The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1864-04-12
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week, 2,842 immigrants landed q Cast
Gardon, and the number OF arrivals f
the veek promises to excel I'll president
The police of New York city hav
contfibated 10 the Metropolitan Fair th
munifcent sum Of 81, 900, and the none,
is in the hands Of the Treasurer.
The title OF Charles Dickens new
novel is at last announced. He calls j
"Our Mutual Friend" @
--Tunneling is the order Of the aQe
The Albanians are sealously advocatin,
the construction Of tunnel under th,
Hudson, instead Of bridge osWit Tn
Wing contends that such tunnel coult
be built In year, and that the adyan
tages it would possess osef bridge
should demand the attention Of all The
taxpayers.
Scarlet fever has prevailed so extern
sively insStoniogton, Groton, Ledyard and
North Stonington, Conn, during the pas,
two or three months, thst tAe sehecia had
to be closed. -
An Irish woman produced thfee
living female infants in Danbury. Conn. ;,
Sunday. sgago 49,
-Bierstadt, the artist, has been put ia
charge Of the Indian Department of the
great Metropolitan Fair. He has pro-
cured fourteen men and women belonging
to the tribes forming the celebrated Six
Nations. They will do the war dances,
etc., in his division.
Butter is dispensed with By many
Boston families, on account Of its high
price.
Assistant Quartermaster Rush is to
hire 5000 wood-choppers to cut wood for
the Government on the Mississippi.
Right Rev. Bishop Brownell, of Hart.
ford, Ct, is seriously i'll with inflammato.
ry rheumatism. He 10 now over eighty
years old.
Fifty German recruits arrived in
Boston, having been secured in Germany
by Boston agent. Fifteen hundred
more have been secured to fll Massachu.
aetts' quota.
During the quarter just closed, the
number of three cent stamps sold at the
New York Post Office was two million
and FIVE hundred Thousand, an increase of
one million on the returns Of the previous
quarter. The business Of the Office in al
its departments has increased in q simi.
lar proportion. Among the numerous ar.
ticles awaiting their owners at the ONCE
are black silk aprons, wooden shirts, and
bundles of tobacco.
- The Hon. Ralph Gordon Milbanks.
commonly called Viscount Ockham, only
surviving son of William, Earl Of Love-
lace, has established before the House of
Lords, sitting as Committee Of Privi.
leges, his claim to the honor and dignity
OF Lord Wentworth. The viscounty of
Wentworth descended in 1856 to Anne
Isabelle Nosl, the wife Of Lord Byron,
whose daughter Augusta Ada Byron had
married in 1886 Lord King, since created
Earl of Lovelace.
The London Court journal, in motto.
ing Sala's vulgar and snobbish letter about
his interview with Mr.. and Mrs. Lincoln,
at the White House, criticises him severe
ly, and asks what Sala would think and
write Of an American who should describe
in the same offensive way his presentation
to Queen Victoria.
About two Thousand dollars has bsen |
raised in New York for the benefit of suf |
ferers by the famine in Portugal.
The Maine Legislature have defined
"the Lords day" to extend legally from
midnight Saturday to midnight Sunday. |
"a Londoner has invented pocket
map Of two pieces of paper. thirteen inches
by five, and giving complete map ter
restial and celestial.
The Canadian post Office department
was self-sustaining last year for the first
time. 80
The Ohio Senate has passed bill |
prohibiting ihs paEsia sf .6sss psssins.
Victor Hugo receives SIC, 900 for
the copyright of the first edition Of his
work on Shakespeare, which is to be ready
in time for the tereentenary celebraeioa.
A trial of some interest to the medi.
cal profession has taken place before the
Police Court at Paris. A physician Ass
prosecuted for having divulged the nature /,
of his clients disease, and thus injured his |
character. The court found the physician |
guilty, and sentenced him to imprison-
ment for one year, to pay q fine Of 6O0f.
to be placed for Eve years under the %,
veillance of the police, and 10 paw .,ha
costs OF trial. The Judgment Of this y ,urt
added further, s'that inssmuch as By thus
divulging the nature Of his disee = il
causedth complainant an injury fos which
compensation is due to him, the tribunal
moreover. condemns the accu 4ad to pay
the prosecutor sum Of 1000f, dana oes
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