Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-05-01
News Paragra phs.

Dayton, Ohio, has elected D. W. Iddings,
anti Lecompton, for mayor, by 600 majori-
ty over Tilton, administration.
Samuel Wright, farmer who resides in
Washington county Pa, has lS children,
Ill grand children, and III great grand
children. His wiic, too, i, still living.
The proprietors of the Levlathau. it ap-
pears, are anxiou; to dispose Of that mon
ster ship, and she is now in the market.
John B. Ledoux died at St. Paul, Minn..
on the 9th, aged lO4 years; John Chase died
at Fishkill, N. Y, q few days since, aged
100, and Alexander Brown died on Sunday
week, al Monroe, Pa: aged 105.
Inc vsrcu;ivv2 Of George W. Stovall, for
me,ly of Virginia, and once Baptist min
lister, for the murder OF Mary Ray Durand,
with whom he was living at the time, took
place at New Orleans on Friday, the 18th
instant.
Elihu Burritt, the sIearned blacksmith"
and elnancipationist, is about to publish
paper at New Britain, Conn.,, commencing
about the lst of May. 1t will be called the
.'North and South,' and be devoted to the
gradual abolition of slavery, by compensa-
ticn to the owners.
A live horse with living, squirming snake
in his eve, is on exhibition at Chicago. The
snake is about three inches long, and lives
in the inner part Of the eye ball. This Il
most remarkable lusus nature.
A trial in Chicago, last week, disclosed
where the uncurrent money goes. The young
man Norris, on trial, had in his possession
rncurrent bank notes, representing over
800 900, which he had purchased of Bos-
ton broker at ten cents on the dollar, with
the avowed purpose of selling it at large
advance to Santa Fe traders, who would IN
turn realize still further by selling it to the
s'Greasers" in New Mexico. So here is an
explanation of those heretofore inconpre-
hensible window signs-"Uncurrent money
bought and Sold" Eight thousand dollars
Of the above was in counterfeit money.
Chicago, for year or two past, has been
filing up her streets, about four feet above
the grade. The object in raising the city is
to let the water run off.
A rabid dog recently jumped into an open
! parlor window in house in Chicago. The
occupants luckily escaped, leaving the room
to the new occupant, which, after injuring
the paper and furniture to a considerable
extent, killed himself by running violently
against doors, stove, etc.
A Young man was recently arrested in
Pennsylvania for stealing horse, and con-
fessed the crime, stating that he knew of no
other way to get rid Of a woman who was
constantly importuning him to marry her
Between wife and prison he chose as he
supposed, the lesser Of the two evils.
! A HERoINE.- AT Watertown, New York,
q few davs ago. a party of convicts in the
iail got the jailor, Mr.. Baker, into their
mower. bound and robbed him and locked
him in a cell, after which they prepared to
escape. His wife saw them, met them with
a loaded revolver, and in the face Of theil
threats to kill her husband and herself, KEPT
them at bay for half an hour, until helI
arrived and they were secured. This brave
little woman should have testimonial from
the Legislature.
Acareful estimate of the persons of lndial
. blood indicates that they now number abOu
5000, 900 in all of North America.
A riot occurred in Peoria, Ill.,, on Sunda,
evening week, in which the contents of two
; houses of doubtful repute were destroyed
and another one seriously threatened
In boring an artesian we'll in Stockton
recently the borer struck redwood stuml
$50 feet below the surface Of the ground. an
more than $50 below the level of the Pacif
Ocean. The earth above and below was 0
stratiied clay and sand, which had appar
b emily Rot been disturbed since its origina
, deposition.
Hon. Tom F. Marshal denies, through tn
!, Cincinnati Commercial, that he has bee
converted, or that he intends joining an
9 church. He says, ssI am no in6del. hav
9 a very fair copy of the Scriptures, which
: read and to which alone refer for religion
. truths. l have never knowingly deceive
u any one, and take this method of unda
ceiving the public"