Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-02-11
News Paragraplls.

News Paragraphs.
Passengers can now 60 from Chicago to
New Orleans in sixty eight hours.
Two men skated from Dubuque to Galena,
the other day, % miles, in little less than
three and half hours.
The citizens Of Southern Minnesota are
petitioning the Federal Government to re-
move the Winnebago Indians from Blue
Earth county.
McCormick's patent for improvement in
Reaper Machines expired on the 4th inst,
and Congress has refused to extend it; the
invention therefore becomes public proper
ty.
The noted DR.. Hatch has commenced his
promised disclosures of the tendencies and
results OF Spiritualism, by series of letters
IN the New York papers. He pitches into
the systom in damaging style.
The Ohio papers say that the farmers in
various portions Of the State are busily en-
gagged at the manufacture of maple sugar.
The cold nights and warm days are very ia
vorable and large crop is anticipated.
Henry O'Reily, John j. Speed and Taft
Shaffner have memorialized Congress in ia
vor OF aid to build telegraph line to the Pa
citic; aud promise to have it .mpleted by
the LIST Of December.
Spectators are in Chicago, selling lots
at $50 each, whose pretended location is at
Fixes Peak, the new gold country, but the
real location nowhere. The lands have not
even been surveyed yet.
| A safe has been invented which locks on
the inside, and leaves no keyho'e or other
opening. clock work within opens it at
an hour regulated by being set before the
door is shut.
An Indian has been discovered in Califor
MIA, five feet and half high, and weighing
only sixteen pounds, being a mere skeleton,
but in good health and lively. This is sup
posed to be the veritable s'Lo, the poor In
dian !'
Since the inebriate asylum in New York
was projected, there have been 1900 appli-
cations from respectable and wealthy citi-
Zens Of that State alone for the admission
of their inebriate friends and of these 400
were for women!
A "prize waltz" took place at Brewer,
Maine, recently, and the prizes Ga cameo pin
and ear drops) were won by Mr.. Charles J.
Collamore and Miss Marshall, of Bangor,
who waltzed for two hours without resting.
Beat that who can.
On the 9th ult., the boiler in Grains
Grist and Saw Mill, some two miles from
Portsmouth, Ohio, exploded, killing five per-
sons-two of them young men who were at
the mill on business The boiler was carried
some thirty three rods from the mill by the
explosion.
Henry Jumpertz, the German barber, who
has been on trial in Chicago for several
days past, for the murder of his mistress,
has been found guilty Of murder in the first
degree. 1t will be recollected that he killed
her and then packed her body in barrel
and sc mt it to New York.
A drove of 5000 geese for the New York
market were put on the cars at Winchester,
Ohio, last week. The calculation of the
owner was that the feathers would pay for
his outlay in raising them and getting them
to market, and the rest of the proceeds
would be clear profit.
Michigan proposes to build new Capitol
for herself at Lansing. 1t is proposed to be
fre-proof, modern Doric in style, 265 feet
on its northern front, and 200 on its south
ern; estimated cost 100000; material
brick, faced with Grand Rapids marble,
provided the latter shall prove durable
enough.
Last week the 'sresurrectionsts' at the &C.
lectic Medical College, Cincinnati, were
caught in the act of stealing the charred
body of a young girl who was burnt in a
house of i'll fame few days previous. The
penalty for removing body from grave in
Ohio, Is fine of not more than 81 900, and
Imprisonment for a term of not more than 8
months.
The distress which prevails in some Of
the townships of the county of Bruce, Can
ada, is represented as most appalling. There
are hundreds Of families verging on starva-
ton many of the best and thriftiest fami-
lies are destitute of the wherewithal to
carry them through till another harvest
the crops of the past year having almost
proved a total failure
Owing to the open weather, oysters are
remark ably abundant and cheap at Phila.
delphia. The North american says the
''tinest extra coves-big, fat fellows, about
the size and shape of Dutch baby's foot
are selling at $40 a thousand. Cove plant.
are bringing but 1918, about half the price
customary during the present month, while
cuttings are selling at $l.75 per thousand
A Mr.. Morris, of Pittsburgh, Pa, has sue
ceeded in inventing process by which sheet
iron can be manufactured equal to the best
, specimens of Russia sheet iron. 1t has the
peculiarities of polish, enamel and tough.
ness of the imported article. He has receiv
ed letters patent and is engaged in it's man.
} ufacture He has taken out patents fol
England, France and Belgium for its manu-
facture in those countries.
DR.. Livingstone, who writes from Zambe.
81, Africa, Sept. 18th, speaks Of that river
as navigable for small draught steamers tol
ten months in the year, if not constantly
} He also mentions fact of great importance
to the future of African commerce, thai
there is Can immense coal feld' at Tete, or
the Zambesi, where many of the seams CROP
out, and remarks that with coal and the
best iron. ore in abundance, surely Africa
will not always be the down-trodden ma.
ton it has been.'
The town treasurer of the town of Erin
in Washington county, Wis, who had just
collected the town taxes and locked them up
in his house, absented himself one evening
last week, informing his wife that he would
not be back that night. During the same
night, the same man attempted to enter his
own house through window, with the
intention, no doubt, of stealing the tax
money, and was shot by peddler who was
stopping at the house over night, he suppos-
ing him to be burglar. The deceased had
blackened himself, and his identity was not
established till some time afterwards.
The colored population of New York City
is estimated at 10000. Of 1,849 adults,
IA are porters, 204 walters, 100 white
washers, 80 coachmen and hostlers, 4S bar
bers, 81 cooks, 1872 laborers, 124 seamen,
Is washers, farmers, l broker, 3 printers,
physician, Z teachers, Is clergymen. and
l ventriloquist There are 9 organized re-
ligious Societies Methodist, Q Episcopal,
l Presbyterian and Congregational. There
is Colored Home for the aged and in6rm,