Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1853-11-04
News lters.

| Mrs. l ucy Marshall. age 10l years,
died la Warren county. N. c.. . short
time since.
i The Colored Cnnvention recently held
at Chicago, adapted, resolutions hostile
10 Colonization in all It's forms.
4 Ia the Ohio Legislsturs the Demo-
Gratis have sia,y:eisht. majority on join,
ballot.
The Niagsra has arrived. Turkey has
de clared war. There 10 sligh, advs nee
in breadstufIs. No particulars ere given.
Ges. Mntteson. If Illinois, has issued
4 a, proclamation setting apart Thursday.
the 24th OF November. ~ . day Of
Prayer and Thanksgiving.
The reported failure OF Ole. Bulr,s
Colony, and his Dsins involved in u
lawsuit a5 ,ut the land, are contradict
ed.
/ Brevet Brigndicr Gen.: Thos. Childs,
OF the army Of the United States. died
At Tampa Buy. Florida, Of yellow fever.
on the 9Th ult.
A negro in Red River county, Texas !.
committed murder on Monday Sept. &c.
was indicted on, Tuesday. tried on Wed.
Snesdsy. and hung on Thursday.s''
[ A fire occurred in Palmyrs, Mo-, on
Thursday, the Goth uit.. which result.
ed in tbs destruction OF the Pos, O Fl CO
and several other buildings.
The steamer Mcdonald ex ploded her
boilers q, the mouth Of the Mississippi
river on the Is.h. killing three persons
and scaldins several others.
The number of entries at the Ohio
State Fair, held At Dayton. was 2,l00
and the articles on exhibition numbered
1900. This receipts were $4,000.
Eighteen persons 10 Plymouth Hollo y.
Connecticut, kent out on a squirrel
hunt one day recently. and at night
brought in twenty nine hundred and
|sninsty.
Gray's Ho.el and Denny. Machine
Shop were destroyed by FIRE at Joliet,
Ill.,. Tuesday morning. Loss s3, o0o.--
Insurance $500.
At the Pennsylvania State Fair at
Pittsburgh. from IS 900 10 loo, 900 per-
sons attended each day for one week )
| not tight, not a quarrel, not en- acct.
dent occurred The amount realised
was Gle, 900.
Most exciting s,ories arc :old Of the
discovery Of gold on the Amazon river
and its branches. Those engaged in
washing were averaging 26 lbs Of gold
each pei day.
Returns from 10 counties in Pennsyl:
tvanis show q Democratic majority of
10 900 on the State ticket which 10 e1-
lpecied to BE- incres sed to ~ 1000 bv ihe
| rens ming counties. The State Senate
twill stana, II Democrats. IA Whigs.
The Wineh.ster virginisn states that
during thstsin on the 3th inst. quite !
number Of ,liuTe shrlis, measuring from
half an inch. aud OVER. fell in that place
| snd-vicini,y. Handsfull were picked
nr'iu. some places by the curiou,. Y
4 msn, Dsmea. Daniel Y. Shsrman,
,ecmni;;ea suicide IN Rrck isIand. on;
|Thgrsdsy OF las. week. by hanging him.
| self with s"rore TO the joist Of an ice
house. lie had met with acme Iosse.
trsoently, and from his singular conduct
ills now supposed he was deYsngea.
| The wife OF Burwell Bridw ell, resi-.
ding in the vicinity Of Springville. Law.
, renee county. Indiana, was killed one
day last week By the falling Of a ,spling.
II seems she vas in the woods gathering
grapes, and causedthe asciden, by pull.
ling upon herself vine attached to 1
tree. |, struck her upon the breast,
killing her instsn,ly.
Al Philadelphis, on 18Th ult uino
! lsbo.ers we're drowned By the sinking OF
two mud scows. The scows, which had
been loaded. were being towel over 10
Camden By q steamboat. The swell OF
the waves sunk one boat. and that
sucked the other down and Of eleven
men who were on thom al the time, nine
were drowned.
| The officers Of the Keokuk Packet
company inform US that their boats
have discontinued receiving freight for
the present. on th,ir upward trips
They will receive no,hing on board bst
The msil, and passengers and their bag
gage. until rise iakes place in the riv-
sr. They have been com PEELED to stop
carrying freight on account Of the low
stage Of the river.-St. Louis PAPER.
The ship connected with the Am.zon
exploring expedition reached Para, Bra
zil. IS miles from the mouth Of the river,
on the 18th ultimo When within ~
miles OF her desiina ton the vessel was
run upon . sharp ironstone reef, thro'
the ignorance OF the South American
pilot. and she would have gone 10 pieces
were r. not for the exeriione OF the
commander end crow. The pilot ran
away when he 60, on shore.
In consequence Of tho low stage Of
water in the Ohio river. thors Is q gres,
scarcity ofcosl in Cincinnati. II IS
feared that il navigation don't soon open
good many Of the manufactures in the
City, will be compelled 10 suspend OBJ
ferations. Coal is now enormously nigh
in the city-being so cents q bushcl
and the poor must suffer in consequences.
Adestructive Are broke out. in Get,
ty's Steam Bakery, in Cincinnati, on
Saturday evening week. which :bsfore i,
was got under. destroyed eleven large
wholessls business houses. Among the
buildings destroyed, wos the large whole.
sale Grocery establishment Of Messrs.
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