The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1864-04-26
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settlers Of Clayton county, died recent.
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The Davenport Gazette ssysx Qep3ail
RIM. Littlef, for sbnie months past ssA
toned at Camp Morton, Indianapolis, ha'
been ordered to Washington for some scr
of promotion. .~r ..x<n
Col. Geo. Il. Spencer, of this Stats
has authority to raise . brigade of volun
teers in Alabama, and has gone 70 worl
earnestly 70 that end. bogAYs tte = tSsal
Gala. J Volunteer.
The Wintsust Hawk Rye Flag say,
the disease called spotted fever is aba.ine
in this vicinity, only four eases, tBrse Of
them fatal, having been reported during
the past week.
The Cedar Falls Gazette says Pstel
Melendy OF that place has three American
Swans, obtsined west oft. Dodge, which
are to be forwsrdedto the Supe rintendens
of the Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincin.
natl.
"A collection was taken up among the
several congregations in Dat. Pleasant,
last week, for the benefit of the colored
Freedmen of the North.-[Des Moines
Register. t1 q
John Burns and James Mccain were
recently arrested for illegal voting at the
last election in Iowa City. They were
not residents, but t'took the OATH" After
examination they were held to bail in the
sum of 5000 each.
SEDUcTIoN.-The Davenport Gazette
exposes the svillainy Of C. H. Berryhill, a
wealthy libertine oil Iowa City, who Sc
duced girl employed in one Of the hotels
at that place, and after she became en-
cisnte sent her to Davenport to procure
abortion. The facts involve certain other
wel-known parties at Iowa City and
Davenport In manner not ID the least
creditable to them. They should all re-
ceive the punishment they justly merit.
LOUISA CouNrY. - The Presbytery
of Iowa at its recent meeting held in
Wapelio, passed series of resolutions,
anu among them one regarding slavery as
the cause Of the war and "prayiug that
treason and slavery may. be buried to-
gether, TO sleep m eternA sleep. Dav.
Gazette.
A lady Of Iowa City on her way home
from payer meeting last Thursday night,
was assaulted by soldier under the in.
fuenoe of bad whiskey or ''coal H.
Her outcry- brought assistance and the
scamp "retrested' - s'' =
SERIOUS AcCIDxNT.--LastW Wednesday
as Ephraim Imbody was grinding plows,
at the pillow shop of Frank Dooley, the
stone burst in I've, enAshak stretching .Iss-
body in the heap and woundisg him badly
--ie was feared at FIRST fatally, but We
learn he is doing we'll and will no doubt
recover-[ Iowa City Rep.
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POSTAL MArTERs.--Teo thousand fys
hundred letters we're mailed at the post
Office in Knoxville for the quarter ending
March 3lst,1 1864. 81 little more than
double this number were mailed during
the same time at the post Office in Oska-
loosa--being larger number than that Of
any previous quarter. the increase being
due. probably, to greater business actiy-
ity. IS
HYMEHIAL.-The average number per
year Of marriage licenses issued in this
county for several years past is 1870. The
number issued from January LIST to, April
18th Of this year is 81, being in proper
ton. considerably above the usual num-
number. Cupid and the "Vetersns" have
been having good time lately. -
The above we clean from the Oskaloosa
Herald
BROKE JAIL. - Correll, one of the
counterieiters recently arrested at Wilton,
escaped from Jail about FIVE o'clock last
evening, through hole near the roof in
the rear wall, which he had made with an
iron bolt takeu from the stairway, letting
himself down with the blankets. The
Sheriff Was in the country at the time.
and his lady at church. He was seen by
a neighboring lady, who immediately gave
the alarm, but before assistance could ar
rive, Ccrrell escaped. Phelps, his part
ner, was unable to make his escape owing
to the discovery MuscAtios Journal.
Tue FfRsT .6TR1KIx0 Clock The
time of Alfred the Greas, the Persians
imported into Europe machine which
presented the first Tudiments of striking
clock. 1twas brought - ! present e
Charlemagne from AbdAllah, King oi
Prussia, by two monks Of Jerpsalam, in
the year 800. Among other presents,