The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1864-01-09
asSszRAx NEWS ITEMS,


The Bostonians have realized sl4O,-
900 from their Sanitary Fair.
Brigham Young has just taken new
wife-his 6Ist. ..l
The new Governor General of Cuba
is trying to put stop to the slave trnds.
"A "national exhibition" opened in
Venezuela the first of January. All
American goods for exhibition are enter
ed duty free.
Strong opposition to an increased tax
upon distillation is being developed in
Congress.
The death Of Mrs. General w. H. +.
Lee took place in Richmond on Saturday
last. Her husbands capture, it will be
remembered, took place some six months
ago.
Paris fashions are sensible The
newest styles of winter walking shoes
have uncommonly thick soles, gigantic
heels. and are edged with fur, and are 20
noisy that one can hardly tell the step Of
lady on the sidewalk from that of a
trooper.
The ladies of Hartford, Conn, have
collected nine hundred dollars IN money
and seventy barrels of clothing, worth
nearly three thousand dollars, for the
freedmen Of the South.
Three years ago not pound pf salt
was made in Saginaw Valley, Mich higan.
There has been exported from the valley
the present year not less than three million
barrels.
General f. p. Blair was preSented
with silver service, by his mercantile
friends in st. Louis, at his residence on
Christmas eve.
I'm recen. speech at Omaha, Ne
brasEa. George Francis Train DECLARED
himself "the bes. played out nd an in
the country" Train is really growing
sensible.
--More than fifty members Of CoH gress
have signed recomme adation for the re-
moval of Mr.. Blair from the office pf Z.
NJ. General.
Some patient fellow has ascert tained
that in the peroration of General MfCleI-
lan's report, which came By telegraph,
the personal pronoun 81" occurs dleyen
times, with q corresponding proporti ion Of
yves" "mys," etc., to round off & he pc
RODS.
Alexander Dumas, the exhau stless
writer, has finished new romance, which
will be published in England three m lonths
before it appears IN France. Il is called
Emma Lyons" which was the M alden
name Of the once celebrated and fascina-
ting Lady Hamilton, by whose charms
Lord Nelson was subdued and SPELL
bound
The Provost Marshal General has de-
cidsd that deserters from the rebel SER
vice are not entitled to exemption papers.
All such as are drafted will be assigned
TO duty on the Western frontier, and not
10 regiments in the South.
On Saturday last the lady friends in
Cincinnati of the wife of General Rose
Grams presented her breastpin, cut out
Of shell from the Little Miami river.
The Providence { R. L. Journal says
that an unusually large number of houses
have been rented to summer visitors at
Newport for the next season. Many new
persons have already applied, and it is
thought there will be scarcity Of cot
tages greater than was ever experienced
before. Of course rents go up and the
price of real estate is rapidly advancing
Lambert A. Wilmer, formerly editor
Of the Baltimore Saturday Visitor. and
connected with the Philadelphia Pennsyl-
vanian, the author of the "Quaeks oI
Helicon," Ferdinand de Soto," 'Op.
pressed Guard" and other works. died in
Brooklyn, New York, on the 21st inst,
| in his 5eth year.
The Bank of England covers an en-.
tire parish, and it has clergyman whose
salary is GOO year. A room in che
bank is kept to represent the church fol
The sake Of keeping up the living and 1T
emoluments.
| The Central Park in New York ha
three skating ponds, the largest of which
is twenty-six acres in extent. Ths
monthly attendance at the park during
the skating season is a half million per
| sons.
| The Springfield State Journal is in
formed that over eight hundred deserter
| hare hann arrestetl dnrir0 fho fall 49,