The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-03-21


Normal schools for colored teachers
have been established ID Washington, D. c.
The receipts ofDoal for the current year
at Boston will reach nearly one million Of
tons.
Barley is twenty Eve cents per pound in
coin. and thirty in ''dust' (gold dust) in
Owyhee, Idaho.
The anti.monopoly men are attempting
to geea general railroad bill through the
New Jersey legislature.
We hear that Governor Hamilton, of
Texas, ,is expected in the North some time
during the present month.
Six years ago . gentleman in Worcester
wrote to his brother in Mexico; the letter
did not reach its destination till the middle
of last December.
George, Starr, the Murderer. was bap.
tized according to the ceremonies Of the
Christian Cambellte) Church, on Saturday
last, at Ss.,Louis.
The Santa Fe Gazette is not in favor Of
making New Mexico state, and adds that a
large majority Of the people Of the territory
are strenuonsly opposed toit.
-Sesenty-fve Quakers. forced 20 leave
their homes in Randolph county, North Caro-.
lima, In consequence Of persecution, arrived
IN Washington yesterday ON their way to
Indiana. More are 10 follow.
The United States Senate has confirmed
the following nominations Brigader Geuer
81 Benjamin H. Gierson TO be major general;
BrigAdier General Edwin n McCooI to be
major general by breveI
The Fenian scare in Canada is working
mischief in the newspaper Offices. The Lon
don 10. Wy Free Press has ten compoeiters
in the volunteer service, and requests its
patrons to be forbearing until after st. Pat
rick Day.
The cii;zers of Dryden and Virgil Cor
ners Cortland county,, in New York. are
laboTing under ghost excitement. A re
ward of 81 900 is offered to any one who will
give satisfactory explanation of the myste
nous sights and sounds
The Pittsburg Chronicle congratulstes
the Inhabitants Of the smoky CITY tha, the
price of gas in that city is lower than at any
other place in the United States, being one
dollarnnd ninety cents per thousand feet
government tax included.
-Ihere are already forty three papers in
Tennessee, and the Nashville Dixpatrh saws
that in few weeks this number will be IN
creased to hfty-ten more than in the best
times before the war. Three new papers
have also made their appearance in Georgia
/ THE ndes, reigning monarch in the world
at the present time is the Landegraye OF
Hamburg, aged 81. The next oldest are the
Pope. aged 81, and the King of Prussia aged
bs. The Youngest sovereigns are the Emper-
or of China, aged IL. and the King
Greece, aged go.
They have blood hound at Memphis
that must have been worth something if be
had only come into existence before the war
Il is a Siberian" seven feet eight inches in
length, thirty three inches in height, sixteen
inches across the chest. and weighs one hun
dred and eighty rounds: probably the largest
dog in the United States.
A soa of Mr.. g. Lane Fox. gentleman
holding large estates in Yorkshire. England,
has become a convert to the Church of Rome,
and he has sought priest orders. but Arch
bishop Manning has declined to grant his re-
guest, on the ground that he will be more
useful to his new faith as 4 iayman than as
an ecclesiastic.
The logansport Indiana Journal saws /:
For the first sine in the history of our courts.
a negro woman Mrs Amanda Lindsey, nee
Hill. was admitted to testify in the Cass Cir
cult Court on last Tuesday. in the case of
the State of Indiana against Mise. Objections
were made by the attorneys for the defence,
which were overrulea BY his honor, Judge
| HidIia.
Two reconstructed military gentlemen.
one of whom formerly served under Morgan,
fought'a duel at Point Chieot, Arkansas. "a
secluded spot on the Mississippi river The
weapons used were bowie. knives; Major
Barns was wounded in the arm. but eon,rlved
to cut off his opponents Col. Zuyman' 81
| nose. slash his face fearfully, and finally pu:
ont one of his eyes. Then he was satisfied.
The daughter of the keeper Of an Did
curiosity shop in Paris has just lost her leg
| from singular accident She was displaying
| Malay dagger to an amateur Of arms. when
the weapon fell from the scabbard and slight,
| ly grazed her foot, which began to swell i'm
mediately. The doctor al once tested the
! weapon, and found that the point had beer
/ dipped in one of those dire poisons agains
/ which there is. no antidote.
| The Protestant cemetery at Florence
| Italy. is in danger of destruction by the pro
posed extension Of the city. The present
burial ground was not granted originally Il
| the English, but to the Swiss, although it ha.
long been used as a place Of interment fo
| Protestants Of all countries: When it shall
cease to be so used arrangements will have Il
be made with the municipality for another
"A correspondent of the Rutland (yt.
| Herald, correcting a-statamsns Of that paper
! to the effect thai George w. Kendall, formeri,
editor ofthe Oew Orleans Hcayune, and latel,
i a wool-grower in Texas, was ..Burlingtor
boy" says: ut cnn be proved by the record
that George w. Kendall and Horace Greele,
were both born within the limits Of old Am
! herst, n. H., the former serving his appren
ticeship in the Cabinet Office, under the lat
venerable Richard Boylston
There isin the parish OF Helmingham. SUI
folk, England, an ancient grave field Of hu
man skeletons. The bodies are several hun
dreds in number, lying in thin layer Of fin
gravel on the boulder clay Of the distric,
within two feet of the present surface. The
| are placed very closely side BY side upo1
their backs, with their feet to the east an
heads 10 the west, and in remarkable sta,
Of preservation. They are all supposed /
date before the year 800.
i "A young law student in Paris, VII
stabbed another student one night at the Ell
4 dorades through jealousy about lorettee ha
just been tried He walked up to his rival a
he was listening to the girl, and stabbed hr
In the breast He did not kill him. Th
4 prisoner pleaded blind jealousy, and asserte
J, that he knew nothing Of what occurred tha
fatal evening. Verdict Guilty, with exten
uating. circumstances. Sentence, tn year
1t hard iaher.
-Awedding was avkwaSdly interrupfed !
Bristol, England last month. A young wg
81 man Who was to have been married nes
morning, was taken into custody 0n q charg
OF stealing articles of millinery the properi
of > nrn BY whom she had been employed
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