Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1857-10-03
xurinkliugS of News.

An old farmer of Cortland county, New
York. saws that if farmers would put one
drv. we'll burned brick to every five bushels
of Grain stored away in bins, or in the center
of barrel of flour or meal, it will not grow
musty. In the absence of brick, common
stone cf a few pounds weight W .uld be ben
e6cial but brick being a better absorbant
of moisture, is preferable. twill certainly
cost but little to try the experiment.
The New York Herald has been sued for
libel bv the Michigan Southern Railroad.
It is supposed, or at least asserted, that the
articles in the Herald have contributed much
toward the bankruptcy of that road.
A man was arrested in New York few
days ago, on the charge OF biting OF his
wife's nose in Il family fight
The NJ rmo,,, a weekly newspaper which
ba, been published in New York city for
some three year., has been discontinued.
Letters from Lady Franklin's Arctic stca-
mce Fox. at Paul's River, in Greenland,
renort the nrorress of the expedition, and
saw that it has exceeded exncctat ons, and
+b.+ tho vessel answers Admiralty. The
n-.,tb.r had been very severe. which would
have the effect of breaking the ice up and
renler;nr the head of Baftin's Bay clear.
to a tu,nor at the back Of lis neck which
produced inflammation OF the hraln, ana ca"s-
ed insanity. Is physicians had previously
cxnrnssrd their oninion that he could not
live long
The New York Tribune cautions persons
in quest of work or situations or any KIN"
agnnst going to that city before next spring.
1t saws there is not employment tor those
at are there now, and estimates tlIat nl,
the lst of December there will oe lo',ooo
persons in the city who Will DC "iliioie "
obtain anything to do.
Mrs. Emily O. Colby, an insane woman,
recently of Kansas but formerly OF Belolf'
Wisconsin, committed suicide on the night
of the Odd inst. by leaping from the cars OF
the Illinois Central Railroad at kankakee,
Illinois
The artesian we'll in Louisville has been
bored to the depth of one thousand wv"
hundred and forty feet. The w'rSmen
proceed at an average of six feet per day
o. the evening Of Saturday, Sept. l9th,
St. Paul was for the first time lighted oy
gas. The gas works are extensive enough
to light city of fifty thousand Inhabitants
DESTRUCTION OF A CARAVAN. Letters from
Syria report the total destruction in the des-
ert of a caravan. The caravan, consisting
of FIVE hundred persons, and one thousand
camels laden with merchandise, started from
Damascus on the 29th of June, and by some
mismanagement lost its way. The entire
caravan p .rished, with the exception Of some
twenty persons.
"A LARGE MULE.-A farmer in Shelby
Co.. Kv., owns a mule which he raised him.
81, ho,,I hn,rrh
This is a foot taller than the averag" height
Of carriage horses. Kentucky mules Ere
RAPIDLY superceding draft horses in Cincn-
natl and most Of the cities in Southern Ohio
and Indiana. Their provender costs thirty
uer cent. less than that of the horse, and
they are almost equally scrviceablc.
CHANCE IN BAPTIST VrEws-A great change
is said to be taking place in England among
the Baptist denomination, in favor of wei
coming to their communion all professed
Christians, in whatever way they may have
been baptized. Rev. Mr.. Spurgeon, of Lon
the side of open communion.
The FRAUDS wHIon ELEoTED BUcnANAN.-
The Philadelphia Ne,rs, says: The Crane
jury Yesterday returned upwards Of fifty true
bills against the election officers, for the
frauds OefDctrAt0u III OCtpocls III iSoo. L H>
District Attorney has presented these case:
AZ speedily as he could owing to the fac
chat the papers have been scattered and mis-
laid during the late investigation. The,
have been collected, together with the re-
duisite proofs, and the indictments have beer
all found.
-REvuLs1ox OF 1s3e-'4o.- The last grea
final revulsion began In 1887 with the sus
pension of the United States Bank and al
the State Banks and ended in 1S4O with the
explosion of the Manhattan Bank, the very
one that began the war. Within those year
10000 houses broke, and took the benefit o
the bankrupt law Of 1871. Their debt
amounted to $500, 100000 assets t.
almost nothing.
~A correspondent Of the Boston Po.
in noticing the closing of the factories a
Lowell, Mass. says that during the last mont
more than seven hundred of the Irish pop
ula,ion have purchased return tickets t
Liverpool, attracted by the improved and im
proving state Of agricultural interests in tt
Emerald Isle.