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



We learn from the Clinton Herald thu
train consisting of seven cars, Ind con
tanning one hundred and thirty families
passed through that piace On Sunday
morning last enroute for Yankton. Dakots
Territory. They were from Syracuse,
New York, and are emigratiug west IS .
colony.
The Board of Supervisors OF Buch-
snan county have ordered special cleo
ton for the people to determine ~hether
the county shall borrow five thousand
dollars to repair, in part, the loss occar
stoned By the late robbery Of the treasury.
The Daseaport Gasstse Gays . ~
WAS smashed on one of the piers of the
railroad bridge, on Saturday. This il the
first casualty Of the kind this season.
Iowa SOLDIER DRowskD.-Thc Chica-
go Journal is informed By correspond
ent at Quincy, Ill.,, that on the evening of
the 2oth, as the steamer Canada was
rounding to land, young man fell over
board and was drowned. We learn that
it is supposed to be s. A. Calvert, Of
Washington, Iowa. No effort has been
made to recover the body Of the young
man. The boat had on board the 18th
Iowa Infantry.
ACCIDENT AT VIsroN.-DuriDg the
firing of cannon at Vintop, last week, in
honor of the returned veterans, 3 prema-
ture discharge took place, seriously in
jurilg Alexander Shields and Samuel
Bysong. The former, it is feared, will
lose his eyesight. and probably his life.
The ladies of Marengo gave supper
to the returned veteran soldiers of Ma
rengo and vicinity on Tuesday evening
last.
S. B. St. John, formerly proprietor
of the Abba House, in Abba, Monroe
county, has purchased the principal hotel
In Charlton, Lucas county, and will take
possession in few days. So says the
Abba Union.
The United States District Court did
not commence its session in Dubuque on
the 10th, owing to the non arrival of
Judge Love.
The ELEvRSTH.-The furloueh of this
gallan. veteran regiment having expired,
it lett this moYlng By rail on It's return
TO the South, under command Of Colonel
Hall. The Eleventh Numbers about four
hundred efficient men who are very anxi- |
Gus to-get back to the field Davenport
News, 18th.
FArALLY BUasEp.-Lass Wednesday
afternoon about FIVE o'clock, little child, |
Martha Emma, aged years, the daughter
Of Mr.. Francis Ogsbury, met with a |
dreadful and fatal accident. She was at
neighbours, with another child or chill
dren, when playmate built FIRE in the |
street and by it her clothing caught fire.
She ran up bank before discovered, and |
wss SO terribly burned that death ensued
at ls o'clock Thursday night. While |
the child was flying in agony and terror,
the flames eDcircled her to the height of |
six feet; and her sufferings we're intense |
for the thirty one hours she survived
Every possible effort to alleviate was made |
which affection could prompt or skill de-
wise.
The little boy who was the unwilling
cause OF the death was overwhelmed with |
grief, and nothing could soften his sor-
rows at the occurrence,
The stricken parents receive the sym
pathy of all in their dreadful calamity.
A MODEL FAax.-About the finest
farm in this region of country is cultivat-
ed by woman-Mrs. Boone, widow OF
Davis Boone, OF Boone township. Dallas
county. She cultivates $50 acres, has
lao head of cattle, 200 sheep, 100 hogs,
10 or e horses. She will have this year
lao acres of corn, 5 acres Of wheat, 80
acres of oats and 80 acres OF timothy
There is good orchard upon the farm,
and garden and shrubbery in good order
and cultivated tastefully. Mrs. Boone
has one son and Eve daughters at home,
but the son has farm of his own to
manage. and the mother takes the active
responsible charge Of her own acres. Her
agricultural handiwork will compare with
that OF the other gender in Dallas county
or anywhere else. All this shows that
while female culture sometimes teaches
that attending operas and cultivsting the
affections of poodle-dogs Cts ladies for
the companlonsbip of husband, there can
be style of female husbandry of another
sort. II not OF more beauty, of great deal
more practical utility.
FRESH AIR IN THE CHURCHES.