Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-01-30
News Paragraphs.

Of New York during the last year. B
, one execution took place.
The new decimal currency went into o.
Grafton, in Canada, on the lst. A NOV
ment has been on foot to establish syste
Of d, ci,nal weights also. -
IMMIGRATIoN FOR 1857.-During the pa
year 1S4.773 Immigrants arrived at the POI
of New York. OF these, ~, log were frol
Ireland, and 7S,75S from Germany.
Z. Merriam, Of Brooklyn Heights, is nc
"a wee bit daft, (" as has been intimated.-
He gives good evidence of sanity by calm
fata accidents from camphene, "camphen
murders" His list of these murders in tn
United States in 1857, foots up the appallin
number OF so. Besides these horrible death
rs ersons were severely injured, Of whom
6 are not expected to recover. The loss 0
property in the same time by camphene ant
fluid explosions was over $l20,000. On tn
whole, taking all the risks into account
these combustibles are not very cheap illu
fisinatfrs. sa
BURNED TO DEATn.- The house of haror
Scribner, at Shin Pond, about eleven. miles
from Patten, Me-, was burned on the lou
inst, and two sons Of Mr.. S., aged clever
and thirteen years, perished in the flames
Some Of the Chinese in California have
silver watches so large that they use the
outside to fry potatoes in.
Gov. Wise has created sensation again
by taking ground fol Douglas, second only
to that caused by his position OH the oyster
question.
Smith, who killed Garter in Philadelphia,
on account of criminal intercourse with his
wife, was acquitted by the jury, with the
apl roval of the public.
The ssfat woman who was shown through
the country by Col. Wood, has married g
man in St. Louis named Rogers
While sBuck and Bright" work well to-
gether, not so with "Buck and Breck," the
latter of whom, it is stated, is an off OK,
''ieanng towards Mr.. Douglas position.'
A few days since the Chicago Press esti-
mated the p' pnlation of that city at l30,-
O00. The Tribune says this is a blow, +"
and places the figures at from l05, 900 to
ll2,OOO.
Ipis said that the wife of Douglas takes n
deep interest in his battle with the admins
traiion. WHAT lady would not, seeing that
the President persists in being an old bach
elor?
Tke traffic i'll Circassian girls ins Turkey is
said, to he very brisk, and they sell dog
cheap. In former times, good middling"
CrcaSsian girl was thought very cheap at
$500, bat at the present time the same de-
scription of goods may be had for $25.
Portsmouth, Ohio, is in danger of being
washed away by the Ohio river. Several
acres have been carried off, several blocks OF
buildings have been undermined, and the
channel is encroaching upon the city at the
'ate of a foot per day.
Two hundred and sixty-eight coroner's
inquests were held at St. Louis during the
year 1856. OF these, twenty-six were the
ed, seventy of the bodies were not recog-
nized. The suicides were twenty-eight.
The trial of John Beattie at Cincinnati
for the manslaughter of Francis Mcclure,
resulted in a verdict Of acquittal. Mr.. McC.,
it will be remembered, fell down the steps
of Mr.. B. 5 store and was killed, which led
to the charge that he had been thrown
down by Mr.. Beattie.
A "wild man of the woods is living near
Palmyra, N. Y. His house is a cave bur-
rowed in the earth, and entered from sort
Of hut above, SO low that he can only get
in by assuming STOPPING posture. The
man msnifests all the eccentricities of re-
cluse. He gives no explanation with regard
to himself, except that he came from Buffa-
10.
There are in Baltimore twenty establish
ments engaged in the preparation of oysters
for the Southern and Western markets, who
keep employed 600 shuckers, besides l5O
men for preparing the packages for trans
portation. During the winter season these
prepare ard ship about $4,000 bushels per
day, one establishment alone shipping 1000
bushels.
The longest railroad in the world is The
Grand Trunk of Canada, $50 miles.
Official accounts from Naples leave nc
doubt that several thousand persons perish
ed during the late earthquake, and some ac'
counts go as high as 10000.
A daughter of Allen Travis, residing east
of Decatur, Ill.,, fell into a kettle of boiling
lard on the 9Th inst. and in this herrid
manner came to her death.
John Black, convicted Of murder, was
executed in uobersham county, Ca, on Fri.
day week. Several thousand persons as
sembled to witness the execution, among
whom were upwards IF one thousand wo
men.
SALrpErRE WILL EXPLODE. E.-This assertion
has often been questioned; but, by advice:
from South America, we perceive that las
month the British bark Elizabeth, of Liver.
pool, loaded with saltpetre, &c, blew up a
Inquique, having taken fire from an attemp
to smoke the rats The loss was $3.50, 600.
DEEPEST WELL IN TIE WoELD.-1he Lou
isville (Ky.) Courier says that the srtesiar
we'll of the Messrs. Dupnnt, of that city
has now reached the depth of 1000 feet
1t adds '.This is the deepest well known tt
US in the world. The next in depth is tue
well at Grenelle, near Paris, which is l,60(
feet. Loui vile has, therefore, the deepes
well in the world, and the tallest steeple il
the United Stat 8, the cross on the st. Loui
Cathedral being 2S6 feet high, while th'
summit of trinity, New York, is only 264
| feet"
performed at Lockport, N. Y, being The
removal of a stick one and half inches II
| length from the outer corner of the left eye
of a boy, which had got into his eye, while
at play, on the 10th oil September.
| A Spanish gentleman named stepher
Despratt recently died in London, of aetna
starvation although his effects are va luet
at $l5O,0OO. His avarice Was carried t.
sucl, frightful extent that he became ex
hausted from a want of life's necessaries
and died in that state.
| ssIN THE HOUSE OF HIS FRIENDS. ."-Th
Missouri Republican, whilom the Chief or
gan and champion of Judge Douglas, pub
fishes without comment o letter from Carlin
vile, from which we copy the followin
paragraph: