The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1868-08-20
THEl1ATE CITY
alse silanseas.

Miles o. Reilly s paper, the Citizen, is for
sale.
Harriet Beecher Stowe is engaged on an
other novel.
The COWS in East st. Louis are all dying
Fl the cattle disease.
A manrecently murdered an acquaintance
ut Portici, near Naples, for two cents.
A tornado has swept over Lyndon, Maine
which completely Frustrated trees in its track
A couple of young Ladies, accompanied
by their lovers, eloped from Shelbyville, Ill
last week.
The Queen Of Prussia Is having the young
women taught how to tend the wounded LII
q campaign,
The apartments formerly occupied by Bo-
naparte OH tile Island OF st. Helena, are be-
ing repaired and newly furnished. Who
goes there next.
The old Lafayette Spring, in Ballston. af-
ter fifty years Of quietude, has again COM
menced flowing.
Water melons weighing SIXTY mine pounds
hasye been raised at Galveston Texas.
II was expected that the officers of the st.
Joseph and Council Bluffs railway would
take possession iii due form Of tee line yes
terday or io-,iay
been seized by military authority the POST
master General has ordered its discontinue
aHce.
There has been great fire in the woods
on the Rocky Mountains. Tie heat was
pieceptible a mile and half from the flames
There are annually gathered in Maine
morethan l5O. 900 bushels OF blueberries,
averaging in price about 81 per bu-hel.
The Maine Central Railway Company are
rebuilding their bridge over the kennebeck
at kendall's Mills, at a cost Of some $780,
600
Nearly three thousand operatives in and
around Ellicott City. Nd, are out OF employ
ment owing to the factories and mills being
destroyed.
The Hon. Mrs. Yelycrton Of great En-
glish divorce notoriety, is giving readings In
Columbus, Georgia
The experiment of shipping grapes from
San Francisco and neighborhood to the At
lantie ports will this year be tried on a larger
scale than last fall.
a MATCH game Of billiards for The Ameri-
can championship will be PLAYED by Joseph :
Dion and John McDcyitt, ii Chicago, the
first week in September.
THE garrison ola French trading station in
Cochin China, was attacked By band of
being overpowered. the men, numbering
twenty i've. we're nf.essaerea
Peterboro has base ball club of girls.
Gerritt Smith ! grand daughter, Mamie
Miller, Is Captain.
In Nevada. contempla,ive Digger Indian
sat watching party of base ball PLAYERS,
who seemed to him to be working very bard.
Turning To one OF them, he asked: ..How
much you get one day.
On Tuesday last, while George Morris was
reaper near Gilman, Ill, the horses
attached to the reaper became frightened,
ran off, and Morris falling from his seat in
front ofthe sickle, was literally cut to pieces
A large meteor burst over the town of
Derby, Connecticut, on Monday evening.
Resident Whereabouts noticed a preeeptible
shaking and jarring OF their houses. The
sound was heard and remarked in Birmin-
ham and Ansonta.
The walls OF Paris are now plaearded with
posters, bearing III letters Of enormous size /
the legend--f' Don't 80 10 lie sea shore
without Amelia ''ilii, Indispensable COM
panion is not as might be supposed an ag |
rccable young woman, but species ofsAoe |
tdapted To walking on tie sand
The wife Of an unlceiing brute. Whorefus- !
Il to work because he. did not get pay |
enough = died OF starvation last week at |
Orange, n. j. She had not eaten anything I
or tive days. She addressed a note 10 some /
friends asking food. but wheil sliceor finally |
anne. Was beyond help.
One sheridan has introduced into the city t
.ouncil of Chicago series Of resolutions de-
louncing Rev. Or. Hatfield Tor recent SER
mons Oh the Roman Catholic Church. and |
Erecting theAayor TO issue proclamation
orbidding such preaching hereafter. and
those who indulge in it with |
prosecution as disturbers of.the pupiie peace
The politics of this Sheridan are not stated
,ut if he is not Democrat he ought TO de
An old and rich planter, who had once
$50. 900 deposited i'll gold in a bank - New
brlealls. and a plantation as large an Ger
nan principality, now sleeps ut the Police
station iii that city. He went to Europe be-
ore the war, and, previous TO leaving, made
will in favor of his children, so that there
hould be no trouble in case of his death.
| he children, took possession Of the proper
y and now refuse 10 recognize the old man f
,r to allow him any money. He has taken |
'etigc II the Police station pending legal |
LETTER FROM S-MiNIsIFR ApAMs-In |
,e>pon-e 10 an invitation 70 address some re-
publican clubs Il Quincy, Hon has. Franci.
Adalns declined TO enter into the active Do-
itieal canvass. preierring rest and retire
nelt. He says. however, lyon are per- T
ectly right IL presuming that | have in no /,
'cspecf varied my attachment to the prin-
.iple~ held before my departure FROM the |
nited states. am still devoted tothe Si,p- I
port Of the self-esident truthproelamed in I
he great declaration Of 1875. To the mainie-
lance OF our glorious Union against eyeev
,nemy, and 10 the supremacy OF the consti-
ution AS our protection against assaults from
without as we'll as Within
A LITTLE girl in Durham. Maine. who it /
vas thought had consumption, recently I
.oughe,l up an acorn which She had swallow I
I'd six months before and which had sprout-
I'd she has deem well ever since.
AK ARKANSAS STATE SENATOR SHoT.-W I
earn from gentleman just in from Little |
Rock, that Hon. Steven Wheeler. senator I
rom White county, Arkansas WAS shot |
his way to Little Rock. with Colonel Win |
Hicks. They were ordered OH Of the ear
rage by Il dana OF rebels. and Colonel Hicks |
ordered to return home Before the Colonel |
Vas out of sight he saw two shots iired'at
" heeler and heard four mere. Nothing WAS
heard of heller for severalaavs. and il was
that he WAS a>sas>inated 1t APP
pears. however. that as he left his buggy he
lodged into the brush hear by 50 quickly
that he succeeded in getting away from the
would be murderers with onely a aullet |
arm He then concealed himself
fora time and at length swan he Arkansas
river He reached Hitchcock on Thursday
evening safe otherwise than the wound in his
arm. The greatest excitement prevailed at
the Rock over the affair. Guards were sent
to the scene OF the attempted assassination.
The trunk Of Mr.. Wheeler had been broken
the papers scattered. and whatever OF value