The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1864-11-10

Colonel Berdan's new rife Vas tried
near Utica recently. The distance vas
1000 yards; target six feet in diameter.
or regulation size. Colonel Berdan 40
complished what 10 ascertained to be the
best shooting on record. Soon after the
trial commenced he hit the "bull's eye"
four times in succession; then missed it |
by tride the fifth, and hit it again the
elk h.
The Indian troubles on the plains
having now nearly subsidized, the gold
shipments are now coming along regu
larry. The Black Hawk Gold Mining
Company have received at their Office in
New York during October about eleven
hundrea ounces Of gold. realizing over
forty thousand dollars
Last week a tenement house at New
Platz, Ulster county, New York. was
burned, and three children that had been
locked 10 room during the temporary
absence of their parents, persisted io the
flames.
This is the way to say goodbye 10
Japan to prince You advance, take
one of his hands in both yours, say in
whisper TO him some words, which he an
swers, then you and he withdraw, and
kiss each of you his own hand, then you
take his hand again, whisper again, then
you kiss his hand, and the thing is
done.'
The Swedish journals are all clsmor-
ing for the abolition of capital punishment
IN that country. 1t grew out of a recent
execution at Stockholm.
Nearly two hundred of the streets in
Paris are to be changed.
"A rebel officer writes from Charles
ton: 1--WE have all the liquor we can
drink for ninety FIVE dollars per gallon.
or two dollars per drink"
The cuougo. small Mexican insect,
promises to take position in the world,
position in ladies' hair, for an ornament.
tits said to possess wonderful qualities,
beauty OF color and lustre dazzling
even the diamond, and as varying in
bright hues
There is squirrel club in Rockville.
Mass. and every year they have grand
hunt. This year they killed $500 SOUR
rels. The fur is valuable now.
The Sunday School statistics of the
Methodist Episcopal Church Of California
and Nevada Territory show 6,l6a schol-
ars, $50 teachers and 27,5l2 volumes in
the various libraries
"A periodical which busies itself y it'll
heraldry gives the following as the arms
of the principal Italian cities: Naples, a
siren; Rome, she wolf; Florence, a lily;
Modena and Plscentia. cross; Venice. a
lion; Turin, ball The arms of Sicily
are head with three legs. an alIusiou
probably to her three capes-Triuacria.
A salt lake has been struck near
Grand Rapids. Mich, at seven hundred
feet from the SUFFICE, and the people in
the neighborhocd are ecsta,ic about it.
A family by the name Of Holt. in
New York, looking over ancestral records
for the sake of publishing a genealogy of
the family. have discovered that they are
heirs to an estaie of thirteen millions
sterling in England.
The Manchester print works have
made during the year $4,000. 900 wards
OF delaines and print cloths, and SIS OCO
dozen of hosiery, equal to I, 954 mile, of
cloth. or 20 miles daily.
Two New York newsboys have inst
started Tor Europe with two thousand dol.
lars each, and propose to set up in bust.
ness when they get across the water
Their thrift is owing to the good influence
of the Newsboy's House. :
"A young man who has recently t.tsn
wife, says he did not ind il half so hard
TO get married as he did to Get the furn;. |
tore, and when it came to getting broad |
and butter he bad to fall back ON the ola
folks. '' 0'u
The Davenport Gazette saws Major
Tenbrock, In charge of the military dc
trlct of Iowa, has been ordered 10 yenor,
TO Gen. Smith at keokuk, with view If
taxing measures to defend the border from,
any more raids from the guerrilas of
Missouri. "
The new long bridge over the Po,o.
mac, near Washington, which was com.
menced in June, 1868, is Just comnleted
at a cost Of $4,000. il connects 80.
Orange < Alexandria with the Bsl,;ma,o
q Ohio Railroad in one continuous H.
Its length is 5.lo4 feet, and has goa snans
and two draws OF SO feet each.
An elderly lady recently entered one
OF the principal dry goods sto,ss ~
Springfield, Mass, and asked TO be show
some goods for child's dress. The ela,l
IN attendance displayed the fasbionah,a
goods Tor childreus' wear, blu. ,bess no,
pos'os satisfactory, the clerk. to be .
Il sa .ha IN bis selection inquired the ace
u me, .ue chlld. "About thirty" was the
innocent reply. ""' Tue
,,-m.. ye,emy Taylor says it takes wider
garment TO cover some peoples sins
Wonder if that led to tho 49,: sins -