The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-08-18


Mrs. Winnifred Gallagher died in De-
troit lately, aged 108 years.
Rents have fallsu twenty-five per cent.
in Indianapolis. Is the thing contagious
Portland has received $4,000 from the
Barring Brothers, the London bankers.
"A Washington special says the President
will visit Auburn on his return from Chicago.
Mrs. Abagail Goliath, Senator Wilson's
mother. died at Natick, R. l., on Wednesday
aged 50 years.
Generals Anderson, Cullum, Parke, T
W. Sherman and Wife are at Newport, and
Grant is expected sooh.
John C. Breckenridge has rscen tly BE-
come the father of twins. They are Ca
nucks.
ID. Hostetter, at Pittsburgh, manufactur.
er of bitters, returns an income of $l24, ,785,
q monument to advertising.
The farmers around Nashville will have
no corn to acknowledge this year. Tbs
grasshoppers are eating it all up.
"A gardener near Evansville, H., raised
this year l 1000 bushels Of tomatoes from one
acre Of land.
Judge Edmunds, who lately resigned his
position in the Land Office, has been ap-
pointed Postmaster Of the Senate.
General r. P. Buckland was unanimous.
ly renominated for Congress yesterday in the
Ninth Ohio District.
Gen. Fullerton, instead OF becoming Mr..
Johnson Private secretary, proposes to open
law Office in St. Louis.
Mr.. c. Hackett, of Lewiston, Ne, has .
single blackberry stalk having seven hundred
and seventy green bleckberries upon it.
George Peabody, the English banker,
has finished his fishing amusements in Cana
da, and gone to Concord, N. II.
Abraham Lincoln, when youth, want
ed to marry Miss. Wood, ,..of Gentreville, Ind,
but she declined on account Of his being $50
awkward, lazy, and over fond of book.
President johnson is coming TO Chicago
in the same car that brought the remains Of
the martyred Lincoln, to their last resting
place, Only to think oft
Last Thursday, at Washington City,
VIM. II. Johnston, sixteen years of age,
robbed his blind father of $3.50 in green
backs.
Hon. Samuel Mckee, Of Kentucky, has
accepted an invitation to speak At the Ports>
mouth, Ohio meeting on the 25th inst.
Ex-Governor Hahn, of New Orleans, is
visiting in st. Louis. He is still suffering
severely from his wounds.
Gems. Sweeney and Spear, Fenians, have
returned from trip in Vermont. They speak
very hopefully of the prospects Of the Broth
erhood.
Rev. J. c. Fletcher, the Brazilian lee
turer, is building 100000 house on the
beach near the mouth Of the Merrimac river,
at Newburyport.
Maine will furnish 100000 barrels of
menhaden oil this season. This oil takes the
place, to large extent, of dark whale oil for
curriers' use.
Rev. Dr. f. H. Chaplin, of New York.
is spending mis- summer vacation at Glouces-
ter, and preaching on Sundays at Portland,
Me.
Mayor Monroe, of New Orleans, began
life as a Boston stevedore. He will probably
end it in a state Of dependence-fro a gals
lows.
Gen. Marshall LeEerts, of the New
Ycrk Seventh Regiment, has accepted the
appointment of Engineer of the consolidated
American and Western Union Telegraph
Lines.
The city authorities of Indianapolis are
busily engaged in scrubbiug up the streets
and alleys of that city, in anticipation OF
visit from the cholera.
A match game of base ball was played
the other day between the Laporte (Ind.
Club and the Western Club, of Indianapolis,
at the latter city. The latter was badly
beaten.
The steamer General Anderson was
Monday night, and came near going down.
Two deck hands were lost and a portion Of
her cargo.
A meeting was held in the City Hall, at
Nashville, the other night, to discuss what
measures should be taken to relieve the peo-
pie of that city from the present enormous
rents.
AT meeting on Saturday Of the Nash
vile Chamber Of Commerce, about 5000
was subscribed to assist Atlanta, Ga, in
building hospital for freedmen and iudigen'
whites.
&C. II. Dunn, of Obion county, Tennes
see, was arrested and lodged in Jail in Troy
in that State, last week, for perpetrating I
rape upon his own daughter, young girl o
fifteen.
The order of General Grant commanding
the Generals of Departments to send hin
copies Of newspapers which print mattel
opposed to the Government, has been re
voked.
Gen. Rosecrans has resigned his place a
Bngadier General in the regular army, ant
will be succeeded by Gen. Sickles. GenerA
Candy has been appointed Commander o
the Department Of Washington.
The portrait of the late Joshua r. Gid
dings, painted by Miss Ransom, Of Cleveland
has been purchased by Congress for 81 900
and viii be placed in the rotunda Of the Cap
itol.
A piece of property in St. Paul, MINI.
formerly owned by Captain Mafitt, of tn
privateer Florida, and con6scated by th
United States Government, was cold o.
Thursday for $4,000.
The Congressional act allowing Portland
to import building material free Of duty 70
one year, is worth 500, 900 to the city. Tn
Portland Sugar House Company, which los
million dollars by the FIRE, hos pstitionsd 70