Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-06-19
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j News Paragraphs.
The elephant Hannibal, so long the mar.
vel and delight OF boys and girls in the Me.
nageries of this country, died at Garfield
Mahoning county, On the 9TH inst.
| A Conference between the Lords and Com
mons Of England has resulted in c"mpro-
mise by which Jews viii be admitted to seats
| in Parliament. The result will he the speedy
admiss ion of Baron Rothschild.
The United States Agricultural Society
will hold its. annual fair this yearat hich'
mond, Va, during the last weekjn october
A great display is expected, especially OF ag-
ricultural implements.
Electricity is about to DO applied to mu-
sic. A performer scaled before piano,
constructed for the purpose, in London,
Moscow, or St. Petersburg, will play NOR
ceau, every note of which, by means OF the
electric wire, will be repeated by another
instrument in one of the concert rooms IN
Paris. We already have music by steam
now we are to have music by electricity
Lungs will 60 out of fashion.
The trial of DR.. D. I. Smith, at Cairo, for
the murder of Thomas Blackburn, about u
year ago, has resulted in his acquittal. ~
Mr.. Henry Kesser, an old and extensive
furrier of Cincinnati, is having an elephants
hide tanned as curiosity. He purchased
it in Wisconsin, where the animal, which
belonged to menagerie, died. .y....n
Within year South Carolina and Texas
have each lost two U. S. Senators by death
the former, Butler and Evans, the latter,
Rusk and Henderson. L.. .,.
The last North Indiana Conference of the
Methodist Church, agreed to the following
resolution - y....t.
Resolued, That no person be admitted as
a member of this Conference who is in the
h-I;.Af nsing tobacco in the common way,
without an agreement to dt.ovnti"~-- AZ"
practice. h.yu~ h. 3 ...Ha.i ,ef..i
The papers of East Tennessee are discus
sing the propriety Of forming new State to
be called Frankland The Memphis Bulle-
tin favors a division of Tennessee, and the
formation of q new state from the western
portion, with North Missis ,ippi and the wes-
tern corner Of Kentucky. The New Orleans
Crescent approves the plan, because we
need another southern state.' .af
The Canadian parliament has passed a bill
the period of residence subsequent 10 which
foreigners can claim naturalization, from five
to three years. This is intended to g We en-
igrants inducements superior to those offer
ed by the United States.
Laborers are now employed by the city
of Chicago at fifty cents per day.
Red skirts and red shoes are the latest fe.
mall, agony in New York 4..
In Louisiana, there are fifteen thousand
square miles of fine alluvial soil, which lie
below high water mark, and require to i've
protected by artificial embankments.
Huldah Morrison, now in the Ohio Peni-
Tertiary, from Ashtabula county, recently
abstained from food seuen ,Oeeks. She is a
most incorrigbie wretch, and was imprison-
ed for incendiarism, having set fire to the
County Infirmary several Of the unfortunate
wretches perish;ng in the flames.
Run OuT.-The "sands of life" We are
glad to learn that the young mans, sold DR..
james sands of life" which have been Shear
ly run out" so long, have ceased to run alto
gether. Letters hereafter directed to the
psychological doctor, will be sent to Wash
ington, opened, and the money sent to the
deluded party who sent it. ... II .".
The latest horror is the murder of sister
near Detroit, by her. brothers, the parties
being French and named Dyon. The matter
is inexpicable except upon the superstition
of the insanity of the brothers. And this
is violent presumption as neither had be-
fore exhibited any symptoms ~ the kind.
and it can hardly be supposed they both
went into fit of insanity AZ the same mo
ment and committed this horrid crime.
There is the report of fight in the north
ern part of Texas, between Capt. Fora's
rangers and large body of Camanche Indi-
ans. Loss--Indians, 76 killed, II taken
prisoners, and several wounded, aud three
hundred horses taken; rangers, white aud
Indian killed, and wounded. The fight
was running one, and extended a distance
of six miles. .. i