Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1853-08-12
News Items.


The National Monument at Was h.
ington is now ia feet high.
Mrs. Stove, after stayin in Paris
three weeks, has gone TO Switzerland.
The small pox has been very fatal
al Montreal This season. The deaths are
stated at fifiy-four in every one thousand
Cholera is said to be raging very faia
ly among the boatmen on the Chesa pea k
ard Ohio Canal, above Harper's Ferry.
England has assembled at Portsmouth
the largest fleet Of war steamers the
world has known.
The City Council of Galena have made
arrangements to have tina, city lighted
with gas.
News from the Plains represe Mt the
Indians as ublesome Nothing serious.
however, bad occurred
Advices from China show that the in
surgents are gaining ground on the
imperial troops.
The potato crop Of Minnesota will be
immense this season-greater than will
be required for home consumption.
A hog, from Vermont said to weigh
l.l56 pounds, and is two wears and
eight months old, is now in Boston
1t was stated in the recen, Medical
Convention at Chicago. that Illinois is
the healthiest State in the Union.
A lad or girl of fifteen years Of age.
may be bought in the interior Of Africa.
for four ysrds of cotton cloth.
There is a California turnip in Buf-
'alo which measures for,y-fve inches in
circumference. and weighs fourteen and
a hall pounds.
Iron ore has been discovered on The
Kankakee River, in Illinois. Ii is what
is called bog ore, no, being very good in
quality, but comparatively productive
Most of the butter used in California
is sent from New York. Goshen but
ter is as common sign in San Fran
cisco as in New York.
Mr.. Lee, oil Dubuque, killed a snake
last week. about 4 feet long, out OF
which he took 81 young. making SO
snakes at one haul.
In an ARRAY in Buckingham county.
Va, recently, between three brothers
named Farrar, two o! them were killed !
They we're all drunk at the time.
Elk President Van Buren, and his son
were travelling in the north Of England
al he latest dates. They are every
where received with marked attention
The wife and father Of Mr.. Thomas
f. Meegher lately arrived,at New York
The ather is member Of the British
Parliament. from Ireland, and man
OF influence and wealth.
The cholera has again appeared In
Willlamsport, Pa, with renewed viru-
lence aud fatality. The plrce has been
abandoned by nearly lalf lis inhabitants.
1t has also appeared in Emmi .tsburg
Md.
AT Nauvoo, on Saturday evening week
a man by the name Of Walker was enga
eed in maltreating his wife. when his
fn'her.in law inierfered and was imme-
diately killed by the brutal husband. -
fIe made his escape.
Last week. two fires occurred in Chi
cago; at the first. two horses and COW
were burned: at the other, barn be-
longing TO the Clinton House, l6 horses
were consumed and number of car
risges.
The Supreme Court OF Iowa has decided
the provision OF the Code 10 be uncon.
stitu,ional which authorizes another
person than the elect ed Judge to preside
and give judgment in courts Of law and
equity.
On The Sd inst. a train of ten pas.
senger cars. containing son workman
run off the track Of the Delaware and
Belvidere Railroad. at Lam bertville.
near Philadelphia. killing fen men-all
Irish laborers on the road.
The yellow fever has made It's appear
ance in New Orleans nearly two months
before its usual time. 1t is feared tina,
the disease will become epidemic In
the week ending the 9Th uIt.. there
were l04 cases in the Charity Hospital
-36 fatal.
The British bark Condor. from Aus
tralia TO London, with cargo Of wool
and $4,000 ounces OF gold, was lately
destroyed by fire. Her passengers and
crew, 125 in number. were saved by the
French bark CHARLES ct Pauline" as
was also the gold on board.
Mr.. A. Frazes. worthy farmer OF
Peoria county, Ill one day last week,
in sliding down from load Of hay,
was caught in one Of the stakes OF the
wagon, which passed into his body some
twelve or fourteen inches. He died
ten hours afterwards.
The steamer Robert Campbell has just
re turned 10 st. Louis from a trip. one
hundred and eighty miles above Yellow
Stone, sfter an absence Of sixty seven
days. She encountered both violent
snow storm aud severe attack Of mus l
quitoes. on the same day. 9th Of JuneJ
The Campbell brought 5000 packs of
robes and furs and lot Of "vsrmints."
The ST. Ange was met 260 miles above
Coaneil BIuffe.