Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-07-23
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Loefner, Cincinnati murderer. who is
confined in the tenitentiary for life, is at
tempting to commit suicide by starving him
self to death. He has eaten nothing for a
week.
The richest man in England is the Mar
quis of Westminster. His wealth is esti-
mated at twenty one million pounds ster-
ling, or one hundred and five millions of
dollars, and his annual income at seven
hundred thousand dollars.
The Queen of England, we see it stated,
is not permitted to frank q letter, and must
pay her penny, like any of her subjects; but
our members OF Congress vote to retain their
Thanking privileges, while other people pay
their own postage.
HEAVY PURCHASE BY FREE NEGRo.-At
lberville, La, at public sale recently, a
free man of color became the purchaser Of a
sugar plantation in that Parish, at the price
OF 24O, 1000 dollars, making him the owner
altogether Of $500 acres Of land and 200
negroes.
Gov Ujbazy, the Hungarian patriot and
exile, has returned from Europe, whittier he
has been to visit the members of his family
AS the Austrian q vernment would not al.
low him to enter hungary, his relatives were
obliged to meet him in Belgium. The in
tervlew took place in Client. His daugh-
ter, Madame Madrasz, accompanied him
back to America.
A horrible tragedy occurred in Columbia
co N. g., on the 10th ult. a man named
Joshua Rouse, who had be n confned In the
insane asylum for eighteen months, but who
was lately taken out by his guardian and
permitted to 60 at large, deliberately killed
his father, his wife. and two Of his own
small children, cutting off their heads with
an axe.
Pennsylvania does not own single mile
of canal or railroad. a little over thirty
years ago she commenced system OF. inter
wards of forty millions of dollars, as the
result of her experience in making canals
and railroads. ...s
AN. OLD MIssIoNARY.--Rev. DR.. Meigs
arrived in this country on the 23d ult., from
Ceylon. DIR. NJ. has spent AZ years as a mis-
81 onary in India.
The manufacture of horseshoes by ma.
chinery is becoming very large trade, and
the demand for machine made shoes is grad
ually increasing; they are cheaper and more
regular in form than those produced by hand.
W. W. Lewis. of Cincinnati, Ohio, has in
vented a machine, which being fed with bar
iron cuts off the proper length, grooves and
punches the nail holes in it with great ra-
pidity, turning out perfect shoe.
The Missouri Republican finds fault with
the Turner's of Cincinnati for having for
mally resolved that it is the duty of that
organization to vote with the Republicans.
Albert Myers, at Columbus. Ohio, July
9th, convicted of the murder of Reville in
the Penitentiary, was sentenced to be hung
on the Sd day of September next.
A two-story passenger car has been in
vented at Philadelphia. The upper story is
reached by small winding stair case from
below. 1t is not accessible to passengers
in crinoline, and is intended for the use of
smokers.
The wife of a countryman in the Moscow
district, Russia, has given birth to SO child
rem at 81 confnemcnts- four times four at
one birth, seven times three, and sixteen
times twins.
The Turkish Admiral sailed from Boston
on the 18th, in the Arabia. lie will inspect
the ships building in England, and then pro-
coed home, where his services are required
in connection with the trouble in Monte
negro.
James Fitton, of Skaneateles, N Y, has
absconded and gone to Europe. with $4O,-
900 belonging to the firm of which he was a
member, and with Mrs. Anderson, a Cali
fornia widow. He left his own wife and
family at Providence, r. I. One of his
partners, with a detective officer, will follow
him to Europe on the next steamer.
Vesuvius has ceased to be in eruption at
least, only a thin stream Of lava flows from
it, and the volcano has resumed its ordinary
ap pearance.
At Bertrand, Wisconsin, several days ago,
Joseph Furler was murdered by his step-sOn,
a lad about fourteen years old.