The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1864-01-12

city on christmas day for the benefit Of
the Catholic orphans.
Among the novelties of trade il the
receipt of tobacco in the New Orleans
market from the State Of Connecticut.
"A new cathedral is about to be erect
ed in Havana. built wholly of iron, the
estimated cost of which is 81. 100000. /.
--Robt. s. Peck. student Of Yale
College. has been brought before the New
Haven police court on six distinct charges,
three of them for burglary, aud has been
admitted to bail in the sum Of $500.
The Bangor papers state that one
church in that city has recently paid Of
debt Of $4,000, another has cancelled
one of $1,000 and third has some sS,-
600 subscribed toward liquiiating debt
Of $40, 900.
The Tribune says that million of
dollars would be a low estimate of the
amount wsgered On the King and Heenan
fight.
SOLITARY confinement Of prisoners has
been abandoned in the State Prison of
Michigan, on account of the evil conse.
quences attendant upon the punishment,
most Of those so confined quickly becom-
ing hopelessly insane.
The Central Park in New York has
three skating ponds, the largest of which
is twentysix acres in extent. The month
ly attendance mt the park during the
skating season is half million per-
sons
A subscriber to the Pawtucket Ga
zette the other day sent in his yearly sub
scriptiun all iu silver Eve and ten cen,
pieces. They were received with as
constituent, and will be preserved as Gu.
riosities,
A letter from Paris says that the.
work on the Confederate ships at Bordeaux
continues, but under guaranty tlat the
vessels are - be diverted from lheir orig
inal destination.
Hon. :. :. Cox Of Ohio. in a lee
tnrc At WASHINGTON on Monday night,
said there was prevalent idea ttat hu-
NOR was heritage of fat men but be
denied its truth, and cited Doctor Oliver
Wendell Holmes as rirfd proof of the
contrary. ~ = Y-8 ~ 8g gp.$ \.
A soldier was convicted Of burglary
in New Haven on Tuesday and walked
of during the inattentivn Of the Sheriff
without waiting for his seneuee. He ,is
desired to cail for It, as ii Is Of 20 value
TO any ohe but the owner, His name is
Erasmus JansiDg.
Upon the receipt Of the news Of
Grants b late victory 10 Eaelapd, tie rebel
cotton loan fell from 40 and Sd per cent.
down to SO and 50.
AT recent special election for
member Of the Corps Le9isllt.t IN Paris
the Opposition candidate, n. Pellitan.
was elected by a majority Of nearly 5000
over the Government candidate.
The citizens OF Minnesota have put
in claims against the Government TOR
GOO, ,o0O for damages in the Sioux war.
The Government. Commissioners nave al
lowed them 81, $4,000.
-Garibadi appears to be again on the
move. A recent letter OF bis to Victor
Hugo is published, in which he states la
conically that he "wants another million
of muskets for the Italians"
The Charlestonians did't have very
joAy Chris mas. Gen. Gilmore pitched
shells into their city from midnight OF the
eth until dark of the 25th. Over a
hundred fell in the city, and twelve build
ings were set on 6rc and burned
The Washington wooden mills at
Lawrence, Massachusetts, sold goods to
the amount of nearly four million of dol
lars last year, and their profits were $780,,
600, or about fifty per cent. on their capi
tai.
The Duke of Brunswick was lately
robbed by his valet in Paris of go. 900
francs in gold, and diamonds to the
value of nine millions Of francs. The
fellow was arrested just as he was on the
point of mbaIking for England.
The sailors Of the vessels 10 Charles
ton harbor kept Christmas in jolly style,
having been supplied with turkeys and
other seasonabie articles from the North
On board the Wabash there was musical
entertainments in the evening.
The custom Of employing ladies as
clerks in the public departments a, Wash
ington Is meeting with increased favor
1t is said that, generally speaking, they
write more correctly than the meu. and
as they receive much smaller salaries,
the gain for the Government is considefa-
BILE.
"A paragraph is going the rounds Of
the papers purporting that the hospital
statistics demonstrate that men over
thirty-fve years of sge have mere endur-
ance than younger men. Won't all the
venerables be glad to be convinced that
it is true? s4
"A man at Yellow Springs, Ohio,
Hezekiah Monroe, who has wife and
five children, lately killed a girl (sister of
his wife) because she was going to marry
another man. and then attempted to cut
his own throat He is now in jail in Xenia.
1t was pure case Of praetica! free love,
!