Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-06-19
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The Ohio Pomological Convention vii
meet at Cleveland on the 30th inst. .'a
The Trenton IN. J. bakers are adoptin
a system of selling bread by weight : 8 cent
per pound. ....-.
The great Concert Of the German singers
just held at Pittsburgh, was attended by owe
2. 900 singers. ..i
General Haskell, the distinguished Ten
nessee orator, has been released from th
Insane Asylum at Hopkinsville, Ky.
New wheat is already arriving at the 81
Louis market, and is said to be of fai
quality.
The Portsmouth Tribune estimates tn
damages by the late freshets in the Sciot
valley at 100000. ... .
Susan Drinker, an old maid in Texas
lately died o. intemperance. She had beer
u steady Drinker all her life.
The loan of $2l6, 900, recently authorize,
by the Michigan Legislature, has bee,
awarded to E. H. Hazelton & Co., of Detroit
The Union Prayer Meetings in New Yorl
and Philadelphia, after being languid for
s." weeks past, have taken a fresh start
and the revival is reviving.
Mrs. doldschmidt (Jenny Lind) recent,
gave birth to twins lone of each sex. Her,
We have another edition in two volumes ot
"Goldsmith's Animated Nature"
Hoops, HooPs IAN establishment in At
tleborOugh, Mass, consumes two tons o1
steel each week in the manufacture of ladies
hoops. r I -. -..-
The official count by the Legislature of the
votes cast at the last election in New Hamp.
shire makes the result for Governor as fol.
lows: Halle, Republican, 36,2l5; Cate
Democrat, 81 ,679. Scattering, ~.
RATHER FAST. "A special train on the
Canada Grand Trunk Railway, on Monday
of last week, ran twenty eight miles in
twenty-five minutes being ut the rate of
sixty. six miles per hour.
The yacht Prairie Flower was capsized in
Boston Harbor, on the 8ah. The party on
board numbered forty. seven, many Of whom
were drowned. She has been towed up to
the wharf, Still submerged, and nine dead
bodies grappled out of her cabin.
The three barber boys who recently muir
dered Hugh DOwnie, at St. Louis, by choking,
committed the deed for the purpose of ob
tanning spending money, as Gartner never
gave them any. and was verv harsh to them,
keeping them on a short allowance of food
The boy who suggested the murder by choking
said he had often seen it done in New
Orleans.
PRoDIeY.-A seven-year old female, re-
joicing in the Frenchied name of ssMadem.
oiselle Christine Milly," is exhibiting her.
self in st. Louis. She has two perfect heads,
two pretty faces, four well-rounded arms,
and corresponding number of correspond
ing legs.
An enormous fat woman, who was
recently exhibited about the country, has
been married at St. Louis, to man almost
as large as herself, named Rogers. The
happy couple weighed together nearly twelve
hundred pounds, and the Chicago Journal
thinks if their happiness equals their size,
they must enjoy married life prodigiously.
James Mcfarland, an attache of Spalding
q Rogers circus, was killed by one Roberts
in Liberty, Mo-, a few days since. Nc
Farland snapped his pistol al Roberts. who
drew bowie knife and completely severed
head from his body at single
stroke. . .aO
Subscri ptioLs are now being made in New
Orleans for the relief of those who have suf-
fered most by the inundation, many of whom
have not only lost all their crops and person.
al effects, but are lett destitute Of the means
Of subsistence.
After various experiments with all sorts of
olySv, fnr pnI 70,
as the only convenient and
practicable material. The iron pavement is
better, but too expensive. All the other
paving materials have proved inferior to
'r.".
Jogut Chunder Gangooli, young Hindoo
of hig caste, who has embraced Unitarian
in India, under the ministration
of Rev. Mr.. Dali, is now in Boston, having
come to America for the purpose of perfect
ing his education. He is said to be gen.
tleman of rare intelligence and high culture.
SHAME E!-The Indiana State Journal says
that the wife of Henry William Herbert,
while at Indianapolis prosecuting her di-
vorce, attended public festival with gen.
tleman, who, until few days previous, was
an entire stranger to her, on the evening of
the very day that she received the intelli-
gence cf her husbands melancholy suicide.
The LIVING Ex-PREsIDENTs.-Of the ex-
there are now living Martin Van
Buren, at Kinderhook, New York John
Tyler, at Sherwood Forest, Virginia Frank
lin Pierce, at Concord, New Hampshire, and
Millard Fillmore, at Buffalo, N. Y. us-
LONGEVITY OF A CANARY BlRD.--A few
days since canary bird belonging to lady
in Brooklin, N. Y, died at the advanced age
of twenty-six years. For one year previous
to his death he had been totally blind, and
for several years hadJexhibited other eviden-
ces of advanced years, such as emaciation.
H- A baloonist who made an ascension
at Montgomery, Ala. to amuse the Southern
came down on plan alton,
when the overseer and negroes fed in alarm.
One old lame negro, left behind, approach
ed with extended arms what he supposed his
Jesus, exclaiming that lie had been waiting
for him these forty years.
THE EFFECTS OF SwlLL M1LK.-On We'd
nesday last, Drs. j. w. Francis and John H.
Griswold, two of the most eminent physic-
ians of New York, we're examined before the
special Committee appointed blythe Board of
Heal h to investigate the condition of the
swill milk establishments. They testified
that the milk of swill fed cows was very del
eterious, especially to infants, and that the
and lvers Of the cows resembled
those of excessive brandy drinkers. The
Committee are evidently disposed to regard
the milkmen with favor, and treated the
physicians very rudely. 4..rs
Sixty physicians of New York have
signed certificate giving their opinion that
milk from cow fed sn distillery slop isprej-
judicial to health. The city governments
is likely to prove whitewash-
ing operation, without pains being take:: to
see things in the best light. A correspon-.
dent of the Boston Transcript finds by ex.
pertinent that milk from u COW fed in sta
BILE Yields 4 per cept. of cream, while that
from a COW pasmrea st Cambridge afforded
l3 per cent. AS tile nutritive prop.rties Of
milk are in proportion to the cream, he con-
cludes that the mix Of the pastured COW is
worth more than three times that OF the
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