Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-01-09
News Paragraphs.

Joseph L9fner, the Cincinnati murderer,
las been tried and sentenced to be hung on
he Both of April next. lie murdered Hor-
ION and his wife in July last M I
Mrs. Cunnin CHAM and daughters, instead
IF being in Paris, as stated in some OF the
papers, are still i'll the city of N. Y, living !.
in very retired manner, and are said to be
quite reduced.
The largest electrical machine in this
country has just been completed by Edward
+. Richie, Of Is )st on, for the university OF
Mississippi. 1t has two glass circulars, each
six feet m diameter, and tile electrical phc
nolnenon produced BY it are extremely splen-
did.
There is a man in New York, sensible on
other subjects, who has monoluana on the |
subject OF lightning and wears lightning
rod attached to his back, the prongs Of which
rest against his hat, and the ground end
trails behind like tail. He has never been
struck, but is very striking figure.
A HINT FOR CINCINNATI humanitarian
butcher. in Punch proposes the use of chic
reform in the business of killing pigs. AS
it has been introduced into hospitals, he
thinks the same motives should cause its
adoption il butchers shops.
Stringfellow, OF Kansas notoriety, is at
Washington. lie denounces the Lecompton
Constitution as an imposition. 1t is too
gross an outrage even for him.
Star fish are said to be making sad havoc
among the oysters on tie great and loag
beds, near Providence, r. |.
Dr.. S. A. Spencer, of New Haven, c.,
makes coffee from dandslion that is said to
be good Tor dyspeptics.
There are now over one hundred female
practitioners, regularly educated physicians,
in the United States
The business upon the Lakes during the
past season has been disastrous TO own
ers. Hardly vessel has paid running ex-
pezses.
After the first of the present month, all
marriages of residents of Maine, solemnized
out of the State, with the intent to evade
the punishment law, will he void if the par
ties return to Maine and reside.
Martin, the late secret agent of the Adj
ininistration, who was in Kansas during the
sitting of the Lecompton Convention, and
is charged by many as having been at the
bottom Of much of the fraudulent move
ments of that body, has been appointed
Secretary pro tenn. to General Denver.
A bill to punish professional gamblers by
whipping has passed the South Carolina
Legislature. 1t provides that, in addition
to the punishment already provided for BY
law, the guilty party shall receive not to ex-
coed thirty nine lasles.
Miss Matilda Heron, the actress, was
married on Sunday evening to Robert Stoe-
pei. late conductor of the orchestra at Wal
lacks theatre. Mrs. Stoepel will start for
Paris in short time.
On Christmas eve, Nicholas Longworth,
of Cincinnati, celebrated his golden wedding,
being the fiftieth anniversary of his mar
riage. He went from New Jersey to Gin
cinnati fifty-four years ago. On the same
evening, niece ol his was married. Mr..
Lengworth is extensively known as the
manufacturer of the Catawba, which bears
his name.
The Pitts6eld (Mass.) Sun has been con-
Quoted for fifty years by its present
editor, the Hon. Phineas Allen. The Sun
was first issued in 1900.
The trial of James G. Eldridge, for the
murder of Sarah Jane Gould, has termina-
ted at Pottsdam, N. Y, and he has been
sentenced to be hung on Thursday, Februa-
ry IL, 1858.
No FREEDOM FOR FREE LOVERS The Free
Love establishment at Ludlow, Mass, which
lad been in existence for year or two, has
been broken up, and Edward Alvord, chief
of the family, sent to the House of Correc-
ton, as vagrant. Some of the parties had
previously been tarred and feathered but
they stuck to the place all the more.
By the last foreign arrival, we learn that
further attempts have been made to launch
the Leciathaa., but without success, and
the work has been postponed sine die. We
presume John Bull is waiting for some Yam
kee to go over and take the contract to push
the vessel into the water, as he, after ex-
pending la million of dollars in vain eff
forts to launch the ship, has given up in
despair and adjourned sine de- Let some
Yankee go over and float her,
The Illinois State Auditor gives notice
that he is ready to redeem the outstanding
circulation # the Pople's Bank of .'armi
and the Rushvile Bank, which suspended
some time since. The securities of the for
mer are sufficient to redeem its issues at 81
cents aud the latter dollar for dollar. Pref
ty go"G for the stock secured system!
most singular and mysterious affair has
TRANSFERRED near Mddlet"wn, Conn An
lrishman. named Nugent wa arrested on
suspicion of having murdered young m an
named Sage. A hole was found in the ice
on the river, and afterwards body found
said to be that of Sage. A sailor nam d
Benson swore positively that Nugent muir
dered Sage-that he saw him do it, and that
Nugent after the murder compelled him
(Benson) to assist in conceaing the body
Nugent was confined in prison, and under
such positive testimony, with the accompa-
nying circumstances, his conviction and ex-
ecution were certain. But, in the mean
time, it was found out that young Sage had
only run away from home, aud was discov-
cred teaching school in the interior Of Penn
sylvania. One Of his uncles went for lim
and brought him home, and Nugent was, of
course, discharged from JAIL. The saio
Benson described the appear ance of young
Sage so correctly, and testified go positively
as to the murder, that nothing but the actu-
al re-appearance oil Sage saved Nugent from
the gallows.
There is in Sweden Ladies' Bible Socie-
ty, which presents copy of the Bible to
every newly married couple.
Several horses have died in Maysville,
KY, recently, from the effects of eating corr
rendered unsound by the early frosts and
wet weather.
| PATHETIC INCIDENT. Slavin, who was
hung recently at st. Johns, N. B., for the
murder of the Mckenzie family, confessed
that, after the elder members of that fa1ui-
ly had been butchered, little girl about
three years old, innocently held up her de II
and offered it to him if he would not kill
| her The little innocent,s offer was raf,,sad
and the inhuman monster murdered her!
Ek1 There are some sad sights in