Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1857-11-28

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TEEN ofIhis associates wherever he went,
and ne became a favorite throughout
the service.
"None knew him better, or loved
him more, than, respectfully, your obe-
dent servant, M. F. MAURY,
Lieut.. U. S. Navy"
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Sprinklings Of New
Ten thousand 'Sepoys are said to have
been slaughtered at the capture of Delhi.
The cholera now extends over nearly the
whole northern continent OF Europe. -
In 1887, gold was worth premium in
New York Of IA per cent.
The State of California has no banks of
issue. There the currency is all hard money.
The European Times proposes to make
slaves of the East India prisoners.
A horse with five feet has made its ap-
pearance in Westchester, Pa.
The N. Y. Evening Post comes out strong
ly, We might say eloquently, in behalf of the
use Of horse meat as an article of food.
1t is stated that the sale of the Fort Rip
ley Reservation, Minnesota Territory, will
not be confirmed by the Government.
The Benton House, at Belleview, N T.,
together with all its contents, burned to the
ground, on Monday, the 9th inst. Loss
about S15, ,000-no insurance.
Our bachelor President yields to the wild
ows: He las appointed Mrs. Vaughn, Post
mistress at South Pomfret, VT, in place of
her late husband, Joseph P. Vaughn.
Mrs. Jane Swisshelm, formerly well known
as the editress of the Pittsburgh Nsitor, has
purchased the St. Cloud (Minnesota) Adver.
tiser, and it will be hereafter issued under
her management.
The bridge over the Wisconsin river at
Prarie du Chen is completed. 1t consists
of three spans of one hundred and sixty-five
feet each, with q draw at the north end, of
IS feet more.
We notice, by Ohio papers, the death of
Mr.. Zachariah Albaugh, of Licking County.
Mr.. Albaugh was one hundred and nine
years old. He was born in Maryland in
l748, entered the war of the Revolution at
its commencement and remained ia the army
until the close.
TIE RICHEST V1Re1N1AN. = The Fincastle
Valley Whig says that Samuel Hariston, OF
Pittsylvania county, is the richest man in
Virginia. He own ZOO slaves and they in
crease at the rate of 100 year. He is es-
timated to be worth $5,00o,000.
Six silver bedsteads have been ordered at
Paris by the Pasha of Egypt, for his sen who
is to marry the Sultan's daughter.
The Catholic Bishop of Toronto has been
preaching in Ireland against further emigra-
ton to this country this season.
1t is estimated that property to the value
of half million of dollars was destroyed
by the inundation in the western part of N.
York State last week.
The banks of New Orleans have all resum-
ed specie payment.
Ex-President Pierce has accepted the offer,
by President Buchanan, of passage to Ma:
deira in the Powhattan He will sail some
where about the last of the month.
The telegraph between Europe and Africa,
from Cape Spartivento, across the Mediter-
ranean, has been completed.
The engineer of the steam tug Noah P.
SpraRue. which was blown up at Detroit o
few days since, has died from his wounds
Thislmakes the number killed nine, every
one on board at the time the explosion took
place.
Rev. j. q. Bement, the clerical bigamist,
of whom we spoke few days since, was
sentenced IT Norwalk, Ohio, on the 11th
inst, to four years in the peaitentiary. He
plead earnestly for mercy, with doubtful
success.
The San Francisco Vigilance Committee
hoc ioonod a r,rnol0 a Of nHsn~ kha
tence of death passed on persons banished
confidence in the present city government,
though sentence Of death is revoked, it
would be much more healthy for them to
remain abroad than to return.
The Des Jardines Bridge catastrophe, at
Hamilton, @. w., is likely to cost the Great
Western Railway Go. q large sum before
they get through with it. A verdict of
$17, 900 was rendered short time since,
in the case of one of the victims, and now
another one for $l1 200 has been granted in
the case of Elizabeth Grant, whose husband
was killed by the accident.
RAILROAD AT AUcTIoN.-The Alexandra
and Washington City Railroad, with all its
property, locomotives, cars, &C., will be
offered at public sale on the first Of Decem-
Der next.
SENTENCED FOR LIFE. - Morgan, alias
Jones, convicted of murder in the second
degree for killing officer Deebe at Columbus,
has been sentenced to the Penitentiary for
life.
The painted surface of the Great Eastern,
inside and outside, is nearly l2O, 900 square
yards in extent, or more than twenty-four
acres.
FALLEN METEOR FOUND. The people of
Marllehaad. Mass. think they have found q