The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-03-16

a Chattanooga paper Of March > saws that
I Mrs Jefferson Davis and her Youngest child
arrived IN that city last night, and are stop
ping at the Crutch6eld House Mrs. d. ap-
! peared to be IN the enjoyment Of excellent
| health. end the infant looked fat and
| hearty
The Charleston South Carolinian states
/ on the 23d ult. three thieves were found dead
/ 5ehind the counter of druggist, in King
| street, in that city l. seems that poison had
/ been put in some food and placed In n con.
/ venient position, which the robbers had eaten
! of aud died.
/ The Virginia Legislature has appointed
I three commissioners to proceed TO West
I lrglnla TO negotiate for q reunion of the
two States and the adjustment of the public
/ debt.
! Major General J. " Wilson. who cap.
tured JEFF. Davis. is in Indianapolis, luxuria.
/ ting on years leave of absence
The orange and iessamine trees in the
rclnlty OF Mobile, Alabama, were killed, aud
/ the fig crop destroyed, by the late severe
cold.
AS singular Incident of Partisan court
life, it is mentioned that Teresa. whose celeb
rity rs due to her singing of indecent French
songs in the French cafes. has been presented
! to the Emperor Napoleon, who was delighted
with her vocalism
"A female teacher in Beifsst, Maine. has
just recovered two humid ei and seventy. one
dollars from physician there who charged
her IN one of the newspapers with having ex-
pressed JOY at the death of President Lincoln,
thereby depriving her of her pupils
Nicholson, the alleged inventor ofthe
Nicholson pavement, has sned the city of
Chicago on charge of infringing his patent
The defense sets up that the pavement in
question was patented and used in England
many years previous to the date of Nichol.
sons patent in ,his country, and also that it
was used in some of the streets in Boston,
with his permission, before be obtained a
patent.
George Anderson of Boonvlle, Missouri,
sometime since married the daughter OF a
rNh brewer in that city, against the father s
will. After short time the wife died An.
derson subsequently married a sister of his
former wife, who also died in few mouths,
and now he has eloped with another married
sister.
"A case that was in the German courts for
over three hundred years, involving a large
amount of property, has just been settled, and
one of the heirs, who lives in Detroit. has re-
ceived his share. which was an eight hundred
and fortieth part.
The punishment of a pupil in school at
Marion, kentucky, recently, WAS the occasion
of a savage fight, in which so boys were en-
gagged, about one half for and the rest against
the teacher. Pistols, dirks and clubs were
freely used, and one pupil was shot, while the
teacher was-severely stabbed.
A wool grower made the statement at a
late convention in Vermont, held on bitter
cold day, that every rag of clothes he had on
was made of foreign wool. while he had at
home three clips Of wool from his own stock
which he could not sell.
The ship Orient. of London. boun.l for
Australia, on the 18th ofNovcmber sudden.
" trembled violently, as passing over a
rough bottom in shallow water. and all on
board we're much alarmed She made no
water and The deep sea lead did not touch
bottom, so it was concluded the SHIP had ex-
perienced the effects Of submarine volcano.