Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-07-16
News Paragraphs.

| The New Ork Times says the small pOX
is now "a permanent institution in that
metropolis.
There are twenty.seven Theatres in
Paris, twenty-three in London, and ten in
| New York.
A lock of hair of each of the Presidents
has been preserved in the patent office at
Washington.
The Republicans of the Lebanon Congress
sional district in Ohio are trying TO induce
Tom Corwin to accept the nomination for
Congress.
Preston S. Turley, the Virginia ex>clergy-
man, who has 'een convicted of the murder
Of his wife, is to be executed on the 17th
of September next. This will be the first
occasion Of white man being hanged in
Kanawha county since its formation in 1887.
Mr.. McClennon, a venerable catholic priest
in New York. denounced from his pulpit,
last Sunday, 'slead rabbit" named Henry
Rice, and few evenings after, the offer ded
rowdy waylaid the priest, knocked him
down and kicked and beat him in brutal
manner.
A sou Of Mr.. Fould, the French minister
of state, lately f II in love with Mile Vale
rie, an actress, married her privately, stole
million and half of francs from his faith
er, and ran away to England with his new
wife. The affair was the talk Of Paris, but
the papers were forbidden to mention it.
Mrs. Elizabeth Parker, the Oldest person
in the State of Maine, died in Durham,
Cumberland county, on the 22d ult. Her
age was nearly lis years. She was born
in l743, 33 years before the Declaration of
Independence. Till she was about ITO, she
possessed bodily vigor sufficient to enable
her to wo;k in the garden, an employment
she took great delight in.
The case of Mrs. Macready, the distin-
guished reader of Shakespeare and other
poets, against the city of Alton, for i'juries
received by her in the spring of 1857, by
failing off a side walk, and for which she
cMilned $4,000 damages, was brought to a
close on Wednesday last, in the Circuit Court
Of the United states at Springfield, after oc-
cupyng the attention OF the court for two
days. She obtained verdict in her favor
of $780,
The directory Of the city of Boston, just
published, contains SO, ,656 names,aa gain of
1927 names from last year. The Smith fam
lily holds the first place, having $40 names,
the highest number in the list, and the
Browns have come up to 3S2 The Sullivan
family grows rapidly, and already shows
$50 in the directory, and the Murphys nuns
Der 296
The hog cholera prevails to an alarming
extent in Gibson county, Ind In the vicin-
ity of Princeton, some of the most extern
tensive farmers are losing all their hogs
The disease is also committing sad ravages
in the northern part Of the county. Thus
far, there has been found nothing that will
effect cure. A hog once attacked, seldom
gets we'll.
Custom HoUsEs are now nineteen
Custom Houses in oper alton, with corps
Of officials in each, wich do not collect rev.
nue. enough to pay their current expenses.
Here they are: Belfast, Machias, Waldobo-
FRO, Wiscasset and Ellsworth, Me Barns
table and Plymouth, Mass Sandusky, O. !;
Buffalo and Oswego, New York Newark
and Perth Amboy; New Jersey; Bridgeport,
ct. !; Burlington, Vt Portsmouth. N. II !;
Annapolis, Md; Peniacola, Florida 'Peo-
ria, ILL.,; and Astoria, Oregon. The expen-
ses Of these establishments exceed their re-
ceipts about 100000.
TREMENDOUS WnIRLwIND-A Herd of
Co,os in the Air.-The recent whirlwind Ut
and in the vicinity OF Colesvile, Md, was
the most singular phen according to
accounts we have ever heard of. The R. ,ck-
vile Journal says further about it, that there
issued. from it a black smoke which darken>
ed the atmosphere. One gen tleman saw
herd Of cows apparently up in the air, and
there is every reason to believe that they
were blown quarter Of mile. 1t is said
that the horizon was filled with fragments
of clothes, shingles, limbs, &c. 1t rushed
out at this rate till it reached the Patuxent
river, and there its course wa, suddenly ar
re ted.