The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1868-09-19
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Deer are very destructive 10 Canadian
Grain-6elds.
"A stocking -dArning machine y medi-
tated BY IN ingenious Yankee.
A shaven face, except mastache, is to
be the n de Of the coming ~inter.
Minnesota claims to grow SO, 600 year,
two thirds Of which is By immigration.
They are going 10 srya prsparation u
stead OF powder.
"A wild hog the size Of COW, that enaws
down trees and roots up ''nces, IS creating
disturbance in Mississippi.
The milliners boast that 7 ~ have at
last invented Dor net which the ladies' can
not make for themselves.
1t il said that letter-carriers In the
suburbs OF New York are 10 be furnished
with velocipedes.
A Brooklyn Union reporter was badly
beaten last week because he looked like .
whisky spy.
"A gentleman Of Norfolk, Virginia, found
$500 0O0 in m old trunk . few days sgo. II
Woo Oil ~ 0R1uiou 0IuicA NSsSes ~~~ -
giniA paper currency Of 1776.
Liverpool has haunted house, the vim
dovs Of which are broken BY continuous
showers Of stones. The police cant discov-
er the ahostly assailants.
The English Judges have decided to COM
pei juries engaged 10 trying felonies and cases
Of misdemeanor to remain in custody during
the propreee of the trial
-0aratoga has. il il said, more hotels than
either Boston or Philadsl[ hia. There are
ihirty-seven of them, but they are insufficient
to accommodate twenty thousand Euests.
One Of the mining companies recently
organized in Nova Scotia has put its stock
upon the market at two cents share. It's
probably not offered below its value.
The 6rst day Of October next has been
decided on BY the second Adventists sssem-
bled at Janesville, Wis, for the ending OF
earthly things.
Alta tannery in East Leverett, Mass =
new mode of,annine is being tried. Large
quantities Of sweet fern, bareback, mayvsed
aud some drugs, whose names are not made
public, are used, with but little hsmlock bark.
"A death-bed marriage has occurred 10
ohio. The Bridegroom had been mortall,
wounded in -nken 6ght, but his afanced
determined net'o give il up, and came TO his
bedside 1t m xht, when the ceremony was
performed.
"A case before the Birmingham maeis-
trates has elected, among other curious de.
tails, the fact that confectioners Always buy
decaying fruit for AAvoring ice cream aud
confectionery. as the juice is obtained from
II in larger quantities.
The number Of persons committed for
trial IN England and Wales last year was 49,
ell, Of whom only 1878 We're females. the
lowest number OF female offenders recorded
in fifteen years. OF the whole number OF
persons committed, IA 207 were convicted.
This record of crime, compared with ours
pres, nts results favorable to the morality oil
the old country.
One Of the sources Of income to the
Mexican Indians il the scalps they take.
These are sent to France, boiled, carded, pu-
riied and perfumed. and come to this mar
ket in the shape Of curls and fancy chignons.
Most Of the Mexican scalps have JET black
hair. 10 this great world nothing i lost.
"A mob of about fifay men, = few days ago,
surrounded the jailer of Columbia county
Georgia, at Appling, took from him tho keys
Of the Jail, and proceeded to the prison, took
one Of the colored inmates out, and, without
further ceremony, hung him. The Southern
papers TEEN with these accoun.c, and they
appear to be on the increase.