Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-02-13
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News Paragraphs.
Lucretia Mott, the celebrated Quak cress,
is preaching in New York.
Judge Skinner, of the Supreme Court of
Illinois, resigned his scat upon that bench on
the 9th ms.
L-ia Montez is lecturing in New York, on
beautiful women" S!rs is not a specimen
of that article.
SUIclDE.-The Rev. John Stambau alh q
minister OF long standing of the United
Brethren persuasion, comnitted suicide by
shooting himself at Marshall, I'LL on the
10th nit. He was deranged at the time.
The Mobile Mercury boasts that, in the
action of the Alabama Legislature, calling
for a convention in case Kansas should NOT
be received into the Union as a slave State,
that State had sled Oft in the dance of death
to the Union"
.s, A negro in Buffalo. whose wife is both
Xantippe aud fugitive, has proposed to re-
lieve himself of her society by sending word
to her old master in the South to cOme,.
prove property, and take her away. This is
a mode of relief not open to suffering white
husbands.
AuTs IditOus Clo OioSiapASi VI hdtuu
Burr, is understood to be engaged in prepa-
ring life of Gen. Andrew Jackson, for
which he obtained much new material while
writing the life of the great " conspirator."
MIR. Parton entertains the opinion that jack
son owed his elevation to the Presidency to
the secret suggestions and aid of Burr.
Grasshoppers have lately appeared in
thick swarms upon the farm of Daniel
Fields, short distance west Of Oxford, Ohio.
''Hole-in-the-Day," the Chippewa Chief
who was reported killed in duel in Min
nesota, is not dead, after all. He has been
seen at St. Paul, "alive and kicking."
The New Lisbon, Wis, Republican SPOT
a young villain named Page, who married
two girls living ten miles apart, within two
days, and forsook both, borrowing his faith
erin laws over coat, and ste,ling his last
father n-law's pocket book and his broth
er-in-law's boots. His second wife was
girl # IA.
In Belfast, ILL.,, On the 18th ult, Mr.. Eli
jah Young was cutting wood at his own
door, when his little son put his hand upon
the log, and the axe came down, chopping it
off The lad was carried into the house of
his grandfather, Moses Young, when the ap-
pearance Of the poor fellow so excited the
grandmother, Ms. Young, that she took to
her bed and died the next morning.
"The Crampon" is the name of false or
outer shoe to prevent horses from slipping
in frosty weather, invented by Mr.. Anelli,
of France. 1t is readily buckled on and ia
ken off the hoof without removing the
shoe, aid will last for years. 1t supersedes
the very inconvenient method of what is
termed "roughing," now in use. 1t has
been tried by veterinary surgeons in New
York city, and has met with their entire ap-
proval.
The acquittal of Thomas Washington
Smith, who has just been tried at Philadel-
pha for the murder of Richard Carter, sug-
gests some important reflections. The facts
are few and undisputed. Smith married a
young lady who was the ward of Carter;
four months after the marriage she gave
birth to a full grown child, who was the Off
spring of her guardian, Carte r. Smith,
naturally enraged at having been persuaded
to marry the mistress Of another man, found
Carter and shot him dead. The act was
marked with deliberat ton. Tried for the
offence, Smith plead insanity, and some
slight evidence of dsordered intellect was
adduced. The disorder, however, Vas not
greater than would be likely TO follow in
any sane mind so overwhelming discovery
as that | "..,un Smith made when his wife's
child was born; it was the brief fury Of
just indignation, and clearly promised to dis
appear. On this the jury acquitted Smith
of the murder, on the ground of insanity
and the Judge declared that he entirely con-
Cured in the verdict. From this and 9TH
er similar cases that have occurred, it ep-
pears that the moral sentiment OF the civil
lied world justifes the homicide of wan
ton destroyer of female character and do
nestle happiness; and that that sentiment
will find practical expression in the verdicts
Of juries on the trial of such hoMicides.
Messrs. William Walker, Frank Anderson
and others have been indicted in New Or
leans for violating the neutrality laws. The
accused were held for trial on the fourth
Monday in April.
A mad dog was killed in Buffalo on
Thursday. People who will keep dogs
should be careful to provide them with wa
ter during the freezing months. A popular
theory has suggested cause for hydropho-
bia in excessive thirst to which the Cog is
often subjected.
Two men, Joseph Sparks and Oscar Flint,
were assaiied in the suburbs OF Baltimore
few nights ago by gang of sh oulder-ht-
ters. Flint was knocked down and robbed,
but his companion escaped by flight. When
the scoundrels hit Flint, Sparks few.