The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-03-08

hNco anu tdle lof tue well DeiHg Vi TINS Hlu-
nicipality, had force at work at street clean.
ing yesterday. Our thoroughfares will soon
be in readiness for the spring weather, which
good and bad, will soon be upon us.
VIZ saw letter, last evening. from Isaac
NJ. Nei,ch Most Worthy Sire of tie Grand
Lodge Of the United States, |. O. O. F.. &C.
cepting an invitation to be present at a cele.
bration OF the order in this city on the 26th
of April, the anniversary ofthe order in the
United States.
The MINsTRELs To-NIGH1. amuse.
ment loving public will need no reminder that
Charlie Shay's famous minstrel troupe per-
forms tonight. Here will be music and fun
for the million. The troupe has never visited
heokuk before, but its excellence is conceded
by the press wherever it appears.
There is to be sold Monday. at 3 clock, at
the Court House, % feet of ground and i'm.
proyements situated on Main street, next to
Geo. c. Anderson's Bank now occupied bv
Solomon. This is the best stand in the city
now offered for sale, and will be a good, safe
investment, as the title is good mar8-3t
The Clerk of the Supreme Court of the
State gives notice that at the argument term
OF that Court, commencing at Davenport
Monday, April End, the causes from the
counties of Lee, Louisa, Des Moines, Henry
Van Buren, and Jefferson, will be docketed
for three days. commencing on Monday. the
10th day of April.
Our friend Hammer, of the music store
has returned from Boston, whittier he went
Tor his spring stock for the trade. We are
also indebted to him for Frank Wilder's
"Girl with the Waterfall" AS in that COS.
tune she is admirably adapted to PLAYING on
the piano, the muscaly inclined can stop
at Mr. Hammers establishment and get her
and other popular sheet music
CoNNUNIcATIoN with the Western world by
the Valley is again opened unto u.s. We re-
ceived yesterday our first Western mail for
several days. How it got over the break. or
around the ice6elds or through the insermin
able depths of mud that prevail up about
Croton and the neighborhood thereof. this
deponent saith not. The energy and drive of
the management Of the road found some
method to overcome distractions. and we re. ,
Joice at communication being restored with
out any inquiry into the modus operandi.
That piano, that under the hands of skill /
full pianist has given forth such splendid |
music at the concert last evening, and the
evening previous, and the excellence of which
was generally remarked and admired. was
from t1e music store of r. Y. V Bailey &
Co., and is one of Steinway' celebrated man
utacture Oar friends Bailey & CO., keep
constantly on hand pianos and musical iustru-
ments Of all kinds, of superior quality and of
the best manufacture. They are active. hon.
est and reliable dealers and now as hereto.
fore we take pleasure in recommending them
to public favor.
kEoErE did itself the highest credit by the
audience in attendance at the concert last
evening. The Atheneum was crowded. The
class and solo singers, Miss Miller, Miss
Perry, Mrs. Sample and Miss Creel, as upon
49, ms SFththSf oSiulNttu themselves nanU-
somely and won much praise We indulge
now in no praise of Prot. Kibourne for the
class passed series of complimentary reso.
lutions which we will publish tomorrow and
temphaticaly endorse.
The benefit was noble success. General
Hills, on behalf of the parties for whomit was
given, thanked in a handsome manner the
class and the audience, and we publish else
where card from Messrs. Pineree and
Stafford
SMART BoY.-At the concert on Tuesday
evening one of the young ladies was singing !
sentimental song concerning an enraptured ]
lover; the repeated last line of each verse of
which said song was /" Do you really think he
did? Doubtless a leading question. In 7,
one OF the verses Fitz Augustus declares that
he has built him cottage and that he built il !
for her This the young lady beautifully I
trilled forth, and then operatcaly the mus;. |
cal query; do you eally-realIy-reallv =
think he did? to which small boy in the R
gallery drought down the house" by 70. =
spending in clear voice, "Of course ba
did u''e he
This was sharp, and amused the audience.
Dnt such Interruptions are usually in bad
taste and foolish, and if any other small bow,
on the strength of this first success, shall il
make similar interruption hereafter, it will o
be naughty and stupid y
IHE FLOOD AT PENNINGTON. loor, g
from private letter some more nart;or,ore r,
o. The Hood in the Des Moines river. At b
rarmlngton the first ntimation the c;,;,a .
hving near the river had of the danger. thor SC
houses were surrounded and the water ran. o.
idiy rising. Many got out safe, some by
~aoing waist deep, and carrying such articles
As they could carry, and others barely saving
themselves and losing all they owned in the =
world. The old mill on Water street Brett e
snsteins building, and Mrs Cheslers bonse Fl
we're destroyed No other special cases Of -
destruction of houses were mentioned b,, Al
arge quantities of property were doubtless II
washed away.
THERE was fire at Des Moines ON Thurs. s.
lay of last week. Four buildings on the cor. s.
Ter of Court avenue and Third street ware NJ
destroyed. Loss $4,000. 10 !.
TIE Chicago Tribune says that the Un;.od an
'tates Supreme Court has delivered its on;n. be
on on an appeal from Iowa, reaffirming ono u
eretofore pronounced, that a county or mn.
icinal corncration has no inherent rou A.