The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1859-08-01

Oernsr - second Ana MATS streets.
JOB PRINTING,
OF al kinds, s.scuted to order. promptly and sat
BLANKS kept on hand for sale.
DThs river 10 falling with about 4 feet
on the rapids. The Northern Line Packets
have to 50 over BY daylight. The Rapids
Line stop st Montrose, and have done % for
. week past.
GIVE had glorious shower last Satsr-
day morning. II lasted several hours, 1t
filed the cistsrns, laid the dust, soaked tho
earth, cooled tho atmosphere and added i'm
menssly 10 the value Of corn.
TxEolAxs.-Mr. O. II. Tss-Eyck, Agent
for the United States Express Company, viii
receive dispatches and transmit them BY sx-
press to tho nearest Offices. Citizens who
have occasion TO send kilograms viii fnd
this great convenience.
W> fct - c. ~
scales LAST Saturday, purchashsd by Baugh-
man + Hinsr In Missouri ct three oents gross.
This IL said to be high price, bat the cattle
were CHOICE:
6The contractors on the Mississippi b
Wabash railroad are laying the iron on the
last hah mile to Carthage. Tho work will
be finished shortly, and then the track down
TO the river opposite this point viii be put in
order.
Cemnenss - the UasopAssticaseA.
A young woman unused to such things was
asked, the other day, BY her slovyer," to vis-
it the painting Of Adam and Eve, now on OK
hibition in this city Relating the incident,
next day, to friend, she said: "Tom asked
me to 20 and zee Adam and Eve, last night;
and what do yoo think they didn's have on
single dud!"
0Those whaling big RATS tAst come
down the rapids occasionally ars trouble
some customers to Uncle Sans mash chimes.
The rafts have powerful tendency TO keep
- L. Il L. -
srs are anchored in the channel, also. Hence
collisions are inevitable, and the RATS OF
course carry everything before them, drag
ging anchors, breaking ropes, and playing
the mischief generally. Can not something
be done to stop these ousragesf What bus
mess have the RATS coming down here any
how?
SPLENDID WHxAT.--Tarrying yesterday, for
awhile at the Castle Mills, We noticed that
Messrs. BAgby, Burns 4 Wood were recsiv-
ing the finest lot Of white winter wheat that
We ever saw. Some Of the loads which We
ssw delivered u their mills, weighed IS lbs.
80 the bushel, and handsomer grain cannot
Be produced IN any wheat growing country
in tho world. This is tho quality Of wheat
are manufacturing their celebrated Castle
xxx brand, which il will be recollected took
the 6rst premium ct the Mechanics National
Institute at Now York, in 1856.-(Quincy
Wing.
We copy tho above for the purpose Of in
forming our citizens that -four from that
wheat and that mill oan BE- had ct tho store
OF Golfers 4 Robertson.
DIsrRxssIHo CAsuALrY.-We regret to learn
that Mrs. CoGman, living near Wslche's Mills,
not far from Ooalport, in this county, wss
vsry badly, and, il may DO, fatally hurt BY
tho hooking OF COW one evening last week.
she -. milking, and il company with her
Was little daughter three or four ysars Of
axs, toward whom tho GOV wss making 90
fast @ possible, whom the mother, true to
the maternal instincts, rushed between the
animal and child, and received herself : ter
rible wound, which extended clear across the
abdomsn, and - very dssp. The wound 10
moro dangerous BY reason Of the peculiar
situation Of Mrs. Co8man; but il parturi-
tion oAn be warded OF till tho proper time
two months hence) she may, it 10 thought,
rsoover.-[Knoxville Jour.
0TThs frosen we'll ct Brandon, Vt, has
attracted crowds Of Swans TO that place this
season. Scientific persons in that vicinity
ascribe the phenomenon to an icsbsrg, and
that originally, or at some remote period in
Inc long psst, inai psrS Of America was tne
head Of the ssa. This hypothesis il sus-
tanned BY the fast that several years ago, in
building : railroad between Claremont and
White River Junction, tho terminus Of the
Sullivan Railroad, tho bones Of On aYcsic
whale we're found on one Of the highest
points Of land. All the land near tho we'll
10 frosen - ; depth Of . few feat below the
surface. An interesting scientific report on
the subject Is understood to DO forthcoming.
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