Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1857-10-31
sprinkling. Of News.

Hon. j. F. Farnswo rth, member Of Con
gress elect from Illinois, is seriously i'll a
Chicago.
Washington Irving is about to write lif,
of Kit Carson.
The city of Portland is lighted with GA,
obtained from peat, so that it can com-pet,
with other cities.
woman has recovered $3.50 in the Brook.
IN. ~ city court, rs damages from mar
for splitting in her face.
The bank suspensions in PHILADELPHIA
have brought to light an old beggar woman
who is mourn ng about the street over he,
loss of sirteen hundred dollars
Rev. John Pierpont declared his adhesion
to Spiritualism, in Boston, few nights
ago.
The Siamese twins, now about As years
OF age, have fourteen children. They are
about to proceed to Cuba to exhibit them
selves.
NJ. Benito Inarez, Vice President of Mex
leo, is full bloodcd Indian. He is said ia
be man of great ability. :,
A Utica editor has made an assignment OF
all his affections for the benefit of his cred
itors.
The American Engineer states that the
safest seat in railroad train is the middle
of the last car but one.
Two and a half million feet of pine lum-
Der were used in making clocks in Connecti-
cut last year.
One of the set anchors for the leviathan
steamship Great Eastern, is now lying at Liv-
erpool, and weighs 6 tons 10 cwt.
Paris is now furnished with hackney
coaches, in each of which there is clock :,
so that disputes about time are impossible.
The Girard House, the leading hotel in
Philadelphia has reduced the prices to So
per day. "a
The calamitous fire at Chicago last week,
WAS on Sunday very appropriately made the
subject OF number of sermons from the
different pupits of that city.
JAS. p. Donneily, the man who commit
ted the murder at the Sea View House near
New York, some time since has been sen
fenced to be hanged on the Sth of January
next. He made speech asserting his in
nOcencc when asked the usual questions il
he had anything to say.
Md)e Rachel, the celebrated actress. who
is an invalid with the consumption. las
been recommended by her physician to re.
tire TO the country, and in order to save her
voice, not to speak word until next spring.
She has undertaken the tremendous enter
prise.
RAILWAY DAMAGEs.-The widow Of Mr..
Secord, one of the passengers killed at the
appalling disaster last Spring at the Desjar-
dimes Bridge, Canada, has recovered a YER
dict OF S12,O 900 against the Great Western
Railway Company,-$2,4 400 for the wife,
and $4,000 for each of the three children.
TAKEN BY SUEPRIsE.-During late thun
der storm.at Greenvlle, s. g., the lightning
struck mill, knocking over two negroes
who were at work in it. As soon as they
had regained their feet the first exclamation
OF one OF them in great surprise, was: "Who
fire dat gun?''
A CURIOUS WLL.-The late Rufus W.
Griswold somewhat celebrated critic, died
on the I'd of August last, leaving several
children and two widows, one of whom is
said to have been divorced. His will is q
curious production as neither of the widows
nor neither Of the children is mentioned in
it. The will was on Monday offered in the
Sufrogate's Court for probate. The two
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case was finally adjourned till the 2lSt. so
AS to give the widows an opportunity to look
intY the will.
! TIE Pres URE.-- Charitable associations
suffer from the pre-, sure as we'll as other
folks. The receipts of the american Tract
Society are 81 900 les than last year. The
! Board of Foreign Missions, Scamens Friends
Society, and Theological L lucation Society,
VINO SHALL JUDGE lIIM.-Thos. Mcdonald
was arrested in S.. Louis u few days since
for stealing watch. lie acknowledged the
theft, but stated that he had eaten nothing
for three days, and that he Sook the watch
and pawned 1t to save himself from starva-
ton.
A Wo ,DERFuI. FALL AND EsCAPE.-George
Fay recently fell from the top Of the bluffs
at Lake City, Minnesota, and landed in a
tree at a distance of 100 feet, after which he
fell 100 feet farther making in all a fall of
200 feet. 1t is wonderful that he had not
bone broken, and is now nearly recovered.
| LITTLE THINGS CUNT UP FA>T-W. r.
Foster, Of Maine, the inventor and manu-
facturer of Il little instrument for sharpening
pencils, has Just closed Il contract for $780,
900 worth of the article. That is pretty
large operation in a small line of manufac-
ture. -E
| PLUG UGLy.-Thc origin of this term,
which is now the rallying cry of a band who
run with the Mount Vernon Hook and adder
Company of Baltimore, is this, according to
a writer in the New York Herald: ssIIard by
the headquarters of this fine company there
dwelt vcndcr of cigars and tobact o, who
~, lns, H.. ~.
in the neighborhood. His establishment de-
rived the principal part of its support from
the Mount Vernon boys, and the invariable
form of address, when plug of his chewing
tobacco was called for, was: ssGivc us u
plug, Ugly
| The lumber business in Chic go is not
good this year. Prices rule low TIE same
may be said ofthe Mississippi lumber trade.
1t is a first rate time to build, with those
who have the money to pay for the luxury
! of new house.
TIE $1,000 ROBBERY AT THE INDIANA
STATE FAIR.-We gave at the time an &C
count of the robbery Of an old gentleman
of $1,000 in money at the Indiana State
Fair, held at indianapolis, about three
weeks since. suspicion fell upon man
named W.nLinds!ey, who is well known to
the police, and who disapp ared from I,di-
annapolis Immediately after the money had
been stolen. All trace of him was lost nm
til Wednesday last, when he was arrested in
Sullivan county, Indiana. Lindsey is also
charged with stealing Lorse and buggy
from Il man at TcrrelIante, some weeks a.n,
and with being concerned in the robbery OF
"a store in Indiana several IN n.hs since
C.n. GnS. tie.
San old lady, professor Of the
washer woman's art, had managed to
scrape together sufficient means to build
Il small house and barn in the c; untry.
One afternoon, soon after she was COM
fortably established in her new home,
black cloud was seen in the west, and