The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1868-01-07

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jay Cooke l. Co. deny that Senator Sher.
man. or any. other pnblie funetipaary in or
out OF CongEsss, has noe = eHaf hAahad any
direct % isdifect iatertetia y connection
with their Erin.
'Arcy MCGEE, having been invited to
deliver atempersnce add resa At Montreal ~
piled tha4 he did not yet see III my TOD psak-
ing publicly on this question. He wanted to
give himself fair trial.
Scandal mongers Of Paris assert that the
Princess Clotilde is anxious for Z separatien
from her husband, Prince Napoleon HisiL-
fdelitiss have lately been 30 fragrant - 70
drive her to despair.
Gen. Willard Warner, an influential
member of the last Ohio State Senate, and
prominently menfioa ed fR Gosernor6f ukic,
having no~ settled in Ainbams, Is y kepubli-
can candidate for Congress.
when Boucicanlt agreed TO drsuntise
Rip Van Winkle for. Joseph Jefferson, the
terms we're Eve per cent upon the gross re-
ceipts Of the latter, 30 long ~ the piece swss
time he commenced his prssssi engagement
ct Cincinnati, had paid 10 tke sutka he
snug sum of thirteen thousand dollars,
when he wrote to Beuciciult, proposing
to buy the piecs for the sun Of S., COO Roq
eicult consented, and the motley has hs4a
forwarded.
DIR. Il. II. Wilkins, Of Rochester, Nina,
concluded "big spree" by suicide, Dee. ~.
General Sheridan was At a party which
Governor Fenton gave last Thursday evening.
Senator and General Skermau have
bought eleven aerea Of land in Washington,
end paid 5 l8, 900 for them.
tarisham fouus csndueis his saunubisl
af.irs q the principle Of 'slarxe bssiness
and small prophets /"
John O'Neill, Of Nashville Tenn, of
Canada raid fame, is the newly elected Presi-
dsnt of Che United Fenians.
The Cine nnati friends Of Bishop CLARK,
of the Methodist Church, have presented
him with =, 800 as = token ofregafd.
Gov. Marshall and James a. Doaaison. I
Of ST. Paul, are preparing TO operate farm
Of ! 200 acres, in Meyer county
Gen. Thomas W. Sherman, Of Psn Roy>
al fame. sacceeds Meade in command al the I
East headquarters, Newport. K. ].
DIR Charles ,.Iewett considers The grow
ing of hops utterly ineonsistsst with total alb
stlnenee principles. How about corn?
The Philadelphia Ags iJohnson oraxls)
notifies General SchoGeld that his turn will 1
come next-may be before the end of Janu..
r.
DIR. Daniel T. Boyniop,. of Knoxville,
has taken the position OF Private Secretary
to Gov. Brownlow, and is now the only Off
Ger on the staff.
Fernando Wood pays 81 900 month for
his house IN Washington.
Grover will opeI season of opera in
Philadelphia Monday evening next.
Rev. G. A. Staples, Unitarian, of Mil
wankee, has resigned his pastoral charge.
"A New York paper says the most brill
iisnt thing about Dickens readings is his dia-
mond ring.
Stanley Matthews claims fee Of $40 900
for settling claim OF the city OF Cincinnati, |
at one-third the amount sned, he having con-
tracted to dothe business at fifteen per cent.
Of what might be received.
-0rganist g. W. Morgan has had a thief
arrested for participating in the contents of
his pockets while riding on q Third Avenue
car, New.York.
Shannon, President of the New York
Board of Aldermen. at the end of his official
year, was the b'ushing recipient of silver
service valued at $4,000.
The First National bank OF Bay City,
Michigan, failed January ID. Its affairs ara
reported to be in rathsr bad condition,
The deposits amount to about $4,000.
The #ell-known firm Of Brown / Giles
pie, wholesale merchants, at Hamilton, On
tario, has suspended. The house is one of
the largest in the West of Canada, and the
disaster cansed much excitement.
The Massachusetts Legislature assembled
January |. Geo. o. Barstov, of Somerville,
was chosen President of the Senate, and
Harvey Jewell, Of Boston, Speaker Of the
House.
-Amasa Walker is said to have more or
ders for magazine articles on pokticsi econo-
my and finance than be can attend TO. Ten
years ago he could hardly set pablisher.
Harlow " Chittenden, Superintendent
OF the New York Central Railroad, had Sc
we're fall on the icy pavement, in Syracuse,
last Friday morning, and was takenup in
sensible.
Elias Howe, father of the sewing ma
chine inventor, and brother Of the inventor
of the Howe truss bridge, died at his resi-
dence in Cambrieg port Massachusetts, on
Saturday, aged Is.
--sheridani is much fat.er than he ves in
the var times, but is as Jolly and rollicking
as ever. Il would be no news to say that he
is strong Radical, and we may add that be
expresses the most assured belief in the tri-
umph of Radical principles. " The man who
he, the other day, in conversations, might
as we'll get ready his little gravestone.n NOR
does be scrnpIe to avow himself Fenian
sympathizer, though his sympathy, as be ex
plains it, is mixed up Eith philosophy Gttla