The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-08-10
NEWS SUMMARY.


on Tuesday evening.
The receipts from internal revenue yes
terday amounted to S2,947,2l5.
Horace Greedy is rusticating for few
weeks in the White Mountains.
Lyman N. Ingalls,, prominent lawyer
of Delaware county, died at Salina, Kansas,
on the 25th of July.
I'm the week ending Aug. IA, the Com
missioner Of Patents will issue 2o6 new pat
ents.
Since the 1st of August there have been
eleven deaths by cholera in Charity Hospital,
New Orleans.
There is to be grand Union rally at CO.
lumbus, Ohio, on the 2lst inst, Gov. Cox
and Hon. Samuel Shellabarger as speakers
The crop prospects in Colorado are very
favorable, and mining is also quite encourag
ing.
The Baton Rouge Advocate says the fatal
army worm has made its appearance near
Clinton, in Louisiana.
Comptroller A. Thweat has distributed
1888 900 bushels of corn to 40 900 benefciaries
in Upper Georgia.
1T is reported that if Gen Logan is offered
the position of Congressman at large from H.
linois, he will accept it.
The mortality in Chicago for the last
month, was greater than for any other previ-
Gus July in the history of the city.
A train Of gravel cars ran off the track
near Chicago recently, killing instantly the
conductor, Edward Washburne.
MIR. Aaron Myers, of the firm of Rosen.
baugh & Co., oil merchants in Pittsburg, was
drowned at Oil City on Tuesday last.
The troubles in Fannin county, Ca, have
broken out again. Three Union men were
recently shot by party of rebel outlaws.
The Bainbridge Georgian, of the 25th
ult., mentions samples of cotton of this years
growth, and from two plantations in its secs
ton.
There was fire near Springfield, Ohio,
on Friday, which destroyed the barn of Mrs.
McCreight, on the Urbana road. Loss
$4,000.
Mrs. Grant, of Montgomery, Alabama,
the mother of FIVE children, committed sui
eide Sunday evening by taking laudanum.
Cause, jealousy.
The Planters Factory at Antangaville,
Alabama, which furnished employment for
apd is now for sale.
Gov Cox, Of Ohio, has refused to grant
the application made for the pardon Of Nc
Connel, the Olmstead murderer. now under
sentence Of death
Gen, James A. Hardie, Inspector Gene
raj e. S. A., has left Washington to make o
general inspection Of the artillery arm of the
service throughout the United States.
Captain John Shallcross, an old and es>
teemed citizen Of Louisville, and a well
known steamboat man, died al his residence
in that city on Saturday.
The real name of the author of "George
Geith.r Maxwell Drewit," etc, is said to
be Mrs S. II. Riddel. Her nom de plume
is T. 6. Trafford.
Rev. jeremiah Day, d. D., ex President
of Yale College, was 90 years of age July
Sd, 1866. He has attended 10 Yale Com
mencemeuts.
Hon. Ezekial Whitman, formerly Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court of Maine, died
at his residence at East Bridgewater, on Wed,
nesday evening, in the 9lst year of his sge.
The Princess Dagmar, who was betroth
ed to the Czarewiteh, is about to be married
10 his brother, now the heir presumptive to
the Russian Empire. He is represented as
not an excessively amiable prince.
The small pox is raging violently at Pen
sacola. Bishop Quinlan, with several priests
and number of Sisters of Charity, have
gone over there from Mobile.
Hon. Ezekiel Whitman, formerly Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court of Maine, died
at his residence at East Bridgewater on
Wednesday in the ninety-frst year of his
age.
The effects OF the pirate, John N. Mafit,
who commanded the rebel steamer Florida,
we're sold at auction by the United States
Marshal at St. Paul, Minnesota, on Thursday
last.
The rebel dead who fell at the battle Of
Beech Grove and Hoover's Gap, in Coffee
county, Tennessee, have been taken up and
buried by citizens of that section, who intend
to erect monument to their memory.
DR. Robbins, of Jersey City, member OF
the American Dental Association, now in ses-
sion at Boston, fell from the steps of the
State House in fainting ft on Friday last
and struck his face upon the fagstones of the
pavement with such force as TO fracture his
jaw.
The long contemplated monument in
memory of David c. Broderick, in Lone
Monument Cemetery, San Francisco, is nov
complete, with the exception OF the bust OF
Broderick, to be inserted in a niche which is
now being cut by P. ]. Divine, the sculptor.
The whole structure and surroundings will
cost about SIT 900 when completed, $500
of which was contributed by the State.
The Secretary Of State has been notified
by the French Government that no postpone
ment will occur in the opening of the Paris
of affairs on the Continent The opening
ceremonies will certainly take place on the
1st Of April, 1851
A special to the New York Times says
6 The paragraph concerning Gen. Dix and
the mission to the Hague, published day OF
two since, was wholly erroneous. Gen. Dir
has never in any way disparaged the tender
OF this mission nor expressed any other feel
Ing than one Of qualification that it was Of
fered him. Aud SO far from rejecting, it is
known that he intends to accept it, Al,
though the mission to Hague is second class
in importance, it is regarded al one of the
pleasantest on the diplomatic list. n
Commodore Reed Cooper, of the Libe-
rian navy, died at his farm on the ST. Psuls
River on the llth Of February Lest ased