Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-04-10

in a small way. 1t is esti,nsied that the
number of envelopes made in the city every
week is at least forty millions. Out OF
New York there is /. factory in Worcester,
Massachusetts,, which mar ufactures to
large extent, and there is one doing a mode
rate business in Philadelphia.
Tie Camden and Amboy Railroad Com
pany have recently introduced gas into their
cars. a holder is placed in one end of the
Car, and filled at the termini of the line.-
Two burners light the car in such a manner
that the passengers can read the smallest
print without any detrment 70 their eye
sight. it is stated that $3.50 per trip is
saved by this new light.
Lookout for bogus IS on the State Bank
of H., at Shawneeown. Description
vignette figure with naked boy and cornu
| copia on right side female, hammer, anvil,
bat, &c., on the upper left corner-portrait
of female on right end. Also IS on the
Bank of NaperviIle, altered, Wig: three fe-
males sitting-head of Washington ON lower
cornef-goddess of liberty on left.
Daniel Young fell down while walking
round tree in Medina, Ohio, to get squir
rel, when his rifle went off and shot him in
the neck, severing the juguar vein and caus-
Ing his death Immediately.
Is Co."-In the Marine Court of New
York, it vas lately decided that the use of
the term ''& Co.," appended to the name OF
a person in trade, having no partner, is a
misdemeanor, punishable by Imprisonment.
! 1t is stated on good authority that the
circulation of the Atlantic Monthly has,
reached 10000. 1t is fully deserving of it..
AS a magazine of itersture and politics, it
has no equal in the United States. Each
number is "a feast of reason"
Barnum is trying new attraction for his
Museum. He is obtaining from the police
copies of the daguerreotypes Of all the
rogues which they have had taken, and is
exhibiting them in his Museum. We give
him this puff gratis, in consideration of tie
good he is thus doing in putting the public
on their guard.
The greater portion Of the city ofAurora,
Indiana, is soon to be sold at public sale by
the United States Marshal for the benefit of
the Ohio & Mississippi Railroad.
In Berlin, Alabama, lad II years old,
named Collins, disliked to be chastised, stab
bed the school teacher, Mr.. Brawner, who
pHrsued the boy, but fell dead before catch
ing him.
james I. Brady, the distinguished lawyer,
gave a lecture in New YORK, recently, on the
! legal disabilities of woman. lie advocated
relaxation OF the divorce laws. an increase
OF the privileges, personal and pecuniary,
of married women, and an extension of the
right If suffrage to single women. Why
not married women also? Would Mr.. Brady
offer premi UNI for old maids?
Considerable excitement was created in
Columbus county, Arkansas, on the s4th
ult., by the sudden appearance of genius,
named Ben johnson, from HarrIson county,
Mo, in l,alloon, 10 which thirty wild geese
were harnessed. He said he had been trav
cling in mid-heaven for nearly SO hours, and
thou rid it about time to come down and
"f5doef." The story reads like a hoax, but
it is testified to as the truth by a respectable
witness.
The Wheeling IntelHgencer records an act
of parental ingratitude. A son rescued his
ia; her, with great difficulty. from drowning.
When the old man revived, he beat his boy
for pulling his hair when in the water.
At the late town election in Nahant, D.
A. johnson was chosen town clerk, D. A.
Johnson, E l.. johnson and j. r. johnson
were chosen school committee; W. Ii. John
son, Walter johnson and j. B. johnson
selectmen; w. W. johnson Treasurer. F.
E. Johnson highway surveyor, and David
johnson and Joseph, two of five constables.
More Johnsons would have been chosen if
the election could have been deferred till the
young ones came in. They are all descend
ed from one man, who has had nine wives
His name is Legion.
Five Negroes Burned to Death.-On the
18th ult. on the plantation of Thomas P.
and James q. Randle, near Chunnenugge,
Macon county, Alabama, house was burn
ed, and five negro children destroyed in the
flames. 1t is supposed to have been acci-
dental.
an Hen,.-It is said that the cost of print
ing Emory's Report of the Mexican Bound
| airy survey-a work which no one has read,
and few have ever seen-was $277 300
Nothing could more clearly demonstrate the
infamy Of our Public Printing system.
Miss sarah Pellet, the reformer, has turn
ed up again; she proposes to forward to
California a consignment of FIVE thousand
marriageable girls from the New England
States. They are to be consigned othe va
who are to provide for their wants-hus-
bands included.
a man named Davenport has recently
been sentenced to seven years in the peni-
Tertiary at Vicksburg, Miss, for killing
slave. He was an overseer, and pleaded in
his defence that the slave was resisting his
authority when he gave the blow causing
death. The Judge ruled that the slave, when
his life was threatened or endangered by the
infictien of cruel and unusual punishment,
had the right to resist, even the master, and
that his resistance under such circumstances
would be no justification to the accused for
killing him.
Machine Spading.-Wm. E. Ward, of
Port Chester, N. Y, is engaged in building
working machine for spading, which he
bel eves will be capable of breaking up
three quarters of an acre per hour, ten inches
deep or deeper, if required and sufficient To-
connective power is given.
"A writer in the New York Erpress nomi-
mates Hon. John j. Crittenden, of Kentucky,
for President, and Elk Governor Washing
ton Hunt, of New York, for Vice President,
in 1860.
Charles McMcken, an cid andsweallhy
resident Of Cincinnati, who died recently
has bequeathed magnificent property to
that city, valued at above $500, 900, for the
establishment and endowment of a free
University, modelled after Girard College at
Philadelphia. The testator wills that orphan
children of either sex, from the age Of five
years to fourteen, shall be received reared
and educated out of the income of the prop.
erty devised for that purpose.