The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1868-09-13
THE GATE CITY
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The Roman Catholics are hui sIi.4e, i
folnmhuss Ohio, cal hrdral nne b, adt b
fons hundred and eighty-seven feet il. linen
sions. With tower two hundred and /. fee
| in heiaff. The style viii be that bu8a .
the Early English.
John p. Shaw, y lifelong Democrat, o
| Greencastle. Ind, in letter published IN TIL
Pu pars baia<r. comes out for Grant ans
Coifax.
The Democracy of Omaha are engaged
| in canvassihg Utah City Two canyasser
| stray ed into The Avenue House, where the.
obtained the ioilowing figures: Grant ane
CoIfax, 10; Seymour and Blair, s. Thu
boardefs al the Avenue House are mcstiy
| employees OF the Urion Pacific Railroad
! shops
| Mr. Charles Gibbons, candidate fol
| District Attorney. in Baltimore, rays tha
city viii 60 Republican b. Eve thousand ma
jority.
Fifteen Republicans who occupied prom
inent positions at the Philadelphia NavJ
Yard, We're last week discharged to make
room for the same number Of red hpt Demo.
crats.
Azfrhe Hon. John NJ Harlan of Louisyi lie,
lately Attorney General Of Kentucky, Nc.
Clellan Democrat in 1864, q Colonel in the
Union army, snd one Of the most effective
public speakers in Kentucky, has taker
ground in favor Of Grant aud Collar.
Gov. Curtin thinks that Pennsylvania
will give Grant heavier majority than va,
ever before cast for Presidential candidate
and that Seymour will not ge. single North.
ern State il the tide keeps on rising. BE
haI vr,sa If h., H..
note Of the final result 8ssSs4
John Alexander has a farm of %, OOO
acres in champaign county. H. he has 4, OO0
cattle and 5000 acres Of corn. A Mr.. Sui
livant hiss farm Of 10000 acres in Ford
county. In Benton county. Iowa, there is q
farm of 2s 900 acres it has forty two miles
Of board fence, and seventy miles of Usage
orange hedge.
With the newly ad tilted Southern Sena.
tors, the NationslSenAte now stands 81 Re
publicans 10 IL Democrats. OF the latter
four were elected ~ Republicans, viz; Dix
on OF Connecticut Doolittle, of Wisconsin
Norton, of Minnesota, and Patterson, Of Ten.
nessee all Of whose terms expire in 1869 ex-
cept Norton Republicans have been elect
ed in place of Dixon and Patterson and it is
altogether likely that Republican will sue
coed Doolittle. The Georgia Legislature has
elected Hill (Repubiican) for the long term
l8731 and Muller DEMOCRACY for the short
term (ls71l. but they have not yet been ad
mitted.
One Gen. : Singleton, q militia general
in time of peace, who imagines himself to be
running for Congress in the Illinois District
on the opposite side of the river, is announc
ed to speak in this city to day. Mr. Single
ton claims great credit for diplomatic service
performed under Mr.. Lincon's Adminstra-
ton. Of his services. Mr.. Lincoln said
There's Singleton. he came here wanting
to get out cotton. | gave him a letter to
Grant to help him through the lines and
expected, when heard Of him, that he would
be somewhere on the Mississippi with more
cotton than a feet ofsteambJ Ms could carry !;
but here he is back again, waiting to see me-
to see me. Dang it he ) an augur that 'front.'
bore
The Chinese who are with Mr.. Burlin-
game are not, it would seem, dolafers A
correspondent Of the American Presbyterian
affirms that the entire suit is composed of
Confucanists, no Buddhist or Tauist being
among the number Confucian temples have
no idols. They are not, indeed places of
religious worship, for CONTIGUOUS taught moth
ing in respect to God, or mans relation to
Diety. de taught only mans duty to man.
These men know and respect our mlssiona-
ries. They have seen the TRANSACTIONS Of the
Bible, and know something Of Jesus. One
of the interpreters said he was taught English
by Rev. DR.. Martina missionary from Amer
lea, and now professor 10 the new univer-
sity established at Pekin by imperial decree,
about year ago. He seemed to think much
of his teacher.
A CORRESPONDENT Of the Albany Journal
writes of man at Pnnltney5 Vermont, who
killed female rattlesnake between FIVE and
six feet long. by twelve or fourteen inches in
circumfrnnce. On opening the snake. to the
utter astoushmeut of all lockers on--large
crowds by this time having gather to see the
monster-he took from the snake twenty four
small snakes from FIVE TO six inches long,
twenty four more that were between three
and four inches long, ard twenty four more
that had just the form of snakes; and then
he took out twenty one litter Of eggs, each
containing twenty -one eggs to the litter, thus
making in al twenty four litters of what
would soon have been FIVE hundred and sew
enty-six real jumping alive rattlesnakes.
Mr.. Parker then spread them upon the
ground, aud huge shanghai rooster be-
longing to a Mr.. A. Potter residing in the
immediate vicinity, stepped boldly up and
gobbled up the pile at one meal.
The New York Herald Maine correspon>
dent complains that the Democracy in hat
State lack spirit He says: For few days
they worked energetlcally and get up pop
ular furore in all the political centers that
promises to sweep the State, A day or two
after the party are apparently as lifeless as
pine chip When Pendleton lift the State
week ago the party Were thoroughly aroused
sctive aud confident 10 day they are, to all
outward appearances, under the influence Of
deep sleep, brought on BY radical ppiates
such as that administered in Eastern Maine,
at Bangor, on Thurday last"
MOTHERS Each mother is a historian.
She writes not the history of empires nor OF
emperors on paper, but she writes her own
history on the imperishable mind other child.
That tablet and that history will remain in
delible when time shall be no more. That
history each mother shall meet again, and
reap with eternal Joy or unutterable grief in
the coming ages OF eternity This thought
should weigh on the mind of every mother,
and render her deeply circumspect and pray
erful and faithful in her solemn work of train
ing up her children for, heaven aud immor-
tally. The minds Of children are suscept
Bile and easily impressed, A word, look q
frown, may engrave an impression on the
mind Of the child which no aspe Of time can
etface or wash out. You walk along the sea-
shore when the tide is out, and you form
characters or write names or words in the
smooth, white sand which is spread out SO
clear and beautiful as your feet. according as
your fancy may dictate; but the returning
tide shall in few hours wash out and eiface
all you have written. Not so the lines and
characters of truth or error which your con
duct imprints on the mind Of your child.
There you write impressions for the ever
lasting good or i'll Of your child, which neither
the floods nor the storms of earth can wash
out nor deaths cold fingers can erase, nor
the slow moving ages of eternity obhterate.
How careful, then, should each mother be in
the treatment of her child. How prayerful,
how serious, and how earnest to write the
eternal truths of God on his mind-those
truths which shall be his guide and teacher
when her voice shall be silent in death.
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