The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-01-06
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-Canada has caught the rltuallst excite
ment, and many OF her clergy favor the
movement.
"A Wall street operator gave his wife a
, Christmas present of diamond set worth
$64 200.
The West Point cadets complain that the
food given them, though good in quality, il
spoiled in cooking.
lie Dernier Baiser," the Last Kiss, is
the title of q song composed by Adelina Patti
and published recently in Paris.
There are now so counties in Alabama,
six new ones having been recently created by
the Legislature.
An Albany telegram states that Roscoe
Ccnkling has the inside.track for the New
FORK Senatorship.
Exports of specie from the port of New
York during the past year amounted to S62,-
$40, 700.
1t is said General Mcclellan will soon
return from Europe to reside at Orange, New
Jersey.
Hon. Charles Sumner for next President.
-Tupper, the proverbial, is giving charity
readings in England.
John Brougham has closed his Boston
engagement on account of i'll health.
MIR. r. Garrett, an English manufacture
er, lately deceased, bequeathed an overcoa.
TO each of his 800 employees.
WIN. Henry James, the inventor of the
tubular boiler for locomotives, is living in
poverty in London, aged II.
Rev. W. II. Milburn, the blind preacher
il going to Paris TO consult an oculist, having
hopes of regaining his sight
Little Patti is doing - Don Pasquae = in
Paris. e. the old barytone does the . Don
Pa, and Patti does the rest
-Brevet Major General J. A. Porter,
Colonel and Depot Quartermaster at For,
Leavenworih, Kansas, has been ordered to
proceed to Detroit, Michigan, and settle his
accounts.
-Brevet Brigadier General L. C. Eaton,
Chief Quartermaster of the Department OF
Missouri, has been ordered to relieve Brevet
Brigadier General Porter from duty at Fort
Leavenworth, Kansas.
Punch says friend, who has seen great
many presentations OF plate, is anxious to
know whether the speeches made upon such
occasions are the origin of the word ''plate.
itudes."
Capt. J. II. Belcher, assistant quarter
master, has been ordered to duty at Fort
Leavenworth, Kansas, under direction of
Breset Brigadier General l.. c. Eaton, chief
quartermaster department of Missouri.
MIR. Geo. Ticknor, senior proprietor and
editor of the New Hampshire Sentinel, pub
lshed at Keene, died suddenly on Tuesday
afternoon, at the age CT forty-four years
He had been in feeble health for several
years.
1T is understood that Mr.. James Gordon
Bennett has recently undergone an operation
for strabismus, and considering the advanced
age of the patient (76l the operation was at
tended with the most gratifying success.
A Paris correspondent writes of the last
great musical sensation in that city: "His
name is Joachim, and be is the most eminen,
violinis, that ever was heard. The effect be
2produced was unspeakable; he subdued
crushed his public; he held his auditors pant
ing, intoxicated, under the master charm o.
bis fiddle bow; nothing-surely nothing in
the last twenty years-like this has been
heard in Paris Joachim has long been
known in Germany as an extraordinary vio.
mist. =
The aggregate receipts of theaers and
other places Of amusements, rot including
concerts or beer gardens, in New York on
Christmas. was twenty-four thousand dollars.
According 10 actual count sixteen Thousand
persons visited the Museum that day.
"A special to the Memphis Aroianche,
from Little Rock, Dec 80, says Revenue
Collector, named Brown, was waylaid at Dn
wallis Bluff, on the night Of the Goth, shot
through the jaws and robbed of his watch
and SIS, 900. His condition is critical. He
had drawn the money in Memphis. 1t is
supposed thar he was followed by the robbers
No arrests.
Among the novelties of New Year S day
in Cincinnati was the organization of party
of young men, who, in wagon drawn by 9
pair of spruce mules, proceeded to make
their formal calls. The valet of the party
dressed in irreproachablc livery, presented
their card at the door and ushered them in.
The card was rather formidable one, con-
tanning the names of the callers, printed or
a sheet of pasteb card about twelve by eighteen
inches. The party carried with them pro-
fuse supply of the best Bourbon and cigars
and reversed the hospitalities Of the day BY
4 inviting those upon whom they called to par
take of their entertainment.
Calhoun NJ. Derringer, Assessor of In,
= tsrnal Revenue for the Second District o.
Psnnsylvania, appointed few weeks since
his been arrested, charged with attempting
- extort money from whiskey distiller, BY
naking q seizure Of his premises, and then
agreeing to settle the matter for 81 900.
-Jo Clay, a young lawyer of Columbus
Indiana, shot man named Dougherty, a
Clifford, Bartholomew county, in that State
on Friday evening. Mr.. Clay was lectuting
when Dougherty undertook b get up a row
He tried to get out Of their way, but, beinf
closely pressed, he drew his revolver ane
fred at Dongherty, who was nearest, Tn,
/ ball entered his side and made . severe
vesnd, which will probably prove fatal. Mr.
CjGy is quiet, peaceable young man.
"A mysterious and diabolical affair hal
justcome TO light in Boston. On Friday {
boz was shipped as merchandise at Philadel
phia for Boston on the steamer Saxon, ans
marked I" Edward Mason, Portland, Maine.
The shipper said it would be claimed at Bos
: Ton. The box wss accidentally broken ope,
i at Boston, and, on examination, found /,
a Aontain three dead bodies, two men and ,
woman, apparently aged thirty FIVE years
The throats Of ~ woman and one of th
men had been cut, but no marks Of violenel