Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1857-09-19
SprinklinHs Of NEWS.

SprinklinEs Of News.
project is on foot to tunnel the Hudson
river at Albany, instead of bridging it.
Human hair to the value of rising 1900
was imported last week to Boston, from
England.
The tax of tho CITY of New York for the
present year exceeds eight millions Of dol
| lars.
John Mitchell, the Irish patriot, has writ
ten letter advocating the revival of the
Slave trade. A great lover Of libertyl
Beverly Tucker has accepted the Liver
pool Consulship. So that 'long agony" is
+; over.
Henry Ward Beecher says that"what men
think is to some people the Judgment day.
A cave has been discovered on the new
Park grounds, N. Y. The entrance is de-
scrhsd to be only large enough to admit one
person at time, and expanding under a
large rock, until it forms room with a level
floor, apparently laid by human hands, and
covered with moss.
A writer in the Guernsey (Ohio) Times
says: "Should every colored man be permit
tea to vote, they (the Locos) will be the
f1rst puppies to hug the negro round the
neck, ask him for his vote and drink his
whisky" That's so.
The grand jury of the United States Court
have found an indictment against James O.
Brayman, associate editor of the Chicago
Democrat, for robbery Of the Chicago Pos,
Office.
A TALKING CANAEY.-The proprietor of a
grocery in Troy, N Y, is said to own a Ca
nary which speaks as plainly as any parrot
1t is an English Canary.
St. Paul, with population Of $4,000
souls, has not single FIRE engine, foot OF
hose, fire bucket, nor single public well
OF cistern!
Dr. Winans, an eminent member OF the
Methodist Episcopal Church South, died al
his residence in Wilkinson county, Miss, OF
the 9Th inst.
The Mayor Of Louisville. KY, has ISSUED
proclamation to the police of that city, in
structing them to suppress all secret socie
ties, or secret gatherings Of coored persons
whether free or slave, in that city.
SoRaHo MoLAssEs IN MARKEr-The st.
Louis Democrat of the 18th says: 'Twen-
ty-fve barrels of molasses made from the
Sorgho, or Chinese sugar cane, were sold on
'Change yesterday morning at 50 cents pei
gallon. 1t was shipped from below, and is
represented as an excellent article"
Judge Ferguson has received the certificate
of election as Delegate from Nebraska, his
majority over Chapman being 81.
The LATE FaosTs.-In portions of New
York the frosts Sept 7th and 9Th were heavy
enough to cut vegetables and corn. There
was a slight frost in the vicinity of both
Buffalo and Rochester, q real black frost a,
Albany, and at Schodac ice to the thickness
of thumb nail, coated still water. There
has also been considerable frost among the
| Berkshire hills, in Massachusetts.
The type will sometimes tell the truth in
a different way from what was intended. A
contemporary, speaking If E. O. Perrin and
| Governor Walker, wrote that Mr.. P. cleft
the latter's camp at Lawrence" &c. The
typo got it-''IIe lett the latter scamp at
Lawre2ce.o
OFF WITH THEIR TAILs.-The Chief of
Police of San Francisco now orders all the
tails of convicted Cinnamon to be cut off.
The poor fellows suffer, under the depriva-
ton, all the horrors Of the damned They
consider the loss Of their tails disgrace al
most unbearable, and it is the best possible
punishment that can be inflicted on a Chi
naman.
Dr. Samuel F. Reynolds, of New Orleans,
was bitten in the thumb by a pet rattle snake
on the lst inst. He Immediately seized a
Ratchet and chopped off the bitten thumb.
A desperate but sensible remedy.
A municipal election was held at Leaven-
worth City, Kansas, on Monday, the 7th inst,
and resulted in the election of the Free State
ticket by 260 majority.
Queen Victoria has selected Montreal as
the permanent capital of Canada, the ques-
ton having been referred to her for final
decision by the Legislature.
The new Mormon alphabet is completed,
and a font of plea type has been cast at St
Louis. Specimens of the type are published
in the st Louis Democrat, but are of course
unintelligible to the Gentiles. The type
founders, says the N. Y. Evening Post, have
supplied the Mormons with moulds and other
apparatus for re-casting their old metal, so
that the Deseret News will probably thereafter
be profound mystery, at least in part, to
all but the initiated. This new characters
are forty one in number, and bear a striking
resemblance to those Of the Ethiopic alpha
bet
A gentleman in Michigan has invented an
attachment to reaping machines, for the pur
pose OF grinding the grain as it is cut. The
machine is calculated to weave the band
from the but straw Of the bundle, leaving