The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-03-08

GENERAL ITEMS.

packages at New Haven on Tuesday, one man
paid two dollars for package which proved
TO contain forty good coon skins.
"A billiard tournament for the State of In
diana is announced for May 2lst, at Fort
/ Wayne. The championship is for a cue val
ued at $3.50.
A vengeful individual, in the exuberance
of his rage at some one who offended him,
said: Il Il have revengel by Jovel I'll give
his little boy tin horn"
"A shoemaker in Leeds, England, under
took. lately, for wager, to eat an uncooked
rabbit, fur, skin and all. He succeeded. but
Immediately went into convulsons, which
continued for an hour, when he died.
The Senior class of Amherst College
have voted to dispense with the usual public
| class-d exercises.
- A daughter of the late Hon. W p Man
gum. formerly United States Senator from \.
Carolina, is teaching school in that State.
The Neburyport Herald is three score
and ten years old, having entered upon its
seventy-frs volume
A consistory will be held in Rome on
the 10th of March, when an American Car
dnal will be created.
/ Punch makes this excellent joke Bacon
/ lived at Ham House. The writer of the
4 " Elegv in a Country Churchyard when he
came to London, always stopped at Gray
/ Inn.
Benjamin Franklin left fund to the city
of Boston, in trust for the benefit of poor
apprentices. Hon. William Minot. who has
been treasurer Of this fund for flfty FIVE years,
has Just resigned In his hands it has increas-
ed from about $4,000 to a sum exceeding
i Slll,OO0.
A basso may perhaps be said TO resem-
bic moderately fast trotter when gets low
down in his .fo,tes.
Z The army appropriation bill, which
passed the House. and is to be acted upon by
the Senate, contains an item of nearly SILL
600 900 for the pay of the army for commn-
tation of officers; subsistence, s 800 600; for
subsistence in kind for regulars and yolun-
teers, $1,000. 900; for the Quartermaster' $
Department, about Slo.000,000. The total
is about $50, 900, 900.
The diary of Captain Musgrave. who was
wrecked on one of the Auckland Islands and
detained there with his crew for twenty
months, was written in seals blood; It is
said to be wonderful as Robinson Crusoe.
and vet perfectly true.
In consequence Of the alarm about the
pork disease. the pig dealers Of Vienna have
gary not TO send them any more animals for
the present, as most Of the hotels have sup
pressed all preparations of pork in their bills
of fare.
The Imperial Geographical Society of
France has admitted among its members. as
successor to Nine. Ida Pfeffer tthe only for
eign lady that had been elected into that
bodv) Nine. Dora Istre. The new mem
ber has distinguished herself by her travels
I in Roumelia and the Morea. Dis'r1H people
are apt to wander about good deal.
Among NJ. Alexander Damas many tai
ents il appears that cooking may be included;
in proof Of which he recently gaye a dinner,
cooked wholly by himself, al his new apart
ment, Boulevard Malesherbes, to a party OF
twelve, among whom Mrs Miner Gibson was
included. The cuiSsiae is reported TO have
been worthy Of Sover. or even Brillat Savarin
himself in his very best days.
The Seymour (fnd.) Times mentions a
case il that town in which yonng lady ad-
mnlstered ''love powders toa young gentle
man in hope of winning his affections. The
consequence was that he was poisoned and
came near dying.
-Thad Stevens. upon being asked last eve
ming if he intened to vote for the admission oi
Tennessee. promptly replied yes, and gave
the following reasons for doing so should
vote against it, the impression would be cre-
ated throughout the country that the happy
relations between President johnson and
myself had been disturbed. Therefore have
determined TO vote for the admission of Ten
nessee.
The Cops at a recent municipal convention
at Des Moines, resolved, that they are ''wil.
ling to say that bygones shall be bygones,
&c. We haven't any doubt Of it. We do
not doubt that those who opposed the war
who camored fer cessation of hoshlities-
who said the South could not be whipped
who could not conceal their elation at rebel
victories-who called the soldiers Lincoln
hirelngs who sought to depreciate our
currency, and who supported the Chicago
Convention and its candidates-we doubt not
, that these would like for that record to be
, forgotten or overlooked We do not doubt
that the copperhead gentry that run the John
son ratification meeting here would wish the
record they made for themselves during the
. war, and which made them so odious politl-
cally to Union men, were forgotten; that
Union men should be willing to strike hands
with them in harmonious political action
hereafter and let bygones be bygones. But
Union men will not do it. That damnine
record is made and written in the hearts OF
our loyal people, and they will not Join their
political fortunes with sympathizers.
Keokuk copperheads thought they had
E found the body of defunct Union President
and Kissed, and crawled, and twined them
selves about it, and steadfast Union men
stood aoof, and left them to follow their
snakey instincts.
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