The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1864-08-11
FIFE GATE CITY
THU RSDAY. AUG. IL.


Corn was selling for one dollar pc
bushel in Corydon, Wayne county, las
week. The county was visited by
shower last Tuesday which will help tn
late corn.
"A bell weighing 1900 pounds ha
been put up in the tower of Grace Churcl
at Cedar Rapids.
Miss Sarah S. Morton, of Musca
tine, succeeds Miss Shelton as Seoretar,
of the Orpan's As, lum.
The Journal says that the Rapid
Packet Company, and the Northern Lin,
packets have agreed to carry visitors anc
articles to the Fair for half rates.
Capt. Bagg, Quartermaster of thi,
District, arrived from Fort Rice Thurs.
day morning, on the steamer Effie Deans.
FROM the captain we gather the follow
ing:
Fort Rice is about 800 miles from
Sioux City by land and 900 BY water, is
beautifully situated on the west bank of
the Missouri, twelve miles above the
mouth of Cannon Ball river. Timber,
water and stone convenient, and an inex-
haustble coal bed has been opened tbr g
miles from tho fort. Gen. Suilv stopp, d
at this point only long enough to build a
suitable building to store the extra bag
gage of the command, aud started for the
yellow Stone on the 18th of July, with
about 5000 men Scouts report the IT,
dams in large force about 100 miles from
Fort Rice, and determined to fight
Capt. Bagg is of the opinion that great
battle has taken place before this. The
troops were in fine spirits. and horses in
excellent condition, plenty of grass and
water, and the weather comfortable.
Four hundred men of the 3Oth Wscon
sin regime n, were left at Fort Rice. I'M
der command Of C,l. Dill, of that regi.
ment.-[ Sioux CITY Register.
EXAMINATION OF THE BUCHANAN Co
ROBBERS The examination of Ros-
bacher. Knight and Pollard, the rob-
bers of the Buchanan County Treasury.
was commenced before Justice Barton, a,
Independence, on Monday, the 26th
inst.,and concluded on Saturday last
The evidence against them was very
strong, and they were bound over in the
$4,000 each. In default of bail they
were committed to prison. W. T. Bar
ker, OF this city, conducted the defence
The Jail a, Independence is rather an in
secure affair, and the prisoners are con-
lined IN separate rooms, In hotel, aud
each room strongly guarded. In addi-
tlon to this, the hotel is watched at nigh,
from the outside, and the streets are pa
trolled By special constables.- Dubuque
Times.
Thrown FROM A HORSE On Sunday
last boy named Sylvester Crook, al
work for Mr.. r. Bulger. in Hampshire
township, mounted horse to lock around
the fields of Mr.. Bulger, to see that no
cattle were in the grain. Not returning
throug the day it was supposed that he
hid G n to Sc hi at er or some neigh
Dor; but the morning came but still he
did not return. Alarmed now at his alb.
sence, Mr. Bulgcr started out and soon
found that the horse, with saddle and bri.
die. but no rider, had been taken up by a
farmer living near. Search was immedi
ately made around the fields and the boy
found at no great distance from the house,
on the ground, insensible and cold. H
must have been thrown from the horse,
and atr,,ck on h,s haad ond ,;obt ebo,l
der. A violent conclusion of the brain
aud confusion of the shoulder was The re-
suit of the fall. DIR. Thompson was i'm
mediately called, and the boy in "a hours
SO far recovered as 10 recognize his father,
and to ask the doctor what allied him. 1t
Is strange that death did hot Immediately
ensue after such severe fall on the head
and without medical relief. The boy re-.
manned upon the ground from about l /
a. m. Sunday until s O'Clock Monday
mornipg-[Lyons Mirror.