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

The Vermont Central Railroad stock has
been sold in Boston at one cent share.
About GAINESVILLE, Ohio, the peach pros
poets are said to be good, Notwithstanding
the wailings of the croakers.
The Chicago papers say that George Pea
body, of London, is about removing his
banking house to Chicago.
A man near Boston came near losing his
life, few days ago, by swallowing half-a-
dosen false teeth whilst asleep.
Ex-President Pierce writes that the climate
of Madeira continues beneficial to the health
Of his wife q.-
e The laughable farce Of holding "South-
ern Commercial Convention" is to be gone
through with for the seventh or eighth time,
at Montgomery, Ala, on the 10th of May.
The people of Minnesota have voted to
sustain the bill to loan the credit of the
State for s., 5,0O0, 900 to the railways of that
State.
Green Martin, farmer in Georgia, has
been convicted of whipping one of his slaves
to death, and sentenced to be hanged on the
7th of May.
A railroad to the Pacific, over the British
territories, is an enterprise talked of in Eng
land, and scientific expedition to Vancou-
ver's Island is said to be charged with
exploring route for it.
Gen. William Milburn, Surveyor General
for Illinois and Missouri under President
Van Buren's Administration, and subse-
quently sheriff of St. Louis county, died at
his residence at st. Louis, on the 18th inst
Park BENJAMIN has established Literary
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manuscripts of poems and novels, and give
his opinion on their merit, and to receive
therefor a preliminary fee. He also proposes
to find publishers, for an additional sum.
According to the Wheeling Times, the
Kohl. nor diamond has been eclipsed in
Virginia. A Mr.. G. p Matthews having a
large stone supposed to be diamond, which
his father found seventy years ago, has lately
had it dressed, and he now values it at two
million dollars. 1t weighs ia carats,
which is A. more than the Koh-i-nor, and
10 exceedingly brilliant. This is the story
as it appears in print.
Some hound of wag inserted in the New
York dailies of April st an advertisement to
the effect that any person having good
watch dog could get fifty dollars for it at
No. =, street. The house was, conse
quently besie ed all day with a host of fell
lows with bowling ours. tbs only necessary
to add that the house is the residence of q
very wealthy sausage manufacturer.
A greater than Spurgeon is said to have
arisen in the pulpit. A man named Brown.
low North, formerly an actor, and who ha,
been terrible reprobate, is now having q
great success in Glasgow, Scotland, in
bringing about conversions. He is an Epis-
copalian, hut does not con6nc himself to any
particular church A correspondent says NO
preaching, since the days of Whitfield, has
prodnced such a powerful effect upon the
popular mind as this remarkable mans ad.
dresses, and tie power lies not in their log.
;eal structure, but in their earnestness.
A general row, in which one person wal
stabbed, occurred 1t Charity Ball in New
York, on Thursday night, the 8th inst, a
We Crystal Palace. 1t occurred at o'clocl
IN the morning. Three or four hundred
lsdies were scared out of their senses, ant
With their protectors, went home withou
their sthings." The rumpus was kicked ul
By dozen brutal fellows rushing into th'
iadies' dressing room. The s'things" left il
the dressing room consisted OF oyercoats
shawls. cloaks, hosds, rigolettes, wells, bon
nets, baskets. reticuler, and last but no
least. boxes Of whiting and rouge, with bit
Of old stockings for patting it on. Barring
the fighting, the calico ball was success
realizing q, 900.