The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-12-09

Gold closed at $l3YA in New York yes
serday.
Anna Bishop is At Hong Kong. She
sings in broken China.
john Hay has resigned thsSscretaryship
Of Legation at Paris, and is coming home.
A. II. Evans is the new New York As
sociated Press correspondent At Wsshing.
ton. vs.
1t is said that Miss Olive LosAn's dram
stization of Griffith Gaunt'' was constructed
in two days and half.
-Judah P. BENJAMIN, 10 writing articles
on America for the Loadon Ttlegrsyh
A ras.huat at Spring Valley, below
Xenia, resulted in total slaughter Of l6..
7ss.
Rev. Sylvester Holmes, one Of ~ -
est clergymen in Massachusetts, died in NV
Bedford on Tuesday, aged seventh eight
years.
lanes hillard, one Of the oldest citizens
OF Quincy, Ill, passed away from earth on
last Saturday, the lst instant, aged about
eighty years, 8r
The University Of Toronto ha. erected q
memorial window to the studeats Of the col
lege who fell in the battle with the Fenians
at Limestone Ridge.
An Irish washerwomau in Calveras
contuy, Cal, who was obliged to take share
in newly discovered mine in payment for
services, her employer being unable to pay
in money, now derives an income of $4,000
syear from it.
The shigh-toued Seathen youths are
degrading themselves'' 60 sneA ~ to enlist
in Uncle Sam regular sray. Such Is ths
complaint of Pe,ersb<sl Eaa paper.
George Wsshinstos, nephew Of Wash-
ingtou, died suddenly . lev days since in
Wilmington, Clinton CO., Q. while attending
q case he had in court. His remains were
taken to Prince willian eouasy, Va, for il
terment.
A club Of vsuns ne. - lasys spals \
about to be established in Londsa usdse tie
auspices of the Temperance movement. 1t is
proposed to have, besides the appliances Of
clubs, lecture hall and gJmnasium, and
apartments for 500 resident members.
The London AthencsM says: zone Of
the clever, unobtrusive .ministering angels
has recently departed, IN the person Of Niss
Matilda Wrench, the companion Of Nm.
Fr in ker prison yisiistiops, and shat good
woman's successor in that and similar beni6.
cent work. Miss Wrench vas known in lit
erature for her translations from the German,
and for her Visits to- Eemsle Prisons at
Home and Abroad. published in 1852"
Brigham Young says the United States
Government is opposed to him, and the
Lord Almighty in favor Of him. e1
"A writer At Crab Orchard Springs, Ky.,
gives the following: I" Passing the drawing
room, lest evening, NY attention was attract
ed to an exceedidgly corpulent young lsdy,
Waiting the Springs for her health. She vai
seated at the piano, and singing, Do thsy
Miss Ne 1t Homer | thought they did
about meal time a.
The man who followed his own coffin te
the grave in England, and shen sued for hi
life insurance, has been tded st AnAvery
for forgery and for attempting to set on FRI
Q ship he had insured, and condemned 70 b.
put in cofin with his head of. Hs Is to b.
guillotined.
The London Illustrated Nesss records I
bet of no less than ca, 900 bes~een the own
ers Of two horses, Mr. Chaphn's horse, " Ths
Hermit having been backed against Si
Joseph Hawieys horse, = The Palmer. :
Doubts are expressed abou, the race eve
coming of. aasss ~
AT wooden wedding ii Des5oit a Tues
day evening, a joke was perpetrated BY aper
son who was unable to be, prssent He sen
his regrets written on . shingle.
The woodsocket (R. ~ Phtrsot say
shss one-fourth Of the population ofthe mas
ufacturns villages IN the valley Of the Black
stone river will soon be French Canadians,
the arrivals continue - they havs the Pas
year. M Hyfass Kss3&
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