The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1864-01-28
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
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- Slsps in the face are valued at SLOT
each at New York.
- Fifty towns in Massachusetts, have
filed their quotas under the last call.
John Brown Wise is the name of a
contraband lately born in Virginia.
80 Henry Ward Beecher coils the Lon-
don Times the common sewer of the Brit
ish aristocracy.
The losses by the Duane street FIRE i,
New York, . short time since, amounted
to $4,000.
The Second Massachusetts, regiment
has re-enlisted, and was at Louisville on
the I4th, on its way home.
- There is bill before the New York
Legislature to compel the Harlem Rail-
road to carry milk for the farmers cheaper.
-B. G. Harris, member Of Congress
from Maryland, has not died Of small pox
as reported. Another Harris died, which
led to the mistake.
The pirste Semmes has written
pions epistle to his wife, declaring that
he has . schooled" himself 10 endure the
trials of a roser's life like IA Christian
philosopher
= The whole number of cents coined
at the PhiIadelphia mint last year was,
81, $50. 600, so an exchange says. But
where are they ali
- There is letter in the Bridgeport,
Conn., post Office addressed to "the hon
estest attorney or counsellor at law"
None of the lawyers there dare claim it.
An eating-house keeper at Boston
has sent some New Brunswick oysters 10
Queen Victoria. She sends a thank you
and don't care if you do so some more.
The Kentucky jails are filed with
fugitive slaves from Tennessee and other
States, advertised to be sold for jail fees,
according TO Kentucky laws. The Presi-
dent is asked to interfere in their behalf.
- Boole. the City Inspector Of New
York, has turned out Of Office Mr. Carr,
Superintendent Of Sanitary Inspection,
who latelY exposed the corruption in
Booze s department.
= Sixty rebel prisoners, belonging to
Kentucky and West Virginia, have Just
passed through Baltimore on their way
home, having taken the oath of allie glance
to our government.
BosroS AND LIVERPOOL STEAMERS
At the annual meeting Of the Boston
Board Of Trade, the President urged
raising the money for four first class
screw steamers Of $500 tons burthen each,
TO convey freight and few frs. class
passengers between Boston and Liver
pool. The sum of 8 700. 900 is required
= Humphrey Ayres, an employee of
the Washington Post Office has been ar.
rested and held to bail in the sum OF So
900, for opening a letter containing a
promissory note, Treasury warrant and
other valuable papers.
- The message Of the Governor of
Ohio estimates the total cost of the Nor
gan raid in that State at $685., 900 This
includes tho value Of the property ear
ried away or destroyed by the rebel rough
riders, and the cost Of catching and lm-
prisonlng Them afterwards.
The rebel navy has about one sea-
man and three sevenths 10 every officer,
there being STA officers and s07 sesnen.
Discipline ough; to be high.
The English papers state that in the
terrible gale which swept over the coast
early in December, fifteen coal laden yes-
sells, bound from the north eastern ports
of London, foundered, and all hands,
about l30 men and boys, pcrished with
them. Thirteen fishing smscks on the
Norfolk coast were also lost, carrying
down with them lg0 fishermen, who
leave FIVE hundred widows aud orphans.
= Hospital flags are hence.orth to be
made of yellow bunting. with large
green letter Ii in the centre, and .ambu-
lance flags and medical guidons are to be
Of yellow bunting, with broad green
border.
The st. Joseph Mich Traveller
says the general opinion among their we'll
informed men is that the vast numbers OF
fruit trees planted in that city have not
been injured, and what is better still, the
prospect for good crop Of fruit the
coming season is very fattering.
RICHES. - Misery assails riches, as
lightning does the highest towers or as
a tree that is heavy laden with fruit
breaks its own boughs, so do riches de-
stroy the virtue of their possessor.
We should, in the great sea of the
world, rise like living man suimming,
a nd x,af Lie dro.u., "a -. = L.