The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1864-03-05

0BNuRAL NEWS I101l9.
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--Gottschalk il giving series Of fare
we'll concerts in Boston.
john Morrissey, pugilist, has recov.
cred from his late sickness.
--Diptheria is making such sad havoc
10 Lsneoburg. w., that there 10 mot ct
present single school in the town in
operation.
"A wrecking company have uoderta-
ken to raise the Bohemian, sunken Of
Portland. with prospect Of success, pro
viding the weather remains fair.
"A convention of spiritualists in New
England 10 in session ct Boston.
Three auti-slavery papers are about
to be started in Tennessee--one 1t Nash
vile. one at Murfreesboro, and one 1t
Chattanooga. The latter will advocate
the formation Of q separate State of East
Tennessee.
The Board Of Managers of the Bos-
ton Banks have voted to assess IS on
each 100000 of the capitol stock Of
the banks for the suppression Of counter
feiIing.
In the month of January. 1864. there
were disposed of. at Marqustte, Mich,
23.O65 acres, of which nearly $4,000
acres were taken up by bouuty-Iand To-
cation. and the cash sales amounted to
Sl9,578 ~. .c&fES w
COMMITTEES from different districts
in Pennsylvania are now visiting the Ar
my Of the Potomac to offer an addition.
al bounty Of $500 to veterans, the
amount to pay the same having been rails
ed in their districte.
Peter Cooper proposes to give ten
thousand dollars towards recognising
the Police aud Fire Departments of New
York.
lieutenant Walter Landon Dickens;
doing duty with the 42d Highlanders,
second son of Charles Dickens, died on
the last day Of the old year, in the off,
GERS hospital at Calcutta. -5a,ss.
"A joint stock company is to be for
med in New York to purchase an ocean
steamer for the purpose of testing the
use Of petroleum as substitute for coal
in steam navigation.
This is the weather for sugar making
Every farmer should avail himsef Of
every tree, making as much sugar and
syrup as possible, for cane sugar is high,
with good ptosPectof getting still high
er.
General Burnside arrived at Port.
land, Me-, Monday, and was escorted
through the city by military and civic
procession.
There are about ten thousand liquor
shops 10 New York Cisy-of which num-
Der only six hundrd and thirty are licen.
sed.
A FIRE occurred at Catskill, New
York. on Sunday, BY which several store
houses were destroyed. A large amount
of hay, butter, wool and miscellaneous
goods we're destroyed.
A train on the Jacksonville Rail-
road, Indiana, with the eth Penusy lvania
infantry on board, ran off the track near
Aml'y, on Sunday night of last week,
and abont furty OF the men were badly
Injured. We are informed that some of
them had their arms and legs broken, but
none we're fatally injured.
The manager of the St. Louis SAM
tary Fair have issued an appeal to the
people of Great Britain and Ireland, to
aid them IN their attempts to raise $780,
900, the amount they are ambitious to
secure. The appeal is signed by the
Consuls of Switzerland, Hanover, Frank
fort, Austria, Prussia. and the other Ger
man States.
"A Rochester lady sent to General
Graut for lock of his hair to be sold at
the fair. The General could not find it
in his heart to refuse so simple a request
even though, as be said, by granting it,
he exposed the fact that he was "no Ion
ger hoy" 1t is to be hoped, however.
that the ladies' will not follow ND the
matter closely, or the General may soon
become bald-headed.
A lady friend of ours was in Chicago
the other day, and was asked By her
cousin how she liked the Balmoral stock
ing. "Oh, very well,' was the reply
"Well, dou's," said the cousin, NOR
will / wear them, either; I'll be banged
II III make barber's pole of my leg for
the sake of being fashionable -