Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-06-12
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News Paragrapns.
4 Fortune telling i pillory offence in the
State of Delaware.
The Maine Supreme Court has decided
that land warrants nre property.
They are employing convicts, men and
women, in digging canal in Virginia.
The Legislature Of Minnesota met at St.
Paul on the Sd inst. This is the first kqal
session which has convened of this body,
and it is said there is an immense amount
Of labor to be accomplished BY it.
The culvert at Roscoe, H., was swept
away on the 4th, destroying the house Of
Rev. H. Ilsty, drowning Mrs. Ilsty and eight
children. Other houses were also swept
away, but we hear of no more lives being
lost.
Farmers should not be discouraged
about the crop of corn this year. An old far
mer informs the Springfield journal that he
has raised fifty bushels OF corn to the acre
which was planted on the 2lst Of June.
Parson Brownlow, who is not a hard shell
Baptist, but q Methodist, spoke in the Gem
eral Conference at Nashville in favor Of es-
ablishing Methodist Conferences in Central
America, Cuba and Mexico, and then annex.
ing them to the United States. He evidently
considers the church grand fillibusteriDg
institution.
The st. Louis Democrat mentions that an
unusual number of dead bodies have lately
foated Gown the river, and accounts for the
fact from the late disasters and freshets.
That the persons are not murdered is evident
from the fact that money is usually found
upon The bodies.
GOLD IN IowA.--The exciting stories con-
corning gold in Iowa are inducing many of
our citizens to break up their homes and 90
out there in search Of the precious stuff.
The spectators hereabouts in Iowa land are
doing we'll through the excitement, and
every acre they sell is warranted a gold field.
Er.
St. Louis boasts of 80 breweries, with IN
annual capacity of, for Lager, "a, 700, and
Schench $4,000 bills. The total value of
this product is $45l, 700. The working
capital invested in this trade is $34S, 900,
which added to the total products make an
aggregate o. nearly two millions of dollars
annually invested in the beer trade at that
place.
That mysterious disease that has prevailed
among the swine of some of our western
States with such fearful effect, for year or
two, known as the sshog cholera" has again
made its appearance in Kentucky, Tennessee,
and Arkansas, and the animals are diving by
hundreds.
EVACUATION OF CALIFORNIA "A writer for
n (t0IIfnrnI0 MI Gu hot Dc
leaving the cities Of California for the gold
mines of Frazer's river. He predicts that if
the reports from that region continue favor
able for month longer, California will be
evacuated.
Miss McCann, residing near the Gum Lick
Springs, KY, was attracted by the focking
OF buzzards to spot some distance from
the house. where she discovered the body of
her father, suspended to tree by rope
about his neck. He had been absent about
three or four weeks, his family being igno-
rant of his whereabouts; and the birds had
picked his eyes out, and torn great strips of
flesh from his arms, breast, back, and other
parts of the body.
Mr.. Witt, of Bedford, Taylor county,
Iowa, was swindled to the tune Of some eight
hundred dollars by the New York sharpers,
the other day. in the purchase of tickets for
himself and family to California. Upon
complaint to the Mayor, the swindlers re
funded his money, cracked a joke with the
Mayer, and proceeded to their Office to swim
die somebody else. Stealing is no crime in
New York if it be carried on scientifically,
and few of the officers regard swindling as
discreditable.
SUICIDE AT SLvENTY.-The widow Rogers,
OF Waterfowl, jefferson Co., N. Y, COM
mitted suicide on the 10Th ult., by hanging.
1t was evident she had been carefully plan
ming her death, for her grave clothes were
fonnd laid upon her bed, and arranged in
such a manner that they would be the first
objects to attract the attention of any per-
son entering her room. The old lady was
over 20 years of age, and much respected by
all who knew her.
The late suicide of Herbert has called to
mind a singular fatality which has attended
many Of his literary associates. In 1851,
Thomas Pieton, who now claims Herbert's
library, started newspaper called the
Sdclen, and gathered around him q group
esponding-included Picton, DR.. Bach
CiucI3 1OIUCAt3 w H. 1>OTtki, OeO. + OSter,
Major Richardson and Capt Bradley, OF
these Picton and DIR. Bachelor are living
the other five have died suicides though
with reference to one, Foster, the fact has
been denied.
The remains of William Henry Her
bert &c Frank FORESTER ~ were inferred in
sMssnn. Pleasant Cemetery, Newark, N. J.
A great many people assembled al the See
dars," his late residence, where it was ex-
pected the funeral ceremonies would take
place; but the clergyman who had charge of
them declared that the rules of his Epsco-
palian) Church forbade him to read the rit-
ual over suicide, and the body was buried
without the usual ceremonies.
The latest Texas papers speak of the
devastations of the grasshoppers. In many
places entire corn fields have been laid waste,
there not being left blade or stalk of any
thing green. The corn, which had grown
FIVE or six inches high, has been utterly de-
stroyed. A gentleman, just down from San
Antonio, says these insects completely cover
the prairies in many places, destroying eve
rythirg before them as they go. They are
said to be quite small, only one half or three
quarters of an inch in length.
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ca Brigham Young, in one of his late
sermons, gives curious account of his trav.
cling four hundred miles by stage in 1889,
starting with only $3.50 in his pocket. He
states that, at every point, where he had
expenses to pay, he found his pocket, on
putting his hand into it, mysteriously and
miraculously replenished. Is he quite sure
that it was his own pocket he got his hand