Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1853-12-16
MUCH IN LITTLE.

4 DOMESTIC.
The circulation of the New York Weekly Tribune
60, 600 copies.
Society of Mormons has recently been organize
It has been proposed to hold national cattle sho
at Springfield, Ohio.
Savannah, in the State of Georgia, is said not 1
contain single grog-shop.
The annual immigration Of foreigners to New Yor
Is at the rate Of about thousand day.
A grave stone lately cut in Newark has at the top
daguerreotype OF the deceased person neatly set int
| the stone.
1t is in contemplation to erect at Bennington, vt,
monument .'to the memory of the Heroes OF Benning
ton Battle"
Fifty men are, at present, employed upon the Wash
| ington Monument 1t has attained a height of or,
hundred and forty-seven feet.
The Swedenborgians, or New Church, have es,ab
sheda College at Urbana, 0Lio and near 100 studen
| are in attendance.
There is live Chnaman in Dayton. Clio, Who An,
become permanent citizen, and gone regularly int
| the tea Business.
There are in the United States 234 Colleges. will
1901 teachers, and Sl59 pupils. Income from all
sources $l,9l6,G2
fellow, with half dozen if not more aliases was
arrested recently in New York for having packed
horses heads and sold them for beet.
The expenses of the Martha Washington snit are
estimated at not less than forty thousand dollars
bill that will have to be footed by Uncle Sam.
woman was fined one dollar in Cincinnati for
throwing rotten egg in the face of grocery keeper
who had sold her dozen of the same sort.
Erie, Pa, has the only Custom House erected by
tne UNITED states Government on our Northern l.. ke
frontier. it cost twenty-nine thousand dollars.
There printed in the State of Illinois one him.
dred and thirty newspapers-of which nineteen are
dailies, and five German.
female employed for fourteen years past in a na-
per mill at Wheeling, has during that period in roin
to and returning from work, walked II ,I2s miles,
Ohio has $4,000 School Districts and 30 GOO School
directors. Eight hundred and thirty thousand chill
dren attend the Public Schools in that State
Don Jose Manuel GalegOs, a Mexican has been
elected Delegate to Congress from tie Territory of
New Mexico. He does not understand a word of
English.
The expenses Of the city Government in New York.
during the present year, are expected to reach So
oOO-being an average of about Sc for each inhab
liant.
At Exeter N. H., child was followed to the grave
one day last week, by three great grandathers and
one great grandmother, two grandfathers and two
grandmOthers
Mr.. H. p Ross was fined ten dollars and costs by the
nee court at Worcester Mass, on the Both ult for
refusing to pay addition of five cents on his fare ON
the Worcester aud Nashua railroad.
Rolled iron instead of cast iron beams are used az
supports in several new buildings in New York. They
cost no more than fifth Of what cast iron beams do
and are said to be equally as seryiceable
The editar of the Hallowell Gazette, away down
East, has received an apple which was picked from
tree in lS22-thirty-one years ago. 1t was in GOOD
order and condition.
An Agricultural Congress FOR the benefit os fha
planting interests of the Sayeholding States is in con-
temptation. preliminary Convention Is to lie held
at Macon, Georgia
New Orleans has the mo { expensive c;lst,mbousa
bniluiDU in tlfp ITuta1 IL ,ln
i05 o0o and is still unfinished the entire cost of the
structure being estimated at $1,000 GOO.
Good hickory wood is now selling in ST. Louis at
The enormously high price of So per cord and oa At
from s. To s. so: whAe the commoaest kind OF wood
suitable Tor stove use, cannot be had for less than
from 81 so to s. per cord.
A ghost story" prevails in Wetze. Co., Virginia..
The ghost oil man murdered some time ago II is said
mas appeared and demanded vengeance on his MIR
derer and the man pointed out as the murderer, has
been arrested.
The last dog story is from Fayetteville. Arkansas
where farmers deg has been detected in going to
The hog pen at night and biting Of the hogs till he
gets up, wacn ''Archy lies dowa in the warm place
and goes to sleep.
boy named Charles Hamilton seventeen years of
age, lately reached Sacramento al from Wisconsin
He came with team 10 Mormon Station. Carson
valley, and hnding the travelling too slow for him
packed his provisions and started alone for Placerye
w.'ere he arrived in good time.
ilttle sirl IN st. Louis, while playing with some
sot one oi tael n her ear, and every effort to
eXtricate it only sent it further through the orifte
The pain was such as to produce insanity few hours
alter its introduction, and the consequence was She
died a few days afterward in violent paroxysms.
The first American Magnetic Telegraph Line was
estao!iShed e III lo44, between Washington city and
baltimore. The aggregate number of main and branch
lines in the United States at present time is about one
hundred. There are completed and in operatiOo 27
oo0 miles, and l0 600 more in process of construction
The Carolina Twins, now exhibition at Charles
ton, &. CD are joined together at the back by the
union OF two spines in one, forming apparently q Sc
cond edition, in miniature, of the famous Siamese
Twins. some OF their organs are in common while
others are rer.ecty distinct. They were born in Co
lumbus unity, Nc.
There are about 3,5O0,O00 cotton spindles in the
United States, and these are, with rare exceptous
crowded to their utmost capacity, and some running
over time to catch up with their orders The excep
tons mostly in Rhode Island, and there the diff
Guilty is occasioned by the scarcity Of worknen, and
not by the want Of employment.
noteworthy circumstance in relation TO the prcs
ent condition of the dry goods market of the United
States, Is that, while foreign fabrics are abundant
and prices low, those of domestic manufacture are in
demand at high prices. The first is to be attributed
mainly to the immense mportations which have flood
ed the country.
are sxty-three moaks including noyices who are lv-
ng On the bread OF dieness. They have sent a dele
CATION to Canada for the collection of funds with
which to rear splendid edice where they may live
At their the charities they can collect from the
Industrious and deuded. Their professed work is
prayer, praise and penance their real work is sen-
dulgence and the PROCLAMATION Of holy things.
The first white settlement in Indiana was yincen-
nes the Wabash, the present seat OF Justice for
Knox county. The site WIS occupied by the French
as military post, as early the forepart of the
eighteenth century. The town was named in nonor Of
gallant French officer, OF the name OF Francois Nor
gan dc Fncinne. who lived iii Canada rs early as 1920
and probably took possession of Vincennes about 1882
He was killed in battle with the Chickasaw Indians
in 1876.
CoST OF LIVING IN New YoRK.-New York is by
lar the most expensive place IN the world Merchants
and professional men OF the first rank spend SIS 600 to
s2O 600 year, or more, in mere household expenses.
The same class OF men in London and ether large
cities, seldom spend half this sum- unless they have
which their money floats away. People who keep
house. who not considered rich and possibly have
not shilling of capital they call their OWL live
on four five thousand year. L0dg-
ers in boarding houses-and this class includes the
bulk of young merchants lawyers clerks, &c. unless
they are content to inhabit attic, find il hard 10
make both ends meet on less than sl 500 to 5000
The class in England live in snug houses of their
own $500 to $1,000. Everything is in proportion.
Of the houses above Fourteenth street. not one in
twenty rents for less than 81 o00 Rents of 81 250 and
81 500 are far more numerous than those of $50. Flu
81 and lights are enormously dear. Many kinds of
food are more expensive there than elsewhere Cloth
ing is out OF all reason.
FOREIGN.
Acorn coffee Is much used in Elrope.