Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1853-09-16
News Items.

ana spreading IN all directions.
There is great excitement in Evans,
vile, Ind, about the use of the Bible
in common schools. III O.
The smallpox is raging with great
fury in the city Of Montreal. The NOR.
!ality is said to be Sd in every 1000.
! A convention, composed of soldiers
Of the war of 1919, has been called 10
meet at Philadelphia on the 9th of jan
uary, 1854. h i
Coffee has advanced at New Orleans
prime sold at lOc. At St. Louis, on
Saturday, good 10 prime coffee was quo-
ted at 8 "a to l0c.
The Worlds Temperance Convention
assembled in New York on the Bis, ult.
One thousand persons were said 10 be
present. 8y 4p as ~ r.s
Daniel Maybee, who was confined in
the Jackson county (Ind.) Jail on a
charge Of murder. hung himself few
nights ago in his cell. II
The Dan'l Hillman struck rock near
the head of the Lower Rapids, while de
ascending last week, which caused her 10
spring leak and sink in two feet water.
Early on the 9th, wha. was lcf. Of
Table Rock, Falls of Niagara, fell
with tremendous crash. The project.
ing rock is now all gone. -
There are now on their way TO the
United States from the Guano Islands
on the coast Of Peru, eighty-two vessels
with cargoes Of guano-said to be
10000 tuns.
Mrs. Curry, OF Galena, offers reward
Of $500 for the arrest Of her husband,
who ran off from her, taking with him
all his wifes jewels and large sum OF
her money.
A snake, twenty-one feet six inches
| in length, was lately seen in Bedford
VALLEY, near Cumberland, Md. After
being seen, he shed his skin, which was
found and measured.
u The King OF Naples. who has long
<ceased to see his capital, and lives in
the strictest seclusion, fenced by guards
and spies, is now at lschia, in great
alarm at the prospect of war.
i John Nut,all, of Manchester, England,
killed himself in attempting, for wa
ger, to drink gallon Of ale in ten min
utes. On drinking the fourth quart he
fell down, and soon after expired.
On the 18th ult., James Shirley was
executed at Holidaysburgh, Pa, for The
brutal murder of his wife, caused,
by his own confession on the gallows,
BY incompetence.
A Kosta and Ingraham meeting was
held in ST. Louis on The 81 inst A mum.
Der Of blood and thunder speeches and
Ia string Of patriotic resolution was the
4 result.
The Secretary Of the Interior has de-
cided that the war with Mexico ceased
on the SOth May, ls4s, consequently
soldiers enlisting after that date arr
no. entitled to bounty lands.
The grasshoppers are so numerous in
the State Of New York this season a:
almost TO amount 10 scourge. In many
places they have devoured the entire
oats and grass crop.
The celebrated Judge Finn, of Gin.
cinnati, attacked Mr.. Jolifre, one of the
attorneys engaged in the late Slave Case
before him. in that ci,y. on Friday week
The Judge was arrested and bound owe
in $500.
! An English company are building
steamer of TO- 900 tuns at Glasgow, in
tended 10 ply between England and III,
United States. Her deck presents al
area Of over one and half acres Of sur
face.
Much agitation prevails in the Ro
man States from fear Of famine. There
has been a short wheat harvest in Tus
cany, and much uueasiness ut Rayinna
Faenza, and Imola Tho expectation o
corn has been forbidden
j Mr.. Voolfolk, late the Sheriff Of Tiogi
county, N. Y, committed suicide, few
days since, by hanging. But a few day
before this, his father hung himself,
and but three years ago. his grand falhe
ended his own life in the same way.
] On the Sd most destructiv fire oc
Cured a. Augusta, Maine, by which
100000 worth Of property was des
troyed and large number of person.
thrown out Of employment. II was III,
largest fire ever known in that city.
Edmund Emmons, of Ridgeville. Lo
raid county. Ohio, died on the 26th ult.
4 of hydrophotia. lie was bitten by .
dog in March last, but felt nothing o
the dread disease until the Gath ult.
two days before he expired.
/ A lawyer in New Haven. named Al
fred J. Works, and his clerk. ha We been
convicted of fraud on the pension bureau
! BY false certificates. J. G.. Nesbit, Of
Auburn, N. Y, was recently sentenced
to six years Imprisonment for simila
fraud.
The last ste Gamer brings the news OF
the death Of Admiral Sir George Cock
burn. aged 80. He will be long remem
bered in connection with the burning OIL
the capital at; Washington in 1914. in
contravention Of every rule Of civilized
warfare.
The rebels in China are progressisg.
They have lately acquired possession
Of Annoy, considerable city. Their
treatment Of the conservatives who fall
into their power is Characters ed by a
degree of ferocity that is not taught by
the Christian religion which they pro.
fess.
Mr.. Rufus Porter. who has been so lone
| and earnestlv engaged unon tho oErO-