The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-09-23
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Patrick Morgan, . persistent butternut
and peace man during the war, has been APP
pointed o. s. Inspector of Jaeger's distillery
at Dubuque.
Sylvester Jefeids was arrested ct Osks-H
loosa station the other day for bigamy. He
has been sent to Jail.
The Oskaloosa Herald has eutered upon
its Seventeenth years-4sis one of the jour
alistic good things of this Western country.
[, has difused during all these years, truth,
morality, knowledge,Hpews, and political
righteousness, and it grows vigorous with
age.
The Loyal citizen says: "We venture
the assertion without fear Of successful con.
tradiction that no county in the State is under
laid by greater supply or better quality of
coal than is Appanoose.
The Abba Union pays its regards to one
DR.. Mcintyre, professedly from Chicago,
who settled in Abba, spent a few weeks in
going in great haste to see imaginary patients
and then skedaddled, leaving several unset.
tied accounts.
The Abba Union says that work in
Monroe county on the Iowa Central Railroad
will not be Commenced until that county's full
quota Of stock is paid up
The Marion County Rep~blican says
that the Butternuts were sold out in their
recent Copper johnson Convention in that
county, by the manner in which they got out
their handful announcements of the meeting.
These Butternut "Artfuls" headed them
"Grand Union Rally The faithful read
| that much, swore ''it was id black Re.
publican Abolition concern, and SO staid at
home.
The Appanoose Citizen notes thus q
piece of Democratic history in that county !:
"Be it remembered. that on the 18th day of
October 1868, the Democracy of Appanoose
county, Iowa, through their representatives,
the Board of Supervisors, solemly declared
that the loyal soldiers of the county should
be deprived of the privilege of voting"
John g. SAKE lectures at Des Moines on
the 9th inst.......Mrs. W. Chesney is in Jail
at Newton for buying store, worth about
one thousand dollars, getting it insured for
$lb, 900, and then burning it. See Regiae-.
In well written valedictory Senator
Hudson retires from the Marshall 7Ymes
He is splendid specimen of manhood; one
Of the ablest writers, most vigorous thinkers,
and soundest Republicans in Iowa. He
doesn't state his purposes for the future.
The Fairfield Ledger notices the recent
removal of office-holders in that locality, and
the appointment of Copperheads instead and
says: "These gentlemen would not sup
port A. Us policy, but do strongly support J..
+. Wilson, and hence their removal. Mr..
Parr was q veteran volunteer, and was
severely wounded at the battle of Hartsville,
which Gen. Warren fought at distance of
fifty miles. 1t. Wilson was gallant officer
in the Second Iowa, and served his country
in the army for three years, a part of that
time as a private. By the removal of such
men as these, and the appointment of Cop
perheads, and occasionally q soldier, the
President but shows how great is his love for
the gallant soldiers. Comment is unneces-
sary.a
The Abba Union gives thus the par
ticulars of the killing of Thomas Davis, by
Mr.. Austin, saloon keeper at that place:
"a young man named Thomas Davis, shoe
maker by trade, and who was in the employ
of Mr.. Phillips, went to the beer saloon Of
Mr.. Austin and drank some beer. When
settling for it dispute arose about the mum.
Der of glasses he had drank, and in the alter
cation, Austin drew q revolver and shot him
dead on the spot. The ball entered one side
Of his neck and passed out at the other kill.
ing him instantaneously. Austin immediate.
ly fed out 1t the back door but was pursued,
and overtaken, ~ We are Informed At Mr..
Knowlton's, one half mile south Of town,
When arrested, Anstin did not know, OF If
footed not to know that he had killed Davis,
and when informed that Davis was dead hs
seemed to b overwhelmed with griefss wha,
he had done. He was brought to he Cour,
House and locked upin the Jury room.
/ A coroner's inquest was held over the bod,
Of Davis at the beer saloon shortly after Il,
bloody deed was committed and verdict ron
dered in accordance with the facts,
Mr.. Davis was young man probabl,
twenty or twenty-five ysan ofsgs, aud rs,
Gently from Massachusetts,.