Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1853-08-05
News Items.

"a small fly is destroying the
sweet potatoes in New Jersey.
1.-THE cholera still fingers at vii.
Transport. Maryland.
....Caterpillars are doing much dam
age to the trees in Boston.
:...T. Craig. confined in The Cipcin.
nail prison. charged with forgery, al,emp.
ted TO poison himself on the Ilth.
....Grasshoppers are very numerous
in Washington county, Maryland, and
destructive to the crops.
Indians, in connection with the
Mexicans, are annoying the inhabitants
OF Texas, to a great extent
"a young lady Of fourteen was
last week united to youth Of eighteen
IN Albany.
....Upwards of six hundred dogs
have been killed in Baltimore since the
passage of the Dog law.
....Oie Bull has prohibited the sale
OF spirituous liquors at his colony in
Pennsylvania.
1.-Two conyicts escaped from the
Iowa Penitentiary on last Monday morn
ing week.
1.-THE city Of Quincy has made a
contract to have the streets lighted
with gas.
The Legislature of New York has
passed bill TO restrain cities and viii
lagos from borrowing money.
.'''By the last news from Europe,
there was still great talk of war, bu, no;
blow had been struck.
..'.Arrsngemen,s are in progress for
holding great fair in ST. Louis next
spring.
.''.A law abolishing capital punish
ment, has been. passed by the Legislature
OF wisconsin, and signed by the Cover
nor.
..-.A steamer has been bull. al Nash.
vile which draws only nine inches light,
and can carry forty tons on eighteen
inches OF water.
..'.lra b. Eddy, Spiritual Banker of
Chicago, who was sent to the Hartford
Lunatic Asylum, has been released af
ter an examination under a writ of
habeas corpus.
Y -. -hr. J. Is. Wheeler, formerly edit
tor OF the Democratic Banner, at
Davenport, died on the 5th Of July, al.
his native town in New Ham pshire.
...lsham H. Graves, Esq, the eldest
son Of the late Hon. VIM. J.. Graves.
(who killed the noble Cilley in duel
some years ago. was accidentally drown
ed in the Ohio river on the 9Th of
July.
THE New York Legislature broke
up in row. Upon resolution of
thanks being offered complim entary to the
Speaker it was opposed by members
of his own party, and rejected.
1.-THE jury in the steamboat En-
pire collision case have return verdict
of nobody TO blame" Some sixteen
or twenty persons killed and nobody
chargable-"uv course"
IAN insane woman. Mrs. Kerby.
some time ago. threw herself from a
window in the Pennsylvania Hospital.
Pittsburgh, and the shock Of the fall has
had the effect Of restoring her reason.
....Four men were lately arrested in
Rochester, on charge OF counterfeiling
three cents pieces. The press, dies,
and large number Of spurious coins,
were found in their possession.
...,A Mrs. Smith. residing in Wash.
ington, died from fright experienced
by report that the steamer Baltimore,
on which her husband had embarked,
had been lost.
md &c
New York on the 18th. We annex
quotations 160 acres S1s5 to $3.50
80 acres s92 SO to sos; 40 acres $40
Us TO 646 SO.
IAN ice cream saloon has just been
opened in New York, containing mir.
rors. it IS said, which alone cost $40. 600. s
The ornamental work of the ceiling
alone cost $4,000.
..'Robert A. Hawke, who recently
killed his wife at Washington, by cut
ting her throat. has been declared a
lunasic by the grand jury. and ordered
10 be sent to the lunaiic asylu.
1.-THE stone Touring mill at Ger.
CISCO, Mich. owned and occupied by
Mr.. Wallingford, fell down on the 25,h
ult. II cost originally $4,000 aud was
valued at $4,000. aaaa&s
-. Doctors Taylor and Je.er, OIL
Palmyra, Mo-, advertise for rattle
snakes, copperheads or.moccasin snakes.
The gentlemen are performing expert.
ments with a view to finding an andi-
dote to the poison of these reptiles.
...Cating. the murderer Of tSo chill
dren OF family named O'Brien, was
hung at Hackensack, New Jersey. on the
29th. He refused to. make confession.
and walked firmly TO the gallows. At
his request, the parents OF the murdered
children were not allowed to witness
his execution.
....Kossuth and Mazzini are reported
by foreign journal to have left London
some time since. unannounced. and no
one knows where they are. The Boston
Atlas surmises that Mszzini has gone
to Italy and Kossuth to Turkey. to
prepare to mix in the active scenet