Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-01-30

The Providence Post notices the fact that
not a single murder has been committed in
Rhode Island du ring the past year, notwith-
standing capital punishment is abolished.
The city of Jeddo, the capital of Japan, is
said to be, without exception, the larges st
city in the world. 1t contains 100000
dwellings, and the unparalleled number of
100000 people. Some of the streets are
10 Japanese ri's in length, which is equal to
80 English miles.
Rents are going down in all the large
cities. They have beer exorbitant-twice or
three times as high as similar accommoda-
tons in London. In Boston, reductions
have had to I've made Is per cent. in order
to retain tenants. In that city, the Boston
Transcript instances an estate wo, tn $780,
600 two years ago, which has since declined
$4,000
There are twenty-one ferries running from
New York to adjacent places.
Dan Rice, the celebrated clown, is per
forming at Nibo's in New York.
Tunis G. Tarrout, compostor in the
CINCINNATI Enquirer Office, was at one time
filibuster Walkers "Secretary of State
the highest Office of the cabinet
The steamboat Post BOY, engaged in the
wood business at New Orleans, exploded
three of her boilers and sunk OIL the 9th
inst. Two men were killed instantly and
others badly injured.
Queen Victoria's children are rapidly
growing up. The Princess Royal, who was
married on the 25th inst, to Prince Freder-
lick William Of Prussia, is now seventeen
The Prince of Wales is sixteen; the Prin-
cess Alice, whose hand is to be demanded n
marriage by the Prince OF Orange, is four
teen; ard the Prince Alfred, whose ''resi-
dence at Alverbank" his mamma gracious
ly visited, is thirteen. Besides these tour
eldest, the family includes Helena, eleven
Louiss, nine; Arthur, s,veA; and Leopold,
| four
The State Board of the Obi, Agricultu.
raj Society las decided to locate the next
Annual S tate Fair at Sandusky.
Jenny Lind, it is said, "has given away
upwards of one hundred and fifty thousand
pounds sterling during her professional wan.
derings in Europe and America"
The planters of Louisiana are selling mo
lasses at s. 60 Per barrel, which is bnt Is
cents per gallon. Cheap sweetening is GER
tainly coming.
The paragraph, going the rounds of the
papers, that the Jews in New York had con-
Guided TO observe Sunday instead OF Satur-
day as their Sabbath, is founded in error
1t originated from the fact that the Jews re-
Gently held an Anniversary Festival on Sun
day, just as they would have done had it
fallen on any other day of the week.
americans on visiting Europe are struck
with the singular appearance OF locomotives
there-the want of COW. catcher, the alb
sence of a spark arrester on the chimney,
and the want of covering on the drivers
platform. The reasons for the first are, the
roads are so thoroughly fenced that there
are no cows to be caught on the track, and
coke is burned instead Of wood. For the
want of sovered platform there seems to
be no good reason.
| Captain Shultz, who offered to keep the
Hudson river open al winter for fifty thou
sand dollars, has obtained contract for
keeping open the harbor of New York. =
He gets twenty thousand dollars.
Edwin Forrest is recovering from his re-.
cent illness at Cleveland, Ohio.