Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-06-05

A physician at Danville, Va, has a hors
that loves tobacco, and not only chews it
but swallows it. Il b, uff -r&
The prospectus of the Globe newspape
informs US that the average number of words
spoken by Congress "4n a long session II
1920, ,772." - ... ,. ..-, ',ersl IN
A correspondent of the Washington Unior
confidently states that Col. Kane is M or.
mon, and the Union is equally confident thai
he is not. , e. -rt-.f. = ... .G.t.s.r-
The crusade of Leslie's Illustrated Ne,cs.
paper against the swill- milk establishments
OF New York and vicinity has compelled
several of the dealers in the article to sup
ply really Squire country milk" to their
customers. ..-. ,.' ........s7
The brig New Era, of Providence, from
Matanzas, reports, April oath, was boarded
by an English war ste amer, aud May 18th
had three shots fired at her by another war
steamer, but did not heave to for her and
consequently was not boarded.
| In the trial of lottery cases in Philadel
phia, victim testified that he had lost by
the purchase of tickets over $4,000; that
| he was broken up and robbed in business.
| His first start was from Richmond, Va,
where he purchased from $50 to $l00 worth
of tickets.
Addison Keenan,. Of jackson. Holmes Co.,
Ohio, shot Benjamin Wilson. of the same
township, on sunday of last week, killing
him instantly. The only cause for this out.
rage was that Wilson demonstrated with
Keenan, for hunting on the Sabbath. Keenan,
has since been arrested.
A new process of extracting teeth was re-
Gently tried in Baltimore. The patient graSps
firmly in his hand one pole from an electro
magnetic machine; the other pole is attached
to the forceps, and by this means current
Of electricity passed through the tooth :,
and produces a local anethesis, and so avoids
he use of chorotorm or ether.
The name ''Ontonagon,' with which it is
proposed to dub tho territory to be formed
of the upper peninsular OF Michigan, is the
Indian word tor 'swooden BOWL" and was
attached to the river now bearing that title
in honor of the achievement of trader in
saving the wooden bowl of an Indian squaw
from being carried down to the lake.
DEATH OF WEALTHY HEIR -Ebenezer
Francis Thayer, of Boston, only son of the
late John Eliot 1hayer, and grandson of
Ebenezer Francis, who has been passing
few months in Europe, had reached Avignon,
on his way from Paris to Italy, and there
died Of apoplexy, after a few hours illness,
on the first day of May. He was twenty
years of age. Had he lived, he would have
inherited the largest estate of any young
man in New England.
LUMBERING LAST YEAR AND THIS Year.
The quantity of lumber manufactured and
run out of the Wisconsin river the past three
years has averaged about l2O. 900, 900 feet.
"rhe hard times caused less than half the
usual amount of sIogging'' to be done the
past winter. and there is not now-says the
Wausau Central Wisconsin-a supply of
logs for 6O,0O0,OO0 feet, which is all that
can be manufactured this summer. This is
going to be small business, comparatively,
and with some of the lower mill companies
it will operate very unfavorably Some
mills have secured half their usual supply
of logs, others less than that quantity
above here enough can be procured to keep
them running all season. ......