The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-08-07

pot q Newton now in course Of erection will
b lie finsa west Of Davenport.
--Bas, The murderer Of Coo, provoked :
quarrel with an engineer on the D. n. ".
Railroad, u the Marion depot, last week.
he fred two shots and pursued the engineer
throusa the depot; The telegraph operator
trying TO stop Bass vas struck ON Tho head
with revolver and severely hurt. Bass then
went to the circus, who're he behaved 30 bad
| y that b VS. quietsd very pummafily. Com.
ing back 70 the depot he metthe woman with
whom the engineer had BEEN converting
when he and Bass FIRST met, and selling .
horse whip from the hands Of man, com
menced an assault upon the woman, when be
vas knocked down and secured. He was Ia
ken to jail. We CLEAN fran the Newton Press.
!. la running to catch "Hy bair' in . base
ball game u 0sage. : few days ago, two play.
ess came in collision with such force that one
Of them had jaw broken and was knocked
down insensible and Vas crazy for twenty>four
hours thereafter, while the other had his face
bruised and the bones Of his nose broken.
The Feuian Band Of Council Bluffs ha.
organised ! hook and ladder company in that
city.
Tho Burlington Hark. Eye OF the sls,
ult., publishes notice ofthe death of Gener.
d Otto n. W. Scott, formerly Of Iowa, bui
recently resident Of Maryland. 1t says:
sin the spring Of ls41, Gen. Scott was ap-
pointed Secretary ofthe Territory Of Iowa,
and removed to Burlington in that year with
Gov. John Chambers, Who was his brother
in.law. He remained here ten years, losing
in that tine, by death, three daughters, who
were the pride and ornament Of his household
In 1861 he returnd to Maryland, where, unit
his death, he held an Office under the author
ity Of that State"
NEWSPAPER DRoSEs.-Bro Newberry, Of
the Hannibal Courier, is terribly disguised
with Newspaper drones, and thus expatiate,
on their meanness:
When We speak Of newspaper drones, w
have reference to that class of subscriber.
that never pay their subscription bills. They
will suck the honey, but never make any
They will take paper as long as you MAY
send it, making many plausible excuses fol
not paying, and when at last you are COMPEL
ed TO discontinue it they impose upon theil
neighbors by borrowing or stealing their pa
pers, before they are even read by their law
full owners. Such people deserve banishmeni
in Patagonia, Siberia or Hindoostan. There
are many in Hannibal who ought TO be kick
ed to death by lame spiders, or sucked to
death BY Johnny grasshoppers. They are
not fit to dwell in civilized community, for
the man who would th7s deliberately swindle
the starving printer would rob his neighbor'
hen roost, pear trees, potato patch and water
melon vines. No man possessed Of an iots
of principle would subscribe for newspaper
unless he designed paying for it when the bill
was presented to him. Ii he is in arrears with
his publisher, and cannot liquidate the debt,
let him say SO like an honest man and manis
fest deposition to pay, at any rate. The
proprietors of the Courier will, if il be desir.
able, furnish the paper gratis to all Of those
whom they know to be in such INDECENT cir.
cumstances as to be unable to pay for q pa,
per. But when,we see men protesting to be
| unable to square their accounts running to
! every monkey show and circus that comes
along, freely paying out dollars on each oc.
casion, We set them down as newspaper
swindlers-drones which suck the life blood
from the printer, and who would not hesitate
to commit any crime from arson down to
small potato larceny, were they not too COW.
ardly. Blu: these dirty, thievish tricks are
not confined to what are known az 1.-THE
worlds people," Some prefessed Christians
are guilty of this heinous ofense. They live
IN Hannibal As well as elsewhere. They may
be known BY their .hang dog appearance,
for when man becomes so lost to shame as
TO defraud the printer, he has more the ap.
pearance Of q whipped cur than Of human
being. You can see them of mornings, with
baskets on their arms, hanging around "a.
| looms waiting for some one to treat They are
nuisance to any community, and if they had
their just deserts they 0ould be compelled to
serve aterm of fears in the penitentiary.