Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1854-03-31
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An Incorporated company is about building bridge
across the Illinois river at Ottawa.
- 4 perfectly white deer was killed near Green Bay
Wis, a few weeks ago. =
Large quantities Of lumber are taken from Chicago
to st. Louis on canal boats tliis spring.
The coored population Of the State and eity Of
York Us found to be in progress of gradual dimnution
The Who'll. cost Of the 81. Nicholas Hotel Ns~
York, including the ground, foots up about S2,OO5.
On the books at wllard's Hotel washington i. the
following recent entry "Mrs. Lewis and husband,
Buffalo" lrsi
Ar. Phelps, U. S. Senator from Vermont. who's.
ga. mas been contested has been rejected vote Of
Upwards of $4,000 ha,s been subscribed in Hart.
FORD Conn., for the benefit OF the suiere by the sx-
posion Of the car factory.
Peoria, ILL.,. il thirty-fvs years old, and contains
population OF 0.l65. The value OF exports and i'm.
ports Tor 1858, are given at - ,9sl ,554.
Nicholas 2. frist, so well known As ssspsesf agent
to MexIco during the late war. is now eugaxsd in
selling patent rights for washing mxchine.
"A lumberman near the Umbagog lakes, Ne. re-.
Gently found stone which weighed 80 lbs in the
centre OF smooth and handsome tree which be feed
The only rhnoceros in the country, valued at $40, ;.
oso, on exhibition at New York ate hay all Sunday
night week, and fell down dead on Monday morning
The Government has purchased building on the
corner OF Murray street and college place New York
for the sum of to be used for the United Statss
Court : -,
Shawneetown, on the Ohio, suffered much by the
late inundatsn Of that river. 1t was situated in
about in boats.
Great preparations are being made in Minnesota TO
supply The lower country with lumber for the coming
season The forests of pine disappearing before
the woodlands axe.
monster wolf, measuring six feet in length which
n tad IA .kAt.1
neighborhood for several years, was shot in Fulton
county, ILL.,, few days ago.
The Harpsrs are about to build their publishing
house in New York in three separate buildings for
safety against fire. Forty Of Adams power presses
will be ready for use in the new building.
It 10 said that the defect which rendered the second
trial trip OF the Ericsson unsatisfactory precisely
the same that condemned the first--the impossibty
Of rendering the cylinders sirtght.
A Washington clergyman, Sunday or two since,
whilst stating deficiency in collections. remarked
that since the issue Of three cent pieces the
of his church had decreased nearly onsthird.
The City Council Of Cincinnati have ordered the
erection OF two new steam re engines. Ab.l weighing
5000 lbs is also to be placed on q tower on the Ne
chanies Institute, which is to be built by private sub
scription.
Paris, KY. is the great live stock market IN the
West The total amount Of sale. on court day March
9Th, was ,9A 70. The number Of mules sold
was $50. Many of them were brought from Missouri
ILLINOIS, ana INDIANA. "
The late Democratic State Convention of Pennsyl.
ysnia adopted resolution declaring 1t to be duty of
Government TO give LOO acres of the public domain to
every actual settler upon condition Of cultivation and
occupancy for certain specified period.
The Supreme Court of Michigan has decided that if
shipper OF goods has received orders 10 send them
by SAIL and he sends by steam as safer he is liable
Tor the loss OF goods as not performing the terms of
his order.
$. M. Booth, the editor OF the Milwaukee Free Dem
ocrat, has been arrested for his agency in rcscuing
Glover the fugitive slave from the custody Of the U.
s. ocers Booths friends threaten that il he is i'm
prisonsd they will tear down tile jail.
A little boy. live or six years OF age The son of w.
l.. Nelson, of Bellsfontsine o., while exploding per
cussion caps with hammer. recently lost the use of
one OF his eyes portion of the metal struck and
pierced the ball. causing intense pain for several da Va
and resulting ~ above stated.
