Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-01-28
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An "Old Bachelors Convention 10 an.
nounced to be held in New Haven, in the
lat er part of February.
In the Executive departments and bureau.
of. Government at Washington, there are
now employed $1,000 persons.
Louis Napo' con is said to be an excellent
boxer, first rate equestrian, good swim
msr, aud rows well.
washington Irving. it is said, has made q
donation of $500 to the. Mount Vernon
fund.
The total distance between St. Louis and
San Francisco by the new overland route is
2,76O miles. 4.as
The people of Paraguay have improved
on the u orga costume-a shirt collar and
spurs. They wear only hat.
An en,erprising individual, who has been
very successfully trading in spurious auto
graphs of General Washington, has been ar
rested in Philadelphia.
Geo c. Thorburn, son of Grant Thorburn,
the oldest florist in the United States, is to
take charge of the grounds at Mount Vernon
and lay them off.
The Vice Regent of little Delaware ha s
raised and paid nearly twelve hundred dol
lars into the Mount Vernon Treasury in the
short space Of FIVE weeks.
1t is estimated that the fleet of whaleships
to arrive at New Bedford this year, will re-
suit in a loss to their owners Of sum va
rying little from million of dollars.
J. II. Michon, French Catholic priest,
has written q brilliant pamphlet, urging the
permanent removal of the Pope to Jerusa
lem, the cradle of the Christian religion.
The police of New Orleans have entered
into q mutual agreement not to drink in a
cofee-house nor in public bar-room during
the present year ..
Jenny Lind Goldschmidt has renewed her
lease of a residence at Wimbledon England,
for number of years, and is announced to
sing in the philharmonic concerts at LIVER
pool.
There is a little girl, three years old,
giving Shaksperian readings in New Y ork,
and a "Boy }eecher" in St. Louis, expound
ing the Gospel, who is but seven. What
next?
The old "Porter Tavern" in Cambridge,
Mass, a famous place before the Revoluti on,
and the house where the officers of .;urgoyne's
army were once quartered, was burned down
on Friday last.
The names of the two white men recently
killed and eaten by the cannibals of Maya,
were Louis Bourse and Henry Homer one
a native and the other naturalized citizen
of the United States.
Jenny Lind, Cruvelli, Artot and Frezzo-
lini, are all to sing together at a charitable
concert at the Crystal Palace in Paris. =
Seven thousand performers will take part
in this monster concert.
The Negro slave, Bob Butts, the Sexton
who buried l, l59 victims of the ye low fav"-
in Norfolk, Va, has appealed to the c,.lzens
of Philadelphia for assistance to purchase
his freedom.
During the past year the Governor of
Michigan has pardoned no less than fifty
nine cOnvicts. The Detroit Tribune states
that n fruitful source of pardons is found in
the enormously long sentences of the judges.
The Easton (Pa.) Monitor says that a
lady in that vicinity gave birth to ma e
child few days ago, the head, ears, arms,
stomach and lower extremities of which are
the exact counterpart Of those of an elc-
plant.
Five or six miserable men and women
were recently discovered in a kind of cave
which they had dug for themselves in Il va
cant lot on Twenty ninth street, New York.
They were sent to BlackwelPs Island as va
grants.
great game of draughts, e checkers
for 1880, is to be played in England, be-
tween Mr.. Martin of London, and Mck"r.
row Of Glasgow. There are many amateur
clubs for the cultivation of this game in Eng
land.
| Robert Harlan, a colored man, has pur-
chased the two celebrated Kentucky race
horses, Des Chiles and incinnati, a: high
prices, and will take them to England in the
spring to cont nd for the honors of the Brit
| lsh turf.
A man named Maloney fell dead in Nor
wich, c., on Thursday of last week. while
attempting to catch his horse, which had
started to run. His death was caused by
congestion of the lungs, brought on by in,
haling tie cold air while running.
IIarper's Weekly says: cit is possible
that Mr.. Charles Dickens, the great novel;
list, may be among us in six weeks from this
time, and that lie may read his works in all
the large cities in the North before the hot
weather sets in.''
The present Sergeant-at. Arms of tie Leg
islature of Mass, Mr.. Morrissey. is the
third who has held that Office sin e the adoi,.
ton of The state Constitution in 1880. MIR.
Jacob Kuhn was the first; he died in Office
in 1885. Benjamin Stevens has held the
office from that year to the present.
There is in New Orleans "woman's
rights lecturer, calling herse Lady Indi.
ana, who is said to be sister of the famous
Florida chief, Billy Bowlegs, and who was
stolen from the everglades when child, and
subsequently educated in Maryland. She is
said to be remarkably intelligent.
Mr.. Philip Jesseo, aged 100 years, died
in New Orleans, Russell county. Va. on the
LIST of December. a short time before his
death he was able to attend to his own
household affairs, and one day VIII lie in his
one hundredth year he cut and split one
hundred rails.
A novel and unique exhibition is on foot
by the people OF Wolcotville, Ct, who. on
Thursday evening, Jan. Goth, gave a. enter
tainment called 'sThe Old Folks Kitchen"
with the costumes, furniture, spinning wheels
in motion, and other features of the old
times of 100 years ago.
The Methodist Episcopal Church has
gained strong foothold in Indiana. 1t is
only little more than quarter Of rem
fury since Indiana was set of from the II l.
nois conference now the former has been
divided into four, with total membership
of 9O,2oa-a an increase during the year Of
i4,355.
At Boston, on the 18th inst, Jonathan
Wales, a young man. in fit of jealousy,
fatally shot Miss Susan Whiting. whose low
er he was, and then fled to the woods and