Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-04-24

News ParagraPhse
Mrs Rush, at York, Pa, died suddenly, OF
Monday, of excitement accustomed by ,
quarrel between her sister and her sister
husband.
On the 7th inst. Gov. Sam Medary wa,
married At Cincinnati, o., to daughter o
Hon. T. Disney.
The "Stuyvesant Pear Tree" 1T the cor
ner of Third Avenue and Thirtt enth street
New York, is again in bud. It was planted
in 1647. -t.tE fE
The Chinese official census of thirty years
ago gives tine population of shat empire q,
267, 5S2, 000l That Of Japan is estimated
at twenty tive to fifty millions.
The Marshall 1llinosian announces the
death of Jonathan Hicklin, of Clarke county
ILL.,, at the advanced age OF LOG years.
The Devil received one vote in Vinton
Iowa, for Superintendent of Schools 10 Ben
ton county. So says the Democrat.
Loefner, the Cincinnati murderer, is to b.
hung on the Both of April.
The "xhi,e feather is to be the fashion.
able bonnet ornament of the season.
Fillibuster Walker is quietly reposing OF
his laurels at Mobile, attracting the attention
of nobody.
The mail and passenger trains on the Vir.
ginia Central Railroad are now running
through the Blue Ridge TuL mel, direct fol
Stanton.
A bill has passed the New York Legisla.
ture, providing that vote be taken by the
PEOPLE of the State on the question Of 9
Convention to revise the Constitution.
Mary Reed and Loretta Roberts were re-
Gently drowned in LIE Seur county, Mime
sofa, by being tipped out of skiff, On lax,
which they were crossing.
The Young Mems Christian Association
of Philadelphia are now constructing hugs
tent, capable Of holding 1000 persons, to be
used 10y them during the summer, for preach.
ing in destitute end isolated localities.
Kit Carson, the Indian agent, says the In.
dams Of Utah are in great want, and have
to be supplied literally to prevent them from
starving.
The monument to the memory Of ]. B
Booth, the tragedan, preparing in Boston
is an obelisk nine feet high, upon pedestal
five feet six inches high.
Another bridge has been completed across
the Mississippi in Minnesota. connecting the
towns Of Watah and Winnebago. 1t was
built by Hon. A. Northup, at AL expense Of
over $4,000
Among the unusual things we have read
of late, was 'noon-day' prayer meetsngs, blu.
siness men'-' prayer meetings, printers
prayer meetings, and finally 'policemen's'
prayer meetings, but now the funniest of all
things we read of, is lawyers prayer
meeting. What nexti
The Baltimore Patriot mentions the fact
takes risks on rents. Owners of property,
therefore, in addition>to the facilities Of in
surance against loss by fire and food, can
insure against want of tenantry.
Hon. Thomas F. Marshall ("Tom Mar
shabby of KY, has not only become zeal
Gus advocate of temperance, but alec sin
cerely peni tent chris tian. His conversion is
one of the good results of the religious re-
vival.
Ten Thousand persons went to the city Of
Terre. Haute. Indiana, on the I'd inst, to see
negro named Todd swing upon the gai'ws.
The execution was private, aud, therefore,
tuO Cio"t WIZ Cut Cug VI tlCti OuGlSiHotSN
entertainment.
In Oregon men get from $40 to 1920 per
month in numbering establi hments, and from
$40 to $50 on farms. Carpenters get from
81 to Sc per day. Flour from $l2 to SIG
per bill Beef from $S to $l5 per 100 lbs
Pork $40 per 100. Potatoes 1925 per
bushel.
A little after O'Clock on Saturday morn
ing 10th, sensible shock OF an earthquake
was felt in Ashtabula, Ohio. The shock wa.
Of short duration, but sufficiently continued
for any one to settle in his own mind its dis
tinctive character.
The people of Philadelphia are again urg-
ing the removal of the State Capital from
Harrisburg to Philadelphia. In the course
of time this will doubtless be done. The
capital Of Maine, too, will doubtless be NOV
ed from Augusta to Portland. The massive
State House is the great anchor that has kept
it in Augusta SO long.
A conductor between Syracuse and Buff
falo, the other day, was rather staggered
when woman with six children around her
offered single ticket. But the lady assured
him they were all under six years Of age,
and he accordingly passed them ~ lap pas.
sengers. The mother was Yankee emf
grating to Illinois.
The King of Prussia has become stark
mad. He occasionally believes that he ia q
private soldier, who has just received his
commission as ensign, but has since lost the
parchment, and therefore he anxiously seeks
it in all the hidden corners OF The palace,
and hooks of the garden. Prince Frede.
rick, with his English wife, may soon have
an opportunity to try his hand at governing
Only 100 persons were permitted to entel
the prison yard in which Alexander Ander.
son and Henry Richards, negroes, were ex.
ecuted at Lancaster, Pa. On the 9th inst, fol
the murler of Mrs CARRIER and Mrs. Rein,
two respectable elderly ladies. Anderson
who died penitent and full of religion, con.
feased that the murder was committed fol
IL 1-2 cents with which they wanted to gel
pint of whisky, both being intoxicated al
the time. The criminals did not flll from
the gallows, which was REALISTICALLY" con.
trived 50 tlat the platform fell from them
and they died easily.
Col. Benton CONTRARY to the general opin
ion of his means) has died poor. Some time
since, his house, on @ street, Washington
was burned down, and he went to the ex
pense of having it rebuilt but there is 9
mortgage OF 900 on it, which will almos
absorb the value OF the property. Col. Ben.
ton was anxious that Gong, ess should pur
chase 1000 copies of his Arrangement of tn,
Congressional Debates, for distribution
among the various State libraries end foreigl
exchanges. He was of opinion that such ,
purchase would be constitutional, and woult
tend to diffuse knowledge of the politica
history of the country. Two members o
the House of Representatives have the mat
ter under consideration, by his request, ant
will bring it, at ~ early day, before Con
gress, with, as they think, good assurance Q
success. -3
Three extensive swindling lottery concern
were broken up in New York few day
ago. These establishments each publishes
paper devoted to the advertising and put
fling Of their "sschemes" Their proprietor
had carried on the business for six years AM
had become very rich. Their plan was t.
| receive the monav from the green Ones re