The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-07-19

The Maine Episcopal Convention, Thurs
day, elected Rev. F. D. Huntingdon, D. D.,
of Boston, Is Bishop Of the Diocese.
Anton Hungleman was kicked to death
by FIVE men at German beer garden in Gin.
cinnati on the 4th.
Gen. Sherman was in Norwalk Thursday
evening, on visit to his relations and the
home of his parents.
MIR. Bonner, the proprietor of the New
York Ledger, has returned an income for the
past year of $186, ,009 65.
The True Delta has been revived in New
Orleans under the name of New Orleans
Commercial.
A soldiers cemetery is being enclosed a
Okalona, Miss, and suitably ornamentsd u
aresting place fer the dead.
A Milledgeville (Ga.) paper says that ex-
Senator Robert Toombs has taken up his
residence in London, and Mrs. Toombs will
soon sail to join him.
The steamer Lizzie Hamilton few days
ago made the run from Jefferson TO Shreve-
port, ninety-6ve miles, in six hours, with only
one wheel in motion.
The Duke de Chartres has not entered
the Italian army, IS stated. 1t will be re-
membeeea that this young gentleman served
in our war, on McClellan's staff.
Mr.. John Page, 80 years Of age, a we'll
known citizen of Newburyport, Massachu-
setts, committed suicide on Tuesday after
noon by cutting his throat.
"A man was found on the levee at Louis.
vile, not long ago, with one hundred and ten
stabs in his body, his ears cut off and both eyes
torn out of their sockets
The Washington specials state that Mr..
81. R. Hurlbut is to be appointed acting
Comptroller of the Currency on the departure
of Mr. Clark
The President has approved the sentence
of the court martial in the case of Lieut.. Col.
Paulding, and directs that the sentence be
carried into effect.
The stockholders of the Cincinnati and
Hamilton Railroad at a meeting on Tuesday,
decided to increase the capital stock Of the
Company 100000.
"A FIRE in Concord, New Hampshire, on
Friday, destroyed machine shop and
foundry. The loss amounts to $40, on
which there is an insurance of $4,000.
The new law of Georgia, which pre-
scribes public whipping by the Sheriff as 9
punishment for theft, was enforced against
white man named Young. and negro named
Pace, at Atlanta, on the llth.
Tuesday was the hottest day ever known
in New York City. The Thermometer stood
at 10S degrees in the shade at 8 p. m. Out
of 4s cases of sun stroke % proved fatal. 9
out of l6 cases in Brooklyn proved fatal
1t is estimated that forty thousand SOL
diers are buried at Corinth, Miss, within q
radius of twenty miles. A large proportion
perished from sickness during Gen. HaIeck's
term of command after the battle of Shiloh.
The German ladies of Nashville have re-
ceived from Leipsic, Germany, flag costing
5000, to be presented to the Turnyerein So
ciety. II is pronounced the most beautiful
Gag ever presented to any similar society in
the United States.
Capt Thomas r. Polk, a worthy scion
of the Polk family of Tennessee, and citi-
zen of Moorehouse parish, Louisiana, was
thrown from his horse. short time ago.
and injured so severely that he died in few
hours.
"A young lady at Little Rock, in a sum.
nambulic state, fell from the roof house on
which she was walking. The fall was about
fifty feet Both her legs were broken, and
she was internally bruised, and is not expect
ed to recover.
The Government is taking steps for the
removal of all the bodies Of national soldiers
buried around Nashville to one common cem-
etery. Theme burial gronnd is tract Of
As acres on the Louisville l. Nashville Rail.
road. about FIVE miles from the city.
Gen. O'Neil, the Fenian invader of Can
night, in which he referred to the neutrality
policy of the President in terms more plain
than complimentary.
The Chronicle learns that Abe Myers,
who recently tried to destroy his storehouse
and goods with FIRE, in Meridian, Miss, has
been arrested, tried, and convicted of arson,
and sentenced to be hung. His three part
ners, who were implicated, we're acquitted.
The will of late Rev. Alexander Camp
bell, of Bethany, West Virginia, involving, it
is said, an estate of nearly quarter
of million Of dollars, was admitted to
probate at Wellsburg last week. The will
is contested by the heirs of his first wife, on
the ground that at the time of it, making lin
1882 his memory was so far impaired q 70
leave him incapable of making . valid will.
The Charleston Courier gives an accoun,
OF the decoration Of the graves Of the rebel
dead at Greenville, South Carolina Il sayl
over thousand persons participated in the
exercises. The order Of procession embraced
eleven young ladies clad in white, and repre-
ssnting the several Confederate States Mosi
of the stores Of the village we're closed, and
the bells of the churches were tolled.
Mr.. Wallwork, of shelbyville, Tennes-
see, claims title to an invention which will
supersede all other kinds of signals in use on
railroads. He processes to be able, by the
application of this invention, to stop train,
if desired, at any distance; and to shut o6
steam from an engine Eve miles away the
same rs If he were on the engine
The Mayor of Portland, up to Wednes
day afternoon, had received $12s, 7e9 Al in
aid of the sufferers BY the FIRE. The Presl
warns owners of tenement houses not TO bs
too exActing in the matter Of high rents, q
great injury to the future prospects of Ii,
city will ensue. The Relief Committee
during two days, had supplied 1900 peopl,
with 1900 articles of clothing, and the cal
for help is beyond the supply.
Last Tuesday while two ladies we're walk
ing near vincennes, Ind, they found BY th
roadside the body of q man who had appa