Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1857-11-14
sprinklings of News.

DARING FEAT.--Emerson, who was lately
arrested in st. Louis, for swindling New
York merchants, escaped from his guart
who were conveying him to the latter pat e
by jumping ferom the cars near Paramount
Va, on Wednesday. He safely executed
the feat while the cars EFare running at rapid
speed. AS soon as possible, the train was
Stopped, and the most extraordlEary exer-
lions made for his arrest, but ut last &C.
counts no tidings had been obtained Of the
swindler. The feelings of tho officers at
their discontinue can be better imagined
| than described.
A wealthy Israelite, living near Selma,
Alabama, has in his possession a silver She
KEEL, struck in the mint of Judea, 1850 years
ago: 1t is about the size of half dollar,
but the silver is so impure that its intrinsic
value is but fifteen cents. The owner would
hardly part with the relic for as many hum
dred dollars. 1t has been in his family $50
- OPEN POLAR SEA.-Dr. j. j. Hays
read paper recently before the Geograph-
ical and Statistical Society upon the open
Polar Sea of DR.. Kane. lie announced
himself ready to lead an expedition to dem.
onstrate its existance, and suggested plan
for its prosecution, founded upon his per-
sonal knowledge of Arctic exploration while
with DR.. Kane. There was q full and deep
ly interested meeting.
METHODIST CHURCH AND SLAvERY.-The
Holston conference of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church South, at its recent confer
ence in Marion, Va, rescinded that clause in
the Discipline which prohibits the ''buying
and selling of men, women, and children
for the purpose of enslaving them" The
Knoxville Wig says there were over one
hundred travelling preachers in the confer
ence and only four voted against it. The
proposition is to be submitted to the TWEEN
tY-three annual conferences, South, between
this and the meeting of the General Con-
terence in May next, which eonvenes in
Nashville.
On Monday night, I'd inst, Col. Fremont,
who has been in California, arrived at New
York in the Quaker City from Havana. On
Tuesday morning, Sd, his wife, who has
been to Europe, arrived in the Arago.
In New Orleans, last week fierce TOM
cat and bulldog were pitted against each
other, for wager of S35. The brutal and
disgusting spectacle was witnessed by q
large crowd, and bets were made on the re-
suit, some high as $3.50. After a bloody
contest In wft:oh the cat WAS torn almost to
pieces, aud the dogs Dyes scratched away,
the fofrns, WAS declared the victor. The
dog was put out Of hia misery by a pistol
shot, and the cat soon after ards died.
Gy The New York Tribune states that
the arrangement Of the money market has
had most disastrous effect upon the mark
ct for horses. Horses which cost their own
ers 1850 were sold lately, for SITS. Anoth-
er horse for which there was standing offer
OF 81 800 one year ago, was sold for $500,
and handsome bay, for which $500 was
paid last summer, and not considered dear
at that, brought but sl25 a few days ago.
CT Last year 6 only one person in To-
l64,449 who travelled by English railway
was killed " from "causes under his CON
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CO. Thanksgiving in Kentucky on the
26th instant, making thirteen States that
Will observe the same day for that purpose