The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1858-12-29

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n~-BHLLs OF LADING for sale st this
once.
s~JUsTaCEs, BLANKS Notices Sab
Executions forsals II this once.
~DLANK DEEDS, neatly printed, In a
form approved by the best Lawyers, for sale u
this olhee.
s~ILLINoIs BLANK DEEDS Tor
Bale Ut this Once.
a-TMUsT DEEDS FOR SALE AT THIS
OFFICE.
0TWs learn that the bret hren Of the
mystic tie had good old time st the Billings
House, on Monday night, eating and dancing
till about the ususl time 10 the morning.
GUThe weather yesterday Was very mild,
fetching the frost rapidly out Of the ground,
and making the roads and walks worse and
worser. In ssvsral places on Main street il
Was proposed 70 start mud boat to ferry
pedestrians across the eros'ippg.. lt9
eTThs Governor and Mrs. Lows returned
from Dss Moinss an Monday night. Their
child, whose serious illness excited the gene
raj sympathy and caused their sudden return,
sare happy 70 announce il better, and con-
sidersd out OF danger.
DThe lecture before the Ksokuk Litera-
ry Institute, on Monday evening, by our
young friend VIM. W. Willians, now Of
williams College, Massachusetts, attracted
respectable and apprssiAtive audiences 70 tho
Medical College, nstvishssanding the unfaS
vorabls character Of the night.
The subject Of The lecture, "Ths ControlI-
ing Motives Of Human Action" embraced
wide Geld, and the lecturer exhibited the
fruits Of mush thought and study devoted to
the topic, in IN attractive and instructive 3D.
drsss Of - hours length, which elected
very general sommendasion.
MEsD Youa WArs.--Our streets as night
are lAmplsss, gaslcss and without the poor
apology Of star light or moon light for some
time past. And ~ misfortunes never come
single, Just ut this very nick Of time We have
. desperate bad spell Of weather and IN aw-
full depth Of mud. And now, - tho moon
refuses to perform it, duty, s'to give light by
night" and the lamps have oil disappeared,
it becomes the City Fathers to mend our
ways.
Many of the street crossings are out Of re-
pair, some Of them buried in the mud, and
serve no purpose but TO exotic one 70 the vio-
lation of the commandment against improper
objurgations. Having spscisl interest in
behalf Of the shurch-going inhabitants Of
our part Of town, We would direct the special
attention Of tho Street Committee to the
buried crossings at the intersection OF Third
and High and Concert and Third. They mead
no. deny that there are any crossings in that
vicinity, for Ne distinctly remember to have
seen them afew weeks ago, and have no doubt
they could be reached now with erow-bars Of
four feet In length.
e1Ths London papers announce the
death Of SussnpAh Thrals, the youngest
daughter Of the rich brewer Of that name,
with whom Or. johnson lived on familiar
terms for 50 many years. This youngest
daughter Of the house died at the ago Of 80,
and leaves no one behind hsr, We presume,
OF the circle who listened to DIR. johnson,
Boswell, 0arriok and Reynolds in their
palmy days.
GTA new poem BY Whittier, entitled "Ths
Prophecy Of Samuel jewell" and treating OF
the Salem witchcrAft, 10 to be published in
tho Independent, in the frss issue Of tho New
Year.
gY-The Senate, by vote Of 26 to %, de-
cidsd in favor Of proposition to construct
the Pacific Railrosd Of American msnufAc-
tured iron.
C. marley Locke, the murderer, who with
fifteen others, escaped from the Rochester
jail . few nights since, 10 said to have bssn
rstaken.
Sens OF New ERIK.
The Annual meeting for the election Of of6cers
of the Excelsior Society will b held this evening,
Wednesday, Dec. 18th, 1t the St. Charles Hotel 1t
n o'clock. ALI sons Of Nov York are requested to
ha nressnt The Annual Suuper Of thn Booietv