The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-12-15
NEWS SUMMARY.

told closed at > oSs IN new ork yes
terday.
The finances Of Maryland are in most
healthful condition, there being over four mil,
lions in the State Treasury.
Among the military appointments in the
regular army recently announced is that Of
Gen. L. w. Kinks, to be lieutenant colonel
Of the 10th regiment of infantry.
A schooner laden with arms and muni-
tions Of war is reported to have sailed from
Elizabethport last week for an unknown dss-
tnation. Rumor says the arms we're intends
ed for reshipment on vessel in transi,u.
Numerous meetings are being held in the
interior Of Kentucky to relieve the spaerings
OF the Southern poor. All classes are inter
esting themselves. The Masons and Odd
Fellows are foremost in the charity.
A law-maker, named Leonard Mcclure,
in the Legislative Assembly of Vaneouver's
Island. recently spoke for seventeen hours
without pausing, except to take breath.
Soon after the close of the war, Ben.
Hill, Of Georgia, was couasel in great cot
ton case in that State, involving some millions
of dollars He received for his services fee
of Sl5o.ooo
1t has been ascertained that arsenic was
used in poisoning the Peck family at Ken
sington, Conn., but by whom is still unknown.
Only one has died, and the others are now
expected to recover.
The reservoir connected with the hy>
draulic press used in the Treasury printing
department at Washington burst Thursday
and fen from its position, shaking the build
ing aud involving loss of ten thousand dol>
lars.
a Mr. Bates, of Kentucky, twenty years
Of age, is seven feet eleven high, and still
growing. he is the "baby" of eleven chit
dren.
The negroes about Bastrop. Texas, have
called grand mass meeting for the 9th oi
December, for the purpose of establishing
regular system of labor and adopting meas
ures for the general good of the race.
The Richmond Enquirer is responsible
for the statement that there is an old gentle
man in Pocahontas county, who has on his
hands the blood of twenty one hundred deer
seventeen hundred of whom he shot with the
same gun. He has also been the death o.
many bears, panthers and other wild beasts
-Isieut. Gov Anderson, Of Ohio, ha'
bought tract of ten thousand acres in Lyons
county, Kentucky, which he will devote t'
raising sheep.
No less than two thousand men are dig
ging at the newly discovered mines nea
Pine Alto, in New Mexico. and are said t.
be we'll paid. A lucky fellow dug up on
chunk valued at over two hundred dollars
and the rush to the mines from lower New
Mexico was great.
One of the witnesses before the gram
jury at Springfield, who is but nineteen year
of age, weighs three hundred ard sevent
pounds.
Mr.. Pollock, of Pitts6eld, formerly = Di
rector on the part of the State, of the West
ern Railroad, is lying dangerously i'll IN Me-
York city and there is no hope of his recovery
The Savannah Nercs urges the legisa
ture to make an adequate appropriation 10
opening the Savannah river. The numel
GUS distractions which we're placed IN tn
river during the war have made the chann'
in some places very tortuous, and In othe'
very shallow, 80 that it is only with the grea
eat difficulty that vessels of heavy tonnae
can reach the city.
A girl at Mineral Point, Wisconsin
drank her coffee scalding hot, and it kiiie
her.
There have been sawed at MuskegoI
Michigan. during the past season, LAC, ,976, w
feet of lumber, and there are under contra
to be sawed before the close OF the yea
35, ,oo0, 900 feet of logs, which will make Il
aggregate of lumber l75,s75,000 feet. 1t
stated that the stock of logs for 1867 will G
1875, SOC, 900 feet of lumber.
The Hon. John SWEET, Superintendent
Public instruction of California, has forwart
ed to the National Lincoln Monument Ass
citation, Springfield, H., the sum Of $500
contributed by the public school children
thatState.
1.-THE work of thousand men for 70,
years. is the inscription upon the railroi
bridge which has just been erected across Il
Sasquehanna river at Havre de Grace, Md.
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Mr. lNcERsoLL, Of Illinois, retorts in Il
style upon Mr.. JOHNSON for one Of the :
surdities and impertinences Of the mode
Noses" while swinging round the circl
Mr.. IxoERsoLL submitted resolution to d
House the other day as follows:
Resolred, That the President of the Unit
States is hereby respectfully requested TO
form the House, if mot incompatible With I
public interest, how near ths verge Of I
Government the prssent body called q
gress u at present, and II Il il mot nearer
esstss thAa ke iofnssly snppossd.