The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1868-07-11
STATS VIEWS.

The Baptists are building new church
q Cedar Rapids.
-waverly il going to erect two fine school
houses this year.
Cars will b running from St. Louis to
Cedar Rapids By the FIRST Of Jauuary.
r AN the spans Of the Burlington bridge
re completed, and the work on the draw il
rapidly progressing.
| The Street. Railway q Dubuque eontin-
ues to pAy we'll, notwithstanding the novelty
| has worn of.
Tho Nashua Post says the bugs are rails
ing the very hob with potato vines over that
section Of country.
The State Register has seen soma cur
rants two inches in circumference that wers
grown in Polk county.
The Argus tells Of young lady in Bur-
lington being fined IS for kissing young man
against his will.
The editor Of the Davenport Gazette,
altar an absence Of about three months in
England has returned to his post Of duty.
! Davenport has been recently visited by
two extensive con6agrationa. The buildings
destroyed were mostly those of long
standing.
--Chas, Jones, Of Collar, had . joke
played OF him few days ago. A stranger
since supposed TO be . brother incog-pre-
/, sented him with two $500 bills.
The lndisnola Fisitor estimates that the
srasshoppsrs viii mot destroy more than one.
sixteenth Of the crops in Warren county.
They are now leaving BY the million.
Mr.. r. H. Champion, dealer In Yankee
Notions and Fancy Goods at Davenport,
made an assignment to his brother, j. VI.
Champion, the other day. His liabilities IL
about $4,000.
The Knoxville voter says that balloon
man in that city has new air ship ready to
90 up, and when he goes up he is gong up
~ high as the tail end Of 4th of July ora
ton. That beats WILDER al aholler.'
The following classical couplet was
found BY the local Of the Journal on the ay
leaf Of school girl book At the Mt. Pleas.
ant College last week:
"Piss love saters, cows I've squash,
l love you Ella. DO BY gosh"
The Fort Madison Plaindealer reports
that legal process has been commenced
against some ofthe convicts for their sue
cesfal attempt at burning up portion Of
the State Penitentiary short time ago The
proof is said to be complete; but it looks
good deal Ike the result With the old saying
of "sss bsggsr and get lonse.
--The Ansnosa correspondent Of the nu-
busue Herud ays that some scamp went into
Tie COW yard q Mr.. Somerby. farmer living
near Madison, 10 that county, and With
sharp instrument, probably : large knife,
from the appearance Of the wounds, cut Ave
cows in such manner that two of them died
before morning, and it was thought to be very
doubtful II they did not all Of them die.
Tho Newton Republicans says that son
Of Mr. E. ". Cordray, living three and :
half milss north Of Grsencastle, in that (Jas-
perl county. committed suicide, last Sunday,
By hasging himself with breast strap, in the
stable. When found life was extinct, and IN
sxamiuatioo disclosed the fact that his neck
va broken. He was only eleven years Of
ags.
-Pstsr Aslindy, Chairman Of the Rspub>
lican State Central Committee informs the
Ottumwa Courier that the skies are bright
oil around the the political horizon of Iowa.
Pstsr PROPOSES 70 raise the 10000 majority
pledged for Grant At the Chicago Conven.
ton ten thousand more, making il sn svsn
80. 600 majority.