II is rumorsd that all the railroad conpanies in
New England have combined to make a general rise
in fares after the first Of April and that all the corpo
raons in Boston decline to se season tickets for
longer period than that. The present rates OF fare
throughout New England are about two cents per
mile.
A bust Of the late John Jacob As.or has been put
isto marble by Mr.. Edwin A. Bracket, the sculptor,
OF Boston. II will occupy niche in the Astor Lii
brary New York having been ordered by the trustees
for shat purpose The model and cast from which
this bust was made, were the work Of the late Hora-
tio Greenough.
The difference between Gardnsr's silver mine, in
Mexico on account Of which he drew s42S 900 from
the treasury, and Mesrs quicksilver mine for which
he drew from The treasury $l53 000 this the latter
consisted OF hole thirteen feet long dug 70 orler
since the award, whereas GARDENERS did not offer the
prstsnce OF broken turf!
In recent case at Lawrence Mass, where teach
was sued for injuring boy under her charge. by
correction the great principle of law was conceded by
both parties that for school purposes the teacher Is
possessed of all the authority Of the parent and il not
liable Tor any punishment OF pupil unless it be such
punishment as would bs unlawful If inflicted by
parent.
A great riot occurred at New Haven on the 18th
iRst between the students Of Yale College and some
of the citizens. Firearms and othar weapons were
freely used and bystandsr, named Patrick O'Neal,
shot dead. The authorities ordered cannon to be
placed in front Of the college buildings which being
done, the rioters became alarmed and quickly dis
persed Tho College Faculty assisted in quelins the
riot
CAPrAIS RoBIsos De HART, tho pioneer Of the
Western waters stsamboatman, died at his resi-
dsncs in Louisville, KY. few days since in the 55th
year Of his age. In 1907 1908 he employed on
board the Cermont steamboat on the Hudson river,
built by Robert Fulton, and in 1918 he made trip
from Pittsburg to New Orleans, on the first steamer
which navigatsa those waters. She Was called the
New Orleans.
An iron statue of Henry Clay has been placed upon
the market space at Twelfth aud Spring Garden, Phil
adelpha which weighs seven tons. The following
width across the shoulders, feet inches crcum-
ference Of thigh feet length OF foot feet inches;
height Of head feet5 inches circumference of ditto
5 feet inches. 1t will be borne in mind that prom
nent points, such drapsry, &c, thsse dmsn
sions to appear somewhat dispropostioned.
DEcRsAsE OF RsCkIPrs OF GoLD.-The receipts Of
gold for the last three four months, indicate that
the California mines are not as productive rs they
have bsen in past years. and that they giving out
far individual labor 10 concerned and il brought
back to their former productivenes it must be BY ap
p!ication of machinery The shipments Of gold from
California in February, 1854 nearly three miI-
lions less than in February 1885, and in January the
shipments were $632 ,43S less than tho same month
last year.
PUBLIC BABY HoUsE-A subscription il now going
round towards which 900 have been raised for The
purpose Of establishing in New York city certain
houses the model OF those in Paris, where women
whl so out 10 work may deposit their children during
their absence. The infants will be ticketed and al
the proper hours the mothers, on producing their
checks can return TO feed them In the intervals the
children will bs provided with nurses. Institutions OF
this kind, have proved highly successful in Paris
whore there twenty already in full operation
~ fancy party in New York, recently al the
guests -sye dressed in the costume Of the court o
fouis XIV Some idea may be formed of the extent "a
which this fov proceeded from the fact that the cos
tune alone coat bet sen forty and fifty thousand dol
lars. while the jswelry w. worth over nait million
One lady appeared in dres> covered Ssu u'aulo,us
the value OF which were sstin,sts at o"e hundred
thousand dollars. The lace alone ~ snotn> sIy iy
dress cost fifteen hundred dollars One ~ the iS"a
tors of royalty wore dress the cost OF wsich wa
| seventeen thousand dollars.
YoRsIGN.
An infant recently baptised In the city of Paris
in drssa al keostH nAa ftA t~;r