Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-06-12

News Paragrapns.
Fortune telling il q pillory offence in the
State OF Delaware.
The Maine Supreme Court has decided
that land warrants nre property.
They are employing convicts, men and
women, in digging a canal in Virginia.
The Legislators of Minnesota met at St.
Paul on the Sd inst. This is the first legal
session which has convened of this body,
and it is said there is an immense amount
Of labor to be accomplished BY It.
The culvert at Roscoe, H., was swept
away on the 4th, destroying the house Of
Rev. H. llsty, drowning Mrs. Ilsty and eight
children. Other houses were also swept
away, but we hear of no more lives being
lost
Farmers should not be discouraged
about the crop of corn this year. An old far
mer informs the Springfield journal that he
has raised fifty bushels OF corn to the acre
which was planted on the 2lst of June.
Parson Brownlow, who is not hard shell
Baptist, but q Methodist, spoke in the Gen.
eral Conference at Nashville in favor of es-
tablishing Methodist Conferences in Central
America, Cuba and Mexico, and then annex
ing them to the United States. He evidently
considers the church grand fillibusterine
institution.
The st. Louis Democrat mentions that an
unusual number of dead bodies have lately
floated Gown the river, and accounts for the
fact from the late disasters and freshets
That the persons are not murdered is eviden,
from the fact that money is usually found
upon the bodies.
GOLD IN IowA.-The exciting stories con-
corning gold in Iowa are inducing many OF
our citizens to break up their homes and 90
out there in search of the precious stuff.
The spectators hereabouts in Iowa land are
doing we'll through the excitement, and
every acre they sell is warranted gold field
Ez.
St. Louis boasts of 80 breweries, with m
annual capacity of, for Lager, "a, 700, and
Schench $4,000 bbls. The total value of
this product is $451, 700 The working
capital invested in this trade is $34S, 900,
which added to the total products make an
aggregate o. nearly two millions of dollars
annually invested in the beer trade at that
place.
That mysterious disease that has prevailed
among the swine of some of our western
States with such fearful effect, for year o,
two, known as the sshog cholera,' has again
made its appearance in Kentucky, Tennessee
and Arkansas, and the animals are diving by
hundreds.
EVACUATION OF CALlFoRNIA.-A writer fol-
California paper says that thousands are
leaving the cities of California for the gold
mines of Frazer's river. He predicts that il
the reports from that region continue favor.
able for a month longer, California will bt
evacuated.
Miss Mccain, residing near the Gum Licl
Springs, KY, was attracted by the Aockine
of buzzards to spot some distance from
the house. where she discovered the body Of
her father, suspended to tree by rope
about his neck. He had been absent abou
three or four weeks, his family being igno.
rant of his whereabouts; and the birds hat
picked his eyes out, and torn great strips OF
flesh from his arms, breast, back, and Other
parts of the body.
Mr.. Witt, of Bedford, Taylor county
Iowa, was swindled to the tune Of some eigh
hundred dollars by the New York sharpers
the other day, in the purchase of tickets fol
himself and family to California. Upor
complaint to the Mayor, the swindlers re
funded his money, cracked joke with the
Mayor and proceeded to their Office to swim.
die somebody else. Stealing is no crime in
New York if it be carried on scientifically
and few Of the officers regard swindling a.
discreditable.
SUICIDE AT SEvENTY-The widow Rogers
Of Waterfowl, Jefferson Co., N. Y, COM
mitted suicide on the 10Th ult., by hanging
1t was evident she had been carefully plan
ming her death, for her grave clothes were
found laid upon her bed, and arranged in
such manner that they would be the first
objects to attract the attention of any per-
son entering her room. The old lady was
over 70 years of age, and much respected by
all who knew her.
The late suicide of Herbert has called to
mind singular fatality which has attended
many of his literary associates. In 1851
Thomas Picton, who now claims Herbert's
library, started newspaper called the
Sachem, and gathered around him group
of good writer's. The list editorial and
corresponding-included Picton, DR.. Bach.
elder, Herbert, VIVA. North, Geo. G. Foster
Major Richardson and Capt Bradley, OF
these, Picton and DIR. Bachelor are living
the other five have died suicides though
with reference to one, Foster, the fact has
been denied.
The remains of William Henry Her
bert &c Frank Forester ~ were inferred in
s Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Newark, N. j
A great many people assembled al the the Zee
dars," his late residence, where it was ex-
pected the funeral ceremonies would take
place; but the clergyman who had charge 81
them declared that the rules of his (Episco-
palian) Church forbade him to read the rit.
ual over suicide, and the body was buried
without the usual ceremonies.
The latest Texas papers speak of the
devastations of the grasshoppers In many
places entire corn fields have been laid waste
there not being left blade or stalk of any.
thing green. The corn, which had grown
FIVE or six. inches high, has been utterly de.
stroyed. A gentleman, just down from San
Antonio, says these insects completely cover
the prairies in many places, destroying eve
rything before them as they go. They are
said to be quite small, only one-half or three
quarters of an inch in length.
ca Brigham Young, in one of his late
sermons, gives curious account of his trav
cling four hundred miles by stage in 1899
starting with only 1880 in his pocket He
states that, at every point, where he had
expenses to pay, he found his pocket, OF
putting his hand into it, mysteriously and
miraculously replenished. Is he quite sure
that it was his own pocket he got his hand
into ?-Louisville journal.
D0 Said old Mrs. Philanthropy the other
day, accosting a precocious nrcl,in in the
STRAIT with a w 0rslrf. ha anarkl hla. for III