The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-05-31

the woods, and have pin mic and good
time. You ought to go. The proceeds are
for the Sabbath School Library of that church
and we hope the School will realize hand
some amount. Get up, pack your basket and
CO. Boat starts at 7.So
lows Items.
D1xox, of the Register, always serves these
up in good style. We make raid on his
repertory:
A Pawnee pow-wow was given few
nights since at Lewis, Cass County, and sew
eral dollars we're realized by the braves. See
Cass Co. Messenger.
The Bellevue Journal calls the Irish pa
trot Stephens, Head .Scenter' How could
you?
The Bellevue Journal having been bit
ten. wants to know if any body knows any
thing of the firm of J.. J. Bennett Il Co,
new paper advertising agents. No. "a Liberty
street, New York. Glad we don't know EN-,
Brother Journal. Sorry that you have been
swinded.
M Calvert who was injured by an explo-
sion of boiler at Muscatine, is in a fair way
of recovery, as we learn from the journal.
-Elihu Baker, of Cedar Rapids, has been
appointed Examiner Of National Banks IN
this State.
General Fitz Henry Warren has accepted
the mission to Guatemala.
There was a very interesting meeting OF
the Cedar Valley Sabbath School Association
at Waterloo week or so since, as we learn
from the Courier. Large numbers were IN
attendance.
Mrs. Nicholson Ward. of Black Hawk
county, is the mother of trlplets, as we learn
from the Waterloo Courier.
A little daughter of Mr.. Dewitt, Davis
county, was recently drowned IN a cistern, as
We learn from the Bloomfield Guard.
/ We learn from the Monticello Express
/ that Austin Lewis has sued Smith Acker for
/ $4,000 Acker is charged with destroying
Lewis domestic peace by Stealing the afec
tons of his wife.
The Sidney Union tCopperheadl tries to
make point by charging the Register with
favoring negro suffrage? Well. what are you
going to do about it, Mr. Jnions Our posi-
ton always has been that loyal African has
an infinitely better right to vote than dis
loyal white man.
Warren P. Turk has retired from the
Rnggold Record and is succeeded by Geo
B. Roby.
Williams, the heartess murderer of &
man by the name of Alfrey, down in Decatur
county, is still Mt large, we learn from the
Ringgod Record. The murder, as narrated
by the Record, was of the most brutal and in
excusable character He had previousls
knocked down and injured girl: and out o.
this crime grew the difficulty which involved
the killing of Mr.. Alfrey. Williams needs
hanging He attempted to kill another man
by the name Of Warwick. but fortunately did
not succeed.
1t Is thought that about the middle o.
June great railroad convention viii be held
! in Council Bluffs. Several roads will be rep
resented. See Nonpareu.
The Council Bluffs Bngle says that Dem
ocratc papers are beginning to look up al
over the country. That's so. They are fol
lowing the example of half million of Dem
ocrats who have looked up in despair and
| have gone up since the surrender of Sumter
| Mr. Buglc. that toot from your old horn wa;
rather good one.
Anthony Bruno, Frenchman, living il
Fremont county. recently committed suicide
By strychnne. as we learn from the Sidne,
Union He was in respondent state, ant
. probably deranged
5 The Bloomfield Guard has the following
new way for raising We are told tina
some Of our best farmers, in Jefferson county
have adopted a new plan for raising corn
They wait till late planting time to break thei
ground, then pillow it Deep turning under al
!. the weeds which are growing, then harrow
It well, plant, and alter the corn is up. harros
j, again and then leave it to mature without fur
Their labor. Now is a good time TO expen
: ment upon this klrd OF corn raising.
The Marengo Republican has this to sa
s. Of borers: OF all the bores we ever saw bore
i we never saw borers bore as the locust bore
IS bore. We have been bored by bores, an
r. seen bores bore, but these are the infernaiis
bores of all bores.. There are some FIVE hur
dIed more or less, to tree. and if taken be
ID fore the eggs are laid, may be killed and ma
at not, by cutting down the tree, splitting it int
l. fine kindlng. letting it dry year or twc
burning it, aud making it into soap.
The Dewitt Otserrer proposes to publis
:, the names of the petty thieves, male and fe
= male, who depreda;e in that place. 1t wor
- do any good. Have the scamps arrested an
u put Through a course Of sprouts. That
re better.
lie Albert Lashaway, James B. Carol
X Frank Wilson, and Charles Smith, recent
;. escaped from the Clinton county Jail, as "
: learn from the Observer. Charles Smith W,
e. recaptured. but the other fellows have n,
10 been heard from.
"A colored girl, daughter Of Mr.. Come
of Mt. Pleasant, had her clothes ignited viii
rs, she was trying TO kindle fire with kerosen
of aud was fatally burned. We CLEAN from II
st Home Journal
w Two reconstructed white men at NJ
Pleasant grabbed a watch and thirty dolla
III belonging to St Clair, n colored man, ar
- fed with the booty. We glean from Il
- Home Journal
he
is, Discomfort IN CrBA.-Recent advices fro
or Cuba inform Us that there is q large party