Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1854-01-20
Much Nv LIrTLE.

| vNiparious fish (nondescript) have been found
California.
Uuele Toms Cabin is now Icing pliycd in the Ch
cago theatre, and is drawing crowded houses
terrible gale swept over the Atlantic coast on tn
Both aud 3lst ut, doiug immense damage 10 shipping
Ten railroads centre at Chicago, OH which II train
OF cars arrive and depart daily.
The Legislature of New Yark have passed res lu
tons for the enlargement Of the canals of that State
The Secretary of the Treasury has directed tn
Custom House at st. Louis Mo, to be conStracte
| of marble.
New BQfford ranks as the third port in the Unite,
States in point of shipping, greatly exceeding Phia
delphia or Baltimore.
translation is not a violation of copyright say
Judge Gricr. The subject is involved in dinicuties
The authorities are divided.
1t is Unable offence in Wisconsin to kill Prari
Chickens after the lst of January. aud to kill Qaails
Partridses after the first Of next month.
| Archbishop Hi hes has taken trip to Cuba for liz
benefit of his health which has suffered in consequence
OF recent exposure in this northern climate.
| A lump Of gold, weighing one hundred and thirty
SIX pounds was found in sailors Gulley, California
not long since. This is said to be the largest lunIo
| ever known 10 have been found.
Twenty-one feet of lot owr cd by the city. wa
leased few days ago in st. Louis for the handsom,
sum OF Sjl per foot per annum $40 7l0 for the tern
OF ten years.
company of five men shot 900 pigeons in one
sissppi and John Ross and William Duncan shot and
killed each otlier in fight on the OCCASION
SPIRITUAL LEcTURfSG.-S. J. Finney of Ohio, il
ecturng in St Louis, protesting to take no thought of
what he shall say, and not knowing what he doe,
say but speaking as the Spirits give him utteance''
Mr.. John Beck Sen. died on the 18th ut at Slrews
bury, Pennsylvania where he had resided over ffty
years. He voted at every presidential election since
the adoption Of the Constitution of the United ates
Gov. Cobb of Georgia. recommends to his State Leg
isIture return to annual SESSIONS. He considers the
biennial plan failure. Seventeen States hold their
assembly meetings once in two years.
memorial has been prepared by the New York
Conference OF Sprtuallsts and is being circula
ted, asking Congress to appoint scientific commits
sion aud make al Appropriation for investi eating the
phenomena called sprituasm.
The new water works for supplying Watertown. n
Y with water. give head of 100 feet AMI the nv.
drant' in the city cast large volume ITO feet high
The water is obtained from slack river and the res.
ervoir holds 1900 900 gallons.
At recent wedding in Louisville the parties being
Mr. Caldwell OF Cincinnati, and Miss Breckenridge
OF Kentucky, wedding cake nine feet high and cost
ing 500, hankcd by two smaller ones, costing SIS
apiece, were among the ct ceteras.
Shoemaking has for some time been rather fash.
ionabc home employment among ladies Of the Eastern
States who submit to do any work at all Ii is GER
tanly more useful sort OF labor than much of the
fancy needework that is accomplished in hous ehods
Under recent enactment, which is embraced in the
new code OF Ohio Laws debtor who is suspected of
having disposed of his property for the purpose of
defradng his creditors, can be brought before Pro-
bate Judge aud required to testify under oath in refer
ence TO the matter.
TnIrry.stx nays wrruorr Foon Tho :, Y..,.
Republican gives the seemingly well authenticated
TACT OF Mrs Paine (wife Of Otis Paine. of Morley
u " having sustained the thrtysix last lays of ber
life without food, she having refu ed to tas IT, Size
was insane.
marriage has inst came of in Syro.,s. ,,,;.. 49,,
the result OF an aive,tisenant ;n,taS - "iio" M as
York papers The advertisement was repIied e. iv
Syracuse lady pictures and letters were eychanGed
finally meeting took place, result matrimony and
yindication of tn advertising system
A German w lt had built him a bnt in the ,voo,,,
Burlington, Mass, has been arrested and sent to the
alnishoiSe He had formed his calm of stiel anI
leaves and had leaves for his he'd and had &c., .'
curtain of leaves TO protect its entrance HI, food
and clio hes he begged of people in the vicinity
Mrs Ward, a re specialize w,,m,n Hving i, t,or
county, Arkansas, was as she supposed Uniformed by
a spirit that her eff hand had pitendad hsr ny
and that To make her peaca She must noyt ,;. ~
Mrs. Ward immediatelv ont ont os heJ on,..an s -
axe and cut off her hand M the ,vrt az
C, ~, -
vana in his annual Message To the Ieist,,r ,ao
decided and strong ground ar,inst sneriaI la;,,;
He will sign no bill which is designed +, ha s 'a;pi
application where general laws c,d emhr,c. tPe
ject sought to be Iisbed. '''e ~
Miss Ia,v s. ma i oy tha y; Oh 60. ,
1nstI It al l.lll n..I.,
~, nf The an 50 ~ :. . riei Ease Is a
ers no moss Ii is estimated that She msae nre, saoo
per night clear at ST. Louis during three niohts -
She was offered 500 h speak in Alton hnt n ,yon,d
not induce her to stop.
The .,;,a,s .os plria, ,,os, ~ ,,...,
70 cala fiat ,rton 81 .ia S,,,s wish
iao;s,t ra af alham hao 49,, ~ Aianana, ana the
Ssns 10 an;, them int tbo, So. 70 take
,o. s.aI - - = i,n', on 't e' lug sup OF teir
in length by fifty or sixty miles in breadth Vino on
"A.
,on,,o,,,n or Tho NAM.
s ',e .a'. s, ,e'cner PaSSed through
pa. ;a rev r,,oI .ao ~ nelpna, py way OF ST.
ha';n ~ III, a;nais ;,h ,hn M st.I Le oy pos uaih,
'rh '' - -, ~ H., =; nv aoiS win him.
,nroa iootiar fiin,rs and a,s ,,' anu soou h'-
III ai.,,, Ion a"nI o. " aIaMhs ON
taking them TO indianapolis, Indiane
Two hundred and thirtv.four persons uaro l,,oa
and four hundred and uinety-six wounded nv
accidents i'm the United States, last year ~ staaa.
boat disas,ers three hundred and nneteen sr lIIad
and one hundred and iftyeigh injured This ;nr,ndc
burning of the steamer ,adependsnns ON ,S' ~ S;s e
shore One hundred and fourteen persons have heen
Killed at hres. 't
NEW YORK FLUSxEYIsM.-The Tribune says the
Russian flag is raised ever the Metropolitan Hotel ev
cry time MIR. Bodisco, the Russian minister pays it a
visit. Mr. Bodisc o is wellbred man. and has lived
long enough in this country to know it isal humbug
far he is personally concerned while ON the 9TH
er side, it is bit of tlunkeyism wholly unworthy of
American citizens.
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