Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-03-13

There are 1886 miles of railroad in the
Free States, TO 6, 400 in the Slave Suites.

| There are 1896 miles of railroad in tn.
Free States, to 6,499 in the Slave Suites.
Lady Bulwsr, wife of the celebrated nov
eIist, Is said to be in actual want, and il
about to sue her husband for her support.
The wedding dress of the Princes Royal
of England was made at Brussels by order
of the King OF Belgans, and is reported to
have cost $4,000.
Walter Simson, Scotch gentleman, has
written book on the history of the gipsys,
one chapter of which is said to prove john
Bunyan, the author of ''Pilgrim's Progress,'
to be gypsy.
An association has been organized in
New York for founding the New York
State lnebriate Asylum" and the Board of
Trustees met at Albany on the 25th ult., and
will locate tl'c hospital ON the lst of May.
The "iopekar State Government of Kan
sas, in the various sessions of its legislature,
and other facts have accrued a debt of $l4,-
226 80. The debt is in the shape Of "Audi-
tors scrip" issued to those having demand
There is a lady in Danville, Va, nearly
sixty years of age, who is now cutting the
fifth tooth she has cut within the last fifteen
years. In the same town is man whose
delight is to eat big spiders, green flies, aud
such small game.
The soil Of the valley of Salt Lake re gion
is very fertile, and as the last season has
been very fruit ul one, the yield has been
immense. One mans wheat yielded 70
bushels to the acre, another's 81 bushels
and potatoes turned out 660 bushels to the
acre.
"Whistling posts," as they are termed,
have been placed by the Pennsylvania Rail-
road Company in the vicinity Of every road
crossing their track. Engineers who APP
proach these from either side are required to
whistle. The posts are of bright red COL
or, and are very conspicuous.
Mrs. Dodge, wife of a captain killed. at
Argra, India, while lying up.n a sofa in her
residence at Dept ,rd, England, was startled
ing before her. She rose to meet him, but
he was not there. When she told her
friends what she had seen, they laughed,
ana pronounced it IL fantasy. Subsequently
it was ascertained that Capt. DpGye was
killed on the very night of the appariton.
Among the victims of the St. Louis calam-
ity, is Mr.. james F. Geary, local reporter" of
the Leader, who was fatally injured while
saving his daughter Florence. lie had res
cued his wife and on going back for his
daughter inhaled the hot air which >ubse-
quently proved fatal. His brother, Joseph
Geary, Of Pottsville, Pa, has gone to ST.
Louis to take charge of his remains.
A Presbyterian Clergyman, of Oxford,
Ohio, committed suicide last week. His
lame was Howell, and lie was said to be an
excel ent nan. Havinga large family with
oul the ability to make suitable provision
for their support and education, he became
desp"ndrg, aud in fit of mental alteration
committed the crime Of selt-nurder.
VALENTINES The statistics of the New
York Post Office confirm the opinion that
valentines are going out of date. About
fourteen years ago the number of these mis-
s'ves received there each year was not short
Of twenty thousand, but constant decline
i'll their circulation has been noted since, un-
til this year it has scarcely exceeded five
thousand.
A letter from Kansas says that servant
girls are the scarcest article in Kansas, espe-
claily in Leavenworth, where they can read
lily get SIS per month.
Hon. Thomas II. Ford, Of Ohio, is among
the t'hopeful ions" brought about By
the religious ievivals of the season lie has
joined the Presbyterian church of Mansfield,
where he resides.
The FIFTY FIRST PLANET.-A new teles-
copic planet, being the 5lst, was discovered
at Mines on the night of the Oath ult., by
an amatuer astronomer, Mr.. Laurent. The
director Of the Observatory at Marseilles,
having been invited to give it name, has
proposed to call it Nemausa