The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-11-06
p. r. Barnum, of New York vii

money getting.
The Pope continues to show himself
10 public. On the I'd inst. he walked all
the way up the Corso from the Plaza del
Popolo to the Plaza di Nenezia, followed
by his noble guards and equipages. His
| Holiness, who looked rather thin 10 the
lace, but stout in the body, walked good
pace, pausing occasionally to give his
blessing to the groups Of bys,anders, who
knelt to receive it.
The house of DR.. J. S. NJ. Ramsey,
at Mecklenberg, near Rockville, Tenn,
was destroyed by fire recently, and with
it the only collection of materials from
which complete history Of Tennessee,
from its earliest settlement, could be writ
ten DR.. Ramsey made the collection
with great care and pains.
The Agricultural Department at
Washington has received quantity of
| Anautka wheat from Odessa, and also o.
lage quantity Of very fine bearded Medi-
terranean wheat from Nice. in Italy. This
wheat will be ready for distribution TO az
rlculturalists, in small quantities. in
few days. A variety of handsome sam
Piles of seeds have also been received from
the Royal Agricultural Society Of Russia.
The grea. ram. Dunderburg, now be-
ing built in New York, is 37s feet long,
IS feet wide, and 81 feet deep, with an
armor 81 feet thick, formed Of timber
and ~ inches Of iron One of her revol-
wing turrets will be armed with four
heavy guns, and the other with SIX broad
side and two pivot guns. 1t Is expected
that her speed will be sixteen miles an
hour.
-Truancy from the common schools
in Boston is SO prevalent in some q the
wards oil that city, that the Mayor, at
the special request Of the School Commits
sioner, has appointed wha; is styled a
'.iTuant Officer" to be attached 10 the
corps under command Of the City Mar
shal 1t is not stated what The oiiieer is
to 10 with the tfuants when he captures
them.
! A clergyman in Vermont, having
been accused by the Broman Free Press
Of kicking bis wife and whipping her
eighteen times within a year. corrected
this statement through the same channel
He has whipped Bis wife bu, fifteen times
id three years, and if she labors under th,
, iuspre, sion that he has ever kicked her
ii is because she occasionally runs agans
, his upllfted foot.
8 At factory in Portland, Maine
e ntarly | 600 bushels OF potatoes are con
{. can,rated for the army every day. Al
i the water is absorbed, leaving about 6v,
: pounds Of nutriment to the sixty pound
/ which bushel Of potatoes averages. ant
!. tina concentration is ground up, glvlni
+ il the appearance of Indian meal 1t
( cooked hy returning the water to it in
j boiling state. and keeping it hot from tel
Y to fifteen minutes, when it sweIls lik
r s,hrch, and assumes the appearance Q
y potatoes prepared for the table
A woman Of Great Salt Lake count
fUtah) has sued by writ of hal cas- col
pus for the custody of her daug hter, VII
!. was under the control of one Park, VIII
! claimed her as his wife, lie having one .
ready. Judge Drake granted the mother
wish, remarking that the second marriae
), was criminal, and null aud void-whic
:. the Deseret (Utah) News says is .'detos
- able" and an "offical outrage"
In the battle of Gettysburg. anon
= the reported killed on our side, was
young man from Birmingham, Pa. IL
:. parents sought and, as they suppose
found his body, and taking it home. ha
Il
'' when, few days since their son return'
= 10 alive and well. They had buried reb
~ bearing a strong resemblance to tier so
EF- Said an Irshman to a telegral
). operator:
''.' "Do you ever charge anybody for t
ION address in the message 7"
up "No," replied the operator.
"And do ye charge for signing
name, sir p said the customer.
40, mo, sir I"
to DWELL, thin, will ye please sind thi
ave | jist want me brother to know |
: here Handing the following:
% "To John McFlinn at New Yol
- (signed J - Patrick McFlinn.
in The message was sent, as tribute
md Pats shrewdness.
cen The Burlington Argus tells of
to following remarkable cure from the use
cold water. ".A horse belonging tc
,ar toamstar in this citv was taken sirk n