The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-12-28
/, MONDAY, DECEMBER Is, 1869.


on1gu1AA NEWS Tx1l10. 81 f.
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-Sseanboats ere now running mp th1
Tennessee river 70 Loudoa, within sik.
teen miles Of Knoxville, whence The Edsi
Tennessee army i supplied. m
in Washingtou. ons day last vee !,
q small boy was Knocked down on the
Avenue and run over BY Mrs. Lincoln's
carriage. whereby his legs wsrs broken
end he sustained other injsFiss. Mrs.
Lincoln Immediately took the Id into the
carriage and conveyed him 70 his home,
where everything in her power was done
to alleviate his sufferings.
A Bank in Wincasset, Maine, is
fraudnlens and ito bills worthless. 1t has
an immense number Of bills out.
A curious and interesting discovery
has just been made in the DSpartmess Of
State, bearing upon the boundary line be-
tween the State Of Minnesota and the
British Provinces. The upsbot Of the
matter il, that Minnesota has big lump
of land which she did not know belonged
to her. and that she has full command Of
the Lake Of the Woods.
"A most revolving murder was COM
mit,ed on Wednesday night of last week,
in Kalamazoo county, Mich, the victims
being an aged man namsd Boss and his
wife, both OF whom we're rising sixty years
Of age. Thsy lived alone, and appear to
have been murdered for considerable
sum of money which they we're sappo{ed
to possess. Their skulls we're fractured,
apparently with : hstchet. Every ef-
fort will be made to deteet the guilty par
ties. -
jim Greathouse, one Of the most bfu-
tai and notorious of the West Virginia
gusrrillas, was shot dead, . few days ago,
while trying to make his way into Ohio.
--Apother hotel is in coarse OF srec-
tion ., st. Louis, which will be nearly a.
large IN the Lindell. 1t is to be called
the Southern Hotel, and will probably be
complesed this winter.
The Patti furore RACES in Madrid =
At her frt appearance the Queen 1'as-
sisted" Every box vas let for days be-
fore, and the crowd in the pit began te
collect at 10 clock in the morniss.-
The performance was "Somnambula-'
Mr.. Earlengcr, the Paris banker wh'
engineered the Confederate loan, and who
it is said, is about to marry belle re6ele
has besn sued b. couple Of English inen
Who claim no less than f75,0o0 for hav
ing introduced him to Mr.. Slidell.
There are 3S, 1873 houses of xorsH ipil
the United States, Of which ls,S14, Q
THIRTY three per cent, are in the South.
Eight thousand dollars have bee
contributed in Boston within \ week 70
the relief Of the contrabands in the Miss
issippi valley.
Lynn is not only the greatest manu-
factory for ladies' and misses boots an
shoes in the Union, but also in the worle
and still it means to enlarge.
The Rev. Daniel Waldo, who has Al
tanned the remarkable age of 10l year
preached at the Presbyterian church
Fulton, New York, lately. His discours
occupied about half an hour.
| A brute in Philadelphia, who ma
ried his step-daughter, because his vii
was too old, will have TO answer to II
charges Of bigamy, incest and sdulser.
"A magician, Professor Love. latel
exhibiting in Norwich, Conn, advertise
that he would "cause the mysterious di
appearance Of young lady" and kel
his promise BY running off with anoth,
mans wife. The pair have since bee
capture
The wife Of Gen. Gustavu. w. Smitl
late Of the rebel army, arrived in Ne
London, Conn, on the 10th inst, fro
Richmond. She passed through Il
Union lines in disguise.
| --Richard Golden, member of the Bri
ish Parliament, hit the bulls eye VIII
he said of our rebellion at Is an arlst
cratic rebellion against democratic Go
ernment."
THE REBEL LEADERS SKEDADDLI1G..
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