Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-06-12

News Paragraphs.
An order has been issued directing the
French imperial positions to wear earrings,
after the fashion under the ancient regime.
Nick Trautwein, one of the boy murderers
of Downic, at st. Louis, who escaped from
the officers, few days since, while on the
Alton and Terre Haute cars, has been re-
captured, and is now in Jail at st. Louis.
The New York Ledger states that at the
funeral of relative, N. P. Willis and his
sister, Fanny Fern, recently met and recog-
nized each other for the first time in seven
years. 1t was at the funeral of the wife of
Richard Storrs Willis.
Gen. William Larimer, formerly of Pitts
burgh, Pa, was killed by the explosion of
cannon, at Fort Leavenworth, few days
ago. Gen. L. was banker in Pittsburgh,
but meeting with reverse Of fortune, he
removed to Nebraska.
The CRevAssE.-1he great Bell crevasse,
above New Orleans, is said to have over
flowed forty plantations, and destroyed cane
enough to make % 900 hhds. of sugar. The
Hebert crevasse has been stopped, but not
until large amounts of property were de-
stroyed
The New Orleans Delta says a movement
is going on in that CITY for the introduction
of the custom of ladies carrying firearms
small pistols, such as are known as vest
pocket pistols, which can be slowed in the
pocket of the fair shooters dress.
Col. Titus, the chivalrous Florida soldier,
whose name has been prominently before
the public for the last three years, first as
pro-slavery fighter in Kansas, then as a fill
buster in Nicaragua, and then as saloon
keeper in Kansas City, Mo-, has sold out his
drinking establishment, lock, stock and bar
rel.
A new process of extracting teeth was re-
Gently tried in Baltimore. The patient
grasps firmly in his hand one pole from an
electro magnetic machine; the other pole is
attached to the forceps, and by this means q
current of electricity is passed through the
tooth, and produces local anethesis, and so
avoids the use of chloroform or ether.
Senator Rice, Of Minnesota, is a son OF
Luther Rice, formerly of Morrissville, Mad
ison couaty, N. Y. When the present SEN
ator was Is years old, he was an apprentice
in the Office of the Madison Observer. He
is now IS years old, and one of the wealth.
lest proprietors of land in the neigbborhood
of St. Paul.
A SINGULAR CAsE.-A young lady in Gin
cinnati, Miss Fanny Hall, has received dam
| ages Of $500 against one Vandergriff and
! other parties, for false imprisonment. She
was confined for six months in the Lunatic
Asylum, through the instrumentality of the
officers of the church to which she belonged
but was proved to be sane, and was then
discharged. The suit has been tried three
times. The first jury gave her verdict Of
$4,000. new trial was had, and the jury
failed to agree. The third time she was
again successful, and this ends the case.
A wealthy citizen of St. Louis. with q
view to encourage a love Of art among the
youth of the Mississippi valley, has Offered
premiums to the amount of three hundred
dollars to be awarded to those young ladies
and gentlemen who may produce the bes
paintings from nature in oil and water
colors, the best drawings in crayon and pen.
Gil, and the best statuette in clay, plaster o.
terra Gotta, to be exhibited at the St. Louis
Fair, 1859 The premiums to be seventy
! five dollars for the first hest of it's class ant
twenty five for the second in point of supe
rority. The CO npetitors are to be p6de
| the age of Is wears.