Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-04-24

News Paragraph.
Mrs. Rush, at York, Pa, died suddenly, Of
Monday, of excitement accustomed by
Quarrel between her sister and her sister
husband. o.,
On the 7th inst. Gov. Sam Medary wa
married At Cincinnati, o., to daughter o
Hon. T. Disney.
The "Stuyvesant Pear Tree" 1T the cor
ner of Third Avenue and Thirtt enth street
New York, is again in bud. 1t was planted
in 1647. ',s'- .-t ti
The Chinese official census of thirty year
ago gives tine population of shat empire q
PSI, $50, 000l That Of Japan is estimated
at twenty five to fifty millions.
The Marshall Illinosian announces thu
death of Jonathan Hicklin, of Clarke county
ILL.,, at the advanced age OF LOG years.
The Devil received one vote in Vinton
Iowa, for Superintendent of Schools In Ben
ton county. So says the Democrat.
Loefner, the Cincinnati murderer, is to b.
hung on the Both of April.
The "xhte feather" is to be the fashion
able bonnet ornament Of the season.
Fillibuster Walker is quietly reposing OF
his laurels at Mobile, attracting the attention
of nobody. ..
The mail and passenger trains on the Vir
ginia Central Railroad are now running
through the Blue Ridge TuL mel, direct fol
Stanton.
A bill has passed the New York Legsla'
ture, providing that q vote BE- taken by til,
PEOPLE of the State on the question Of {
Convention to revise the Constitution.
Mary Reed and Loretta Roberts were re
Gently drowned in LIE Seur county, Mime.
sofa, by being tipped out of skiff, on lax,
which they were crossing.
The Young Mems Christian Association
of Philadelphia are now constructing hug
tent, capable Of holding 1000 persons, to b,
used 10y them during the summer, for preach
ing in destitute end isolated localities.
Kit Carson, the Indian agent, says the In
dams Of Utah are in great want, and have
to be supplied literally to prevent them from
starving.
The monument to the memory Of J. B
Booth, the tragedian, preparing in Boston
is an obelisk nine feet high, upon a pedesta
five feet six inches high.
Another bridge has been completed across
the Mississippi in Minnesota. connecting the
towns Of Watah and Winnebag". 1t was
built by Hon. A. Northup, ut All expense o.
over $4,000
Among the unusual things we have read
of late, was MONDAY prayer meet'ngs, blu.
siness men, prayer meetings, printers
prayer meetings, and finally 'policemen's
prayer meetings, but now the funniest of all
things We read of, is lawyers prayer
meeting. What nexti
The Baltimore Patriot mentions the fact
that an insurance company in that city now
takes risks on rents. Owners of property
therefore, in addition>to the facilities Of in
surance against loss by fire and food, can
insure against a want of tenantry.
Hon. Thomas F. Marshall ('sTom Mar.
shabby of Ky, has not only become zeal
Gus advocate of temperance, but ALEC sim
cerely penitent christ ian. His conversion is
one of the good results of the religious re.
vival.
Ten Thousand persons went to the city Of
Terre. Haute, Indiana, on the I'd lust, to see
negro named Todd swing upon the gallows.
The execution was private, and, therefore,
the crowd were cut out OF their anticipated
entertainment.
In Oregon men get from $40 to 1920 per
month III numbering establi hments, and from
$40 to $50 On farms. Carpenters get from
81 to $6~per day. Flour from $l2 to SIG
per bbl Beef from So to $l5 per 100 lbs
Pork $40 per 100. Potatoes $l,25 per
bushel.
A little after O'Clock on Saturday morn
ing 10th, sensible shock OF an earthquake
was felt in Ashtabula, Ohio. The shock wa.
Of short duration. but sufficiently continued
for any one to settle in his own mind its dis
tinctive character.
The people of Philadelphia are again urg-
ing the removal of the State Capital from
Harrisburg to Philadelphia. In the course
of time this will doubtless be done. The
capital Of Maine, too, will doubtless be NOV.
ed from Augusta to Portland. The massive
State House is the great anchor that has kept
it in Augusta SO long.
A conductor between Syracuse and Buff
falo, the other day, was rather staggered
when woman with six children around her
offered a single ticket. But the lady assured
him they were all under six years of age,
and he accordingly passed them ~ lap pas.
seugers. The mother was Yankee smi.
grating to Illinois.
The King Of Prussia has become stark
mad. He occasionally believes that he ia a
private soldier, who has just received his
commission as ensign, but has since lost the
parchment, and therefore he anxiously seeks
it in all the hidden corners OF The palace,
and hooks of the garden. Prince Frede-
rick, with his English wife, may soon have
an opportunity to try his hand at governing.
Only 100 persons were permitted to enter
the prison yard in which Alexander Ander-
son and Henry Richards, negroes, were ex.
ecuted at Lancaster, Pa. On the 9th inst, fol
the murler OF Mrs CARRIER and Mrs. Rein,
two respectable elderly ladies. Anderson,
who died penitent and full of religion, con-
feased that the murder Was committed for
IL 1-2 cents with which they wanted to gel
pint of whisky, both being intoxicated a,
the time. The criminals did not f.ll from
the gallows, which was REALISTICALLY" con.
trived SO tl'at the platform fell from them,
and they died easily.
Col. Benton CONTRARY to the general opin.
ion of his means) has died poor. Some time
since, his house, on Q street, Washington,
was burned down, and he went to the ex
penss of having it rebuilt but there is a
mortgage OF $lO,0 900 on it, which will almos,
absorb the value OF the property. Col. Ben.
ton was anxious that Cong ess should pur.
chase 1000 copies OF his Arrangement ofthe
Congressional Debates, for distribution
among the various State libraries end foreign
exchanges. He was of opinion that such a
purchase would be constitutional, and would
tend to diffuse knowledge of the political
history of the country. Two members d
the House of Representatives have the mat
ter under consideration, by his request, and
will bring it, at sn early day, before Con
gress, with, as they think, good assurance o
success. A->
Three extensive swindling lottery concerns
were broken up in New York a few days
ago. These establishments each published
paper devoted to the advertising aud puff
fing Of their SCHEMES" Their proprietor!
had carried on the business for six years ant
had become very rich. Their plan was tc
receive the ,nOnav from the Green ones re-