Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1857-10-17
: SprinkIinEs of News.

the others nearly an hour.
Ohio is the greatest wool-growing State
IN the Union. Fix millions of dollars worth
has seen raised there this year.
The Supreme Court of Ohio has decided
that wife is OF no pecuniary value to her
husband; that if she be killed by railroad
accident he cannot recover therefor.
THE LAST REsoUED.--It is a remarkable
fact that the men last rescued from the Cen
trail America had drifted on their frail sup
port nearly six hundred miles from the spot
where the steamer went down.
ANOTHER WIFE MURDER.-A man named
kllby murdered his wife, Mary Kilby, near
Norrlstown, Pa, on the 4th inst. He nearly
severed her head from her body by a blow
with an axe. They had three small children.
kilby was intoxicated when he committed
the deed. lie has been arrested, and is now
in prison.
BEEF CArrLE.-Beef packing has fairly
commenced in Chicago. The ruling rates
are ~, so to 1913 per cwt., gross, for com
mon stock.
A hoax gained currency in St. Louis on
Thursday that third Of Memphis and the
whole of New Orleans had been demolished
by an earthquake.
George Washington Parke Custis, the last
member of Washington's family, died at his
residence near Alexandria, Va, on Sunday
last
The wife of Lieut.. Herndon is said to be
in destitute condition. In consideration
Of the noble conduct of her husband in pro-
viding for the safety of the women and chill
III on "a al A - I
by the ladies Of Washington to raise an am
pie fund for her relief. An address on the
SUI ject has been issued by Mrs. Magruder,
wife of the Mayor of Washington.
Kelly Lowe, pastor of the African Church
at Augusta, Georgia, was originally slave,
but his people bought him some years ago,
and Che is their servant, pecuniarily as we'll
as SPIRITUALITY They allow him salary of
from eight hundred to one thousand dollars
per annum:
Mr.. F. W. Packard, Corresponding Secre-
tary, for thirty years past, of the American
Sunday School Union, Philadel phia, is a
defauter and an embezzler of the funds Of
the Union TO the amount of SSS8.SSS. Mr..
Packard was in the habit of using the Soc-
ety's credit in borrowing money for his own
personal use
The Mormons are breaking up their quar-
tiers in all the eastern States, preparatory, as
is surmised, to general migration to Utah
Recent news from that region represent them
DIS quite as belligerent as ever, and disposed
to resent the advent Of national troops
among them.
Mr.: Steele, the purchaser of the Fort Smell
ling property, Minnesota, has refused an
offer of 500 per acre for portions of the
land. He gave about $l2 per acre for it.
De Bows mortality statistics show that
the people of the United States are the heal
thiest on the globe. The deaths are 100000
per year.
DECLINE IN TIE PRICE OF LUMBER. -Lum-
Der has declined in price recently from Is
to 20 per cent, says the St. Paul Minaeso-
tid7l.
The SENSATION OF "GoING UP. ''-When
two men went up in a balloon at St. Paul, a
few days since, they say the sensation of
ascending was Gas if this mundane sphere
was sinking and sliding away from them.
J he earth seemed like a vast bowl, and even
at the greatest height they attained, it SEEM
ed rs if the distant horizon was nearly on
level with the balloon
A German doctor at Urbana, in Ohio, the
manufacturer of snake-bite medicines,
caught Il rattlesnake on the prairie and took
it home. and offered to let the snake bite him
every time any person bought box Of his
medicine fos one dollar. On Sunday of last
week, while fooling with his pet, it bit him
in the hand. He applied his medicine with
out effect. On Monday he sent for doctor,
but too late-he died the same day.
The Central America is supposed to have
sunk where the ocean was 600 fathoms
$500 feet) deep. 1t is considered impossi-
bic to get at her treasure at such vast depth
below the surface.
Rev. H. w. Beecher has declared himself
in favor of emitting the afternoon service.
He thinks the afternoon should be given to
domestic converse, Bible reading and relig-
ious instruction, and says that he considers
Sunday school or church going four times a
day as breaking the Sabbath.
1t is said that Lola Montez is insane on
spiritualism. She says that, at the command
of the spirits, she has forsaken the stage,
both as an actress and dancer; that she
must devote herself to lecturing, which is
her destiny; that the spirits give her the
subject OF the lectures ere she writes them
that ''lndia'' was her next subject, etc.
Mr.. James Madison Cults. of Washington
City, father-in-law of Senator Douglas, has
been appointed second comptroller of the
treasury.