The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-12-22
miseelianeous items.

A mass convention Of the Democracy OF
Colorado Territory will be held in Denvel.
City, on Jan 8.
&C +. Train, Dan Rice, and Daniel Pratt
are all independent candidates for the Presi-
dency.
The Meriden Conn Advertiser nomi.
mates upon Peoples ticket Gen. Grant
for President, and Gov. Bullock, of Massa-
chusetts for Vice President.
Says the New York Citizen: Mr.. Sew
ard, having purchased an iceberg, and secur-
Cd the refusal Of an earthquake, now proceeds
to negotiate for volcano.
. "A Western aper susa ests hat the "worst
kind ofe RADICAL ought to he selected for
the Nice~Presideney with Gen. Grant, in or
der to insure the Generals personal safety.
No reflections, we hope.
The time and place ofholding the Demo
cratic National Convention have not yet been
officially 6xed, but are informally discussed.
The claims Of st. Louis aud other Western
ctiea, Baltimore, New Haven, and Boston
are canvassed, and the issue seems to be be-
tween the first and last named.
-Iennyson's new poem will be finished by
February.
gees him aud goes fifteen better.
-nickens took twenty-thousand dollars
from Boston,
The New York Sun calls George Francis
Train social soda fount.
Laura Keene, according to Detroit pa
per, wishes to give an American game-dinner
to her friends in London, and has ordered
the game from q Detroit firm. Among other
things they have sent her two wild turkeys
weighing AZ pounds.
Miss Anna Marie Wendell, daughter of
Cornelius Wendell, was married in Washing
ton last week to Captain Frank Taylor, Of the
Fret Artillery.
The York Nail says: "The engage.
ment Of Miss Kitty Dix, youngest daughter
OF Gen. Dix, our Minister to France. to Mr..
Waleh, formerly Of Brooklyn, is announced =
Mir Jams Anderson has met with an ems
thusiastic reception in Australia. HIS Corr
olauus, Hamlet" and Benedict" are
universally praised by the Sydney press.
Isaac Hodason the celebrated creketer,
died in England on the 2ith ult., of COZ
sumption. lie was one of the best left hand.
ed bowlers that ever lived.
R ger sherman's old bull s-eye watch,
winch marked the hours during his prepaia-
ton of the Declaration Of Independence, is
TO be presented 10 Gen. ". I. Sherman.
The London Times says of Mr.. J. 6.
Clarke: An actor WHO, in the course O
one evening, can play Tyke aud Ma. or Dc
Roots, and produce q sensation in both, i:
An nuquestiouablc acquisition TO the London
stage.
AT fair held in Pittsburg, by ladies'
charitable association, beautiful dressing
gown. smoking cap, meerschaum pipe and 9
pair Of slippers, for the most populer editor
were awarded 10 Mr. Brigham, Of the Pitts
burg Commercial, by the following vote: c
d. Brigham, Commercial 4S5; j. &. Seiben
lex, Chronicle, 40S: James P. Barr, Post, ] 10
scattering about 50.
% Baldwin, the 'Irish Giant" who wa.
some time ago matched to fight Jem Mace
the champion Of England, arrived in New
York on Wednesday. o Baldwin comes on
to this country to meet Mace, against whom
he was matched to eight for the championship
OF England, hut which fight was stopped b,
the authorities Mace being put under heav.
bonds not to fight IN England. The British
champion has agreed to meet O Baldwin il
New York. and, it is expected, will arrive ii
the next steamer. 0'Baldwn stands six fee
five inches.