Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1857-09-12
Sprinklings OF News.

A Young girl from Ballmore cOmmltteC
suicide, on the evening Of 18th ult., by
throwing herself in front Of the Evening Ex-
press Train of the Philadelphia and Pitts
burg Railroad, about two miles'east of the
SchuylkiN station. She was seen walking
on the track for several minutes before the
train was due. As the cars approached, the
engineer, perceiving her walking on the
track, sounded the whistle, and after some
hesitation she stepped one side, and seemed
to await the passage Of the train. Waiting
until the engine nearly reached the ground
on which she stood, she suddenly threw her.
self in front Of the cow-catcher, and was
dragged some hundred yards before the train
could be slackened. Her body was horribly
mangled.
Young Sloo, who killed Hall, and was ac
quilted at Shawnetown, ILL.,, on the ground
of insanity, was admitted to the Insane Asy-
lum ct Jacksonville.
A young man named John Shepherd had
his hand caught in threshing machine,
near Springfield, ILL.,, Aug. 22d, and died
from the shock to his system.
The Masonic Order in the United States
numbers three hundred thousand persons, apd
includes large proportion of all the distin-
guished civil, military and professional men'
In the Eastern part of the State of Ma>sa-
chusetts, some so 600 acres are covered with
peat to the depth of feet inches, on the
average. The quantity has been estimated
at lSO,OO0,0OO tons. Peat fuel properly
prepared, rivals in cheapness, light and
warmth, the best varieties Of camel coal
The New York Central Railroad have just
Issued instructions to their conductors, and
among them is one preventing the sale OF
everything on:the cars save daily newspapers
and railway guides. Flash papers, nice, cool
lemonade, peanuts an! ginger pop will suf-
for in consequence, but it will save the pas
sengers much annoyance.
A machine has been manufactured that
will cut down trees better than any chop
per. One machine, worked by two hands,
will do the work of eight wood choppers
1t is for sale in New York.
The Seventh Annual Fair of the Wisconsin
State Agricultural Society will be held at
GAINESVILLE on the 2Sth, 29th and SOth of Sep
tember, and the lst and I'd of October
Nearly $4,000 is offered in premiums.
1t is now said that the State Of OHIO will
lose nothing by the failure of the Ohio Life
Insurance and Trust Company-t that an ad-
iustmelt of accounts, shows the State 10 be
indebted to the Company to the extent of
$4,000. ".
The ssBoston Five Cent Saving Bank" has
fourteen thousand regular depositors, and
one million Of dollars on deposit.
The exhibition of the National Agrcultu
raj Society opened 1T Louisville on the lst.
Col. Wilder delivered an eloquent address.
Fifteen thousand persons were present, half
of whom were ladies.
Cannon were fred at New Orleans, on
the lst, and there was mass celebration
in memory of Gen. Lopez. r. ia.
The American association for the advance
ment of science, has resolved to meet at Bal
timore on the last Wednesday of April,
1858.
The Utica Herald estimates that the dam
age to agricultural products by the flood of
Monday, in Herkmer county alone will
reach 10000.
In various counties of England protective
societies have been formed of persons who
pledge themselves not to purchase thimble
full Of sugar until it has declined four cents
per pound.
There are in France 1.O37 printing Offices
and 1902 journals. The number of compos-
itors employed in all France is about $500
Of,these, Paris employs 1900.
4 An analysis of the vote of Miss ouri
shows that the great gains for Rollins have
been mainly in the parts of the State where
there is the most commerce, the greatest
railroad communication, and the largest
number of children at school.