The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1864-06-29
THE GATE CITY
WEDNESDAY. JUNE 20.


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-Aadsme Anna Bishop will Rfss
concert in Davenport about the 18th b
July. ag sE1~a 325xaSuS
DnowNED.-A soa Of Mr.. jacob Hunt
of LeClaire, aged l2 years, IVES drowned
lately at that place while playing with
other boys. He expressed desermsnA.
ton to learn to swim, and jumped from /
raft into the river. for that purpose, bal
he Immediately sunk, and althoagn biz
body was recovered in few minutes, life
was extinct. Another example Of the h.
tai consequences of boyish imprudsne in
playing in the river. Boys, learn to
swim, but don't commence it unless you
have some person At hand to watch you
and assist you if necessary. We learn
from the Davenport Gazette. ssase3
The Davenporters were blessed with
fine rain Saturday.
The hospitals Of Camp Mcclellan
and Kinsman, at Davenport, are in par
ticularly nea. and we'll ordered condition,
So says the Gazette.
Col. Edward Hatch, I'd Iowa, has
been confirmed as Brigadier General Of
Volunteers from April 80, 1864.
-Muscatine county shipped, Saturday,
four convicts to be landed ut Fort Madi-
son. and consigned to the inviting retreat
offered by the State Penitsntisry.
The stable of Cyrus Hawley. in Mus
catine, was struck by lightning and con.
sumed Saturday. >
There was slight smash up Of cars
on the railroad between Muscatine and
Washington Saturday morning. Ssveral
cars were considerably damaged, but no.
body seriously hurt.
The Muscaline Journal says there is
some danger of that city becoming an in
land point, by the channel flowing to the
opposite side of the river, and that it is
becoming difficult for steamboats, to reach
the landing in low water at the Muscatine
levee.
We CLEAN the above Muscatiue items
from the Journal. Ap
The Davenport Democrat says wheat
is ripening fast and harvesting will CON-
mence Immediately after the 4th, and the
largest crops ever harvested in Scott coun.
ty will be harvested.
A disinterested patriot. known as
substitute broker, and from the goodly
city of Goshen, turned his face westward |
and brought up in Davenport the other
day, and commenced working upon the
soldiers in the veteran reserve corps, evi. |
IDENTIFY intending to make a good thing of |
it. The authorities got TO hear of it, and |
the gentleman was informed that he might |
go. Didn't have any idea out in our
country of sending men to save New York |
from the draft. We learn from the Dem.
ocrat.
The Davenport Democrat gets off |
the following:
RATHER RIcH.-In one of our churches !
last Sabbath morning, before service had |
commenced, the worthy parson was the
subject of hearty congratulation among |
his Pensioners, on account Of the fact |
that the day previous he had become the
father, for the first time, of "precious
baby" These friendly greetings we're
most heartily acknowledged, and as
matter of course, in view Of the happy |
event, the audience expected sermon
Astounding in joyfulness and thanksgiv-
ing. but their astonishment can be better |
imagined than described, upon their min
listers entering the pulpit and announcing |
the doleful text: sob, scretcAed Dsaa that |
Idmp'
1t is said that even among the most
devout, an extraordinary effort was re-
CURED to keep the facial muscles from
twitching sober eountenances into an au-
dible Grin |