Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1853-12-23

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A negro drew a prize of 50, loo in lottery a few
days since in Louisville Ky.
The proportion OF catholic churches to Protestant
in the United States, is one to thirty.two.
Alexandra Dumas, the celebrated French writer is
coming to this country to reside.
The head of Joaquin the celebrated robber is being
exhibited IN the various cities and towns of California
/ A woman named Mrs. Burns has been convicted of
horsestealing in Cabe county, Va
The Indians on the Texian frontier sill continue
their depredations, in the immediate vicinity of
i U. S. forts.
man in st Louis has been sentenced to the penten-
tiary ninctynine years for numbering his vie while
| intoxicated.
At the last term of the District Court held in Perry
county Indiana, twenty-five applications for divorce
were presented. Nineteen were granted.
1t is said that North Carolina produces within its
boundaries the staples of every other State in the Union
and is the only one that does it.
In the Ohio penitentary are 524 prisonersa greater
number than ever before known at any one time i'm the
! history OF the Institution.
A watch is owned in Louisville made in l4iI, which
the hours.
/ lhe Agricultural Society of Pennsylvania propose
purchasing 81 acres of land, near Germantown for
slo,'Vo, on which to hold its annual exhibitions.
An lrishman named Cowsley was killed recently at
a Ball at Alton, and few days before n German
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| A woman Elizabeth Harker, was tried the other
day. IN Huntingdon Pa, for the murder of her sister
py poison, found guilty, and sentenced to be hung
The Ohio coal-eld comprises II 800 square miles, a
greater area than all the coal region of Great Britain.
lying nearer the surface and much more easily mined
Locomotive building in Cincinnati EMPLOYS a great
deal OF labor and capital In of the establishments
alone 81 locomotives are under contract.
Margaret Slmors has been arrested at Chicago for
numbering her daughter, aged twelve years. by beat
ing and drowning her in a tub. The mother was in
toxicated
The notorious Kiss;,ne, who Is now awaiting cen.
tence Tor the crime of forgery in Cincinnati has it is
alleged, been disposing of his property for the pur.
pose OF cheating his lawyers.
Another prize fight came off few DAYS ago in
montgomery county, Pennsylvania, the combatants
being Baltimore bully Manned Sloan and Pbiladel
phia bully named Brady. .r-
John Paxton who resided five miles from Staunton
Va, was killed recently while hunting raccoons. He
cur down tree, which springing backward, struck
The Disciples, or Campbele Baptists, in Nortlsern
ohio are about TO split off from the main body of the
Church. owingo dissatisfaction of the pro-siaYery SEN
timents OF Alexander Campbell
Peanuts said to be plentiful on the Tennessee
river this season. that farmers turn their hogs into the
patches, and they tatten well if fed with corn-
We have heard of and mast fed but never before
OF peanut pork.
The war between the settlers of Oregon and the In-
dans has at length been settled by satisfactory trea
ties after having cost the whites about $3.50 COO and
number OF valuable lives. Gen. Lanes conduct is
highly commended.
a monster tunnel is now in course of construction
near Cincinnati, Ohio ON the line of the Short.I.ne
Raiiroad The tunnel proper will be s00I feet in
length or with It's approaches which re to be arced
1901 feet II will be 20 feet wide and % high
A runaway negro killed John Myers at Natchez. a
few days ago, and afterwards secleted himself in
mil Oh the bank OF river, where he remained several
days. Being discovered, he jumped in among the
working machinery of the mill and was Immediately
torn TO pieces.
GOING TO THE GRAVE BY STEAM 1t is stated that
the proprietors OF Greenwood Cemetery at New York
nave ltln contemplation to construct railroad from
the city to the cemetery, the inerments being sufi
ciently numerous to warrant the undertaking.
WOMAN WHITING IN Sorru CARoIIs,-A white
woman, miiner, oil industrious habit. and having a
large lany was convicted last week at Charleston of
larceny ana sentenced to be Imprisoned two months
and to receive one lash on the bare back.
The wolves of Maine seem to be very numerous and
remarkably fierce the present season. The accommo-
dation stage and passengers from Rockland to Mchias
were driven back from the woods near Indian river
ana detained over night by large detachment Of these
obscure beasts.
A bull worth $4,000, COW worth $4,000 and calf
worth 500, have recently been imported from Eng
land by Colonel Thomas, OF Dutchess county New
York. One such aSrieultnrist Colonel Thomas,
does more good to the State than thousand noliti-
A plan for enlarging Boston by annexing all the
towns within live miles and thus make it equal in size
and population to the third city in the United States
viii be presented for the early consideration of the
next Legislature OF Massachusetts,. The consolidated
city would be entitled to hundred representatives
cave was recently discovered in the vicinity of
Vaecto, CAL, in which, at the depth of about 100
feet, were discovered three hundred petried hu
man bodies also, an immense number of stalacttes
some OF which rested on and were Incorporated with
the bodies The skulls indicated race distinct from
our Indians.
A female physician was arrested in Cincinnati last
week for administering drugs to another female for the
purpose of producing abortion A man was also ar
rested charged being the seducer and instgator of
the crime. The unfortunate, poor friendless girl is
in very precarious situation. $1,000 bail each was
required OF the prisoners.
The body of man found buried thirty feet in guano
on q island OF lchaboe is exhibited in the City
Hall, in Baltimore. Ii is petiiied and turned to a
solid mass OF stone retaining all the minute outlines of
perfect specimen of humanity. 1t has been exam
ined by physicians and scientific men, and pronounced
one OF the most marvellous subjects witnessed.
There is now connecting line of railroad from the
kennebcc river 10 the Mississippi, at Alton H. which
enables travellers TO proceed without delay from the
capital OF Maine to the city OF Alton in the unprece
dented time of seventy hours. The time table is at
present. eight hours to Boston, thirty to Buffalo, thir
ty-iive to Chicago, and seventy to Alton.
family of nine persons passed through DAYTON NJ
Ohio, recently their way to Iowa, on a freight
tram as ifeght Al Belielontane they were put upon
the scales and weighed like dead shoats and a regu
lar bill of adng made out for them at I6 cents
per hundred, after which they were slowed away i'm
freight and locked up like many balls of ner,
chandise or so many tubs of grease. ~
During the representation of the last act of Richard
I'll, at the Varieties, in st. LOUIS recently Mr. Neae
called Justify for Richmond to come forth and meet
him hand to hand. On the appearance of Richmond
Richard gazed at him as though in doubt of his ilen
tty. 1t was soon settled, however, by boy in the
gallery calling out"G0 it, old hoss that's the man Z!
Thus assured, Richard pitched ill.,, and got damned
out OF boots
large book, containing about $50 pages snugly
enveloped with the leaves protrudng at the ends,
but nicely cut oul from the CENTRE leaving q
space about halt an inch around the edges, in the
square hole of which was packed away five dozen of
silk gloves and four dozen packages of needless was
sent through the mail from Chicagoto Cincinnati re-
Gently. The Postmaster returned the document to
Chicago, with instructions to prosecute the person
who transmitted it.
The oyster trade is extensively carried on at Boston,
Messfs. Atwood have nine vessels exclusively EN-
poyed in the business, five which are clipper-but
schooners freighting oysters from the SOUTH They
have seyenty-tive acres of fats near what is called
White Island, the Mystic river, where the fresh
oysters of the south transplanted to grow and fat
ten in water much softer than their native element and
where they keep supply in the summer months, and
for the winter stock.
The newest Partisan fans are of ivory inla;d with