The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-04-12
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Some fellows Of the Jenny sponge
sole and nippsr class, entered tie hopse Of
the Rev. W. Bowman At Wheaton, and stole
from the poor passon oil tho mousy he had,
IS. so. Those thieves have eest.iAlv reached
the height of iliputisn v,llainy. -Dss koines
Register. =
The man Who does up the Iowa News for
the Regider can be be, on every time. The
above robbery took place in Muscatine and
it was not all the money Mr.. Bowman had.
You don't very often catch Muscstiue cler
yman reduced to $3.50, friend Register.
:. We pays 'em better nor that. = AnscotiN
Oesrie. -. nres kehres
The Auscatine Courier thus mentions
the vary sudden death Of s. d. vsils, Esq,
brother Of our respected friend Judge vsis,
of F. Madison:
IS. d. viele, Esq, one Of our best and
most influential citizens, WIS taken With AZ
appoplectic fit yesterday morning, and died
At six o'clock last evening. The public will
hear of the sudden death Of Mr.. Viels With
peculiar regret He has been among US for
many years, and was well known to the com
munity as q gentleman whose daily life was
without reproach and whose character vAs
withouta blemish. He has been in feeble
health for . number of days, having injured
himself, while fixing the gas pipes under the
Second street bridge. by fall. He vas on
the streeteday before yesterday. however, and
no one imagined the sad calamity which vas
20 soon to throw large circle Of friends
and relatives into mourning"
The editor of the Mitchell Pess has
learned from Mr.. George Young, late Super
intsndent of the Dubuqse d Sioux City Rail
road, that the Valley road viii be built 70
Nashua by next fall.
AT the recent election 10 Dubuque the
whole number OF votes cast for Horse Rail
way was 2, 1sS-s majority Of z oei.
Christopher McClusky, of Sand Spring,
IN Delaware county. retired several nights
ago in good health, WAS seized with An apo,
piectie 6s and in the morning be was .
corpse.
From the Oskaloosa Herald, We learn that
James Rutiedge. late Of Darlington, met With
q serious accident one day last week. In
discharhins bis gun, when returning from
hunting, the bresch-pin was blown out,
striking him on the bridge Of the nose, break.
ing it down and seriously injuring one Of bis
eyes.
Lieut., J. C. Mcbride lsft Msrengo lest
wssk for 81 Louis, TO join he rtsinsns 70
which he has recently been sssigued-shs
ssth o. s. Infantry.
The Lutheran Society have commenced
the erection Of . steepls on their church in
Dubuque. II is said that it will b shapsly
structure about one hundred feet high.
The olerwoat Leader ears he loss Of
cattle, sheep and hogs, in that vicinity. this
season, is fearfully great The fscs is differ.
emily asceuntsd for By different sii,iduals
soms sstfibats ii 70 the poor qsality 81 last
years. corn, but the mos. probable cause -.
signed is, TOO little feed. Grain aud proven
der Of oil .inds hss beea % scarce in tina,
locality, during the present winter, that farm.
ere have attempted to economise By light
feeding. The winter has been unusually long
and severe, and the consequences is that stock
10 dying cd al ruiaoas rste.
"A new Commaudery Of knights Temp.
lax has lately been idaituted ct Cedar Falls.
Isis'bemsd in honor Of Baldwin, the Era Cross.
DEF King OF Jerusalem. A dsputssion from
Sloan Commsadery Of Dubuqss ~ss pres
snt and assisted IN the CEREMONY
GENIAL SHERIDAE.--In height be 10 not
many inches over Ave feet-about Napoleon
siEe-and his fscs b Hapoleonic, though
rather animal IN is type, beyond the average
" hhensnss He hes tie Ark eyss. DAFT
hsir closely cropped, brunette compiexfos, |
oval contour. classical features, square jaws,
prominent cheek boaes, straightIy compressed |
mouth, compact and mathematical forehead,
which we see in the earlier pictusps Of the
first French Consul. Like Napoleon, also, !
his neck Is very abort, bringing his head we'll
down between bis shoulders, like large con-
ical mushroom without . stem and the |
striking, or main peculiarly is the length Of
hka Aody and arms contrasted with the short |
ness of his iegs-these latter terminating (let |
me add ia jassice) with exquisite little feet,
high in The lnsiep aud taperipg In the toss, /
which might Be bhovn % IN ladies' man |
Der svee, the msterial either pink satin or
bronxed cali, and With pink or blue roseus
ct the bottom Of thu insisp.
You want 20 know what Phil. Sheridan
il likef" sxid President Lincoln once to
Old Gidsos Melies, Who vss sskins il, his
dreamy vsy What manner Of man xas This
yoaag Westssn ssstrsar. Whose fans VS. jsst
then beginning TO sttrocs attention. =" He ID
. brown hule fellow, With . long body, shors
lsgs, nos ssoash neck to hang ER end
such loeG arms that he can scrsfch his an
clss, Il thsy hch, viihSst stoo1iAn No
batter description could b. given. in spch
bfisf hssase, y Gen. Phi. 6Isr;f1sis