The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-01-05

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Adj. Gen. Baker, Gen. Curtis, Lieut..
Co.. s0s4 sana ssvssal 90 - Hnsln1b
Members Of the General Assembly, have n
rived in Des Noines. 90 says - Ra1fkw.
"A young man paned Jsnnino, living =
Hf1ir;s Crssk! sevn6lip, nnbs41Sf AaA
waskilled last week b falling into Won.
-Senstor Kassoa aaiiivsd = Hi home IN
Des Moines upon Monday evening.
-Oskaloosa rejoices in new Silver Band.
So says the Hzuld. n.
Two drunken rosghs Who were sallopiag
their horses, ran over young lady 1t Abba,
the other dag, iniuring her sefiDusly. So
says the Union.
Joseph Deice Of De Witt, Clinton conn.
", fell down stairs one day last week and
died Immediately. His age was eighty-foar
years. So says the advocate.
The Charles City Inteligencer says VIM.
Graham, formerly of Riverton, Floyd county,
has fallen heir TO $46, O00, O0Ol Three a.
piers might be knocked from these figures,
and respectable estate be then left to Mr..
Graham. he il = Scotchman, and the money
COMES i1oM INC ecSumusSsaou5 Vi MS 8tsau-
father.
Mrs. Scion Longworthy and three
daughters, Of Dubuque, had narrow escape
from drowning last week. They had started
to Cross the Mississippi On the ice in . TIVE
horse sleigh, but when they had proceeded
only few feet from the shore the horses
broke through into water fifteen or twenty
feet deep. The females sprang upon the ice
~ II Al L.
of men from the shore the horses and sleigh
escape.
The colored population of Davenport OBJ.
served the 1st Of January ss the anniversary
of the Proclamation Of Emancipation, in n
appropriate manner.
"A large number Of the leading Republi-
cans OF Scott county addressed letter to
Hon. Hiram Price few days since, request
ing that be should deliver an address in Dav-
export, during his visit at home, on the sub
ject of reconstruction, and inviting him q
designate the time and place when and where
it would be most convenient for him to de-
would deliver the address, and designated the
German Theasre Is the place, and Tuesday
| evening, the I'd inst, as the time for the
meeting.
The Clinton Herald says Adjt. General
Baker has received notification from the Wal
| Department that the Seventh Iowa Cavalry
cannot be relieved this winter, but that pay
masters are on the Plains, paying the troops
to December l, 1865.
The Ottumwa Courier has entered upoE
the eighteenth year of its existence. II wal
started in August l848, by Street / Worden
Its present proprietor took possession of it il
December, 1855. 1t is an excellent paper
worthy OF the long career of prosperity which
it has enjoyed May it live and thrive abun
dainty forever.
The 0ttumwa Coxri<y says that Franz
| O'Neill. a! whose house a fur collar belong
! ing to Hon. b. +. Roberts was found, is ar
honorable man, aud would not knowingly
perpetrate mean act II thinks the posses
sion of the property by Mr.. ON. was ths
result simply of misapprehensiou. as1e1
VIM. Penn Clark of Iowa City has beer
! promoted upon the recommendation of the
Paymaster General to a Lieutenant Golonelcy
| by brevet in the Pay Department. He i.
connected with the Department of the Cum
berland, with his headquarters at Louisville
! So says the Davenport Gazette.
| A workman in the new steam bakery O
Brobst L Brubaker, in Cedar Rapids, had ont
| of his hands badly crushed few DAYS since
between the rollers Of the mixing machine
So says the Times.
| "A wolf hunt was organized in Marion II
be executed on Saturday last, in which tn,
hunters were to take no guns, but simpl,
| dogs and horns.
| The ladies of Eddyville are waging Wal
upon the saloons of that usually quiet littl,
city. They declared war on Tuesday morning
and at once commenced hostiities. The,
won, of course. A letter writer in the Oska
loosa Herald recounts the progress of affair
| thus:
| Women to the amount of one hundred Il
one hundred and fifty started on raid for tn,
whisky shops, armed with hatchets and axes
The FIRST assault was made on Vests Barn o
the Union House, where they demolished
several barrels of the critter. next they wen
into his cellar and smoke house, and you be
they rolled out several kegs and demolished
them; then they went for George Coon, FREQ
Rsuslaleer, James Reeves and Mr.. Gurlock
Still the work is going On. They are doing
| glorious good work in the whisky traffic
They are now ct the Railroad Saloon, pouriuI
out the 'rot-gut.' / say let 'er rip. They in
tend to visit them once week until they qui
selling whisky. Trade is played out to-day
Who would not live in Eddyville.
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The 0skaloosa Herald says the suit " en-
titled Mahasks County R. R. Co. rs d. v. R
| K. Co., has been takea by change of venue
to the District Court of Henry County, at Mt