Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1853-11-18
The World at Home and Abroad.
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
A girl named Eliza Reed, was lately arrested at Ho-
| boken, for horse stealing.
Miss fmcy Stone has been ecturing in Cincinnati to
crowded houses, on the subject of Woman's Rights.
strong and systematic effort will he made to place
Col Benton IN the Speakers chair of the next House
| of Representatives.
One thousand sacks OF wheat were recently bought
| in st. Louis at $ll0 per bushe, for shipment to
France.
| There is now residing in Bowling Green a woman
OF color who is the mother of nineteen children the
youngest of whom is in his 6sth year.
There are in the city Of New York 629 bar rooms
open on Sunday. Only eleven hundred And twenty
are closed on that day.
Spanish engineer has just made the discovery Of
gun from which 60 shots may be fired in succession.
This diabolcal weapon has been presented to the
Spanish Government.
The Medical and Chrurgcal faculty of MARYLAND
have issued an edct against all secret and qack med
clnes and against all apothecares who will not
Offering the same for sale.
/ Some one estimates that there are hogs enough
packed in Cincinnati every year. to reach round the
world fthey arranged in single ile the tail of
each hog in the mouth of his immediate predecessor
| Sumac is found in great abundance in Stafford and
other counties in Virginia. "A single hand can gather
from one to two hundred pounds day with ease and
it meets ready sale in the Boston market
Two young men in North Demass. Mass. one slav
last week, pegged one hundred and sixty pairs of
wonen's spring heel shoes, working ten hours. This
Is probably the greatest performance recorded in
this line.
well, near Cleveland, has been dug to the deptb
OF ono hundred and five feet, which is seyentythree
feet below the surface Of the lake and no water found
The well dug through the hard blue clay peculiar to
the lake shore.
The trial of the officers and owners of the steam-
boat Henry Clay, charged with having caused the
death of the persons killed by the burning of that boat
was concluded on the 2nd and verdict of guilty
was returned by the jury after short absence
There is land in New York, Broadway, which is
worth $40 square foot. In St. Louis the highest
rate is about twelve dollars square foot Tn Cincin
natl for property which is assessed at $50 per square
foot, that price has been offered
Detroit now contains population of 3443s add
Spring Wells and Hamtrack, Suburbs of the city and
it makes total Of 81 1885, This shows an increase
since 1850 of over $4,000. This is the legitimate Of.
/ feet of Railroads in our country.
child of Lorin Field of Somers Conn., aged three
years, died quite suddenly, short time SINCE after
having eaten stick OF colored candy. An examina-
ton OF the contents OF the stomach showed the pres
ence OF quantity of lead, supposed to have been con-
tanned in the candy.
The value OF the crops of the United States for 1850
were as follows: Wheat, $143 900 0s0 Indian corn.
Sssl 10000 Hay $3.50 275 ,00o Oats, $40 $40 900
Potatoes, $73 ,l25 900 Cotton, $l29,O00,OOO the
whole crop being $l.762 s3,O42 The animals
slaughtered are worth sls3, ,O00, ,O00 per annum.
DIR Locke. of Cincinnati, has invented handleycl.
1t Is pocket instrument not larger than ones finger
and IN use is held up to the eye like pistol and looked
through as small telescope II is said to be accu-
rate OF simple construction and not easily put out OF
repair.
! An apple has been raised near bloomington. Ill..
which had no seeds and the tree on which il grew
| had no blossoms in the spring. The pup is exceed
ingly firm and of an excellent flavor In the centre
OF the apple there is but very slight appearance of
| CORE
]. b. Holmes, confined in the Nashville Tenn, iai
for robbery made saw Of his razor sawed Off an iron
bar attached TO his bedstead dug through stone wall
four feet thick, made a rope Of his bedding. with
which he let himself down to the ground. q distance
OF forty feet and then decamped. He Was subsequent
ly recaptured.
The Poughkeepsie Daily Press says that couple OF
workmen in Finche's shp-yard. while engaged in
saving locust log, came across a large toad. snugy
secreted in the center, which was alive and weighed
seven and ahalf pounds. The log is perfectly sound
and is supposed TO be one hundred years old. How
his toadsp got there and how long he occupied his
snug quarters, is mystery, of course
| boy employed in the press room Of the Pennsyl.
vania Inquirer named Thomas Brady met with Sc
rious accident on the 2lst ult. He had a piece OF
twne tied round one of his thumbs and was Amusing
himself by throwing the other end of the string over
the shaft which was revolving The twine finally be-
came entangled in the machinery and was icrked bv
it with such force as to take of the thumb and drag
out snew leading to the elbow.
rival of Tom Thumbs has appeared in Harris.
burg. Pa, giving exhibitions under the management
of Mr. Stevens. 1t is child three years old sixteen
inches high and weighs six pounds and four ounces
Is perfectly healthy, very active and intelligent and
named General Winfield Scott. The father Mr.
Zeers, residing in Dauphin county, Pa. is A large
man, weighing over two hundred pounds and his
mother weighs over one hundred aud ninety pounds
| patent has been obtained for the bending OF all
kinds OF timber by end pressure. The patentee Mr..
Thos Blanchard bend straight timber 10 All the re
qured forms, without abraiding the capbaty tnbes
OF wood He confines the outsdes of each stick 10 il.
original length by pressure forcing flores into new
strength OF wood. these bent tmberzbe rain
Strengthened. The bending is performed while. the
vegetable albumen is softcned and thus much df il
must exhude, improving the lasting properties Of the