Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1853-09-23

The crops in Egypt have been almost
totally destroyed BY an earthquake.
The cranberry crop this season has
proved unusually abundant, in Mime
sofa.
The British ship Nessree was recently
wrecked on the coast of Hindoostan, by.
which 300 lives were lost.
Gen. Piondexter, ex Governor of Mis-
sissippi, died in Jackson, in that State
on the 9Th inst. 'N
A man was lately killed in Phila
delphia from the bursting Of a grindl
stone. ,.
| The experiments recently made with
wood gas at Wilmington, N. e.. have
! failed. 4 @ hha
John w. Davis, of Indiana, has been
appointed Governor Of Oregon. in place.
of Gen. Lane. resigned. f.s
DR. Ames, who shot Hall, at Cincin-
natl, has been bailed in the sum of
S25, 200. Hall is recovering.
A gentleman, named Davis, residing
in Clement CO., Ohio. has a peach or.
chard Of 100 acres, containing 1900
trees.
The steamer North America and Clara
were destroyed by fire at Fulton, just
above Cincinnati. on the morning of the
9th.
There is now but twenty miles of
staging between Chicago and St. Louis.
The travelling time between the two cities
is reduced TO twenty hours.
Captain VIM. Walker, a libe rally
educated Wyandot, has been chosen Gov
ernor of Nebraska Territory by the in
habitants.
On the upward trip of the Ben Camp
bell to keokuk, Mrs. Snyder. a lady
passenger, was found dead in her state
room, having died Of hemorrhage Of the
lungs.
| About two hundred thousand persons
will leave England and Ireland this sum-
mer for America. The greatrise in la
borer's wages has much to do with this
ex odus.
A rebellion broke out recently in the
British Island OF Tortoa, (near 81. Thorn
as on account Of the imprisonment, OF
two men for refusing to pay the tax OF
IL cents head on cattle. Road Town
was fred, and reduced to ashes.
A society for hiring out umbrellas in
wet weather,wit capatal OF f25,0OO,
has been started in London. A shilling
is to be deposited when the umbrella is
taken, as security, and penny an hour
given for its use.
/ Nearly one thousand Indians Of thd
Snake and Cheyenne tribes, have recent.
ly died of the small pox in the neigh.
borhood Of Utah. 1t is stated that three
hundred bodies were in one instance
piled together and consumed by fire.
James Fulton, of Warren township
Jefferson county, Ohio, has stalk OF
A Coma specimen of eight acres rapidly
approaching maturity--which measures
Is feet 2 inches. 1t contains thee full
grown ears, the largest being % inches,
I and ola robust appearance.
Jennings, convicted and sentenced a..
st. Joseph for being one Of the party
concerned in whipping man to death
at that place, was executed or Friday,
the 28th ult.. surrounded bv crowd Of
at least five thousand spectators. Jen-
nings' wife and brother were present
and saw The unhappy man launched into
eternity.
The steamer London, while passing
down the river at Chicago on Thursday
week ran against the Clark street bridge
and sunk it, completely ohstructing the
river. The ten der had commenced
opening the draw when the boat struck.
Two suits have been Instituted by the
city against the steamer-one for viola
ting the ordinance, (penal,y $780,
and one for damages by the collision,
| laid at at 81 900.
The California Indians entertain a
remarkable antipathy to the whole
Chinese race, and never lose an occasion
to manifest II. Unrestrained by the
white people. the poor ignorant Celes-
,lals would be massacred by The whole
sale By those proud and merciless savages
who claim great superiority over the
Asiatics. fear Of punishment restraints
them from violence. They content
| themselves in measure with annoying
the Chinese; by assisting the collec
tors of foreign miners tax in enforcing
the payment Of licences.
A strange chain OF events. similar to
the "dog fight in Frog occurred in
Cincinnati the other day. An old man
named Hermitage was employed in
painting the walls OF house. and fall.
ing from scaffold he injured himself TO
such an extent that he had to be convey ed
home. His fall frightened a horse at
tached to an express wagon, which ran
of. and in his mad career down the street
ran over hog and killed it. The hog
was owned jointly by couple of men
who skinned it, and had Sight over the
carcass. The belligerents were taken
before magistrate and paid fine OF
Eve dollars and costs.
About four weeks since, Mr.. Byinrton,
OF Oberlin. Ohio was killad INV a stallion