The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1864-03-09
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Candidate for Mayor in Utica. gll
-Mazzini has been indicted as an &C
complete in the late plot against the lif
of Napoleon.
-Seamon Simons, who was to have
been hung at Bath next month for muir
der, hung himself in jail few day.
since.
The saying of White Mountain
stage-driyer to New Yorker sitting with
him, ~ 'spose if went to York should
gawk round just as you folks do here,
was not bad
Mrs. Patterson Allen, whose exami.
nation at Richmond, Va, was mentioned
by us some time ago, has been fully com.
mitted for trial as traitor to the "Cou.
federacy." ne
The census of Upper and Lower
Canada, which has just been taken, give.
the following result; Upper Canada, l.
$50, i69; Lower Canada, LILO, 664-to-
tai, 2,506,735.
john Hayden, who died in New
Bedford this week, was captured by the
British in the war of 1919, and confined
in the Dartmouth prison for three years
and half
The Washington Republican OF
Monday, says: "Hon. E. b. Washburne
received dispatch from Illinois op Sat-
urday, stating that two of his children
are ill with diptheria
According to the Mobile Tribune. a
correspondent of the London Herald is
now in place "where the dogs won't
bark at him. for putting his hands into
the pockets of a gentleman
"A strange disease has attacked the
clans on all the shores in Narragansett
Bay, and persons have been made sick
from eating them. There is bitterness
about them which renders them unpala-
table.
Mr.. Bennett. the delegate from Colo
RADIO, is endeavoring to obtain the passage
OF law TO prevent the wanton aud useless
destruction of buffaloes, which are killed
by thousands out of mere sport, and left
TO rot on the plains,
"A genuine mermaid, brought from
Japan, is one of the features of the cabi-
net of curiositles at the Brooklyn Fair
But it is said to be not half SO attractive
as the sirens who surround the tables.
1t is said that the best remedy for
frosted flesh is Indian meal, mixed with
cold water or milk, applied literally as
soon as the injury is discovered, and kept
on till the Inflammation is subdued.
"A Danbury Conn 1rishman had
a somewhat varied experience last week.
He was married on Tuesday, went to Jail
on Wednesday, but got out, and on
Thursday was run over by wagon and
instantly killed.
The armor plates for the iron clad
Dunderberg now manufacturing by the
Nashua New hampshire Iron Company,
are four and three-quarter inches thick,
and have been subjected to severe test
at the short distance Of fifty feet
A wealthy but ignorant farmer, in a
recent town meeting not far from Bridge
port, Conn, moved with great dignity
that "this meeting do now adjourn ipse
dixit' The motion was amended BY ad-
ding "E Pluribus Unum," and unani-
mously carried.
The New York Herald says of the
"great metropolis, that the history of the
crimes committed 10 this city would shock
congregation in Pandemonium. On the
whole, till things mend, country mer-
chants had better think twice before 90.
ing there, unless they are iron-clad.
"A correspondent of the lowell
Courier. who is travelling in the Depart
ment Virginia, says musician informed
him that the Colonel of a regiment to
Which he was attached, sent his band one
night to serenade dwelling where resi-
ded one or two rebel women. and that the
band received special instructions not to
play any national airs
Two men, one OF whom was named
Early. were arrested in North Bridgewa-
ter, Mass, for drunkenness, and placed in
the lookup, small brick building, little
distance from any house, for safe keeping
Late in the evening they were hesrd to
make noise, but this was nothing unusa-
al, and no notice was taken of it, Subse-
quently it was discovered they had sci
ire to their bedding and had smothered
to death.
Two girls employed as domestics at
kePpler's Hotel, Newark, N. j., were
found dead in their beds last Sunday morn
ing. How they met their deaths nobody
could determine. There we're no MARKS
OF violence about them. The physieians
who made post morton examination,
thought that death was caused by inhalinp
carbonic acid gas or charcoal vapor. But
nobody knew of their having FIRE in tho
room and there was NO appearance 81
their having been one, when the bodies
We're found