The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1864-10-19
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

-The journeyman tailors of New Yorl
have struck, and the merchant tailors Soy
they will no longer be dictated TO BY The
Tailors' Protective Union. Meanwhile
customers are waiting for further decline
in the prices of clothing, and business il
at stand. m
According to official documents there
were last year Is, las assaults on women
committed in England and Wales, for
which the parties were charged Before the
magistrate.
Lord Brougham completed his Seth
year three weeks ago Monday. His
Lordship was born on the 18th day Of
September, l778.
The Democrats have tried TO make
capital out of the late political riot at st
Louis, but an Investigation by General
Rosecraus shows that it was begun By the
Copperheads throwing stones at soldiers
and calling them towards. General Rose
Grams advises both parties to keep cool.
The iron men Of Troy, N. Y, made
further reduction OF $40 a ton 10 the
pce of iron on Monday. This makes q
total decrease OF $50 from the highest
price of the article.
There is a chestnut tree 10 North
Ferry street, N. Y. in full bloom, the
blossoms being as large and numerous as
though 1t were summer. 1t is regarded
as quite curiosity.
On the eth ullimo Noah Glass, .
Deputy Provost Marshal, was shot and
killed n Adams county, Indiana, while
engaged in notifying eonscrp,s that they
were drafted. He received four balls 10
his body, and died instantly.
The Assessors of the city of Chicago
have completed their isbors, and the as
sessment Tor the whole city foots up S48,-
497 923, against S42. 657 1875 for the year
1863
President Lincoln las put repre-
sentative recruit into the army. j. s
Staples, of Sroudsburg, Monroe county,
Pehnsy lvania, was the man selected to
bear the Presidential musket.
The Commissioner of Internal Reye.
nue. has decided that petitions for the pro-
bate OF a will or for the appointment Of
administrators are not chargeable with
stamp duty. The decision is of import
aHce, as we understand thers has been q
difference of practice in different coun-
ties.
The White Mountains have been
capped with snow several times during
the past fortnight. and have presented
magnificent appearance from the valleys.
The melting snow has filed the noun
tain streams so that they are really crys-
tai cascades.
-The Swedish journals publish
statement TO the effect that whooping
cough. can be cured by iphaliDg the air
from the purifying apparatus in gas works.
The practice of sending children 10 gas
works 20 inhale tho gas from newly open
ed purifiers has been adopted in Paris for
two years past.
The New York correspondent. of the
Lond)n Tunes saysi
"M cClellaD's chances for the presiden-
cy ar better than those OF any other can
dldste He is understood to have ex-
planned away some passages in recent
speech, which, ordinarily, conveyed the
impression that he was in favor of war
for the 'extirpatiou' of slavery, aud to
have otherwise made himself more accept
eble than formerly to that great wing of
the Democratic party whose whole sympa-
thies are with the South"
The following is an epitapb upon
celebrated strategsi who fell with the fall
of Atlanta:
al his head worn cut spade;
Az his feet Broken pitcher
Herr. In his last ditch" Il laid
Mae, the everlasting ditcher.