The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1859-06-27

Sale at this Offce.
a-THUsT DEEDS FOR SALE ATTHIs
OFFICE.
~BLANK DEEDS, neatly printed, in
form approved by the best Lawyers, for sale 1T
this Office.
District Court.
To-day 10 set down for the commencement
of the special term OF the District Court
The session IL limited to two weeks.
QTThe Keokuk is the regular steam
er Of the Rapids Packet Company, for Rock
Island, Dubuque and St. Paul, this evening
at O'Clock.
oTThere is Brass Foundry in town.
1t is in the building once known as Copson's
Sash and Blind Factory, which was after
wards converted into Furniture Factory
Now they make brass there, and are filing
an order for brass buckles for the fremen.
TThe new Tannery is nearly ready for
work. The proprietors are now putting up .
ten-horse steam engine, made at the Pennsyl-
vania Foundry, and they expect to have steam
up tomorrow. Those who are dubious
about the patent process Of tanning can call
in and see how it is done.
GIVE forgot to tell John Smith that the
Supervisor has repaired the sidewalk on the
corner Of Main and Sixth streets. The imam
trap is removed or filed up, and Smith can
safely perombulate along there, provided he
Is duly sober.
~We are requested to say, that the gen.
tleman who abducted child from its moth
or, at Pennington, a few days ago, went up
the river from this point on Thursday last
So we are informed by an officer who had
been searching after him.
0TA friend favors Us with q TRANSLATION
from Schiller, but perhaps he is unaware
that beside the TRANSLATION Of Schiller's mi
nor poems by two or three other competent
hands, all the ballads and minor poems have
been translated by Bulwer, in manner that
an Impractical hand, or even any we'll prac-
ticed hand, might hardly hope to equal, in
any point OF excellence.
GTThe Albany Journal thinks, as the
people Of Vermont decidedly prefer truth to
poetry, the chances of SAKE for Governor
are very slender.
TWe see it announced that Gen. James
II. Lane is about starting east on leoturing
tour-his subject being the late troubles in
K.ns~s, Of which no PROBABLY has as much
personal knowledge rs any other man living.
He was advertised to speak at Richmond,
Ind, on the Goth.
CIV. w. Fosdick, Of Cincinnati, is an
nounced as the poet, and Thos. Corwin a.
| the orator, OF the Fourth of July celebra-
ton to be held at the Tippecanoe battle
grounds.
rTA fellow, being treated to glass Of
wild cherry compound, exclaimed, as soon
as he got the pucker out of his mouth,
"Gosh hope the cherries were 80 tcild the
man didn't catch many OF them"
OTMrs. Darlington says, "when . wo-
man has once married with congealing
heart, and one that beats responsible to her
own, she will never want to enter the mari
time state again."
GTA German writer observes that in the
| United States there is such scarcely Of
thieves they are obliged to offer reward for
their discovery.
T ASHLEY, the son-in-law of Murrel, the
notorious land pirate, killed his brother-in-
law, in Bell county, Texas, the other day, and
then killed himself.
Arrivals AZ the BiIlIngs House.
JUNE 25.-1 r. y.
NV Phillips, Iconium; Mrs Parkhurst, Miss
I Cherry, Mo; w Bowman, 0 M Phillips, R
p,rmms-, Js,a;soa, \ Y; Mrs. Mcqueen, Il .4n
ilton A S Hotchiss, Chicago; Holland, T
Taylor, S Wells, A L Scott, st Louis, W B Allison
Dubuque; ] II WinterbothAm, IT Madison; J Mas
sey, Hamilton @ w; s N Steel, ILL.,; B Brown
Bentonsport; Miss J Haines, NO.
GS- Our readers will please bear in mind that D
+. Humphrey will sell, ut his auction room No.
Estes House, this afternoon ut o'clock, two yok,
Of oxen, one wagon, feather bed, rife, revolver
picks shovels, dc., the entire outfit Of returnst
Pixies Peaker. Sale positive and without reserve
June 9TH
Ancients, Honorables and II orribIe q,
Will meet on Monday night. Fun lovers AM
curious can find ont whore, by enquiring around
, By order OF Cap.
CO. W. /. GoLlHAwHACHlNIcuG.
j une 25th-d
Fourth Of July Excursion.
The Odd Fellows Of keokuk and their friend
will have an Excursion and Picnic, the At
Of July, 1t Hibbards Grove, near Nauvoo. Mad
dern's Band IL engaged.
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