The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-12-29
NEWS SUMMARY.

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Gold dlosed at $l.8sA in New York yes
terday.
The Kearney Herald says buffalo are
crossing the Platte near that point in i'm
msnse numbers, and are going south fofwin-
ter quarters.
Large numbers of unemployed men in
Australia are asking the United States Con-
sui for free passage 70 this country.
There is salt well in Tuscarawas coun-
u, which yields 600 barrels of water in TWEEN.
~ four hoans, IS gallons of the water nAking
bnshel Of salt. SIS
"A resident Of Bucyrus, o., is about ship.
ping 70 the Governor Of Georgia, for the poor
Of that State, six car loads of wheat, six of
corn, and six barrels each Of pork and beef
"A member Of theatrical company play
ing at Albion, N. T., last week, accidently
shot himself through the hand, shauering it
badly. He continued to the end Of his part,
without betraying to the audience that he was
hurt.
The State Gazette, published at Austin,
Texas, has been selected to publish the laws
and treaties Of the United StAte& II is
charged that the editor of that paper was =
fierce rebel during the war, and his paper to-
day partakes strongly of the old character Of
its editor.
"A young man in Douglas county, Mo-,
last week, lit his pipe and threw the burning
match carelessly aside, so tina. it fell into an
open keg Of powder. Two persons were ia
tally injured by the explosion, and the house
in which they were was very much damaged
The Captain of the United States steam
er Michigan reports to the Nary Department
that that vessel vas stopped and the nachin.
cry somewhat damaged by big fish getting
entangled in the wheel. The monster shed
some blood, but managed to escape.
The Nashville Banner is informed by y
we'll known builder of that city, that more
new houses have been erected there this year
than in any previous year for half century,
and that, from the number of contracts al
ready entered into, the number of houses
erected next year will be still greater.
Capt. Charles A. Boutelie, Of Augusta,
Me-, recovered watch recently, which was
stolen from him six years ago, in Liverpool,
England. He was in concert-room at the
time it was stolen, and Immediately made the
facts known 10 the detectives there, who, af
ter six years, succeeded in finding it.
Senator Roberts Of Texas paints hor.
ribe picture of affairs in that State. He
says that twenty-seven hundred freedmen
have been murdered within year, and the
persecution of the unfortunate blacks is so
fearful that they are praying for restoration
of slavery as a protection against the mur-
derous hate Of the reconstructed white rebels
The Richmond Dispatch says that the
owner of the farm known as Dutch Gap,
Anding that the island made by the cutting
Of Buffers canal could not conveniently be
put to use without some means of communi>
cation with the main land, Is filling DIP one
end of the canal, in order to create q cause
way. and the canal will coon be among the
things that were.
81 "A New York dispatch says the numerous
aeres in the city at present are generally the
result of incendiarism, as some merchants
usually find it more profitable to burn stocks
that are insured, than to sell n deprecated
fgures. Fires are p.opertionste TO dullaess
e irade, and the insurance companies alrea-
~ suffer during period of s,agnaiion like
Eths present. Great fires may be expected
during the remainder of the seasoe.
There was great freshet at Cleveland,
- Monday, owing to sudden thaw and the
mih Of Sunday. The Cuyahoga ayeraowed
Et Aenks in many places, bridges were swept
6n1b anda large amount Of property sub
The American steamships Arago and
EN1cba were sold at auction in New ork on
|turap7. The sale drew about q hundred
3s6onS to the auctioneer's desk, yet there
Bat one solitary bid-that of Leonard
J6tpme, Esq, to whom they were knock
N 81 $3.50 ,0o0 EACH
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