Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1853-07-15
Omnibus,

Omnibus.
Counterfeit American quarters, of the stamp lately
issued by the government, are in circulation.
Catfish, measuring foot long, fell during hail
storm, last week, at Norfolk Va.
Ground Hog Glory and "sIumgullion Bar are
the names Of two towns in California.
Mle. Zlulavasby, a sister of Kossuth, has opened
grand exhibition Of laces in New York. @
In Northern Ohio one hundred townships have ex-
pressly abolished .heiquor traffic. under law Of the
last session enabling them to do so
Mr.. Henriekson, near Independence No., has sheen
one year DID, from which he took fleece of superior
wool this season. weighing seven and one.half
pounds This specimen OF Jackson county sheep.
At green-fnch-show, lately held at Alb in Belgium,
l6S birds responded to the calls made on them to slug
when ordered. The prize was gained by bird
which had repeated its song 533 times within an
hour.
There is to be another suspension bridge built at
Niagara Falls. 1t is is to be erected Immediately
over the present bridge ald twenty feet higher 1t isto
be used for railroad purposes.
Mr.. Aubrey, the celebrated New Mexic IN traveller,
-
out of which he makes enormous profits. He has
crossed the plains between independence and Santa
F. thirty-nine times.
The first Methodist conference in Oregon was held
at Salem on the 18th Of March, Bishop Ames presd-
ing. There were IL ministers present. The confer
enee was divided into three districts and fifteen
circuits.
lhe skin OF the black fox is the rarest and dear
est fur single in Russia is often sold from 600
1000 rollbles. The rouble is a coin worth Is cents
which would make single skin rtA from $50
to 800.
In Calaveras county, California, is a cedar tree 3S5
eet high, 92 feet round at the base, with bark Ii in
ches thick, taperns to the top It is 1920 years old
ana the largest tree in the world. Some of the bark is
to be sent to the New York exhibition.
II is stated in Philadelphia newspaper, that State
street. in that city, is five miles long ina straight line
from north to south 1t is occupied with retail shops
and stores nost exclusively and is the longest street
50 tannated and used 70 be fomd in the new or old
world.
The steamboat Jacob Strader, just completed at Gin
cinna is the largetan most elegant boat on the wes
tern waters The saloon is three hundred and sixty feet
long, and Is adorned with great magnidcence Her en-
nes are low pressure with cyli ders sixty inches in
diameter and ten feet stroke.
case was recently tried in Montgomery county
Pa, in which Judge Smyser raIed that an attempt to
sign wll-death occurring to prevent the signing
Is sufficient to sustain the will In this case the de.
ceased had commenced his name b writing the letter
?, when he sank buck exhausted, and died in ten
minutes.
traveller in the east was lately going beyond the
Vaal river when lion, alarmed by the approaching
wa ons made off from the side of he road and in It's
haste to escape, disturbed hen ostrich sitting The
enraged bird starting from her nest rushed after the
intruder and dealt him furious kick with her long
and powerful leg, which SO disconnected the king of
beasts that he once turned but fed in headong
terror.
cartridges are so very plentiful and tame near Bue-
nos Ayres, that the boys occasionally amuse them.
selves by catching them with moose of horsehair on
the end OF cane reed The urchins ride around the
birds in circle, which gradually becomes less and
less, Until sufficiently close to reach the prey--the
birds being bewidered by the continued circular mo-
ton, on which they steadily d& their gaze.
The Island of Manhattan on which New York city
is situated purchased Of the Indians By the Dutch
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Inc nashville GUY Monitor gives an instance OF
the practical enforcement of the Slave Law in Wash.
lnston county. colored man, after confinement
Oh sAweeAS IN the county Jail' was on the 10th ut