Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-06-05
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Gov. Wise, of Virginia, is confined to the
house by sickness.
Senator Houston is quite sick at Wash
ington, and his recovery is considered doubt
full.
Commodore Thomas A. P. Catesby Jones,
of the U. s. Navy, died at Georgetown on
Sunday night, aged SO years.
Hon. VIM. A. Duer, formerly President
Of Columbia College, died in New York, on
Sunday.
Arson G. Phelps, the philanthropic mer-
chant of New York, who died recently, be-
queathed upwards Of 100000 to various
benevolent institutions.
Mrs. Vi1ette, of La Sale, Mich, died last
week, aged 1l2 years!
Gov. Willard, of Indiana, is so i'll that but
faint hopes Of his recovery are entertained.
As far as we can learn from our exchanges,
the late extraordinary weather has extended
over the entire Union.
Daniel Gayel has been oonde nned to pay
$4,000 at Frederick, Maryland, for defam
ing the chastity of Mrs. Stewart, the wife of
clergyman. An unruly tongue is some
times very expensive institution, as numer-
Gus individuals have found to their costs.
A few days ago vote was taken in the
Wisconsin Legislature on bill to remove
the capital from Madison to Milwaukee. and
was lost in tho House by the casting vote Of
the Speaker.
1t is now said that there is no foundation
for the rumor that Mr.. fancy thinks of re-
signing the Chief Justiceship. His health
iS cd To ha nh = s..
years past.
The "Pure Milk Company" of New York
has opened books of subscription, and it is
anticipated that all their stock will be taken
almost at once, so that the great reform of
substituting genuine milk for the abomna-
BILE swill fluid will soon be inaugurated.
Mr. John Hecker, of New York, the grea
steam baker, announces that hereafter he
will furnish any desirable quantity of excel.
lent bread at two and half cents pound
He has arrangements for making up ESQ bar
rels OF flour per day, which will make 81 )
500 pounds of bread.
The vote in Oregon against slavery hal
not disappointed expectation. In six coun.
ties the vote was for slavery, 252; against it.
1921 in Monroe county, not included il
the above count, there is 300 majority agains,
slavery.
JENNY LIND AN EFFECTIVE PRRAoIER.-A
recent convert in Boston stated that some
years since he heard Jenny Lind sing 81
know that my Redeemer liveth, since which
time he had never been able to Danish the
words from his mind.
Richmond, Virginia, boasts of the largest
| Touring mill in the world. 1t is ninety-sz
feet front, one hundred and sixty-fve fee
deep, one hundred and twenty-one feet high
in front, divided into twelve stories. Each
floor contains about II, $50 superficial feet.
Including the two floors in the roof, the TO-
tai would be 155, 900 square feet-or rather
more than three and a half acres. Alto
gether, the available space within the walls
is about 200, 900 square feet.
Jacob Carroll, of Texas, is the largest far
mer in the Uaited States. He owns ESQ.,.
600 acres of land. His home plantation
contains about 5000 acres. Col. Carroll hal
on his immense ranges of pasture land'
about 100 horses and mules, worth $50, 900
1000 head of cattle, worth $1,000; 600 hogs
worth $4,000; 300 Spanish mares, wortl
SIS, 900; 80 jennies, worth $4,000; 15jacks,
worth $4,000: and i've stations, worth
$4,000. His annual income from the sale Of
stock amounts to $4,000, and from the sale
| of cotton 500, 900.