The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-04-01
GLEANGNGs.

ed good deal lately.
Mail matter for Shernan's army i
now sent TO Newbern.
The trial Of Burlsy. the Lake Fri,
pirate, commenced at Port CIiston os
Tuesday.
The 1T Carnival at Havana mus,
have been jolly one. a. seventy. five
inafdsrs are reported.
General Grant's medal containt e7OC
worth Of gnid, and cost, work and all,
$1,000.
Hereafter all our national coins are
TO have the motto: "ln God We d rust. y
Ten dollars secures license fol sell.
ing SIC, 600 worth of live stock : year.
A Boston lady, eigh,y-thrce years
Old, has knit fifteen pairs Of socks and
Looted nine pairs for the soldiers, ID the
last four months.
-Of l.0s9 State Prison codvicts who
are nov enjoying the hospitality OF tho
State Of New York. 1856 are foreigners.
r.
-Anti-rentism is reviviDg in New
York. A mass meeting 10 70 Be heId At
West Sandlake, April IA.
-Bescher says orr greatest DANCE AZ
nation will be wealth. Wealth women,
wine, woe-is that the order?
Look out for counterfeit M lrch con
pons on $500 10 40 bonds. They are
aflo oat.
Count Joannes is going tp start a
weekly paper 10 New York in May The
New York Joannes Journal.
The New York farmers who went
without butter all last winter SD ~ 10
have nice lot to sell this spring at 81 q
pound, are not happy nowadays. Th hey
fairly overreached themselves. Il
Governor Seymour, of New York, |
exercised the pardoning power in R6S 10.
sta ances last year.
"A French statistician has discover ed |
shas'ao bad effects arise from th9 inter
of cousins.
The Western railroads that have the |
largest earnings and pay the biggett diyi. |
dends are IN the worst condition.
The Mormcos have been holding a |
series OF meetings In London, st WHICH |
numerous "sa'nts' and elders FROM Utah, |
including Brigham Young. Jr., wek ke pre-. |
sent.
Prof. Coleman, Principal of the Hig gh
School at Louisville, and one OF the ablest
chemiets in tho State, had both bill eyes
destroyed last week by an explosion while |
experimenting.
lit 10 said that Miss Annie NJ. Crane,
= yonng lady Of Baltimore, is the 4uthof
II Emily Chester" the novel that crea-
ted SO pleasan, an excitement wheu 6rst
Published.
There is famine in Siam, in donse
quence Of the failure of the rice crop, and
the Government has prohibited for I time
the export Of rics and paddy.
Vermont and New Hampshire will
keep Good Friday. April l4lh, for Fast.
"A letter passed through Washington
the other day in the army mail from
Gen. SheFman 10 his wife. On the cor.
ner was endorsed. Fayetteville, n. C.
No postage stamps" The letter was for
warded.
We learn from Prairie du Chen that
railroad bridges, culverts and telegraph
pcleShad been washed away ON the Mil
waukee and Prairie du Chen Railway,
BY the treshet. The damage is immense.
--Messrs. Sreeter, Fsxon & Potter,
New York dry goods merchants have
suspended They had made quarter of
a million, but the shrinkage in values left
them stranded.
A letter was found in the State
House at Columbus. s. G., trom Clark
Mills, the artist. to Governor Gist. Of
South Carolina, dated December I, 1861,
his sympaty In the rebellion
and Offering his services to cast bronze
cannon for the South.
The New York Tribune says: 1--WE
hope to see the day when journalist who
uses his pen and his columns to blaclAn |
the regulations Of CERTAIN Of his cotempo-
raries will be severely let alone alike by
his brother journalists and by the pnblic.
So here.
The pork and butter spectators 10 |
Ohio are hard up now on account of the |
decline in prices. The local banks, both |
State and national. have loaned SO much
money to them that they have had to stop
their discounts.
"A new fraud has been discovered /
several railroad ticket agents in Wash
ington have been arrested on charge of
passing upon the Government bogus GER
tifoa,es for transportation. About $780,
900 is supposed 10 be the amount of the
swindle.
The Winsted Conn., Herald says Il
the church At Colebrook Center has .
divided choir, one.haIf in the gallery and
the other half below. Sometimes both
sing, sometimes neither; sometimes the