The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-06-09
IOWA ITEMS.

The following is list of patents granted
0 Iowa inventors from the U. D. Patent
Office, for the week ending May 81, 1887 |
Albert Wilcox, Maquoketa, shovel plows
Vm. II. Apologize, lie Glars, cofferdam ana
,oat; b. S. & L. H. Haviand, Fort Dodge,
bee hive; W. W. Sanborn, Lyons o'sS,
churn.
s-AaYAe yin.on Eagle says a meeting Ola
few of our citizens was had on Monday eyen>
inc TO consider railroad matters. William
Greene. Esa., Oh zCadar Rapids. WAS present
and with ]. W. Traer, Esq, explained the /
status gao. The right Of way over part of .
the rouue between this place and laporte, re-
mains to be secured. 1t is conjectured that /
from 81 900 to S., 900 will be required to Sc I
cure il. This they call upon Benton county !
to do. As soon as the right of way IS OBJ
tanned they will let the contract of grading
from vinmn TO Waterloo. after which they |
win be better able 70 negotiate the bonds OF
the company so as to iron the road.
The Omaha Republican says "Since
oS't'~
has constructed forty miles of track. During
the time there have been number of stormy
DAYS in which II wars Impossible to lay track.
According to the best Of our recolectonnow,
there has been five of those days. and besides
these. SUNDAYS This reduces the number OF
working days considerably below twenty,
showing thss track has been lard at the rate
Of over two miles day. y
We clip the following notice, indicating
the growing prosperity of one OF our former
estimable ciuzens, from the Gomez! Biufs
Nonparea: "The work on Capt. Deming
Extension Block is progressing rapidly. We
notice that the walls are about six feet high
and are going Up a, the rate OF from four to
six feet per day.
The Nonpareii records the following ao-
cident. which may serve as warning here
and elsewhere; Night before aat, about
10 8 clock, Mr. H. Rowl was passing the cor
ner OF palmer's Block, on the west side,
when he accidentally fell into the cellar which
was recently dag there for the purpose 81
1 DuitdlnR a new store iuuhif anu VI ONe us - b
4 in two places
The new wooden mill erected at Iowa
City Is in successful operation, runs 500
/ spindles, aud makes first rate article Of
cloth. We learn from the Republican.
The Adair county Register says that
emigrants pass through that county daily in
great numbers, for homes and happiness 10
the far west.
The Cerro Gordo ReppJiican announces
its preference for Col John Scott, Of story
county, as the Republican candidate for Coy
ernor.
The Nashua, Iowa, Past says that man
caught nine young wolves on the prairie, in
the vicinity OF Bralforl, on Thursday Of last
week.
The Iowa Falls Sentinel gives an account
of a Quaker in Hardpn county, by the mime
Of Lew keece, who refused to sell lis gram
at the enormous prices that SPECTATORS were
Offering fer it. When wheat had risen to
s. 20 = 50 per bushel corn TO SO. -,
&c, h. refused to take such exorbitau prices
from buyers, but sold bis wheat At 81 3 and
corn at - eeots. taking care 10 sell nothing
t. spectators, and only 10 the needy.
"A urw paper, to be called the Ioul 70.
ter, will be Published on the 10Th inst, at
kuox,ile It takes the place OF the Marion
county i.tpu5iicau, and viii be radically Re.
publican.
--Tac Dubuque Times has sashing edi,
toria on Hay Rake sWIaders, and warns
farmers and others to look out Tor them, lest
they he taken III as some in the vicinity oil
Dubuque have been.
The Times also notices the arrest o. a
horse thief, by the officers Of that city, who
was es aping from Black Hawk county.
Tie Times claims that the Northern part
Of the State will stand united for Merrill fol
Governor.
The Mt Pleasant Free Press contains the
follow ing: F." Hon 4. J. Withrow, Of Salem
in this county, is terribly afflicted with this
dreaded disease. trichina. His brother-in
law, Mr. Arnold, County Treasurer, informs
!
such as almost to despair Of his ultimate re-
Govern, but since that time he has gradually
impro red, and that he is now considered out
Of dai ger. his is the first case we have
had il Henry county, at least it is the first
we ha .e heard Of. Mr.. Withrow had eaten
raw ham, which is supposed TO have been tile
cause Of The attack Another warning 10
people who are in the habit OF eating raw
pork.
The Keosauqua Republican says that
strawberries are duiliin that vicinity at %
cents IL We learn from the same
source that the people Of the little village d
Niles, GA the other side of the Des Mones,
had lively time last Sunday, having had
fifteen street fights during the day.
w, learn from the Eye that at a
recent rndroad meeting in that city, the fol-
lowing subscriptions were reported for the
Cedar ''ldds and Burlington road:
Buriini 4s,btf
LOUISA ouns sl,eyo
I Muscai Iceeuty 500
Cedar e'ntay ,ltV
Linn cua;isg ..........-. lb.ao9
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Upon co .,li,ions is subscribed the further
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DoILARs-One hundred and ten works were
sent last wear to the Imperial Academy Of