The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1860-04-11

Che 0ate City,
WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL II
as-THUsT DEEDS FoR SALE AT THIs
OFFICE.
ErHLANK NOTES NEATLY printed 4 Or
sale at this Office. @@a
0A-IsLAnk MOHTGAGEA for sale ..
this oface. 3
i 1~nsLLs OF LADIrG for sale ~ this
ln~HLArh DEEDS, neatly printed, in !.
form approved by the best Lawyers, for sale st
this ONCE.
ACJUSTIOEs, HLANKs Notices Sab
rnnas and Executions forsals ~ this once.
G~TLLINOIs BLANK DEEDS Tor
Sale az this Once.
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ISvENrrrs.--Ta the list Of patents issusd
for the week ending March Goth, thers 10 one
to J. 7. Sohuhsnscker, OF this city, for i'm
provement in brick moulds.
RAiLaoAps.--Two locomotives ct the X.
Mt. r. h NJ. r. R. depot yesterday morning,
With crowd Of people, gave the scene .
rather busy appearance. One OF the loco
motives had just brought down some heavy
timbsrs for bridge near Ben.onsport.
CHArrEIs Go,so SourH.--A drove Of Is
mules and horses came into town yesterday,
to be shipped to Mississippi. They were
purchased in Warren county. The owner
expects to realise about Fifty per cent on
cost. E2s
Asssssnrsr.--Th Council sits next Mon
day to equalixe the assessment. The books
are now open in the City Clerks ofhcs,
where any one who desires can examine
them, and If he finds his property assessed
too high, can 60 before the Council next
Monday and make his objections known.
MAaKrrro.--Ths scarcity Of marketing
causes considerable competition among buy
ers. A small wagon load Of eggs, butter
and rags came across the riyer yesterday
morning, and about half dozen groosrs
gathered around IL st the foot Of Main-st.,
and bid over each other until they ran the
eggs up TO 81 cents and the butter to 23
cents. The cotton rags sold ut II cents,
and two And half csnts we're offered tor
them in groceries.
CoAL.-There are three companies now
having their coal deposits on the Levss.--
The Pennington and Slaughter Coal OompA-
mics furnish the Northern Line Paoksss, and
the Nov York Company the Ksokuk and 81.
Louis Packets. Between than they cell to
boats between two and three thousand bash
els per day, at 10 cents Per bushsl. II 10
supposed that the coal business will be very
large here, a. the coal beds now being
worked are only on the edge OF the great
Iowa coal Helds. In the nsighborhood Of
the line Of the railroad, near Eddyville, are
said to be veins seven fest thick, 80 that when
the road is completed that far, We may ex-
pecs the various companies to be able to af-
ford coal at cents per bushel.
WHISKY, BsUrALIry, pAuPERrsn.--Yes ester
day afternoon q man, who recently came
here from lows Oisy, went into doggery on
4sh ST., between johnson and Exchange, and
got drunk. His wife went after him, when
the proprietor Of The dogEsry threw her
down six or eight steps, her head striking
the sharp edge Of bed post In the yard, and
making a cash three or four inches long,
tearing the skin and fesh from the forehead
until il fell down over the eye, . pieoe thus
hanging down large - mans hand, and
exposing the bare, white skull. The woman
was taken to Mr.. O'Consor's drug store,
whore the wound was dressed by DIR. Seaton
Thence she was taken 60 the caiaboose to be
taken care Of. The grog shop proprietor
and another man supposed 70 BE- engaged In
the outrage, wsrs arrested and taken to the
calaboose. When The husband OF the wo-
man was asked il he had ANY room to which
his wife could be taken, he oomnsncsd cry.
ing, and said he had none; that he and hi,
wife bad been sleeping In lamber pile since
they oans here. The woman was almos,
destitute Of clothing. Would II NOT BE- char.
liable for some Of the ladies to supply hsl
with something to wear?
Rxv. JosKPH TRAPHILL, JH.-Dsor Sir
think the last weakness the public will 20,
sose you Of 10 desire 10 s'shrink from re-
sponsibility," while some may think yos
we're little too ready 10 assume II IN you
manifesto ssTo 1Hx UslTARrAss OF 4Rx CIR,