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

Haun on Shattuck, in which Haun was stab.
bed with butcher knife in the arm by Shat.
tuck, and the latter was pelted with stones
by some Irish bystanders and his arm bro
ken.
A Strange Affair In Kentucky.
On the 26th of August, 1856, man nam
ed Paschal D. Craddock, who resided six
miles from Louisville, Kentucky, was found
near his residence. Craddock was
! bad man, and his neighbors lived in fear Of
him. He was under three indictments for
crime, and was known to be at the head of a
gang of oounterfeiters and horse thieves, and
had beon passed at meeting oil
citizens, warning Oraddock to leave the
county in Elk months. That time had just
expired when Craddock was killed. It was
he was murdered by some of his
own gang. The Cincinnati Commercial has
q dispatch from Louisville, which, after Civ.
ing the facts as above narrated, says the
mystery is solved as follows:
"John Miller, of Bul.itt county, whose
character is reported as disreputable in Lou
isville, gave himself up to the authorities,
that certain parties offered $4,000
10 any one who would "put Craddock
through )" that he and eight others accep.
ted the bride, when the plot was made to
take Craddock's life. Five of tho party lay
in ambush-a cough being the signal to fire
at Oraddock as he passed by. Miller says
he fred in the air. Warrants were issued
for all parties, several Of whom were arrest
ed, including Col. Allen and brother, Austin
and Joe Wright, OF Bullitt coun.
ty; Stephen Baird, of Shelby county; and
Frederick Hikes, of Jefferson county. 9th
ers are also implicated. Miller's story is not
fully credited. The parties implicated are
wealthy. and heretofore were highly re-
:pected."
A rumor was ahoat, however, that Grad
lock was not murdered. and that he still
ives, and has been seen since in Florida. 1t
is said that when the time had arrived for
Craddock to leave the county, according to
he order of the neighbors, he procured the
lead body tina. was found, and SO arranged
matters that the body would be taken for
his own corpse. His object in doing this
was to create the impression that he was
lead, 80 that he could 60 elsewhere and live
n peace, and without disgrace, under an as
'umed aa:ne. On the primary examination
If the persons charged by Miller as his &C.
completes in the mnraer, held ut Louisville,
asst week, they were all (>ovcn in number)
discharged. The defendants, save Miller,
'everally introduced testimony proving an
slibi, and good character, also giving Miller
, bad character, and showing him unworthy
If belief. District Attorney Craig moved
he commitment Of Miller for perjury. The
Judge replied that he was already held on
The charge of murder by his own confession.
There was tremendous applause by the large
,rowd upon the discharge of parties in,pli-
lated in the murder hy Miller:
NEWS PARAGRAPHS.
Five negroes have been tried, found guilty,
Ind sentenced to be hung at Natchez, Miss,
IN the 18th of December, for the murder Ut
Braynan, convicted at Chicago of purloin-
ng money letters from the post Office, is en-
,loyed in the Illinois Penitentiary in peda-
,ogueing and has a school of fifty or sixty
cholars composed of old men and those too
nfrm to work.
Mr.. Cough has been lecturing in Edin-
,urgh lately, to crowded audiences. The
Duchess of Switzerland and large crowd
# the English nobility attended.
William 7. Knapp, brother Of George X.
Knapp, of the Missouri Republican and head
# the bindery establishment, died in St.
.ouis on the 9th ultimo, after a short ILL.,
less.
Seven Minnesota newspapers have sus
'ended publication since the hard times have
losed down OH the country.
HYDRoPHoB1A.-A young man named John
employed in the drug store OF DR..
francis, in st. Louis, died on Wednesday
asst from tile effects of bite which he re-
'eived from rabid dog ON the 2sth of Oc-
ober last. Every effort was made by the
arge number of physicians present, to over
'ome the disease, but without any effect.
SENrENoE OF 4 NAIL RosBER.-In the
United States court of Indiana, at Indian
polls, Eckert, formerly postmaster at JAS
Yer, plead guilty to robbing the mail, anG
vas sentenced to the penitentiary for two
Iears. A letter from Germany, containing
traits was taken out Of the mail, and the
contents appropriated to his own USE
lie is. quite young man, and had hitherto
,orne good reputation.
Two Methodist ministers in North Caro-
ina. Messrs. Edwards and Rosser, have
leen 6 disciplined", for indulging in the
,ame. Of ten pins at the Virginia springs last
ummer They plead guilty, expressed re-
ret for the act, stated that they were not
conscious of intention to do wrong, and
Promised not to do so any more. The Con-
erence which tried them, in session at Efiz-
beth City, accepted the acknowledgment,
md permit ed them to continuo their func-
ions, but not their games.
. The William S. Tuckerman, who has been
detected il, thieving assault. upon the mails
f the Sunday night train b,tween New
FORK and Boston, is the late treasurer of the
Eastern Boston and Portland) Railroad,
whose fundsshe stole and whose stock he
'ver. issued to tho aggregate amount OF
bout 5000, 600. He was lately convicted
or ono Of the. specific offcuces that made
lp this grand fraud, but his counsel were
eeking to get him q new trial, and mean
ime he vas out on bail, the amount of &c.
100.
New CArTIs DIsEAsE. The Wilmington
Delaware) Journal states that q disease
ffects cows in that STATE; the only symptnn
4 illness, however, is All incessant lowing
rom the commencement If the attack until
he animal lies down to die.
Tho Dement, House, at Fulton City, ILL.,,
10 been closed up owing to the Brightness
1 tho times."
A silver mine has been discovered in Tex.
., in which sixty hands are employed.
uIt 10 no longer proper to say of la
y that che 10 dressed in the 'thsight Of
lshion." The phrase nox 10 sin the
readtk Of tashion."