Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1857-11-07
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States.
The Blue Ridge Tunnel, Va, has been
completed.
Yale College has now in ITS various de-
psrtments $50 students.
300, 900 members.
Attempts are making in England to en-
ploy females in matchmaking
Australia, according to a recent census,
has population of 4O3 500.
A shark weighing GOO pounds was recent
ly taken in East River, off N. Y.
Oak wood, is sold at 50 per cord in New
York, and hickory at $l2.
The small pox has made its appearance in
Quincy, Illinois. Their have been number
Of deaths from it.
Lancet, on q recent race at Hartford,
Conn.,, trotted mile under the saddle, in
2:2S, said to be the shortest time on record.
Thirty one Irishmen left Hartford, last
week, on their return to Ireland, thinking
their chances better in the old country than
here.
Hon. Theodore Frelinghuysen, OF New
Jersey, was lately married to Miss Harriet
4. Pumpelly, Of O,wego, New York.
A DEAR WIDOW. widow of John E.
Thayer, who recently died at Boston, has
dowery of 100000 yea :, whether she
marries or not.
| More houses to rent are to be seen in
Philadelphia, this fall, than at any time
there in FIVE Or six years, and at reduced
rents.
MortimerN Thompson julius sDoesticks')
was married on Friday evening, at New Ha-
ven, to Miss Anna IL. Van Cleve, of Minne-
sota.-EI.
The St. Louis Democrat compliments the
message of the new Governor Of Missouri,
Col. Stewart, us ''pretty good Free Soil
Document"
Rev. John Pierpont, of Boston, after five
years of careful and deliberate investigation
into the spiritual phenomena, has come out
and avowed himself a believer in it.
Ex-President Pierce and his lady intend
passing the ensuing winter in the Island Of
Madeirs, the delicate health of the latter
rendering it necessary for her to seek relief
in mild and genial climate.
The Hon. Caleb Cushing. late Attorney
General of the United States, is the Demo-
cratic candidate for the lower House of the
General Court of Massachusetts from the
city of Newburyport.
The Democrats Of Ohio ran German by
the name of Rheinhardt for Secretary of
State. He runs behind his ticket largely,
the Know Nothingism Of the Democratic
party being fatal to him.
RENTS IN CnICAao.-The Chicago Tribune
states that rents are rapidly coming down
in that city, that good tenants are at a pre-
MUM, and that stores which last spring
rented at 81 500 now bring only 5000.
Bishop Potter. of Pennsylvania, has d.
rected that special and appropriate prayers
for the times shall be read in the Episcopal
churches in his diocese during the continu-
ance Of the present disastrous business af-
fairs.
The Post Master General has recently de-
cided that if Postmasters do not give pub
fishers of newspapers notice when their pa
pers remain in the Post Office without being
taken out hy their subscribers within Eve
weeks, they are liable for the pay
The New York Herol' says that an inves
t;ration nto the cause Of the Central Ame ica
disgster has been going on in secret, in that
city, for the last fortnight. Commodore
Perry presdes The investigation will.
probably be continued for Il fortnight longer.
An establishment has been opened in New
York for the manufacture by machinery of
seamless. garments. BY the process adopted,
q fleece of wool can be converted in n single
dav into Il garment ready to wear, Il. n
cheaper rate than has hcret, fore been paid
for the cloth alone.
! DE,ru OF R,wgoED, THE SCULPTOR. The
American Sculptor, Crawford, reports of
whose hopeless condition from a cancer in
the eye have excited painful interest in this
country for months past, died on the 10Th
ult, in London.
! SuocK,HG OUTRAGE IN New OrLEANs.-A
despatch from New Orleans states that, oh
the light of the 9th, gang of masked men
attacked the inhabitants of st. thomas
street in that city, killing one and badly
woundins twelve others. The persons at
tackled were mostly Irish No clue to the
assassins could be found.
! young mechanic was arrested in New
ark, N. j., for stealing piece # meat. An
Investigation, at his own request, revealed
the fact that himself, wife and two children
had been entirely destitute Of food for more
than two days. The meat, together with
Sc, was presented to MIN, and he was told
| to come for more when his nccess ties re-
quired it.
| One of our contemporaries is insisting
/ that there is magic in the number stvkN. 1t
remarks that the year 1917, '27, '37, al and
Isl have been remarkable for their financial
revulsions, the alternate decades being the
most severe, until superstitious people have
come to regard the seven as an unlucky
number, and III, it is supposed, will round
the history with Il most convincing illustra-
ton.
In Boston there is a dispute in the Supe-
rior Court as to whether a negro has right
to sit in the family circle Of theatre, hav-
ing purchased 4 ticket theref r. The Court
by consent rendered a decision against the
colored plaintiff in the case # Me rea, who
was denied admittance to the family circle
of the Howard A:hen2um, and that person
has taken an appeal 70 the Supreme judicial
Court
The present. made to the captain of the
Norwegian bark which rescued some Of the
passengers of the Central America, was paid
for ont of the Public Treasury, and not from
Mr.. Rucl,anan's pocket. Congress npprn-
priated some s. 900 FIR rewarding officers
Of foreign vessels who rendered aid to
American vessels, and from this fund tn
pr esent was made.
THE C.LoRIc ENGlNK.-By a notice in the |
New York Journal Of Comerce, we perceive
that Capt. Ericsson has again brou sht for
ward his pet scheme of caloric motor