The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-08-24
NEWS suMnARY.

night
The crops are suffering severely in Mis-
sissippi from the ravages Of the army worm.
The cholera is said to be Abating in Gin.
cinnati.
The reports from all parts of Indiana, in
regard to crops, is Aattering.
A few fakes of snow fell in the town Of
Vienna, Me-, one day last week.
A town in Ohio has been named after
Murdoch. the tragedian.
"A Newsboys' Home is to be established
at Detroit.
House rents are so high in Mobile that
tents are spoken of as . refuge.
Mrs. R. h. Stoddard il engaged on a
novel of New England life, to be called
'sTemple House"
When the husband Of Queen Emma was
in this country, years ago, he was turned out
of the cars on account of his color.
The Boston Journal says the first srti6-
cial globe ever made in this country, was
manufactured in St. Johnsbury in 1912.
Two Canadian farmers have manufac-
tured q cheese weighing three and one-hali
tons.
The gavel used by the presiding officer o
the Philadelphia Convention was made of an
oak plank from the frigate Constitution
"0ld Ironsides.
The post Office at Jacksonville, Ind,
was broken into and robbed on Monday
night. No arrests have been made.
A meeting of the National Republican
Executive Committee has been called II
Philadelphia on the Sd of September.
The Democrats of the Seventh Ohio Dis
trict yesterday nominated Thos. Miller, War
Democrat, for Congress.
Mayor Monroe of New Orleans is in full
exercise of his official functions, with no in
reference from the military.
The cholera ia said to be decreasing in
New Orleans, but increasing upon the plsnta-
tons up the river.
Martial law has been declared in Choc-
taw county, Ala, on account of the outrages
prscticed upon the freedmen.
A Cuba pirate schooner Was captured on
the 20th in one of the bays on the Florida
coast, by a L. S. revenue cutter.
The object of Jenny Lind's concert, in
England, is 10 retrieve her fortune, which is
sadly impaired by her husband S dissipation.
A New York letter says the stages in that
city earn from SIS TO $50 per day. So the
proprietors, therefore, make money.
The largest diving bell ever made in this
country was recently cast in Boston. /,
roughs $4,000 pounds, and is of sufic1ept
capacity to allow four men to work in it at .
time.
Capt. Young, of the detective police in
New York, has been acquitted Of the charge
of having watch wrongfully in his posses
sion.
Reports are gaining currency that Gen.
Howard is to be removed from the head oi
the Freedmen's Bureau, and Gen. Tillsou
appointed to his stead.
The New Orleans Tribune, a radical re,
publican journal, was suspended yesterday
its editors being afraid of the destruction o
their Office by mob.
A lady of jefferson, Warren county
Iowa, gaped so extensively as to dislocatt
her under jaw. A doctor was called in and
damages repaired.
A young man named NJ, A. Hawks, {
resident of Lincoln, H., killed his wife a
St. Paul yesterday by the accidental discharge
of a revolver He has become partly de
ranged in consequence.
Later returns from the Cholerado elec
ton shows that Chilcott, the republican can
ddate. is elected to Congress, and not Hunt
Administration, the report Of whose success
filed the Philadelphia convention with sucl
JOY.
Mallory, the soldier who robbed the saf
Of Major Griersoa, at Nashville, and was re
Gently captured in Indiana, has pleaded gull
ty, and was sentenced to ten years hard la
Dor on the Dry Tortugas
General John NJ. Palmer, recently il
command of the Department of Kentucky,
now in Nashville as the counsel for Colone
Rowland, of Chicago, now on trial befor
the military commission.
A cali was issued in Washington yestei
day, inviting those soldiers and sailors tif m
there are) who favor the policy of Presider
johnson and the Philadelphia Convention,
send delegates to convention to be held {
Cleveland, Ohio, Tn the 18th of Septembe
The rebels are again rampant in Ne
Orleans. General Sheridan has been apple
TO for protection by many of the Union eli
sens, and the Tribune, the only loyal dai
newspaper in the city, Las been forced
suspend publication through fear Of mob ,
oleuce.
Forty eight deaths from cholera occurr
in New Orleans during last Saturday n
Sunday. The disease continues to abate
New York and Brooklyn. Only twenty o
cholera deaths we're reported in Cincinna
The Fenians had q large picnic at Bpf
10 the other day, at which sometwenty tho
and of the Brotherhood were prese
Speeches were made by General o Neil .
a.. others.
The Missouri delegation to the Philad
phia Convention paid visit to the Preside
on Monday Their preferences and dislik
as expressed at that time, are given IN
Washington despatch.
The Boston Mercantile Library Assoc
ton has made generous present of books
the Mercantile Library Association Of Po
land, who lost all theirs BY the late FIRE.
--Iu New York the room occupied by
Brokers Board, fifty feet BY sixty, O
second floor, IN Broadway, costs them s.
900 year for rent. The Astor House re
for $95, 600.
"A man arrested in Pittsburgh, Pa, .