Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1853-06-10
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....Col. Clemens is running for Gov
enor Of Alabama on his own hook. Mr..
Winston is the regular d emocfatie candi
date
"..Dr. Kane sailed from New York
on the 31st ult., on his expedition id
search of Sir John franklin.
1.-The Lunatic Asylum at Colum.
bus, Ohio. is now full, containing up
wards OF five hundred patients.
'...A citizen Of Cleveland, O., hes
invented lath machine which cuts 500
la'h from the solid log in one minute.
...Csp.. Cunning. OF the eokuk
Dispatch, has been elected as the or a.
tor OF the day. for the 4th of July. at
Keokuk.
'.'Wm. A. Ball died at Piscaiaway,
Md, last week, from drinking water
which had been stand ing some time in q
painted bucket.
....A young man, (name not given y
while under the effects Of fit Of sick.
ness, committed suicide, by drowning,
few days since, at Dubuque.
....A house near Cot;onville, Jack
SON county. in this State. was struck by
lightning, on Saturday last. and boy
ten years OF age was killed.
....Patrick O'Dononghue and all the
Irish exiles have escap ped from Van
piemen's Land, and will shortly arrive
ia one Of OUT Atlantic ports.
-. Dodge and Schoen, who were SEN
fenced to be hanged at ST. Lonis, the
lst inst, for murder. have been repriev we'd
BY the President until the 22d of July.
1.-THE Directors Of the Crystal Pal
ace now think that they will be able to
open the Exhibition by the 18th of July
Price of admission is fixed at fifty cents.
-! Thirty-fve cows We're lately
burned to death in barn on the farm
Of Stephen Van Renselleaf, near Alba
| ny. N. Y.
..'.Ex-President Tyler is said to be
suffering from dyspepsia and symptoms
Of consumption, and will not proba bly,
ong survive.
| -. Mexican silver is coming forward
rapidly to the mint for recoinage.-
Large sums are received almost daily
hoH "CAiSo az lNoW OIicuHSs III pov
ment for goods shipped
-: The. steamer Fayetteville explo.
ded her Boiler, few days since, near
Smithville, North Carolina, and soon
after sunk. One Person badly scalded
LOSS se0.oOO
....During the performance. at the
Lowell, lMass.) Museum. on the even
ing Of the 23 h ul,.. young man was
accidentally stabbed over the eye with
bayonet. The weapon entered the
brain and killed him Immediately.
1.-THE stories from the Colorado, Of
rich gold discoveries. seem likely to
turn out as similar stories from the
ella. q year or two ago. Gold has been
found there, but not in sufficient, guam
titles TO pay for digging
-. The Iron Railroad Bridge, over
tho Monongahela, above Paramount.
Va, rs neetly completed This struc
ture. il is said, is the first in size in
the United States, and second only to
the celebrated iron bridge over the Me.
mai straits in Great Britain.
....California papers say. tina, 800
TO 200 friendly Indians lately held
feast at One Horse Town After dan.
cling and bowling for six or eight hours.
the squaws had sumptuous repas. Of
broifed beef entrails, while The warriors
had pulSerizsd aeorns, grass seeds ana
preserved worms.
....A Miss Wheeler is now on trial
for the murder OF one w. L. Lice. Of
Milwaukee. She is now in the esd year
Of her age, comely and o! good address.
Lace was her sedueer after her deser-
tion she renlizeI How visionary the
redress the law offered, and becoming
desperate, became her own avenger.
.!..Col. Cipriani. ain hGlian noble.
man. is on the Missouri frontier, with u
complete expedition. for Tie purpose OF
surveying the central ROUTE TO California.
on his own hook. All he wants i, TO
End tho best and shortest way. His
surveys will comprehend fifteen miles
in width for the whole distance
IAN earthern ware vessel, contain
ing old Roman copper coins OF the time
OF Diocletian. between A. d., 234 and
3O5, was recently dug W in the old part
OF Pana ma. The suppositior is. that they
were buried for safety BY some Span
iards, perhaps antiquities which The
owner highly valued, aud which he thus
sought to preserve from the buccaneers
1.-THE Macoupin (lll.) Statesman
says that case in regard to State Tax
Titles was decided recently. by Judge
Woodson, Of that Circuit. The decision
was against the validity Of these claims
generally. In the opinion Of The Court.
the Safe acquired no title in the for
feiture, and none consequently passed
10 the purchaser.
....I; is now reported that The passenn
gers OF the ship William aud Mary.
which foundered off the great Isaac's
Bahama were all rescued from watery
grave by wrecking schooner. after the
ship had been deserted by the captain
and crew. The whole number Of pas.
sengers was two hundred, all Of whom
were saved but two, who are supposed
to be lost.
-. Schism has slready began TO-
work among the Mormons. A party
calling itself the "New Church" has
sprung up and separated from the origi-
nal Mormon Society. The new church
has appointed seven YuleYa. answering