Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-04-01
NGSys PARAGRAPHS.

A church for outcasts, exclusively, is
about to be built at Cincinnati.
The elections for Chief Justice and for
town officers take place in Michigan on the
4th Of april.
priated $4,000 for the suitable celebration
of the next Fourth of July.
The New York papers mention that the
funeral of Mike Walsh, aged SO years, was
attended by his son, aged 81 years.
The N. Y O. r. r. has reduced the fare
from Buffalo and Suspension Bridge to N.
Y. City, to 81.
Vermont is to have fast day on the 9Th of
April. All the New England States have
now appointed Fasts during that month.
Anoyelty in the grain trade will soon
cargo of wheat from France, for which
orders have been sent out.
The General Assembly GO. S. ofthe Pres
byterian Church Of the U. s., convenes at
indianapolis on tho 10Th of May next. A
very large attendance is anticipated.
A Chicago butcher, named Frederick
Krauch, was fined $50 and costs, recently,
for selling tainted meat, and also the flesh
of a COW that had died from disease.
Messrs. Anthony, Bingham, Grimes, Pow
ell and Bragg-fve of the eight new o. 5.
Senators, have been Governors of their re-
spective States.
The Methodists of Delaware have refused
the aid which the Legislature had granted
them, of $4,000 toward tho building Of a
church, because the money was to be raised
by lottery.
There was terrible riot at the new water
works near Baltimore, on st. Patrck's day,
between party of Corkonians and Fardown-
ers Several were killed and a number Sc
riously Injured.
The journeymen cabinet makers are hold
ing meetings at Cincinnati every night to
devise plans for a concerted strike. About
five hundred have united in the movement.
Their average wages are So per week.
Ex-Governor David Campbell, of Vir-
ginia, died in Abingdon Va, on the 10th
inst, aged 80 years. The deceased was
major in the 18th infantry, during the war
with Great Britain, and served with great
credit on the Northern frontier.
A dueling epidemic appears to be raging
in New Orleans. We have accounts Of
three hostile meetings there during the
present month, one of which resulted in the
death of French cot on broker 1t is ru-
mored that all this propensity for pistols at
ten PAGES, has orig mated about Piece lomini.
Mrs. Ann Bilansky has been examined at
st. Paul, Minnesota, on charge of having
poisoned her husband, who died very mystic
riously recently, and she has been commit
ted for trial for wilful murder. Bilansky
was Polander, and removed to Minnesota
from Illinois.
The Catholic Hierarchy in the United
States is composed of seven provinces-Bal-
timore, Cincinnati, New Orleans, New York.
Oregon, San Francisco, and st. Louis, In
the province Of Baltimore there are nine
Bishops Or Coadjutors six in New Orleans;
nine in New York; three in Oregon; two in
San Francisco, and nine in St. Louis. The
whole number of Catholic Archbishops and
Bishops IN the United States is fifty.
The colrts in many counties in Ohio are
putting liquor sellers through this spring
by fine and Imprisonment. The sentences
range from $50 to $50 fines and ten to TWEEN
ty days in Jail. In Marion county the con-
victed Were fined $50 and imprisoned ten
days, and the Republican says several cases
were compromised by the defendants paying
fine Of $50 and costs, and agreeing not to
sell again,