes all this is not tobacco.
nor patent mediclncsap or coffee. 1t is moth
ing less than the yitIated air of close stores.
and the unventilated apartments which ae-
company them in the continual atmosphere
OF close stoves breathed III our homes, in rail
ears, in our steamboat cabins, i'll our lecture
rooms, concerts, and private assemblies, ali
over the country.
. Pale countrymen and countrvwomen.
rouse yourselves Consider that God has
given You an atmosphere of pure salubrious
air, forty-fvc miles high, and -yentilate your
hpuses.'
Advance Pa > me M TO Newspapers.
No subscriber worth retaining will object
to the pay-in-advance system. Those who
wanted to hear Jenny Lind sing, had to pay
IN advance; and what were her divinest strains
compared TO those which flow from editorial
pens? You can't take your seat in rickcty
mail coach, or fyfromthe track railroad car,
without paying in advance for the risk of not
being killed. Ii you would hear a concert. or
literary lecture, or see Tom Thumb, or the
Siamesc Twins, you must plank down your
twenty-five, fifty, or one hundred cents, be-
fore you can pass the threshold. Nay, il any
one has SO little regard for his own character
as to want to read Barnum's Autobiography.
ne must pay for it. And yet men hesitate
about paying in advance for paper furnish
ed on the utmost verge Of prime COST Ciepe-
land Herald.
DEATH or AN EMINENT LAwYER.--Late for
cIgn files announce the death Of VIM. Selwyn.
very learned and ahorous LAWYER. and the
well known author of Selwvn's Nisi Pyius.
who died on the 18th ult., Tunbridge Wells.
England, aged 81.
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