The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1864-01-05
as1sHRAx NEWS ITEMS.

Centre.
The son Of New Zealand chief has
just been christened in Tottenham, Eng
land. The name bestowed upon the
child was Albert Vicor Pomore, and the
godmother (by proxy Queen victoria.
Samuel Stevenson, . Kentucky
"gentleman" of wealth and leisure, died
in Washington on last Tuesday morning,
from the effects, it is thought, of slang-
shot blow, which he received in the yard
connected with house Of ill-fame.
"A correspondent ofa Western paper
reports that Senator Jim Lane was seri.
ously exercised At the failure Of the House
TO re-elect Mr.. Stockton. He was good
old man, he said-a pure, sanity old man,
"and besides. sir, he repeats the Lords
Prayer every morning, and before the end
Of this Congress he would have kept it up
till some of these members would have
learned it p
Two balloonists who recently took
balloon ride by moonlight at Springfield,
say the moon looked nearly FIVE times A.
large as from the earth, and made the
clouds appear like immense mountains OF
snow.
John W. Dobbins, Who was convict
cd, . week or two ago. in Dayton, Ohio,
for killing = man named Lindenmuth,
was sentenced on last Thursday to be
hung on Thursday, January asth, 1864.
The Pension Bill, passed by the
House of Representatives, appropriates
81, 600, 900 for invalids, and $4,000, 900
for al other pensions under the various
acts from July 4th, 1885, to July 14tb,
1869, the aggregate being 81, 200, 900 for
the years 1854 IS.
The versatile New York Herald
which some time since nominated Geo.
B. Mcclellan for the Presidency, and af-
terwards Mr. Lincoln for reelection, now
sees in Gen. Grant the proper person
Who next?
The star Of fashion in Chicago is
Canadian half breed She is said to be
surprisingly beautiful, and is the petted
and idolired wife of rich man, who took
her when little child from her mothers
lodge, had her educated in convent, and
for q time set all Chicago Wild with his
lovely foreign bride.
AT Commodore and Mrs Vanderbit's
celebration Of their golden wedding, on
the 18th, there was a profusiou Of golden
presents. The Commodore's gift to his
matron bride was 4 miniature propeller of
pure gold, fashioned after the Roanoke.
twenty inches long and FIVE wide, with
revolving towers, which filled the room
With music whenever the delicate ma
chinery was set in motion.
There are 100000 men on the army
rolls, and the Government is paying
officers enough to take charge of AGO.
600.
In Thibet they stuff hay among the
branches of the trees, 80 that the sheep
can walk upon the top Of their fifteen fee.
snow drifts and take their fodder
During 1868 there were one hun
dred and seventy-seven fires in Chicago,
causing a loss of $a,9SO, $50, on which
we're insurances to the amount of $780,
TOO.
Among those lost on the Sunnyside
was fortune-teller, who had accumula-
ted $4,000 by telling other peoples for
tunes. She lost it all, together with her
life and her two children, because she
couldn't foretell her own fortune.
They have "Cripples, Union' 10
Brooklyn. The society was organized
last November, and consists only of per-
sons who have lost . limb, or Its perma
nent use, in the service of the United
States. The objects of the society are
benevolent There are already about 2C
members.
The Chicago Tribune publishes lis
Of the disasters on the Western Lake,
during the year 1868. The total numbe
is reported at about three hundred an,
fifty, being about Fifty greater than i,
1869, and seventy FIVE in excess of 1861
The greater portion Of them occurred Of
the st. Clair Flats, as has been the cas-
in former years.
| The famous trotting mare, Californi
Damsel, recently purchased by Senate
Sprague, of Rhode Island, for sll, ,OOC
as present for his bride, has died fror
the bursting of blood vessel. She WI
let out Of the stable in the morning,
apparent good health. and commence
frisking about. when the blood suddenl
Ao~od from her month ard sha 80