Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-03-25
News Paragraphs.

News Paragraphs.
The Queens theatre in London is abou
to be transformed into large hotel on tn
American plan.
Up to March 9th there had been one hun
dred and six days Of constant sleighins il
Southern New Hampshire.
Charles Sampson, Of the publishing hous
of Phillips, Sampson & Co., Boston, died a
his residence in that city on the 4th inst.
Strawberries, asparagus and radishes
from the south, are already in the New Yorl
markets, selling at exorbitant prices.
1t is said that Mr.. Dickens is at worl
writing a book, not to be published, but tl
be read in public by the author.
Lieut.. Governor Walker of Ohio declines
reelection, and Governor Chase is also ex
pected to retire at the close of the presen
| year.
Meiggs, the San Francisco defau!ter, it is
alleged, is in Santiago, Chill, doing a flint
lumber business, and worth two millions o1
dollars. o
Hon. John Bell, whose term as U. S. Sen
ator from Tennessee closed on the 4th inst.
had been a Member of Congress twenty-sis
years.
The chief of band of gipsies, encamped
near Indianapolis, offers the hand of his
daughter, with a dover of $4,000, to any
respectable man who will marry her.
The Rev Henry Ward Beecher's people
have purchased $52, 900 lot on Hicks street
in Brooklyn, and will proceed forthwith
to put up large church edifce.
Paul Morphy is still in Paris, playing very
little. Letters have recently been received
from him, in which he announces positively
his intention to return to New York some
time in April.
Smith O'Brien never stakes anything."-
He politely refused to drink their cider in
New York, stating that he had not swallow
ed anything Of an intoxicating nature for
twenty-five years.
Judge of the Court Of Common Pleas
at Logansport, Ind, a few days since took
umbrage at something said by a learned
counsel, whereupon he came down from
the bench and thrashed the lawyer.
There are seven hundred convicts now in
the Ohio Penitentiary. The cells are full,
and some fifty find lodgings in the yard,
and it is expected that the spring terms Of
the courts will increase the number to a
thousand or so.
A strange freak of nature is exhibited in
Huntsville, Ala. The curiosity is a double
girl She has two heads, two tongues, four
arms and four legs, but one trunk and
stomach. The junction takes place at the
waist.
Memphis, Tenn, is an unfortunate place
for printing Offices. by the recent fire, five
establishments were cleaned out. One of
them the Gazette, has been fired four times,
within the past year, and another, the aAoa-
zanche, has been fired eight times in few
months.
A man by the name of Twitchell died at
Bloomfield, Ohio, few days since, who
weighed $50 pounds He wore, when liv-
ing, vest, six feet and ten inches in circum-
ference, and there was cloth enough in his
oyercoat to make four overcoats for Ordi-
narymen.
In Jackson county, Illinois, the peach
trees are in full blossom. The reported
killing of the peach crop does not extend
that far south, the buds being all as
thoroughly alive as peach buds generally
get to be. At Memphis the peach trees
have been in blossom for a week Or two.
The dead body of drunken Scotehman
was found, few days since, on the side of
hill in Clinton county, New York, ia the
immediate vicinity Of rattlesnake den. A
great deal of flesh had been picked from his
bones, and from the trail IN ade to the den it
seemed evident that the s'sarpents' had
killed and eaten him.
The New York Tribune saws that. during
the fourteen months commencing on the lst
of January, 1858, forty-two murders We're
committed in that city, and that twenty. eight
of this number were directly the occasion of
intoxicating liquor, some Of them being
perpetrated in trivial quarrels about the
liquor the murderers had drank.
Matthew Martel, living about three miles
from Rockford, Illinois, left home, recently,
to be absent on business three days, when
his wife eloped with hired man named
VIM. Jones. The guilty parties took with
them $40, and all the furniture in the house,
and also two children-one six years and
the other less than one year old. They
started for Boston, but were arrested in
Chicago.
The New York sporting papers announce
that the Benicia Boy (Mr. John Heenan)
has forwarded to England challenge to
the champion of that country, Mr.. Tom
sayers. If Tom is whipped in any of the
fights for which he is matched, then Heenan
challenges the man who whips him. Hee-
nan effers to bet anything from $4,000 to
$5, 1000, and to pay his own expenses to
England. The boy will probably find his
match.