The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1868-09-25
PnnsosAL.

RBRoODAL.
-McClellan and Farrsgut viii arrive At
about tho same time.
-Gounod hos made several additions to
HE opers aa Faust.
Mr.. Reverdy johnson il called "His Ex-
cellsncy'' By the English Journals.
Mr.. Justin McCharthy, editor ofths Lon.
don Star, il about 70 pay visit TO the Uni
ted States.
Prince Alfred ID visiting his brother-in-
Law and sister, the crown Price and Princess
Of Prussia.
Queen Olga, Of Geece, il m ardent ad-
mirer Of our American poets, and has them
Ill in her library.
-Cornslius Vanderbilt keeps bank &C
count Of over million Of dollars, which be
can check out q any moment.
Paul Morphy Aas arrived home from En-.
rope, and il going home to New Orleans TO
learn 70 play chess.
-Gottschalk may have been lost in the
late South American calamity, it il stated, ~
be was in that region.
| Madame Rachel, the "beautiful forever
woman, ID still IN Newgate, and probably
will not come to America just 1t present.
A. 81. Weeks, Of Exeter, Me-, has fig
tree upon which there are some two hundred
and twenty figs.
Patrick La Fou, Of Albany, Monday, 1t.
tempted 70 outrage his daughter, aged seven
years.
"A London paper gives 10 the news that
Mr.. johnson contemplates visiting Europe to
escaps from the endorsements Of his pres
emit position.
\ 1T il reported BY tho New York Nail
that Miss Charlotte Chushman will play an
engagement next winter at Edwin Booths
new theater in New York.
Nathaniel Wheeler, famous - sewing
machine man, il : candidate for the next
Democratic nomination for Governor Of
Connecticut.
It 10 announced by tho London Orchestrd,
that Mr.. ]. N. Bellew il coming to this conn
TRY, to make reading tour, and that if he 10
successful he will not return to his native
isle.
Governor Fenton, Of New York, is said
to have beautiful young niece who has been
three times divorced, and for the fourth time
il engaged to b married.
A Russian convict, named Gorski. while
standing on the scaffold, . few days ago, with
1.-THE halter about his neck, suddenly had his
lpunishment committed TO imprisonment for
life.
Mr.. Lsunt Thompson's. colossal statute
Of Nj. Bryants 10 nearly ready to be placed in
Central Park, and his statute Of General sedg-
wick will be ready for erection st West Point
next month.
The Comts dc CordAy d'Orbigny, frst
cousin Of Charlotte Corday, recently died at
his chateau, in Normandy, which he WAS new
or known to quit except to attend the mar
risss or funeral Of : relative.
-Isaa;! Khaa-Asa-Mehammed, ! myste-
rious old Persian, has died in Paris where be
resided forty years, dressed in Oriental COS.
tune and going to the opera every night.
His only friend was his servant, who had or
lders to burn all letters that came tor his
master.
-Lonafellow' sensational visit to England
having revived the home interest in him,
Ticknor 4 Fields are issuing several new edi-
tons Of his poems. One Of these, o so oc-
tavo, with fifty pictures BY John Gilbert. win
b out in few days.
Madame Victor Hugo died Of congestion
Of the brain. She had been in Paris for sew
eral months receiving treatment for another
maIady and had just arrived in Brussels.
Her husband accompanied her remains on
their way to burial only to the frontier OF
France. This example was followed BY her
two sons,
The Saturday Rerfep says Of Miss Men.
kin's "Infelicia" I'VE are in the presence
Of passionsts Upper. Imagine that thu
dull sags Of Allbury had been born 1t New
Orleans, and had been taught to ride circu,
. horses, and 90 had his blood made to run hol
and swift in his veins, and you have the spir
) it and manner Of Infelicia.'
Mrs. q. B. Stowe il small and slight in
figure, with delicate features, full Of intellect
ual refinement, and quiet grace Of manner
! which, though perfectly unobtrusive, be.
speaks the lady Il oil times, and would a.
ways make her recognized o spereon o.
high culture.