The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-03-23
GENERAL ITEMS.

H. ". Taft, after fifty years service as
Town Clerk Of Sunderland, Massachusetts,,
declined q reelection ut the last town meet.
ing.
The oldest man in Pennsylvania is
Dntchman who resides in Centre county. He
is liz years old.
The copies ofthe New York Herald con-
tanning Bancroft's memorial Grafton were
seized in France by order ofthe Government.
The Lock River Piper Company, Beloit,
Wisconsin. are now making three hundred
reams-six and a half tons--of printing paper
to go to Virginia City, Montana Territory.
The population ofIreland decreased o..
s46, and The number of inhabited homes de.
creased 1927, last year.
--Rome-old Rome-is increasing in non.
ulation. She had 207 1913 inhabitants al the
close OF last year, having gained 3,442 in
1865.
A Savannah paper is afraid the raising of
rice is at an end, and pictures the rice swamps
degenerating into unproductive swamps. It
says the white man can not, and the black
man will not, cultivate swamp plantations.
1t, therefore, goes for compulsory cultiva.
ton OF them.
English papers say that Generals Grant
and Sherman will make the tour of Europe
in May next. They think the Union Gener.
ais will be warmly welcomed, although the reb-
ell Lee would be more lionized.
One day last week D. A Rider. of Ben.
nlngton, Vt. cut open perfectly sound
pumpkin. and found the seeds had all com.
menced to sprout. some Of them shooting M
more ihan an iuch in length, while the roots
we're strongly fastened in the pumpkin,
which was completely filled with vegetation.
Aa1f Il IL
bory Conn company, and was ten months
in rebel prison, lately returned to Duxbury
TO make his residence there, and was sum.
moned to pay poll taxes for 1854 and 1866
lie refused, and was put in Jail until he paid.
There meanness for you.
In the vicinity of Stratford upon Avon,
the birthplace of Shakespeare, about three
thousand human skeletons were recently
found while digging. They were all laid
close side by side, and the bones were in q
remarkable state of preservation. It is sup
posed that they were the realms of the slain
OF some great battle, but history is silent re-
garding any encounter between armies near
the spot.
An old colored preacher ct Fort Gibson,
Miss, recently baLtized thirty coIored con.
verts and charged them dollar apiece. On
the following Sunday he only succeeded in
inducing two to present themselves who
were wiling to pay. Becoming indignant at
the parsimony Of his coueregation, he refused
to bap'ize the two candidates for glory, saw.
ing ''he warn't gwine to slosh hisself up for
no two dollars"
We understand that the Board of Trustees
OF Iowa City are at a dead lock. The Board
Is divided half and half, politically, with
democratic Mayora McCleary), wAou the Re- !
pnniicans refuse to recognize as . presiding
o'ncer. de insists on presiding, contrary to |
provision Of the charter, and The Republi- |
Gan members refuse to attend the meetings Of
ne ne board while he occupies the chair. The
mayor, a. the last meeting, sent the Marshal
sl'sr .he absent members, but he could not
nm, r,ia snem. The meeting then adjourned till
the deaouemenk 'a''ss'e1 ~