Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1857-08-01
Sprinklings of News.

D. p. Skates. of Waterloo, N. Y. who has
! wife and children at Burlington, Iowa.
died from sickness and exposure at St. Loui s
on the 22d inst.
On Monday or Tuesday night last, Nc
Kim, confined in Holiday sburg (Pa.) jail
severed the hobbies about his ANGLES, and
had not the fact been discovered almost i'm
mediately, he would have made his escape
from the Jail. lie will be hung on the Dist
of August.
Mr.. Andrew jackson, Jr., heir and e1ecu-
tor Of Gen. jackson, declines sending the
gold snuff box to New York until the deci-
sion as to who is entitled to it as the bravest
OF the New York volunteers is arrived at
The idea of trusting thousand dollar snuff
box, with no ostensihle owner, in the hands
of New York Aldermen, is rather too much
for even Tennesseean. Sensible MIR. Jack
son, says the Brooklyn Eagle.
LoEFNER THE MURDERER.-Loefner grows
better very rapidly, and could walk about
1t he were permitted. He can eat now with
out difficulty Of solid food, and seems in ex-
cellent spirits. Yesterday afternoon IN Or
der was given that Loefner should be close
ly watched, and he was so fettered as to pre-
vent escape. He will, no doubt, fully re-
cover daring the next fortnight - ineinna-
tt Gazette.
Chief Just: ce Carter, of Evansville, Ind,
and two constables of that city, are now in
Jail there, having been sentenced to thirty
days confinement for petty offence, and
the Journal states that one Of the constabies
OF the city is in Jail, that two others ran
away in the night and have not yet returned
and that an ex-.ustiee swindled number
OF the neighbors and deeamped.
The Patent Office has 5000 applications
and issued 500 patents within the last six
months. The income Of the office for the
same time has been over slit, 900; and the
expenses Of the Offices i9elHding some inn
provemehts in the bdsf Of, 900.
There is to be NJ be show at
Galesburg, on the stu 5 ard It'll Of
next month. PremiuMS Nlve been provided
for trained Elks, in single and double har-
ness. .-t
Abraham Rencher, of North Carolina,
succeeds Gov Merriwether, as Governor of
the Territory of New Mexico and will in
troduce slavery there by carrying his he
groes with him, jast as Lecompts did 10
Kansas.
The powder mill Of George Matthew
SON, at New Burh}tam, N. h. exploded Oh
the Gath, killing two persons and shastering
the building to- fragments.
DR.. Rose, who was 90 seriously burned at
the fire in the Lunatic Asylum, Utica has
died. He leaves large circle Of friends to
mourn his loss.
A paper says that Lola Montez threatens
to give a series of lectures in New York
shortly. This probably means that she is
about to get married again. We pity the
audience, whoever he is.
Mrs Marble, one of the Spirit Lake cap
tives among the Indians, is in Washington.
She is still suffering in health from the bru-
tai treatment she received among the saw
ages.
The Dayton (OhioI Journal states that
voracious worm, resembling in appearance
the measuring worm, is devastating tire APP
pie orchards, destroying the leaves on the
trees in that vicinity. The ravages Of the
worm, In some localities, extend to the
pear, cherry, and occasionally to the peach. (
Some Of the forest trees do not escape; the
oak, hickory, elm and linn, are seen entirely
stripped OF the foliage. In some apple or
chards scarcely a leaf is seen. When the
tree is shaken the worm. swing down on
sort of web like that Of the spider, one end
Of which remains attached to limb
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