The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-01-15


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NEWS sUMnARY.
Gold closed at $l.s4f in New York yes
terdav.
The extensive steam saw mill Of A. J.
Barrst Sons, in WILMINGTON, Del, was to-
tally destroyed BY ERE on Saturday. Los.
$sS, 900.
AT Fall River, on Saturday, Edwin, sou
Of Samuel and ElisabetA Broadbens, fen a.
TO the stove and upset . teapot scalding him.
self SO severely that he died from the effecu
of his injuries. He was FIVE years Of age.
John Ward, dlios Jerome Levieps, ~,
sentenced Monday, At Burlington, VI, to b.
hung for the murder Of the woman Griswold
at timeto Be subsequently fixed.
Two girls were arrested in the streets o.
Pitts6eld, Saturday. night, in q stats Of iptox.
icatiun, and when found were stuck IN !
snow-bank. from which they were With din.
Guilty extricated. ~
The Victoria fTexas) Advocate spe.n o,
the operations OF . regular gang of horse
thieves between the Colorado and Nuecee.
The New Orleans Orsscest says that there il
regular sang operating from the Nueces I'll
the way to Red River, with branches and
rami6cations in Arkansas, Missouri and Kan.
sas.
The Mayor Of Burlington, Vt, has a see.
ond time vetoed plan rassed BY the City
Council for obtaining a supply Of water from
Lake Champlsin, on the score Of expense.
Mr.. James Merryman, of Harpswell,
Me-, now living, has on his farm . willow
tree which girts III feet or 10 feet above
the ground. The remarkable part of the
story is that it has grown from twig with
which Mr.. Merryman drove oxen when he
was young man.
"A daily newspaper man who has Just eot
out Of the traces says heeis becoming quite
well acquainted with his family. He discov-
cred, to his surprise, that his daughter could
play upon the piano. He never had time TO
discover the fact before.
The Methodist centenary collection now
foots up over So, 800, 900, and it is not yet Ill
in. Il will undoubtedly reach $4,000, GOO
Of this sum Daniel Drew of New York gave
$5o0,0O0, Mr.. Baldwin Of Ohio 500, 600,
Mr.. Rich Of Boston SIS 900, and many others
from $4,000 to $50, 600 each.
"A bill has been introduced into the New
York Legislature providing that eight hoars
shall codstitute legal days work, in the ab-
sence of express conditions 10 the contrary in
contracts. The bill says nothing at all abeut
the regulation Of pay.
Vessels of all sorts which we're put IN
der the Bntish flag or sold abroad during the
war numbered 1os. During Eve years 1901
American vessels were thus transferred.
Geo. Peabody has given away s.. .ooo, 900
since lS52--an average of 1000 day for
fourteen years, If We omit Sundays and holi
days.
Rev. James Freeman Clarke, in recent
lecture, said he wondered why young ladies
indnlged in Italian screams and Gssnan
moans, under the pretense Of singing, and
Why they did not sing some Of the beautiful
English melodies which abound in our lan>
guage /; a sentiment which met with the hearty
assent OF the audience.
In all the interior towns of Virginia,
-sleighing, skating and other winter sports
have been as common as in New England or
Canada during the mast week
"A mass meeting of the mill operatives of
Lowell is called for Friday evening, TO urge
the reduction Of the hours of labor in the
mills of that city to ten per day.
Parson Brownlow and Brigham Young
each received vote for Chaplain of the
Idaho Legislature, on the 9Th of December
last. The votes we're complimentary.
The penal law Of Alabama, which pun
ishes horse and mule stealing with death,
took effect on the lst of January.
"A respectable farmer named Rolfe has
Just died at Beacons6eld. England, at an ad-
vanced age, who, when child, was the mod
el of Sir Joshua Reynolds famous picture of
"The Infan. Hercules.' He grew to be .
very large and powerful man.
The monastery at Arcadi, which was
lately blown up by the Cretan insurgents, was
800 years old, and was the finest and richest
monastery in the Levsnt 1t contained a
very rich library, with rare Byzantine man
uscripts, all of which perished in the ruins
Passed Assistant Paymaster Mcdaniel,
stationed at Pensacola, writes that few day.
ago Stephen R. Mallory, late rebel Secretary
of the Navy, delivered an address to the
young men Of Pensacola, exhorting them to
devote particular attention to military studfes,
as that was matter Of much more impor-
tance to the South than literature.
David Streeter of Woonsocket returned
home from Dedham last Monday evening,
and went to BARRIERS shop to get shaved.
He soon began TO cough and to bleed. He
was conveyed to his home, about forty rods,
as quickly as possible, but died just as he
reached it.
-Fiftees young ladies and gentlemen,
members Of the principal families Of Ste
phensport, Breckenridge county, Kentucky ,
were poisoned by eating what is termed mar
BILE cake. This cake is made by dissolvng
cochneal in hot water, and so mixing il with
the batter as TO give the cake marbleized
appearance. It is thought that the cochineal
had been adulterated with carbonate of lead.
All the victims were. at the last accounts,
out Of danger, but their suHerings were very
severe.
Edward Lynch, a young man about
twenty-five years Of age, who has resided in
Northboro' about year, was carelessly ex.
smining loaded pistol Tuesday afternoon,
when the weapon was discharged and the ball
entsrnd his head in the vicinity Of the brain.
His recovery is not expected.
The snow in Hampden county is 70 deer
that mail carrier was three days in getting
from Tolland to West6eld, this week. He
found drifts twenty feet deep, and Il Wa i'm
possible to 90 over or through them, b venI
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