Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1857-08-08

Inc pfopfletofs ol TIC lcLl'tiiib liouse.
San Francisco, advertise it as ''earthquake
proof.'
The wife OF Mr.. J. G. Putte", Buffalo, was
killed on the night Of the 22d ult., by acci-
IDENTIFY falling from tA third story window
of the United States Hotel ofthat city.
The indcfatigable Eli lhayer is pushing
his associated chi grafton scheme in Western
Virginia, with great success.
The Illinois Central Railroad Company
have sold $l3,3S7 800 wortl1 of the land
donated to them by the State Of Illinois, and
have Oh hand more land than they have-sold.
At the rate they have been selling, they will
realize thirty millions from their land grant.
This will pay for their roads, and leave the
stockholders with thirty millions OF proper-
ty which cost them nothing. t--.t
Miss Madeleine Smith has been acquitted
of the charge of poisoning her lover at Ed
inburg, Scotland, although the evidence was
pretty conclusive as to her guilt. Angelier,
her lover, was the son of the cultivator Of
the famous Jersey pear that bears his name.
Het trial produced as great excitement Ill
Scotland as the DR.. Wcbst r and Mrs. Cum
ningham trials did in this country. 1a-
Since the 18th of June, 5000 dogs in New
York city have been impounded, all Of which
were disposed of by the drowning process,
which consists in placing the dogs in large
reservoir and then letting the water in on
them. .H E..- ..i sh
A German and his wife, Ferdinand and
Nina Shultz, who lived about two miles
from Waterfront, Erie county, Pennsylva-
MIA, hung themselves about twenty rods
back of their dwelling, on the 10th of July.
Since the opening of navigation in Feb
ruary, two hundred persons have been
drowned in the Ohio river, between Wheel:
ing and Pittsburg.
Another comet was discovered by DIR.
Klinkerfucs, at Gottingen, on the morning
of the 22d of June, in the constellation Per-
scus. Its right ascension is now about h.
80 min., and its declination 2l deg. north.
The elements of this orbit bear striking
resemblance to those of the second comet Of
1908, discovered on the Oath of June Of that
year, by Mr.. Pons, at Marseilles. Its mo-
ton in it's orbit is retrograde. It's brilliancy
is now seven times greater than it was at the
time of it's discovery, yet it will not be Wis
ible to the naked eye on account OF its close
proximity to the sun.
The San Francisco Herold says that it will
be generally admitted by business men that,
at least during the past year, mercantile at
fairs have never presented so unpromising
an aspect as at present 1t is a common
phrase on the streets that ''the town is
broke.o
The sentence of John McCann, Of the FIRST
infantry, condemned by court martial in
Texas to be shot, has been mitigate by the
President to hard labor during the period Of
his enlistment.
Fugit. the ruffian who murdered and
scalpel MIR. Uopps at Leavenworth, has be-
come, like Cain, fugitive and vagabond .in
the earth His associates in crime; SSho
constituted the jury, acquitted him in spite
of the most conclusive proof-but Divine
Justice does not sleep. lie attempted to
make his hclnc at ark,ville, Mo-, ard the
-.-,.or''e -seei,f,led him with horror aud dis
gust, and ne ha. ssSeeen obliged to fly; to es-
cape threatened lynchinS. r
Tie passase. by IL q. sesesssr spesr biit !;
has been rcHuccd to Sl0O ID fl:st cabin, and
$50 in second cabin, to Europe. The Van-
derbilt is one Of the largest and fastest oSea'i
steamers aft,at, anl for excellence of ac-
commodatons not excelled by any. r
A train of cars was recently drawn by
the locomotive J. A: Wilfnk, IN Niagara
Falls to Rochester, a distance of seventy six
miles, in one hour and twenty.six minutes,
including three stops-=a rate OF more than
52.32 miles Per hour. fus
Fine peaches are selling in Mobile at ten
cents apiece. .....,..s .......
They have begun bridge across the Mis-
sissippi at St. Paul, and are actively at
work upon it.. m -s
In Oregon Gen. Lane has been reelected
delegate to Congress by handsome major
ity. . u.a.. .s.a... f., ..-
On the m ,rning eff the 3nth ult., the front
part of the warehouse of Monks Il Chic, in
Merchants row Second street, st. Louis,
gave way, by which nephew Of Mr.. Chic,
and a dravifian, named jackson, were fatally
injured. ~ ~.
On the evening of. the 30th ult., the scale
and safe ,manufaetofy and hAdrcstato works
of Beard & Brother, on Second street, St.
Louis, was destroyed by fire. Loss not very
heavy.
A nran ria,ned Harrington, living near
Shakossc, Hennapin county, Minnesota, de-
liberatelv shot his father-in law, an old
man. on the 9th ult while he was engaged
in hoeing corn. There had been quarrel
some time previous concerninga claim.
A boy gathering raspberries in the vicinity
Of Detroit, Mich, on the 2Sth ult., was at
tackled and partially eaten UP by a bear. The
Free Press says: .sThe contemplation OF
such an occurrences, happening almost within
the limits Of city Of 10000 inhabitants, is
sickening and terrible, Wild bears have
become rarity in most parts Of the State
yet we are visited in the very metropolis by
one that perpetrates a deed that belongs only
to the early annals Of our history. 1t is tt
be hoped that such visits will be iare in fu'
ture.o
ANAfloNAL DIsUN1oS CoNvESTIoN.-Aeal
has been issued by Garrison and his party