The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-06-08
JoTTINGs AND CuLLINGs.

We NEE, upon the Level and part upon the
Square.
JOTTINGs AND CULLINGS.
They have new court housein New Al
7 bany, Indiana, which eos, near $50, 900.
A new furnace and rolling mill is being
erected in Crawford county, Indiana.
The reduction Of the National debt
during the past month was about $4,000, 900.
The Radical majority in Washington
City was about 5000.
There was but little interest manifested
in the Judicial election in Illinois The Great
City Of Chicago cast but little over athousand
votes.
The Merrimac Company are putting up
new mill at Lowell, which is said to be the
most complete in the place, and will contain
$4,000 spndles.
The japanese Government has agreed to
open the three important ports Of Yeddo,
Osaca, aud Negato, to foreign trade, on the
first Of January next.
The Secretary of the Treasury has author
lied the Director of the Mint to call in the
nickel cents now in circulation.
Schemes looking to the eventual aunexa-
ton Of Mexico are on the taps in New York
amongst the political and money brokers
and spectators Of the country.
Should the project OF European disarma-
nent, now pressed upon the several govern
ments Of the continent, be successful, it viii
release more than million men from military
service And this great surplus of men not
being able TO find employment in the already
overcrowded avenues of industry and trade in
Europe, would turn their eyes westward, and
soon commence swelling the tide of emigra-
ton to our shores.
The New York Times states that "the
finest cars and the greatest care for the com
fort Of railway passengers, are to be fourd on
the section Of the Pacific Railway, between
Omaha and Council Bluffs"
A knowledge of Geography is TINS ex
bibiied by the american Metropolitan Times,
fully equal to that of its namesake, the Lon-
don Times, in locating yicksburg on the At
antic Coast.
Mrs Governor Eyre has received a
bracelet Of gold and Almonds from her hus-
bands admirers
--ltis said that Gen. Schenck has con
scented TO run for Governor Of Ohio, and, if
nominated, will resign his seat in Congress.
1T is said the pc ople &c Paris intimate by
their mutterings that the Emperor OF Russia
l. H. s4etas FL ,.tfsr
The Catholics OF Cincinnati contribute
$50, 600 in gold pieces toward the support of
Pope Plus IL. Archbishop Purcell will car
ry 1t to him.
The New York Gazette says 'presi-
ident johnson complains bitterly of the re
strictions placed on him by Congress Said
he, recently, to gentleman, 4 nm like bird
in a cage. and al that ! can DO Is to bite the
wires.
Frederick Douglass Is being urged by in>
fuential persons at Washington for Superin-
tendent Of the Freedmen's Bureau.
The Paw Paw True Northe,ner favor.
female suffrage, and puts the case strongly,
asking: Because a Ga is unfortunately
born a female must it o.. at ground alone
be restricted in the sphere of usefulness il
was sent into the world TO occupy !" Guess
not,
A nopular American writer says the "la>
dies rather take TO terrible people; prize
fighters. pirates, hghwaymen, Grand Turks
aud Bluebeards generally have a fascination
for the sex.
The Spanish Government has issued a
decree reducing the value of slaves IN Cnbn
TO such an extent as to Indicate that slaye ~
is ia 1.-The course Of ultimate extinction" on
that island.
The largest monthly shipment Of coal tc
Southern ports from Pittsburgh has just been
made 1t amounts to 6,J56, 200 bushels.
A housekeeper doesn't see the proprietJ
OF market report which calls an advance Q
a cent pound an Improvement in beef
Worcester, Mass, employs ,, 900 men il
boot making. and as many more in the vi
cnity get their worl; from that city 1t i
estimated that 1000, 900 worth Of boots anc
shoes are annually sent gu. of the city.
On the New York Central and Hudson
River Railway lines passenger fare is at III,
rate OF two cents per mile. Both pay lnrg'
dividends to shareholders
Col. Forney, in a letter to the Phiiadel
phia Press, says Mr.. Disraeli has the bearing
and the figure Of Senator treelinghaysen, 0
New Jersey, ana tr. maidstone Is not IN
like Mr.. sumner, OF Massachusetts though
not so large man. = q kke
1t is supposed that Soulouque will retur
to hayu, along with other political exiies, 4
order TO and the reneinder or bis days j
his matt - THERE'S no thought, howev
er, OF ~ any part in public affairs
he is over eighty years Of age, and one sid
of his body is quite paralyzed. aAis
The richest member of the Connecticu
Senate Is an irishman, whose property isya
ned at 5000, wv, and whose daily income
$1,000. He made his money from an d
farm in Pennsylvania, which he purchase
for $500.
Chief Justice Chase will probably deliy
er the address at the Fair of the New Enc
land Agricultural Society, at Providence.
September The Governors Of all the Ne,
England States, with their staff officers. wi
be present
The New York Legislature of 1866 BE-
slowed Sl29, 029 upon the various char:tab
institutions. OF this considerable sum Il
list shows that Roman Catholic instituto,
received $l24,l74 IA, and $3,855 IS we
granted TO Protestant and Hebrew associ
tons.
An American lady in Paris went o
shopping, and was surprised at buyifg
elegant silk dress for 6fteen dollars, q,
could not account for the low figure until 1
polite Frenchman naively reminded her th
in her country the 'speople have the fuxu
Of Enforcement. Won know and prices n