The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1868-01-30
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The Pope has prescribed short dresses.
The receipts Of tho Chicsso ely railroad
companies last yaAs wste t7tS,W0.
The Pittsb1rg and Fort Wayne Railroad
earned Sll $50, 900 last year.
The "Ocsoroon'' is TO be revived in Lon.
don to give Mr.. John s. Clarke an opportu-
nifty to appear as Salem scndder.
The Hudson Bay Company used to have
dlvidends of sixty or seventy per cent, but
nov has to be content With four.
"A sort Of parody on Mr. Beechers novel
has appeared under the title of Nor
Wonidn't, or Village Life in Indiana. -
An interesting item for ladies comes
from Maine, ia the ANNOUNCE neut OF = IA
per Pan'aette Company" What next?
-Itrequires thirty-eight clerks, thirty-one
messengefs and fonr pages TO run the Quebec
Legislature.
twenty seven boxes, containing 6seen
hundred bottles Of morphine and even eases
OF broadcioth, have been found secreted IN
store-house in New Orleans, and confis
Gated.
"A great many Catholic rt;ests ID Tssir
are prohsing BY the civil act, and marrying.
The official paper published at Naples re-
Gently contained over fifty marriage notices Of
this description.
-Ginghams must be, getting popular.
The Bates Mills, Of Lewiston, Maine, which
employs Twelve hundred girls, have recently
doubled the capacity for producing these
goods
The last new feat for circuss acrobat
consists IN turning double summersault
over sixteen muskets with fixed bayouet..
the guns being fred at the momen, of the
leap.
The homeopathic physicians OF Enc,
Pennsylvania. have reduced their priee Of
ordinary Prescriptions TO Fifty cents, and of
visits within quarter OF mile of physician 8
residence TO one dollar, with no extra charge
for medicines
The CINCINNATI Gazsfts remarks that In
that city and county, Naiiona. banks pay
more taxes, State, county and municipal. in
proportion to their capitol, than privnte bank
ers or private capital. Last year the former
paid SI26.el6 on $1,000, 900 capital, while
private bankers paid only S36,o42 on ST.
060,T5l.
Dumas is writings novel entitled a Abra-
ham Lincoln
Bonner is said TO be tempting Thnrlow
Weed with $50, coo for his book
List, the great pianist, thinks of coming
to this country.
Z --Jerkius says Bismark has wart on the |
little finger OF his left hand.
Dickens will be the guest of Sumner in
Washington.
Rev. Or. Magoon denies that he has
turned Catholic.
Colonel George P Smith has bought out
his partner interest in The jacksonville { III i
Joai'as and is now running the allice alone.
General Roher. Andersen, the hero of
Sumter, will preside at The Cooper Institute
Wasbinglon's birthday temperance cele-
bration.
Vincent l. Dill, the oldest practical ste
reoiyper in America, has iast died IN VIII
liaEs.urg, New iork.
Mrs. Loriliard Ronalds is the fayoriis
American belle at the Princess Me,ternichi
receptions in Paris.
Colonel Monroe Nichols. we'll known
and highly respected citizen Of St. Paul, MIN.
nc-ota. died at his residence in that city ON
the 18th inst.
tourney, the Kew York photographer,
and the only one who has taken Dickens
has already cleared over ten thousand dol
lars by the enterprise.
Eugene, the French Empress, at last ec- ],
counts had three thousand dresses. Accord e
ing 10 this estimate OF fashionable woman,
it must be a deiightfni thing to be an EH
press.
--fheodore r Davis, the principal travel
ing sketcher for the illustrations OF Harpcr's
Weskly, MAS narriedlast week 70 the daugh
ter Of Charles w. Schseer, Of Kingston, New
\ erik
The golden Wedding OF the Rev. Ezra
Cole was celebrated q. Three Rivers, Mich;.
gan, on the l4,a iastant. Sir. and Mrs- e.
Bera born in Ontario county, New York nov
Yates county, aud arr in their egth year,
With hut month and half difference In
heir ege. The justice who married them is
still living, with his wife, and celebrated lis
golden Wedding about two years since.