Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1853-08-19

vertl5ement OF j. L. Freeman.
News Items.
st. Louis continues unusually health
this year.
The Nile, in Egypt. is now lowe
han II has been for thirty years.
Col. Bliss, Gen. ,Taylor's son.in-law
died at Pascagoula, on the 5th inst o
! yellow fever.
Potato rot is making its appeara nc.
| in Rhode Island. Massachusetts, and
other Eastern States.
A grea, gathering recently occurred a,
Plymouth to celebrate the anniversa ~
Of the landing OF the Pilgrims.
The Aztec children who attracted So
much notice in this country. are creating
| quite sensation in London.
The Camanchc Indians, singular ,o
say, never drink whisky-an article
which they hate inveterately.
The visitors Of the Crystal Pala &c
have reached as high as 5000 per day.
Price OF admission, so cents.
The first railroad, in Africa, betwee n
Cairo and Alexandra. 25 miles in leng tn
was opened on the 21st of June.
There are $50 men in St. Louis who
are rich worth from $50, 900 to $780,.
600. The possessor Of the latter is
Jas. II. Lucas.
There are thirty-one thousa nd nsa n e
aud idiotic persons in the United States
-one 10 every eight hundred inhabi.
tants.
Quarantine has been established at
Natcbez. in consequence OF the prevail
ence Of tine yellow fever at New Or
leans.
Jennings, who was convicted OF be
ing concerned in lyrching man at St
Josephs, Mo-, IS to be hung on the I'd
Of September.
There have been forty bills of iudic,.
ment found against persons in Michigan
for cutting timber on government
lands.
On the 18Th ult., shock OF an earth
quake was felt at Cuamana. in Venezuela.
which destroyed many houses, and
buried quo persons in the ruins.
A man and his wife were shot, in a
quarrel, on the 9th ult., near Oberli.
Ohio. They were both killed. and the
murderers, two young men, have been
arrested.
Barnum's Menagerie has been exhib.
tied recently at Galena and other towns
In Illinois, and also in Wisconsin. Our
contemporaries are unanimous in charac-
llerizing il as veritable humbug.
The young man who robbed one OF
the passengers on board the Die Vernon
some time ago, has made his escape
from Jail at Quincy. 1t is reported
that he was assisted by his attorney in
escaping.
BY a decision Of the P. M. General
the stamps must be used with the en-
velopes. A letter enclosed in another
envelope. with the stamp Gu, out Of
The L. y. envelope, and placed OH that,
was decided not to have been postpaid
At Princetown, N. J. an habilual drunk
ard, under law recently enacted, was
declared, by jury, incapa Bile Of taking
care OF his own property. He has had
a guardian appointed over him, and
Invested OF ali control of his business
until his reformation.
On last Saturday, during a thunder.
storm Mr.. Fletcher, ba Der, of Rock
Island, was killed By Lightning while in
the act OF trimming his lamp. The
lightning came down the chimney.
striking him in the neck and passed GU,
through the floor.
A terrible hailstorm visited the neigh.
borhood Of Morrisville, N. Y. on the
18th ult.. cutting down grain OF all
kinds. and destroying the entire products
Of the season. Bowlders of CONCEALED
hail-stones weighing six pounds were
picked up after the storm.
The body of Andrew Hannam,n. one
Of the men who recently went over
Niagara Falls. was reco cred some DAYS
since, near the landing below the Sus-
pension Bridge. The body was much
mangled. 1t is now ascertained tina
this dreadful accident was the result Of
rnm-tiie men were intoxicated.
A convention Of the believers in the
spiritual rappings, is to be held in
Lewiston, Fulton County, Illinois, on
the goth Of August. II is announced
In that region that great improve ment
has been made in the mode OF spiritual
Communications, and that the spirits
appear in bodily presence.
A man named Samuel Manning was
recently arrested in Raleigh. Carolina,
charged with shooting his brother Will
liam. l. seem, tina, both brothers loved
one woman, and William was the pre-
ferred one. He was married two weeks
since. aud The day after was found lying
In road leading to the city. dead, hav-
ing been shot through the heart.
A disease strongly resem bling the
cholera is committing considerable ra
wages in various parts of Washington
and Frederick counties, Maryland. hav-
ing first made its appea rance in the lit.
tie town Of Williamsport. where it al ready
in six weeks numbers .ifiy-fve victims,
and al latest accounts was prevailing.
to considerable extent.
A great Indian battle occurred on The
plains. recently, about City miles from
F.. kearny. between the Sioux. assisted
by the Cheyennes, in all S 900, and al
ded by the Iowas, Sacs and Pottawatto,
mics, Numbering about 800. The fipht