Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-02-20
News Paragraphs.

. a bill! preventing the marriage OF first
cousins has passed the Kentucky Legislature.
The New Hampshire election for State Of
fcers will take place on Tuesday, March 9th.
Over 5000 persons have recently died of
cholera in Honduras. The disease origina-
ted by opening the graves of some persons
who died of cholera some twenty years ago.
The Spanish Fleet now in the Gulf of
Mexico, numbers thirty-two vessels, some Of
which are at Havana, others at Vera Oruz,
and the remainder manmuvering betw cen
Havana and Matanzas.
I'D. Williamson, who was foreibly taken
from New York to Washington by order Of
the House of Representatives, to testify in
the tariff bribery case, has, it is stated,
commenced 9 suit in the Supreme Court
against Speaker Orr, and all the parties con-
cerned in his arrest, laying the damages at
$4,000.
Mrs. Robinson, the "Veiled Murderess,"
is employed in knitting stockings at Sing
Sing prison, New York. On visitors enter-
ing the room in which she is engaged at
work, he invariably endeavors to turn her
face in An opposite direction, as If she was
tn observed of all observers" Old age
and confinement begin to leave their traces
upon her once beautiful countenance.
A Paris letter says the "grippe Gnfuen-
za) which is now prevailing extensively at
Paris, seems to have extended over Europe,
and more than one of tho crowned heads
have had their lives put in danger by it,
The news from the King Of Wurtenberg,
now the oldest monarch in Europe, who has
been attacked by the disease, continues
alarming. The Empress Eugene has had
severe attack, the Emperor lighter one.'
Miss" Susan Denim, well known theat-
rical lady of loose morals, has, it appears,
got another husband, one Huntington, q
niggcr minstrel. Recently the pair entrap-
ped an ardent swain in Buffalo, by decoy let
ters, to al assignation with Susan. When
the pair got into buggy they were follow.
| ed by the "husband" and some of his friends,
who assaulted Susan's companion. The case
| seems one of the concerted robberies by
| which loose women and their associates
fleece individuals whose amorous propensi-
ties exceed their discretion. the case is
another illustration of the morals of the
stage.
Lucy Stone, who is resident of Orange,
Essex county, N. J., having refused to pay
the taxes assessed against her property-up
on the principle that taxation without rep
resentation was unjust ard anti. republican
had number of household articles sold
| under the collectors hammer, at her resi-
dence, on Friday week. She told the con-
stable that tho same operation would Lave
to be performed every year till the law was
repealed, a. she would voluntary pay taxes
for the support of institutions that she had
no voice in governing.
| 1t is thought to be wo' tn relating in the
newspapers that, in the absence of the men,
a young married lady in Vermont undertook
to expel hog from the garden, and soon
drove him into corner, when piggy turned
upon his pursuer, and making full tilt,
struck her between the pedal extremitics,
and would have passed safely through had
his nose not caught in the folds of her hoop
ed skirts. As it was, he took her safely
on his back, and then commenced series Of
circuits about the garden that rivaled the
feats of circus ring. At length q hoop
! gave way, the lady turned sumerset, while
his pigship made rapid tracks in search Of
the hole through which lie had entered the
forbidden garden.
! Bethany College, Va, will be rebuilt very
soon. The new building will DC larger and
more convenient than the old one.
The consumption of snails in Paris has in.
creased to such an extent rs to seriously in
jure the oyster trade. A whole side Of the
ne " fish maj ket is devoted to these delica
cies.