Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1857-12-26

r oci. Jenkins q Marysville, one oi ths
most ultra members IT the IScompton Con-
stitutioual Convention, has dncs died at de-
irium trenenA He died at Lecompton,
and was carried of by s'snakes In HE boots" "
John Kerr, recently convicted Of murder in
tho second degree, ct Washington, Pa, is
On in6rm old man, 81 years Of age The
Jury who convicted him, and large num-
Der Of citizens, have pstitioned for his par
don. He was sentenced 10 six years impris.
onnisnt III the Western Peuitentiary.
largo number of equatters have taken
possession Of Rock Island in the Nississip-
pi, lying between Rock Island and Daven-
port cities, and are cutting the timber from
It q the rate VI fifty cords per day. 1t will
soon be shorn Of its beautyAt this rate.
The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Rail-'
road bas advertised for bids for Q loan Ut
$40o, 900. The bonds bsar eight per cent.
interest and have twenty years to run.
The proposals will be opened at the Office in
Boston on the 9Th Of January next.
BY recent statement it appears that the
number Of Mormons who have emigrated
from Europe to this country from 1870 to
1857 has been about ~ 600.
uOns WuIt8tU 11cUU, 1x.0OveruOS Oh
Ohio, now citizen Of Winne5ago County,
in Illinois, has been indicted by the Grand
Jury of that County for manslsnghter, for
shooting one ofa charivari party 1t hi.
house last spring on the occasion Of his
sons marriage, an incident with which Gu,
readers ars famili =. Gov. .Bebb hss en-.
gagged Judge VIM. johnson and Hon. Thon-
as Corwin, Of Ohio, to defend him.
Rev. John Pierpont was married, last
week, to Ms. Fowler, daughter Of the late
Archibald Campbell, Of Uamrbe'lville, N. Y.
Mr.. Pierpont, who is widely known a. po-
ct and advocate Of total abstinence, was
born in April, 1855. He il, therefore, en-
ter ng into conjugal relations, for the third
time, webelieve, at the age Of seventy.two
Years.
It 10 stated that the Mormon War will
close for years, perhaps, the overland route
to California by way Ut the South Pass, SO
that the only route will be that along the
SD parallel Of north latitude. and thr Ougll
the proposed Territory of Arizonia.
The examination of John Beatty, at Gin.
cinnati, charged with the murder OF Frank
]. Mcclure, ended on the llth, and the de-
fenilans was held over in $1,000 bail to an
swer the charge of manslaughter.
Bishop Hughes, of New York, has again
war upon common schools.
A huge panther was shot in the neighbor-
hood OF Appleton, Wis.,, few days since.
Border Rufian Stringfellow has left Kan
sas, an6 is about to return to Virginia, his
native State.
Gov Stewart Of Missouri has appointed
the 3lst day of December, to be
observed as day of Thanksgiving in that
State.
The Siamese twins, now about 40 years
OF age, have fourteen children. Thea re
about to proceed to Cuba 10 exhibit them
selves.
The Knoxville Citizen, John Mitchel's
raper, advocates with great warmth and
zeal the opening of the African Slave Trade.
In Philadelphia there is widow lady,
who has twenty Eve children, all living at
home, aud none married.
Edwin Forrest has just closed an engage
ment in st. Louis, for which he received
IS 0 night, or $1,000 a week for his ser.
vices.
The Omaha Nebrask .in Of Nov. 2sth.
states that the interior of Missouri is infest-
I'd with band of robbers, whose exploits
put to blush the doings OF the notorious
gang.
AT Lyons, in France, TREY now manufac-
ure species Of silk for ladies' dresses, So
shirk and stiff IS to obviate the necessity for
srinnline. The cost Of saoh a dress 10 only |
200 trancs.
The Governor If Pennsylvania has issued
for the execution If the McKees
bort murderers Fife ard Charlotte Jones
are to be hanged on The 18th ot February.
Monroe Stewart will be executed fort.
night after. s...,-..-