Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1853-11-25
The World at Home and Abroad,


Boston bas % 900 legal voters.
Sehoomasters salaries are advancing "down East
At Salt Lake City they have theatre which co
$4,000.
There is one suicide for every one hundred deaths
New York,
The number of poets in the United States Il mo-
estimated at 5,O23. Greece had only one.
Rag and bone picking have become two importar
and profitable branches OF business in New York
p L. Barnum is about erecting spacious buldin
in Chicago, for a museum, similar to his New Yor
| establishment.
In the Circuit Court in New York, before Judg
Mitchell recently, the juryf gave q verdict of $50
| against man Tor splitting In womans face.
An old silver mine near Lancaster, PENNSYLVANIA
has recently been re-opened and found to contain sill
yer ore in considerable quantity, mixed with lead ore
In the city of Houston, Texas, it is said that SIS
0O0 is annually spent for intoxicating liquors. TIL,
population consists of about three thousand white in
| habitants.
| The Iroquois Indians claim large portion of th,
State OF Vermont as theirs. A delegation from tn,
tribe arrived at the capital of that State recently tc
present their claim to the Legislature.
At the late North Carolina State Fair, at Raleigh,
mule OF extraordinary size was exhibited. 1t mea
sured six feet six inches in height and was as active
as horse. 1t was raised in Georgia.
The public debt of the United States. is SCI oSs ls9
which will not all be due until 1865 There has been
the present month $549 700 redeemed but still the
is surplus Of nearly 900 in the Treasury.
A woman and lawyer had fight in the Louisville
market-house ON the 2lst inst Long nails prevailed
over legal knowledge and the limb of the lw after
getting considerably scratched, left the field in pos
session of the woman.
There is an old lady in Virginia who believes it In
he Bible doctrine that for seven years before the
end othe world. no children are to be born and that
have afn,.f IN,
Of she says to herself "Wel the years at least
have not begul"
A coal barge running between Geneva N. T. and
the Pennsylvania mines, is commanded by woman
who lifts coal like steam power shouts her orders like
sergeant of Dragons, and manages her financial mat
tiers with the shrewdness of Jew. Take her all in
all, which none but bold man would do she is one
Of EN-, decidedly.
The proprietors of the Cumberland Iron Works. on
the Cumberland river Tenn, have engaged the SER
vices Of twenty Chinese coolies as iron workers They
are expected to arrive shortly at Cincinnati from
whence they will be forwarded to their destination
1t stated that the Chinese very expert in work
ing iron.
According to returns at the treasury department.
the value of tine portion of the cotton crop OF the Uni
ted States exported during the year ending the 3Oth
of June last was $4,000 900, against $S7 900 900
worth exported during the year ending on the 3Oth
June, 1852 Figures like these tell the tale of our
countrys industrial prosperity most forcibly.
NOVEL IpEA--During the progress of the Fair at
Augusta, Georgia, the chairman of the Executive
Committee authorized the auctoneer to offer a silver
cup premium for the best looking baby of native
growth, fourteen months old which should he exhibit
ed, little daughter of Robert Glover was the only
competitor, and OF course took the prize.
1t is estimated that this present year the yield of
gold i'm the world from all sources will be f4O O0 600
or 0Ooe0O0 In 1876 the production of gold in ali
the mines OF the world amounted to only Is S4e 1852
or about 10000 0O0 And yei in the face ef this i'm
menseylncreased production, there are some who
contend that gold is just valuable now as it was five
years since.
1t is stated in the u s. Census Report that the pro.
duction of rye in the United States is decreasing at
the rate Of about one million of bushels annually and
yet is stated further, that although there is no rye
imported into the country the quantity ofrye whisky
made in the country, increases at the rate of two
millions of gallons annually 1t is important there
fore, for some folks to find out what rye whisky is
made of
Every six years, by law, there is re-valuation of
the real estate OF Ohio for taxation. The last yalua-
tlon was III lS4 when the entire taxable property OF
the State at cash value amounted to about $i75 6OO
600. The returns for the new valuation are nearly
complete and the Auditor of the State estimates that
they will not vary but slightly from $500 900 ,0OO-
showing increase OF taxabes in six years S325 600.
900, or nearly 10 per cent
In the year l6iO the Legislature of Maryland en-
acted law making denial of the Godhead or any OF
the three persons OF the Trinity punishable by death
and for any reproachul words spoken of the Virgin
Mary the whipping-post and Imprisonment, at the
pleasure OF the lord proprietor This act MAY be read
in all its length and breadth in Bacons laws and is
still in force in the District of Columbia although alb
rogated in Maryland by the adoption of the new con-
stitution.
In Marion county, East Florida, there is very ex-
traordnary spring, called the "Silver Spring." Its
depth Is about 100 feet yet such is the transparency
OF the water, that pin can be discerned upon the
bottom. on the bottom is micarious deposit which
has considerable reflective power. When the sun
shines, the spring Is filled with rainbow coors and
makes one of the most bewitching and fairy-like
scenes which natural combinations can produce or
create.
new petroleum or oil spring has been discovered
In Western Virginia, near the forks of the Hughs
river. 1t was found in sinking well for salt. In
stead OF SALT however, the spring commenced blowing
out mineral OIL and has continued to furnish it at
Intervals up to the present dateabout fourteen gal
Ions of oil beng produced every fifth day. The oil is
valuable for weakness in the breast sprans cuts and
bruises it burns very well in lamps and may be used
in dressing leather instead Of fish OIL but makes the
leather porous.
There is capital OF $50, 900 900 invested in the cul
ture of cane in the States of Florida Louisiana and
TeNas These States produce annually about sos 0O0
00O pounds of sugar besides which, foreign mporta.
tons made to the cxteat of $50 900 900 pounds
Even a short crop of sugar at the South which re-
duces the usual production only 100 900 900 or 5O 0O0
600 lbs, invariably advances the rate Of sugar from
entire consumption Of $50 900 900 pounds, is equal to
cent to $500 000 and at and ahalf cents to
about $40 eco 600.
II is stated that in the year $780, only sxtythree
years ago. there but three cities in the Union
which contained each 20, 900 souls. Now there
seven cities of over 100 600 each, and thirty of
over .00O During the ten years between lS40 and
1850 the population OF Boston increased more than
35 GEO. that of Philadelphia over 100000 that Of
Cincinnati over 900 st. Louis over so 0OO and SO
with others. Chicago, Milwaukee and several other
cities which would number 20 900 EACH have a..
most sprung into existence within the short period Of
ten years Already the fourteen principal cities of tie
Union contain population OneOurth greater than the
fourteen largest cities of the Austrian Empire.
Mr.. Longworth of Cincinnati, has now $50 acres of
vineyard under cultivation, and owns three wine eel.
lars of which contains $50 900 bottles One of his
tanks holds 5000 gallons, SIS 900 worth of wne if
bottled He has "a casks holding about 800 gallons
each. MIR. Robert Buchanan obtains this year about
500 gallons to the The present demand fo Ca
tawba wines is valued at 81 900 ,000 annually. The
fruit is purchased from the vineyard men for from S.
TO So per hundred pounds, (or two blshels) bushel
yielding from 81 to gallons. InOhio there are about
500 acres exclusively devoted to grapegrowing in
Missouri, near Hermann, 500 acres in Indiana or
500 in Illinois about l00 and i'm Kentucky the same
Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky will probably this year
produce at least half a million gallons Of wine.
FOREIGN.
The population of the Canadas is two millions.
There are 80 900 political prisoners in the Papa do
minions
Weaving is done in Italy now by means of electric
ity. 1t is effective.