The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1864-02-25
KEOKUK:
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2s.


0DN1RA1 N1W0 y1Nnns
Photographic pictpro aro nov trans
ferred to china-wars VIZ crest ssocssd.
Hampton Pennington, u Madewsy
county, has been released from Gntios
street Rrisosy &. .kosis, - eaAh sad
bond Of Sl,OO0.
"A New York milliner obtained $500
damages the other day, for abusive lam
guage from q gentleuans who's vife's
skating cap she bad mot trimmed satisfae-
torily. 8,
The claims for pensions already fled
by widows and mothers 81 deceased ed.
diers excseds one hundred and fifty thos-
sand.
-Missouris quota of troops, to be
filled by the draft, is estimated at 22,-
526, from which the recruits enlisted
since October 18th, 1868, will be de-
Quoted. re ~
There is a project on foot in Dublin.
TO carry passengers in a street railway,
to run on an ornamental viaduct. the
arches Of which are to be made available
as warehouses.
Mr.. Merrs's celebrated horse Buck
stone. has been sold in England for four
thousand FIVE hundred pounds sterling
(S22.500, he is to go to China.
A new mineral has been discovered
in Australia It resembles that known
as sapphirine, and it is harder than topaz.
which it scratches. 1t will be princi.
pally useful to the lapidary in polishing
other stones.
"A Wilmington paper confesses that
the bombardment of Charleston is doing a
good deal of damage. especially in Broad
street. For want Of coal the Charleston
gasworks have stopped. A general i'm
pressment of negroes, free and slave, is
going on 10 the beleaguered city.
Raw cotton and castor oil have re.
stored frostbitten limbs when amputa-
ton was thought to be necessary TO pre-
serve life. The cure is said to be infalli-
Bile.
The Louisville Journal says: "There
is said to be a couple in Jacksonville
who have been engaged to be married for
the past FIVE years, but no time has occur
red within that period when they were
both out of the State Prison at the same
time
The English postal law system will
probably be adopted in our country this
spring. II so. you will be able to send
from SO to $50 anywhere BY mail. with
out the risk of its being stolen on the
way.
"A deserter from Prices army. who
arrived in Cairo on the l4th inst, stated
that no knowledge Of the Presidents am
nesty proclamation existed among Prices
men, and expressed the opinion that IS
soon as they have a knowledge of its con-
ditions there will soon be little left of his
army.
The resolutions recommending the
reelection Of President Lincoln passed
the Minnesota House Of Representatives
by vote of 3 to 10, excepting the last
which expressly dominates him, on which
the vote stood 26 to l6.
The laws of France punish with q
fine of FIVE hundred francs any person who
incioses bank note in q common letter,
on the ground that thereby the post-ofhce
carriers are exposed to undue temptation
Two or three instances of this have al.
ready occurred, and the fine was not re.
mitted.
A Paris journal computes the popu.
lation of the globe at one thousand mil.
lion, speaking three thousand and sixty.
FIVE languages, and having eleven hun.
dred different forms of religion.
The new Territory of Idaho, which
comprises the western portion of Nebras.
ka is twice as large as Oregon and Cali.
fornia, and as large as Illinois, Indiana
Ohio. Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabam.
and Georgia combined.
The indictment. against George Jones
"Count Johonnes." for barrairy. wa.
placed on file in the superior crimna
court at Boston, on Thursday, Georg.
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any more.
Harry Mccarthy, the "Arkansal
comedian" the man of many parts ane
infinite jest, the versatile singer and per
senator Of character, died near Atlanta
Georgia. few days ago.
The library Of Congress contains
$4,000 volumes, and during the last sixty
years, S343, 900 have been expended OF
the purchase of books. By law, copy O
every book published in this countr,
must be deposited in this library.
The Gloucester Massachusetts, Ad
vertiser says that small lot Of hallibut
the first of the season, arrived there iron
the Western Bank, and sold at thirteen
cents pound-thc highest price ever oh
tanned by the fishermen for this descrip
ton Of fish.
The Montreal Witness asks for
scientific explanation of the fact that tbi