The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-11-05
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

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amount of one bet, just paid in Philad del.
phia, on the election.
A new balmoral shoe factory at Hart.
ford is so arranged that shoe goes
through thirteen different hands and
comes out complete in ten minutes.
The Sultan Of Turkey has got over
his economical fit, and is going in large
for standing army, an iron-clad feet,
and the rebuilding of the palaces on the
Bosphorus.
"A congress of German dentists h ave
declared that sugar and tobacco are no.
injurious to the teeth.
1t is understood to be settled that
Gen. Buell. is to be General Grants new
chief Of staff
The citizens of Bangor, Maine, are
to erect monumen. of Concord granite,
twenty seven feet high, in memory of the
soldiers from that city who have fallen in
defense of their country.
The Richmond City Council has APP
propriated $50, 900 for the relief of the
poor, and appointed committee to pur-
chase articles 10 be sold at cost to the cit
izens.
We learn that over 800, 900 worth
of property has been condemned and con-
fiscsted by the United States Court at
Nashville, Tenn, being the property of
rebels
A praying machine in Ladsk, Asia,
Is run by water-wheel; every revou-
tion is prayer, and it goes on continu-
ally, night and day, with its supplica-
tons.
The King Of the Greeks, brother of
the Princess Alexandra, is now Oh ieit
to England, from where he shortly pto-
oeeds to his new-found dominions.
A lady in moderate circumstances,
who formerly lived at ROckland, was re-
gently bequeathed $4,000 by gratef ful
Englishman who used to board with her.
One Of the largest dry goods fr-
chants Of New York says that the demah bid
for e1t.avagant luxuries in the wsy OF
costly and snowy goods is greater now
than for twenty years past
Gen. Scott delivered eulogy pn
john Jay Crittenden, at Cooper Institut te,
Wednesday night. Tie general heal kh
OF the veteran soldier is remarkably ,odd,
though subject to occasional attacks incl
dent 10 his advanced age.
Smallpox has broken out among the
rebel prisoners at Fort Delaware. The re
are now about l50 cases.
Cotton manufactures prosper me PSI
when cotton is scarce and high. The
mills and printworks at Manchester
New Hampshire, sold last year 2,oo8,-
600 yards of cloth, clearing $1,000, ,0t0
or 60 per cent. on the capital.
An old lady and two children were
burned to death q, Pittsburg, on Thurs
day night, while in bed. The bed-cloth he:
caught FIRE, in some way, while they We re
asleep, and they were suffoca;ed and badly
burned before the FIRE was discovered BY
others.
Gen. D. Ii. Hill, of the rebel arm V
appended to leave Of absence this Elk
planatory note: approved upon th,
ground that brave men Of the army should
be permitted to 60 home whenever prac
ticable; otherwise all the children to b,
born during the war anG the usual perio(
afterward, will be the offspring of th'
towards at home who have substitute
and are otherwise exempt"
During the fight of Prof. King
balloon on the l4th, from Bangor, i
passed over the clearing of settler VIII
does not take the newspapers. A focl
Of children round the door spied the m on
ster booming on, and alarmed the mother
who rushing to the floor, screamed out
"Come in, children, it's one Of JEFF. Da
Wis bomb shells" This is a fact. S
says the Calais (Me. Herald.
j The Hawkeye (Iowa) Flag state
that butternut by the name Of Wesle,
BEEN, living in Madison county. name,
one of his children Jefferson Davis BEEN
The child died before il WAS old enougl
to comprehend the disgrace which it
rebel father had heaped upon it. Wesle.
BEEN was delegate to the Copperhea'
County Convention held at Winterset
few weeks since. Comment unneces
sary.
The stagnation Of business in th
book selling trade has been so protracte'
: in Great Britain that serious conseq uen