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

Miss A. G Rice, respectable young la
dy, committed suicide in Cincinnati, re
Gently, because her beau deserted her.
Broadway, N. Y, is sprinkled every da,
with brine, to secure foothold for horses
The Russ pavement is as smooth as glass
The new Hall of the U. S. Senate allow.
seats for a hundred Senators. We have nov
but "a Senators.
Mexico had seven Presidents in the month
Of January! That is what may be called
rotation in Office" and no mistake.
The fare from Dubuque to St. Louis, Wis
the Illinois Genital Railroad, has been re-
duced from Slo,4o to $3.50.
The Indiana papers report the wheat cror
in that State in good condition and promis-
ing we'll.
A barrel containing the partially dissect-
ed bodies of a man and woman, was discov-
cred floating in the river near Louisville,
Ky, recently.
There are thirty more convicts in the
Ohio Penitentiary at Columbus than there
are cells. The hospital is used as sleeping
places for this excess.
Washington correspondents corroborate
the statement Of the New Orleans True
Delta, to the effect that Senator Slidell is
soon to succeed Gen. Cass.
On the 18th inst, Rebecca Hayden, with
four Of her children, attempted to drive q
buggy across Salt river, in Rails county,
Mo-, when the buggy upset, drowning her
and her four children.
Mr.. Timothy Sweeney, the oldest man in
Pennsylvania, his age being 122 years, died
recently in Fairview township, Butler coun-
ty, Pa lie emigrated from Ireland in 1887, !,
being then a hundred years old.
Dan Rice, the celebrated clown and show
man, announces that he is aboutto retire from
the arduous profession in which he has at
tained so much celebrity and accumulated a
handsome competency.
Late London papers give detailed accounts
Of late religious riot in India. Nowhere
is the Hindoo population more fanatical
than where Christians abound, and perpet-
ual strife is the consequence.
Harry Meigs, who swindled the citizens
of San Francisco out Of half a million of
dollars in 1855, is said to be the most sue
cesstul American fnancier in Chill. He
lives in Santiago, and is reported worth
$2,00O,0O0.
The billiard match for $4,000 between
Mr.. Phelan and Mr.. Secreitor of Detroit is
to be played in the Fireman's Hall in De-
troit. The room is so feet long by 62 feet
wide. The price Of admission to spectators
is fixed at five dollars.
A young man named Sparks called at the
house Of Miss Polly Tucker, New Castle,
Va, on the 18th inst. Being denied admis-
sion he put his head through the window,
she took an axe and struck him
on the head, killing him. She is under ar
rest.
Bonner knows thing or two and here is
BIZ eisSt ahd sreets New York
city, he has placed men, who don't bulge an
inch from morning till night, and keep re-
peating over and over these four words:
ssThe Ledger is outv'
The President Of the New York Central
Railroad has issued a circular to the Cen
eral Ticket Agents Of the Western Roads,
informing them Of a reduction of 81 in the
fare between Buffalo and New York-from
SO to So. The New York and Erie Road
had made like reduction previously.
Wemay have another cable demonstration
next fall. With an English company to
the enterprise, a subsidy OF $4,000
600 from Government and the benefit Of an
experience worth infinitely more, such an
event would seem to be among the probable
Of the future.
Mr.. G.. A. Worden, young man who
has been advertising to sell out a clerkship
in Chicago, as he designed to 60 to Pixies
Peak, and who requested those who wished
to communicate with him to enclose 81
through the Post Office, has been arrested
and held to bail in the sum Of $500, as a
swindler.
Latest advices from the frontier say that
the Platte river is rushing down in flood
full nine miles wide. Hundreds of early
bound for the gold mines, were
on its bank, wal ting opportunity
to cross. Fort Kearney is surrounded by
water, and the Missouri, under the influence
of the food, is higher than ever before
known thus early in the season.
Erricson's caloric engines for steamships
failed to furnish sufficient power for prac-
tical purposes, but his small motors seem
to be Just the thing. Many are being used
with approval in New York, and one IN Gin
cinnati drives Hoe lightning double cylin-
der press at the rate Of 5000 impressions an
hour, at cost for fuel Of only one cent and
a half per hour.
At Elkton, Pa, on the 10Th, the freight
engine Meteor, on the Baltimore Railroad,
exp oded, killing the engineer, MIR. Hall,
native of Littleton, Mass, and the fireman.
Four or five cars were slightly damaged
On the same day at Watertown, N. T.,
freight train on the Rome Railroad ran off
the track near Pierrepont Manor, demolish-
ing the engine and several cars, and killing
25 cattle. No person was seriously injured.
A movement has begun in st. Louis, to
establish there, upon a basis of private
contribution and membership, a Western
Academy of Art, embracing sculptors,
painters, engravers, architects, amateurs
and citizens, to be divided into academi-
clans, life-members and honorary associates.
The object will be the cultivation and ex-
tension of art, and the promotion Of sympa-
thy among the artists. A school Of desig
is also to be established.
Near Taganrog, on the Sea Of Azof, a ca
tastrophe occurred, about the beginning OF
February last, which involved a loss Of life
unparalleled except by memorable earth
quakes or volcanic eruptions. 1t appears
that some 5000 inhabitants Of Taganrog,
reIving upon the promise of fair weather
made by the genial atmosphere and the
coudless sky, proceeded to the Sea of Azof
to indulge in the sport of fishing beneath
the ice-a fayorite pastime of that region.
Suddenly breeze sprang up from the East,
which, growing boisterous by degrees, whirl-
ed the loose snow and fine particles OF ice
in all directions, and before long succeeded
in detachiug the ice from the shore. The
large ice-feld then broke into numerous
pieces, which, with their terrified and help
| less human freight, drifted towards the
open sea. AT least 5000 persons were thus
consigned to watery grave.
A noise was heard in an Albany grave