The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1859-09-19
Cam Any ONE ToaIi

Cam Any ono Toll! e !.
Can any ons tell how it 10, thai during
these hard tinss, when every merchaat, nAA-
ufaotursr and meohanio i doing 40 utmost
to keep his hsad above water, onr nansfoss
drinking saloons arc well sustained md sven
new onsa starting 7
Gan any ons toll how msn, who sbsolutSly
cannot pay small bills, oan always ind plen-
~ or money to buy liquor, and treat when
| happening amsng friends z
Can any one tell how young men who
dodge their wrsherwonan, and are always
behind with their landlord, oan play billiards
day and night and are always ready for =
game Of "poker ?" 4
Gan any one tell how II i, that sons men
who owe their butchers, owe for rent, and
eve everybody who viii credit them, will
ask their neighbors to oyster suppsrs and al
ways manage so a. to have oil the delicacies
OF the season? s.
Gan any one tell how, virtsous young wo-
men, who have poor ancestors on the male
side, poor brothers, and are disnally poor
themselves, arrange it to dress in silks, and
who never wear the same dress to two 90
cables
Can any one tell how lawyers who have no
oases, and doctors who have no practice,
manage to make both ends meet, or meet
the endsp
Can any one tell how men live and support
their families, who have no income and DONE
! work, and how others who sre industrious
and constantly employed, half starvsp
Gan any one tell how it 10 that . man who
10 too poor to pay dime week for daily
paper, 10 able 10 pay fifty cents day for to-
bacco and cigars, 70 say nothing OF IN oocA-
, sional drink9
Can any one tell what interest We have in
asking these questions, which We know no
one esn tell 2-iEx.
t nRThe New York letter writer kesp IN
sys out for weekly paragraph u The OK
|. psnse OF Senior Oviedo, tho old Cuban OF
t ''untold wealth." who ID about to marry tho
!. beautiful Mise Bartlett. One OF thsse fell
= 10 W has had squirt ct the brides tr0us-
seau at Genin's, and says that seventy FIVE
new dresses are now ready for her, while
her lingerie (Frsnch for clean clothss) cost
: $4,000.
a. Benjamin Whitlaok, . merchant OF
New York city, owns an estate OF 1000 acres
in Westchestsr, on which be 10 erecting :
: palace, not yet completed, after the style Of
!. and other things TO match, II has already
cost him half million dollars, and the plans
: are only half carried out, When completed
, il will be the grandsst country seat on the
! western continent.
. 0R-Ths inevitable Parson Brownlow 10
again extant though in rather . damaged
condition. He 10 now 1t the Virginia Springs
! for the benefit OF his voice, which he has 81
: most entirely lost bat he says he intends to
: raise IL against Looofocoism - long - he
; can, and whom he can no longer speak, he
intends to MAKE MOUTHS At rHI RAscALLY con-
: Germ
TWm. Ownsy, Of Southampton county,
, Va, died few days since, aged loo years
and months. He was engaged in the bat
, tie OF Brandywine, and also ct Petersburg,
Va, when Arnold paid that town visit
The old soldier had never taken medicine in
his life, and in his last illness positively re-
fused to have it administered.
TAnother "champion. has turned mp.
negro in Sandusky. one day last week, eat
ninety large peaches on wager OF $3.50. He
; arose from the repast apparently refreshed,
!, and resumed his artistic av0cation as boot
black, amid the enthusiastic cheers OF large
, and enlightened concourse Of his fellow -eiti-
. Gems.
THE NExr THING TO lr.--"Got any Zoe at
7 your end OF the table, Bill?"
ssNo, but pve got the next thing to it,"
: "What's that ?"
ga severe cold"
t fTThe New York Tribune says that "Mr.
Dickens is not coming to this country after
all" We have no doubt, that II ever ne
comes, he will come "after all'' he can get.
; l-lLou. Jour. .a
GTA tremendous conHagration occurred
at Halifax on the 10th, which destroyed ave
whole blocks numbering Fifty buildings. 1t
10 reported that three men were killed.
: nTDuring the last three months 4,747
children have died ia New York-an average
, Of over so per day.
c. The town hall ct Medford, Mass, was
> destroyed by FIRE last week.
. All you that want mate,
And to marriage do incline,
If you have slid through IS,
Now don't through 80.
III Trees, Trcesl
A great variety OF Fruit and Ornamental
Trees, for sale at No. S, Estes House, Main
? street.
N. B. Everything sold v0rranfsd to be
( true to name, or the money will be refunded.
Il Sept. 7, $50. VIM. BARNES.
ANNOUNCE M ENTS.
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