Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1857-12-05
Sprinklings 81 News.

Ahou06in PhiladelpliasWas lately set on
FIRE by some rats. They ignited quantity
of matches in drawer, and set the kitchen
on fire. M ~
Greenbury Mullunt, who was sentenced to
be hung on the 18th ult., in Putnam county,
Ia, for the murder Of his wife, has had his
sentence respited for one month to allow his
case to be carried to the Supreme Court
A woman was burnt to death on the oath
ult., few miles from Clinton, Mchig an, by
the house taking fire ea'ly in the morning,
before she had risen. Her two children es-
capped. . ...
A severe earthquake was experienced at
Columbus, KY, on the morning of the 18th
nit. The shock was of short duration, but
very violent.
Hon. Clement G. Clay, Dr.; has been re-
elected United States Senator from Alabama
for six years from the 4th of March, l849,
when his present term will expire.
Coal is selling at Rock Island for mine
cents at the yard, and ten cents delivered.
George D. Prentice has edited the Louis
vile Journal since 1881.
A fire at Rockford, ILL.,, on the 28th ult,
destroyed fine three story block, occupied
in part by Huntington Il Barnes, booksel-
lers. Loss. $50, OO0-insurance only So, 600.
At the State Agricultural Fair at Stock
ton, CAL, among the prizes offered, was a
| fifty dollar dress for the best loaf of domes-
tic bread, to be made by young unmarried
lady. There were about one hundred COM
petitors. \ committee of housewives made
the award, and the prize fell to Anna Van
Valkenberg, of Stockton, who is but IL
years old.
Mr.. John Martin, Of London, is being put
iii possession of the "Jennen's property"
which for so very long period has been
without recognized heir. The cash he in.
herits amounts to the inconvenien: sum Of
$50, 100000, while his income will be ST.
250, 900 per annum. The inheritor has been
wretchedy poor all his preceding life.
The public men of the Old Dominion
have such an intense horror of all customs
of Yankee origin, that the Governor always
refuses to appoint day of thanksgiving in
that State, as is done in ab out every other
State in the Union. This year even South
Carolina has come into the festive throng,
but Virginia remains apart, taking no notice
of the matter. a....
Col. Colt is receiving more orders for his
pistols than lie can fill. The instruction
in India is the cause Of the increased demand.
A paper called Lie Journal de lie Illinois
is printed weekly at Chicago in the French
| language.
| James Gosling, a dry goods merchant OF
Pittsburgh, has been mulcted in $1,000 in
the District Court of Allegheny county, for
saying that Miss Morgan wore corsets which
she had obtained fraudulently from him.
Two slaves, convicted of an attempt to
murder Mr.. William r. Brothers, in Nanse-
nond county, Virginia, last May, were hung
ON the Goth ult.
| The only Giraffe in this country, owned
| by Driesbach l. Co., died at Cincinnati on
Saturday. 1t was valued at five thousand
dollars.
Two hundred and fifty hogs were smoth-
cred to death on board the s.eamer Ken
lucky, on her trip from Maysvile to Gin
c.nnati, on Sunday morning last.
BAyARD TAvLoR.-The marriage of Bay
ard Taylor, in Gotha, Saxony, to Miss Han
sen, of Gotha: took place or the 9th ult.-
Nj. T. passes the wister with hi. bride at
! Mavscow, where she has relatives residing.
lie is to come back to America next autumn,
and Willis announces that he has 'already
written to him to claim for Idlewld the
honeymoon of his return"
STEAMBoATING ON THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI
The season of Steamboat navigation be-
tween Dubuque and st. Paul commenced on
the first day of May, and closed on the l4th
day of November, just 1913 days, which is
the shortest season by severa! days since
1914. During the season there were 1906
arrivals at St. Paul, being lS9 more than
during the season of 1856.