Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1853-06-24
Summary of News.

| is concentrating on Tue 1 ufhISH IEOutler.
THE steamer New Lucy, as she
left the 81. Louis wharf last Saturday,
collapsed a flue. scalding several persons.
1.-The reports from Mexico are,
that Santa Anna has completely re.or-
ganised the army, which now consists
Of 81 900 men.
....George Gates has been convicted
OF the muir Ter OF Daniel Liley, at La
sale, Illinois, and sentenced to be hung
Tuesday next, 2Sth ins:.
....A steam packet recently arrived
at Southampton. bringing hyena and
a wild cat as present to Queen Victo-
ria from the Queen IF Portugal!
4 1.-The National Division of the
Sons Of Temperance met in Chicago,
last week. Twenty one States Of the
Union, and British America, were rep.
resented.
n.Rio Grande papers state that
Caravajal and his associates had been
released, when they Immediately entered
suits against the United States Marshal,
for false arrest and Imprisonment.
....Property in st. Paul has doubled
each year for the last four years. Out
lots sell FOR 500 each, and lo,s around
the public square at from $500 TO $3.50
each.
l. ...sFour men were strangled in q
well by mephi,ic gas, one day last week.
in st. Louis. Three men lost their
lives in like manner, few days pre-
viously, in Louisville.
1.-THE Washington Monument is
now one hundred and thirty feet high.
The last arrival was block Of beauti-
full bird 's-eye marble, from the Grand
Division of the Sons of Temperance.
| 49,. Arthur Spring, the murderer Of
Mrs. Shaw and Mrs. Lynch, in Phila.
delphia, some months ago, was executed
on the 10th inst. fe persisted in say
ing that he was innocent, but did not
! criminate his son.
....A destructive fire occurred al
San francisco on the 4th If May. by
which the Rossettei House and several
adjoining buildings were destroyed -
| The loss is set down at S12O, 900. Sew
eral inmates Of the hotel persisted in
1 the flames.
/ THE body of Capt Harrington,
! ((ormer commander OF the N. O. packet
! Charles Belcher.) whose mysterious
| disappearance from St. Louis a few
weeks since we have previously noticed.
| has been found in the river near Ste.
! Genetievs.
IMAGES in Ireland, owing to the
"continued exodus, have reached high
err point than ever during the war" A
large railroad contractor reports ten
shillings per week as the lowest rate a:
which he can now procure laborers Of
an ordinary class.
....WoMAN ELECTED TO OFricE!.-
| Miss Olive Ross was elected to the
register-ship of deeds, over Sylvester,
the regular Democratic candidate, in
the eastern district. Lincoln county, New
York, IN Monday, the 9th inst. She
had formerly been an assistant.
...-T The body OF Mary Ann leroy, a
Young female. who had evidently been
violated and then murdered, was fouad,
recently, on one of the docks Of Will
| liza msburgh. N Y. Her friends offer a
re ward Of $500 for information touch
ing the affair.
....A boy ii years of age, son Of
John Reynolds, Columbia county, N. Y,
ecoming angry al his father, loaded
/ himself Nth friction matches. proceeded
along the highway for mile and half
| and fired the woods on each side Of the
road. He set three barns on fire, one
| of which was consumed. He's genu.
inc Barnburner.
....A daring robbery was committed
at the banking house Of Page, Bacon &
/ Co., Sacramento. on the afternoon OF
4 the 10Th ult. While the cashier was
attending to crowd of customers. the
/ thief reached over and took from shelf
under the counter bag containing 100
ounces Of gold dust, valued at $500.
and he loss was not discovered until
making up the cash account.
....One of the largest and finest
masses of copper ever seen in the world,
has been shipped from Minnesota mine
to the great exhibition. 1t is large
square block, weighing 5.O72 lbs. 1t
was cut from piece weighing about 80
| tOuS CcNcIdt HuuuIcu IONS Oh q SlfIlt-
lar character, some Of them nearly as
heavy, are to be cent on by the Cliff
and Minnesota mines.
....Another terrible railroad accident
occurred on the 18th inst. An engine
attached to the New Yorkland Erie Rail-
road. when about one mile east of the
Susquehanna, burst her boiler, instantly
killing eleven persons and injuring many
others. The engineer had his head
blown clear from his body. The fire.
man badly injured but not dead at last
accounts
...A son Of Patrick McCaully, living
near Fairfield, Iowa, was bitten by rat
iesnake, on the 18th inst. He was at
the time in company with another lad.
Finding birds nest among the bushes,
he reached his his hand into the nest,
where the snake was concealed. when it
bit him on one Of his fingers. Fears
are entertained that the bite will prove
fatal.
1.-THE new Post Office envelopes
are to be distributed on the LIST of July.
They are made from paper manufactured
for the purpose, which is so wafer lined
as 20 make the letters P. o. ID. U. S.
(meaning Post Office Department Of the
United States) plainly discernable. On