Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-04-03

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: News R1rs ysayns.
Strawberries and cream are now offered
for sale At some Of the restatra ants in New
York city. The berries were brought from
Savannah.
MIR. Miles G. Bradford, OF Christian CO.,
KY, killed q COW, few days ago, in whose
stomach were found several tin and six pen
ny nails, hook from hat rack, large bras
ring, hair>pin, breast-pin, and a qnanti-
ty of hooks and eyes. "Brinde" seemed 70
have taste for metallurgy.
The Philadelphia Press learns that Thomas
Washington Smith, who was acquitted of
the murder of Richard Carter, on tile ground
of insanity at the time of the commission
of the act, is now confirmed maniac.
The city of Boston, by aid of its Fire
Alarm Telegraph, has just hit upon a most
happy expedient for bringing about a uni
form standard of time. At twelve o'clock
every bell in the city connected with the fire
alarm strikes one.
A procession of men and women at Frank
fort, Mo-, cleared out the liquor shops, with
one exception, the other day. One old wo-
man who kept red-eye in shanty, filled all
her kettles with hot water, and ladled it out
upon the crowd. The assailants retreated.
and the red-eye was saved.
The Todds, jewellers, arrested at New York
rs proprietors of bogus gift enterprise were
in the receipt of about $500 per week in
letters from the country for tickets. Among
the letters taken by the police were about
forty from country editors, who had receiv-
ed certain gold pencils for putting the con-
Germ, but were anxious about payment for
the regular advertising. To some of these
editors the company had promises in pay
ment, but the editers were cheated with
quite as little caution as the rest of their GUS
toners.
A VILLAGE FOR SALE. The Sheriff OF
Newark advertses for sale the entire village
of Malaga,in New Jersey. 1t consist of more
than 5000 acres of land, with glass works
mills, and forty dwelling houses. The vii.
lagG exhibits scene of desoation and aban
donment, so complete and thorough as to be
rarely exceeded.
TELEGRAPH TO SALT LAKE.-The Military
Committee Of the Senate have reported q
bill authorizing the Secretary of War to con.
tract for the immediate erection and opera.
ton of line of Magnetic Telegraph to Sail
Lake, in order that the Government may
have at it, command ready means of prompt
communication with the Army of Utah.
The bill provides no monopoly, but leaves
the Executive to make the best contract he
can with any parties who are competent tt
do the desired work. it is said there ar,
parties ready to have the line in active ope
ration in less than five months from the da,
that the contract is made.
Larkin Bramlet, young man, was hang
ed at JACK sonvlle, Alabama, on the 18th
inst, for the murder of Obannon, in the yeal
1858.
A line Of the foreign news is, that "tht
faculties of the Kisg of Prussia are declin
ing daily" AS the old King never had any
faculties to spare, lie must he getting in s
bad way.
Forrest, the actor, lately wrote to a friend
in Cincinnati, saying, "having never been al
dpoState, am not aware of being converted
to religion
Prof. f. A. Andrews. the distinguished
Latin photographer and gra:nmarian, died
at New Britain, CT, last Wednesday even.
ing, aged II years. lie was actively engag-
ed upon a revision of his large Latin lexicon
which would have fully occupied his time for
two years.
Lamb, the wife murderer, who was lately
arrested at Mendoza, H., and taken to St.
Louis, has made full confession of the hor-
rid deed. He drowned his wife in the river
at St. Louis on the 18th of December, by
taking her out in skitf and when hey
observation holding; her under the water till
:, FL II a. a..
to her body to make it sink He had previ-
ous tried to kill her by administering poi
son. He ackno wlodged that the only rea-
son he hal for killing her was to get her out
of the way so that he mis- gilt marry another
woman lie says lie had two accomplices,
but it is no. known where they are.
Reports about the tragedian Edwin For
rest are very contradictory. From one quar-
ter we hear that he has recently joined the
church, and will abandon the stage and en-
ter The ministry; from another that he has
not joined the church, but is about to aban-
don the stage, with the view, however, of
going into the liquor business in Chicag0.-
Neither Of which is true. Mr.. Forrest is
advertised to appear at Burton's Theatre, in
New York, and in other cities, as soon as his
health is sufficiently restored to permit him
to do SO.
Lhina at War UiM Russia. Not the
least interesting intelligence from China is a
proclamation from the Emperor, which in
effect amounts TO an announcement of the
fact that China is at war with Russia in re-
lation to the Amoor river country.
The people of ST. Paul have just voted to
raise loan of 100000 to complete thu
bridge now being constructed over the Mis-
sissippi at that point. The estimated cost
is SAC, 600. 1t is intended that the struc-
ture shall be completed sometime during the
coming summer.
Albert Stauh, convicted at Chicago of
the murder Of Peter Lauerman, at Blue Is
land, sometime since, has been sentenced to
be hanged on the Goth inst.
The ST. Louis Herald SAYS that the
kidnapping of children from three to seven
years of age has become very common in
that city-the superstition being that thew
are either mutlated and disigured, or taken
to other places to be used for vicious or
criminal purposes. =
Rev. Di. Chaplin makes fun of the relis
gious revivals, saying that man cannot ISL.
changed from a sinner to saint by sudden
shock. The baltimore Patriot asks what
the Rev. Doctor makes of the conversion of
Paul.
Checkered.-In single building in Bos-
ton, one evening, there was prayer meet
ing on one floor, boxing exhibition in the
room above and calico ball in the upper
hall. A passage from one room of the edi.
flee to another would have given a good H.
lustration of Pope's line:
"From grave to gay, from lively to SEVERE
LARGE DEMAND FOR MEN AND OXEN