Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-03-25
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Up to March 9th there had been one hum
dred and six days of constant sleighing in
Southern New Hampshire.
Strong minded women in Rochester and
vicinity have commenced cutting their hair
short like men. What pity it is that they
cannot raise mustaches!
General William T. Haskell, the we'll
known Tennessee orator and politician, died
at the Hopkinsonville, Kentucky, Insane
Asylum, on Sunday week.
Maple sugar is selling in Michigan at six
to eli ght cents per pound. This is the most
favorable season for the manufacture of
sugar known for many years.
Four men, who are to be hanged at Bal
timore on the 18th inst. have sent in Pc
tition to the Sheriff asking that they may
not be compelled to wear shrouds on that
occasion.
A little son of Mrs. Oyler, of Cumberland
county, Pa, was lately lost in the woods,
and was found dead after two days, his
faithful little dog still nesting in his
bosom.
Cadwallader Wallace and the woman from
Columbus, who instigated him to shoot the
young man at Chillicothe, have been in
dicted for murder by the Grand Jury Of
Ross county, Ohio.
In indianapolis, Indiana, few days
since, little girl took dose Of laudanum,
which nearly killed her. She gave as a
reason that she wished to 60 to Heaven, to
her little brother.
Our fashionables are informed that the
exquisites of Cincinnati have pretty gener
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shoe string tied in a bow knot, with the
ends dangling on the shirt bosom.
The statement which has been gong the
rounds that Dahlgreen gun will throw a
shot six miles is nonsense. Three, four
and five thousand yards, or not over three
and a-quarter miles, is the extreme range of
those guns.
Fayette McMullen, who was sent out as
Governor of Washington Territory. to con-
sole him for the loss Of a denomination to
Congress- in Virginia, has come back, after
getting his salary, &c., and is going to try
for Congress again.
MIR. G. B. Smith, of Baltimore, Md, pre-
diets the appearance Of locusts the present
Spring in Virginia, Maryland, North Caro-
lima, Tennessee, Georgia and Mississippi
1ucy UCAoHS w Vuo VAApS VI ehsAeSSAA esAAN
seventeen year locusts.
The New York Neaos, speaking of crime
in that city, says: "Within one week we
have had but five murders, three rapes, eight
suicides, forty.two burglaries, one hundred
and twenty-one ordinary robberies, and not
more than FIVE hundred assaults and bat
teries.o
A German recently arrived in St. Louis,
on the way to Pixies Peak, having travelled
thus far from his house in Pennsy lvania on
foot. In reply to some inquiries about his
undertaking a pedestrian journey of such
length, he said he had not much money, and
s'didn't tink it wash so fur"
The report of the committee who have
been examining the affairs Of Breslin, the
defaulting Treasurer of Ohio, occupies some
seventy columns of the Statesman, and
shows that Breslin has with him in Canada
some 100000 or else has concealed that
amount somewhere unknown to the commit
tee.
The Governor of Missouri has commuted
the sentence of death against Trautwein and
Leite, of St. Louis, for the murder of Hugh
Downey, to Imprisonment for life. Our
readers will remember that this was the
case in which three barber boys garrotted
and robbed an Illinois drover while sitting
in chair to be shaved.
A young man named William G. Carroll
accidentally shot his mother in New York,
on Friday of last week, wounding her SO
severely that it is thought she cannot recov
er. He was preparing pistol to shoot
some rats, and, while putting on percus-
sion cap, the pistol was accidentally dis
charged. The ball entered his m others back
near the right shoulder blade, and passed
out through the right breast. She is sixty
one years of age.
A young man by the name of Busch shot a
man by the name of Magic, some months
ago, in the streets of Chicago. 1t was an
open, shameless murder, and without fair
pretext of justification. The murderer was
tried last week and acquitted, and the Jury
accepted the invitation extended to them by
the father of the criminal, and spent the
night in a drunken carousal on wine and
beer at old Busch's house.
There are 1919 dram shops in New York,
or one for every eighty of the population, !!
young and old. Ofthe whole number, just
seventy two pay the decent respect to law to
procure license to sell Intoxicating drinks,
less than one in one hundred. 1t is officially
stated that 3,l86 of these drinking saloons
pursue their traffic on Sunday; and at a
low estimate, the sum of $l,34S $50 is ex-