The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1864-04-29

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'eh6s9s $50 pr dky fof boitd.
livery plantation from New Orlsaps
70 Baton Rouge L nov il process Of ops.
ration.
"a msA in Albany gave $500 piano
TO the Sanitary Pair, took 0as ticket hin-
self in tho lottery and got the piano.
The Boston Post says: Count &C.
ruWski IL lb0ut 10 perform two bold OK.
plots, viz: get married and starta sevs-
papsr. 80 E rs
--6svsal pessons have bsen admitted
into the Scotch Insane Asyluns, whose
Insanity vas isdsesd b. reading ssasatiea
novels.
There are fifteen theussd petitions
in circulation, issued BY the Wonan's
Loyal League, praying Congress to abolish
slavery.
The New York Central Railway
Company has for the last two years been
replacing its wooden freight cars, as they
wear out with iron ones.
--Nanchester, N. H., i going to make
= strong effort to get the capital away
from Concord at the June session Of the
Legislature.
The woman Who makes the best shirt
for the St. Louis Sanitary Fair is to have
prize of $500 in silver ware also $50
in silver ware is offered for the second
best. ~
A man in Portland the other day
signed draft, and forgetting the amount,
which was small, told his bookkeeper to
fill it up At the bank. The bookkeeper
filed up the blank with 5000 and de-
camped.
"A Copperhead exchange, clarifying
Nc iellan. says: Under him the army
Of the Potomac 6sst felt tho sern realities
Of war; Which, considering that vAils
under his command they wers mostly oc-
eapisd in sitaing down, vs ceasidss .
felicitous expression 1.-THE Pree South.
The Troy Times says that .sGssersl
Fremont, no matter what sewspaper cor
respondents ssy about him, viii not run
against the regular nominee Of the Union
Convention
-John P. Kennedy. the friend OF
Henry Clay. aud the leader Of the Whig
party il Mary land ia the Days Of lis glory,
has published letter ID lavor Of eman-
cipation and in advocacy Of the reelection
Of Mr.. Lincola to the Presidency.
"A workman in Paris has succeeded
IN makiag barrels without hoops a. sslid
a. the best hoopsd barrels 10 the world.
The discovery. which bas been desids-
nium for some three Thousand yeax, Il
nov undergoing exsninasion before the
Academy Of La Rochelle.
| The Atlantic Telegraph Company has
definitely accepted the tender OF Me.srs.
Glass Elliot 4 Co.. to hay the cable in the
summer Of 1855 In cas- Of success, the
net revenue Ut The company is estimsted
at about 81. 100. 900 per year.
1t vas admitted in . recent debate ia
the House of Commons that during the
last ten years Ireland has lost two aad .
half millions Of its population, and tba1
The exodus il still going on 1t the rate Of
one hundred aud twenty thousand per
tannum.
~ girl in Webster, Macs, who had
been told that eruptions upon her face
might be cured BY the use Of lime water,
drank half pint Of wat4r in which .
lump Of lime had been slackened. Her
throat and stomach we're horribly bursed,
and her life was saved only By timely
medical aid.
"A soldier girl named Elizabeth Price
was before the Provost Marshal Of Louis
vile. the other day. Ehe il twenty -ooe
years old, came from Cincinnati, has
served two years in tho Geld. in an Ohio
regiment, followed her lover, and has now
ssen enough Of the war and wants to 90
home. $50
"A Portland paper states . singular
fact in connection with the Losses Of
steamships belonging 70 the Montreal
limo. 1t seems that 10 every Instance The
vessel thas has taken back 70 Liverpool
tho effects of wrecked steamer Of this
line. hss been the next in succession to
become victim
AT the Mississippi Valley Sanitary
Fair in st. Louis, it u proposed to have !
civic crown coating Eve hundred dollars,
to be presented to the man who shall re-
ceive the greatest number Of votes for the
Presidency Of the United Ssatss-shs
polls to be opened ct ono dollar for each
vote.
"A rafs vas recently discovered to 30
on IRE while passing down the Basque
hasna river. Persons from The doe
fiaAily reached il. when they found thrse
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