Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-04-17
News Paragraphs.

N0WS PAfaS phss
Exchange has gone down to IL per Ct.
premium at Chicago, l at !St. Louis and
"a at Cincinnati.
It is stated that the largest room that was
ever constructed is that iii which the tobacco
stores are kept at the London docks. The
room is said to be nearly six acres, being, OF
course, under one roof. &
B. Frank Dalton, whose suit for divorce
created SO much interest in Boston, aud was
quietly settled by that arch little fellow, Gu
pid, is now doing business in Lawrence, Kan
sas, wife and all.
1t is said that no less than twenty
persons have died Of sickness contracted
last year atthe National Hotel, Washington.
Out of total of three hundred sufferers,
nearly one-half continue III a state OF decrep-
itude. -
The Supreme Court of Ohio has decided
that the banks and bank stocks are subject
to taxation the same as other property. This
seems to oppose the decision rendered by the
Supreme Court of the United States some
time since. FE q
Senator Sumner, after going to Washing.
ton to record his vote against the Lecompton
villainy, returned to New York, where he is
staying at the Brevoot House, and spending
his time and strength in the way best calcu-
lated to effect thorough restoration OF his
health. His spine still troubles him, aching
at quick motions, or after rrotracted mental
exertion.
Mr.. Allibone, late President of the Bank
Of Pennsy lvania, and Thomas A. Newhall,
late director Of the same insti ution, have
been indicted by the Grand Jury in Phila-
delphia for conspiracy. Allibone was con-
suinate aud finished hypocrite. While en-
gagged in operations which he knew would
result in ruin to hundreds Of widows and or
phans, he kept diary, one of the entries of
which reads as follows: "Spent this day
with Christi
The ladies of St. James Church, Chicago,
opened free dining saloon for the poor
some time in January, and kept it open until
the 2Oth of March, during which time $500
loaves Of bread, 5000 lbs. of meat, and 40
bushels of vegetables were consumed, and
over thirteen thousand dinners given to the
needy; all done under the sole supervision
and by the daily labors Of the ladies them
selves.
Mr.. Daniel Comstock's home in LIE Roy,
Jefferson county, N. Y, was burned a few
nights since, and himself and four children,
the eldest ten years, persisted in the flames.
The correspondent Of the New York Times
says the fire was owing to key of ashes in
the wood house. The father and children
were in one room, on the ground floor, and
instead of opening the window and getting
OUT with them as he might have done, he ran
up stairs to ge. his box Of va!nables and left
his children to perish, and his own bones
were found after the fire lying across his box
of money where he and it had fallen.
Sheep shearing machines are now coming
into general use. The apparatus is box,
about the size, and something the shape of a
common brick 1t is fastened to the arm of
the shearer, who works the cutting part by
moving lever with his hand so as to pro-
duce rapid oscillating motion of the knives.
The knives are shielded by guards, similar
in principle to those which are used for NOW
ing machines, and although it can be made
to cut very close, it is impossible for them
to cut the skin. The machine works more
rapidly than the shears, and cuts very evenly.
The following are the terms upon which
the Florida Indians have agreed to remove
to the west: ST. 900 to chiefs, $500 to the
warriors each. and $l50for the squaws-less
than the amount offered for their capture by
the government.
Mr.. Gray, editor of the Cleveland Plain
dealer, lost his right eye, the other day, by
the explosion of percussion cap upon toy
gun in the hands Of his little boy. A piece
Of the cap passed through the eye, and was
removed with great difficulty.
Henry Todd, tried and convicted Of muir
der, was publicly hanged, at Sullivan, Ind.
on Friday, the 9th inst.
The Ladies' Mount Vernon Association
entered into contract with the proprietor
Of Mount Vernon, on the 9th instant, for the |
purchase of that sacred spot, wherein rest |
the remains of Washington.
The Boy PREAcHER.,-Th st. Louis Dem
ocrat says Rev. J. B. Fuller, Of Missouri, |
the boy preacher, has within che last five |
weeks delivered in Marion county fifty -four
sermons. lie has been licensed to preach /
only about two months, during which time |
he has delivered upwards of Atty discourses,
and it is said that two hundred and forty
persons have beeen converted through his |
1t is said that lie never
studies his sermons, or makes any notes, and /
frequently does not select his text until he /
rises mp in the pulpit to preach, and yet, it
Is said, that no two of his discourses are
alike, either in point Of argument or compo-
-ition. He speaks eloqnentlv, and uses the
most chaste and beautiful language. Calls to
preach at various points are daily pouring
n upon him. -...5- ISi
arhe rema;-s OF the female packed in
cat sad found at the. Hudson River II. r.
Depot, N. Y, have been traced back to Chi
ago, which city the cask left on the 10th of