The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1864-11-03


-Messrs. Ticknor d Fields have pur.
chased the North American Review. II
will continue to be edited By Prof. Lowell
and Mr.. Norton.
The Superintendent of the Public
Schools of Boston reports that many OF
the pupils are overworked to such an ex
tent a. to constitute an evil Of great mag
nitute. This evil exists in both the nm
per and lower classes, but i. is more de-
veloped. and more injurious in its effects,
IN the highest divi ions, where the pupils
are competing for medals. The average
attendance is thirty-two thousand.
A man who had been murdered
vas found last week at Rutland his BODY
cut 10 two. He was placed thus to con.
ceal the homicide.
Trade in general is good in Paris.
particularly among dealers in articles Of
luxury. Goldsmitis and jewellers have
more customers than they csn supply At
the moment, and many Of them have to
wait some time to have their orders eye
cu.ed Manufacturers of Arficlesd Paris
never had better season painters and
gi'ders on porcelain were never more
prosperous. The demand from England
contributes to revive the trade in artificial
flowers, snd 10 give employment 10 MANY
hands that we're idle during the dead
season.
A company has been chartered 10
bring water INTO New Losdon. Connect
cut. from an elevation of enc hundred and
seventy feet.
The Louisville Journal publisbe.
figures Ia show that five thousand Eve
hundred slaves have lef. their owners in
less than one-6iih of that Safe, since the
war began.
The last ferort Of the Commissioner
of Internal Revenue shows that the in.
come OF the G,vernmen. from internal
taxes is abont $4,000 GOO a month. or
nearly e2OO. 900 900 q year.
The result Of the British Colonia
Conference at Quebec will be embodied ia
8 bill, and presented to the different local
legislatures for action.
A young Girl of eighteen. in Mar
seilles. was burned to death ON the morn
ing of her marriage BY treading on a
match. which ignited and set her clothes
on FIRE
This is the season for suicides in
France. The fumes OF charcoal annaar.
this year, to be preferred to the eoli bath
Of Seine. Fashions of death differ as well
as those Of life.
The Swedish journals are all cl.mor.
ing for the abolition Of cspisal punish
ment in that country. II grew out of a
recent execution At Stockholm.
At Washington Park, Providence,
last Monday, man weighing one han
dred and forty pounds undertook to run
around the mile track in sixten minutes,
dragging sulky weighing ninety FIVE
pounds. He accomplished the ieat in
eleven minutes and thirty-seven seconds.
The Toleda Blade SAYS the Lucas
county treasury was robbed by burglars.
carry on thursday morning, OF 50, 50.-
The safe was blown open, at least half a
pound of powder being used.
Fort Warren, Boston harbor, is again
filling up with rebel prisoners. Among
the late arrivals are Charles s. Cockey
and William Hart. of Baltimore, convieted d
By military commission Of giving aid
and comfort to the rebels.
Brooklyn, New York. i. learning the
cost Of riots. In July Of last yesr, some
of the grain elevators at Atlanta Dock,
were burned by the rioters. The Supreme
Court has just affirmed the original iadg
ment for SIC, 1000, which the tax payer,
Of Brooklyn must pay.
The general army hospital now or
ganizing at Troy, NJ Y, is large estsb
lishment. Twelve buildings are now in
course Of onstruction--each OF which vii
hold sixvy patients. DR.. Hubbard is IN.
surgeon in charge.