The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1868-10-08

OF QUINCY, Will. SPEAK

OF QUINCY, Will. srEAK
In keokuk an saturday,
The 10th Of October, Il seven o'clock p. M.
M. C. LaxHsUao showed US yest.fdss ~
;rmense rattlesnake killed near SAndusky
la week. II was four feet Eve inches long.
and carried twelve raitles. Those rslics Of
aboriginal times are occasionally found, bat
not often Of 20 frightfui personal presence -
this chap.
Tas HoKsE FAia.-0~isa 70 the storm en-
Tuesday night, and the unfavorable weather
Yesterday, there was no exhibition at the
Fair Grounds.
The Fair will be resumed to-day. The
programme announced for yesterday will 20
carried out. Let there be full attendance.
How IT OccuRRED.--We stated in yester-
day mornings issue that man had been res
cued on Monday evening from very peril
Gus situation. We have since learned that
his name is Arnold, and that he resides about
two miles from the city on the opposite side
ofthe river. He was attempting to cross the
stream in skiff, when, coming in contact
with the rocks which protrude above the sur.
face Of the water on the Rapids it WAS cap
sized, the man thrown into the river. and
placed in an almost helpless condition. When
found he Was we'll nigh exhausted, and il
vas some time before he recovered. A skiH
Vas taken from the ferry dock on the oppo-
site side. but We did not learn the name Of
the gentlemen who rendered the drowning
man snch valuable aid.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. z.
DEAR SIR I'm your paper Of last week
you or one Of your correspondents say tina,
DR.. Drake is not the originator Of the cele-
brated PLANTATION Buffers, and that they
we're manufactured and sold by one Pedro
Kartelle, an old Spaniard, in the Island o.
St. Thomas, over forty years. ago, as ever
old sea captain can testify. Now, sir, | car
certify TO the above as being true, for have
followed the sea for over forty years. most o
the time doing business with the West In
dies. These same Bitters, differently put VI
and named. were brought to my notice OF
my first trip to the Island Of St. Croix for
cargo Of rum, and for years and years afte
my ships stores were never without them
l always supplied my family and many Q
my neighbors with them, and can truly 90,
better Bitters and Tonic is not made in q
the world. Yours, truly,
Carr. HENRY VENT.
MAGNOLIA WATER, superior to the bez
imported Germen Cologne, and sold at hal
the price. deodlw&wlt
Come Oat ana Help Us Tonight.
Wells Mission Sabbath School, in Reid
Addition, have their Oyster Supper and Fes
tival thls Thursday, evening, the proceed
to assis: them in completing their new Missio
Sabbath School house. If there is truly
Mission Sabbath School in Keokuk this
one, and it is very essential this buildin
should be completed before the cold weathe
sets in. The Committee have used every e
fort. all through the Summer months, to rails
money to build this house and have expent
ed over 5000, and have succeeded in raisin
only about 800. They find themselves
debt over 5000 and the building still uniir
ished. Will not the good people Of Keoku
come out and help US with their mites, an
thereby encourage the Mission? Good wal
al the way TO the door.
Admit,anee- Adults, Is cents; children
10 cents.
Any persons wishing to donate any mon,
| (no matter how smalD to this Missioa, CT
do so by leaving it with r. 8. Van Keursn,
| s. Hamill Co g, corner Main and Four
streets,
Progress. cf American Cromo-Lith,
| graphy.
Mr.. Prang is rapidly increasing his bus
| ness and improving his beautiful art. +
| has begun his contemplated Gallery
American Painters, in which he proposes
| produce at least one characteristic picture
each of our eminent artists. He has alreat
published several landscapes by Britche
several groups of chickens and the like
| TAFT, several fruit pieces by Lily NJ. Spence
and Miss V. Cranberry, of New York,
couple Of genre pictures by Niles, of Bosto
a series Of Ruggles ''gems'' in oil colors, b
sides great variety Of illuminated texts al
cards BY Miss Jennie Lee, of Jersey, 81
cartoons and Autographs by Mr.. Homer, al
| others.
He has now in active preparation "a Nc
England Winter Landscape by the late NJ
Morveiller Of Maiden; 8 figure piece, "Il
Bsrefooted Boy by Eastman Johnso
Easter Morning" BY Mrs. Theresa Hal
wife Of James Hart, the landscape painte
two brilliant pictures in the woods, 1T
Mrs. 8. G. Brown; "The Shipwreck
Steerforth,. by Moran; "The Friends"
! Giraud; 1.-THE White Mountains in October
| by Mr.. George L. Brown; 1.-THE Bay Of Ne
York By the same artist; "The Falls Of Il
70 Semitic BY Bierstadt; two fruit piece
by 8. W. Fuller; "Cherries and Basket
Mrs. Cranberry; and besides these he has
number of other compositions on the ease
of distinguished New York painters. I,
, is hard at work on his favorite subjects. v
are not at liberty to name the paintings
foreign artists that are to be chromoed
rapidly as possible, because, in the absen
of an international copyright law, fne.s
l publishers are liable to the same annoyanc
j which are now experienced by the publishe
Of foreign books.
The q Winter Landscape by Morveill,
is picture as essentially New EngIandish
if We may coin the word-as pumpkin pi
t or Thanksgiving. Morveiller made spe
atty Of winter scenes, and was admitted
be the best painter Of snow in Amerie
This Is one Of the best Of his small piec,
1t represents an old farm house BY the ros
) side, with its inevitable LIS and out house
grandma in the yard engaged in feedi
poultry: group Of skaters on . froz
stream hard BY, With spectators looking
( at the sport; in the distance, the villaf
, which is hidden BY the trees on ito outskir
A grand old elm, under whose wide spres
ing branches Il q farmhouse is built, is re
dered with VI 1erful fidelity and spirit q
! the apple tree, on the other side Of the ro>
seems to have been photographed from eve
family homestead in Massachusetts aw
from the great iron thoroughfares. The ,
ture is q pleasant one, for it has war
cheerful glow, such as every one delights