The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-11-10
GENERAL NEWS rrEms.

Reading and Harrisburg are the twt
fastest growing cities in Pennsylvania.
"A barrel of sorghum syrup, stowed
away in Michigan Eve years ago, is bar
rel Of dry sugar now.
Make kind of mortar of your Goa
ashes, and place upon the fire when it i,
burning freely, if you wish to economic.
in coal.
New York city raises by tax thil
year over twelve millions, and the rat.
of taxation is raising So on the SlOO,
John K. Stetter, Philadelphian. il
under court martial At Washington
charged with defrauding the Govern.
ment in coffee contracts. The sample oi
his coffee analysed was found to be chief
ly roasted Indian corn.
Six hundred novels year are written
by women. Their pens rival theil
tongues.
Travellers say that English sentimen,
is now strongly in favor of the North
Minister Adams says so too.
A French physician states that groan.
ing and crying have . very benefcial eff.
feet upon the nervous system. Hyster-
les then ought to be favored as santa.
ry measure.
The Richmond papers abound With
advertisements for the recovery of runa-
way negroes, of all ages and both sexes.
One of them contains twenty different
advertisements of this kind.
A Spectator cleared Sc, 500 BY buy
ing mp and re-selling the tickets to Char.
lotte Cushman's late theatrical perform.
ance in New York.
A New York letter writer saws that
the st. Nicholas Hotel clears one hun
dred thousand dollars q year; the Met
ropolitan, eighteen hundred per week;
the New York, fifteen hundred per week;
the La Fargo, twelve hundred, and the
Astor, nine hundred.
DIR. Winship is encouraged. He
can lift 1900 pounds, and says be shall
fetch up 5000 pretty soon.
The English and French papers
worry good deal over the treatment We
are according the Russian fleet.
Trains will run through from New
York to Washington by the Goth Of No.
vember, and passengers will not have to
swear any more at changing cars.
The dry goods dealers at Philadel-
phia are employing large numbers OF fe-
male clerks. Gentlemen will get to en-.
joy "going shopping under such cir.
cumstances.
One sses~iser ef the New York Pro.
duce Exchange slapped another in the
face, and now the slapper has paid the
slapped man the comfortable SUN OF $3.50
Washington claims 10000 men, be.
sides women and children, with race
courses, operas aud theatres, brothels and
gambling bells In profusion.
Advertisements ofGovernment sale,
of rebel property in the city OF New Or
leans occupy seven closely printed col
umns of the Era of the 2lst ult. Thi
shows an intention on the part Of tn.
Government to carry out effectively tn,
Confscation law.
Living in the country at the South
even in the districts nominaly unde
Union control, is not pleasant just now
About ten days ago the residents of th,
neighborhood of Fort Pillow, West Ten
nessee, we're surprised by visi. Of guer
rillas, who conscripted half dozen o
the leading citizens. Their neighbors
however. rallied, pursued the kidnapper
and fred at them from ambush, killing
two or three and scattering the rest
The prisoners were released.
| There is in Nova Scotia young VIC
man, seventeen years of age. who is sew
en- feet two iuches in height. She meas
ures forty three inches round the waist
thirty-.hree inches from her armpit I
the tip of her fingers, weighs two hnndre
and seventy-four pounds, and has foe
thirteen inches long. She is good lool
ing. quite social, although diffident, no
being accustomed to see the public, an
her name is Anna Swan.
An archaeological discovery has bee
made at Ornolac, near Ussat-les Balm.
(Arlege.) France. On taking down
bell, to make repairs in the steeple of
church, it was found to bear the date {
1919, and must consequently be one {
the oldest bells in Christendom.
\ in recent march from Knoxville
| Cumberland Gap. the brigade Of infantr
under Col. Fitzroy de Courcey made ST,
ty miles in forty-two hours. This is tn
, best exhibition of military pedestranisl
} that has been chroncled during the wa
and the President has directed the Secrs
. tary of War to present his compliment
to the heroes of this expeditions feat.
AT coin sale in New York la
, week silver dollar Of 1894 brought Il
: price Of S285. This dollar is very rar
and almost impos sible to find in goo
. preservation.
d "A case is on trial before the Unite
States District Court in New York,
which the plaintiffs seek to recover Sic
: = 900 damages to cargo Of tea on the vo,
. age from Annoy. China, to New Yorl