Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-04-17
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eonS. AAey are phgSeu ny tne OuSnel.
The number of deaths in the city Of New
York last week was 446. OF those ten were
produced by violent causes.
A young lady in Portsmouth, engaged in
gathering dress, a few evenings ago, took
five hundred and thirty eight stitches in three
minutes.
A number of New York wholesale houses,
who, during the pressure, opened retail
rooms, found the operation SO profitable that
they propose to continue the retail branch.
There are said to be in the New York
Banks unclaimed deposits to between two
and three million of dollars. Attempts are
being made by the Legislature to get hold
of these funds for the benefit of the State
The ST Paul Minnesotian publishes a list
of eighty-four Of the lakes of Minnesota,
which vary in size from one to thirty miles
In length There are many more lakes in
the Territory, but these were omitted from
the list because they have no names.
The grasshoppers are Matching out in
Texas in millions from the eggs deposited
by the swarm which fell there last November.
Up as far west as the Nueces, they cover the
pralries. So far they have confined their
attacks entirely to herbs in the prairie, not
troubling the grass or crops.
An awful murder was committed in the
city of st. Louis, on the 5th inst. Two
men, William Rufersberg and Edward Koch,
got into q quarrel on board the steamer
Crescent City, laying at the foot of Elm
street, when Rafersberg stabbed Koch in the
right breast, causing almost instant DEATH
The parties were both Germans. The mur-
derer has been arrested
"A firm in New York calling themselves
the West India Coffee Company have been
swindling merchants in various parts of the
country in an extensive manner Parties
who have enclosed to them $22, so, the sum
required to pay for samples, have been una
be to get either the samples or their money.
One Of the partners has been arrested the
others, finding that the climate in New Y ork
was unhealthy, have left for parts unknown
An unknown man fell from the wheel
house of the steamer City of Memphis, at st
Louis, on the 9Th inst. and was drowned.
On Saturday, at the same city, the watchman
and one of the firemen of the steamer Falls
City fell together over the guards and were
drowned. They were both intoxicated.
An Italian in Chicago, who is worth up
wards of $4,000, who owns FIVE houses on
Milwaukee Avenue, has seven or eight girls
in his employ. begging and stealing. They
have dismal tale of want to recite, and
illustrate it with tears, -.. L. Is. -@
Mrs. Swisshelm, we believe the only fe-
male Editor in the union, has been publish
ing paper for. some months past in ST.
Cloud, Minnesota Territory. 1t appears that
q ha ,,ado Lind of oh ~
izen of that place, named Shepley, who
night of the Oath ult., attacked, and destroy
ed her printing Office. The citizens of the
place held two meetings-one of which con-
demhed the outrage and resolved to sustain
the paper. The Other justified the act, and
sustained Mr.. Shepley. The whole affair is
certainly disgracetui to the town.
The Oldest married couple alive are sup
posed TO be Mr.. Snyder, and his wife, who
reside at Burnside, Pennsylvania. Heis Ill,
and she is l07 years old, and they have been
nlarri ed about 90 years. s s@
~ Our readers will recolect the murder of
a wife and o children, in December last,
in Westfield, Mass, By a man named Staub.
Great efforts Were made to apprehend the
murderer, and the police were on his trail
a great many times but did not find him.
A few days since his body was discovered in
the river by a fisherman. 1t is probable that
hs was sinsane-murdered his wife and chill
dren and then drowned himself.
Of the seven absentees in the United
States Senate two are dangerously i'll; one
has not been in Washington since his cleo
ton, and another has been three months ab
sent from sickness. MIR. Henderson of Tex
as, is far gone with consHmption. Mr.. Da-
Wis, of Mississippi is in danger of losing his
eyesight. Mr.. Bates, of Delaware, has not
been heard of this winter. Mr.. Reid, of
North Carolina, left for home at out the first
of January, and was unable to get further
than Richmond. MIR. Sumner has never
fully recovered from the injuries received
in the assault upon him.
It is stated that in one of the villages of
the town of oimsbury, CT, there is not an
adult to be found who has not been converted.
Prof. Hudson, of Oberlin (Os College,
was killed, either getting on or off the cars
at Olmstead station, on the q. G & G. R.
R., in Ohio, on Wednesday Of last week.
B 1t is stated that Louis Napoleon has exiled
thirty two thousand men. Of these, some
thirty thousand have been pardoned. The
recent arrests are said to have been made
almost entirely from among the pardoned.
The prisons Of Paris are crowded with po-
elitical offenders. p
! On Friday, the I'd inst, diabolical
attempt was made to murder Pryer B. Lee,
engineer Of the Cincinnati Type Foundry.
An Internal machine was placed under the
work bench in his room, and in eseaning up
the rubbish. he picked itup and laid it npon
the bench, when it exploded, mutilating Mr.
Lee in a shocking manner. His left hand
was literally torn to shreds, his body between
his thighs and waist was badly burned, be-
sides being punctured with severe wounds,
both eyes burned and the flesh about them
much lacerated, and one Of bis ears was
shockingly mangled. Mr.. Lee is in criti-
cal condition. No clue has yet been had as
to the murderous villain who committed the
hellish deed
WIT AND HUMOK.
Two TURTLE Doves AT THE THEATRE. =