Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-06-10
News Paragraphs.

News Paragraphs.
The President and Secretary of the Inte-
rior have gone to North Carolina on visit.
The crops Of Kansas are reported as high
ly promising. a4
The Platte Vally Bank, at Nebraska City,
has been robbed Of $780, 1000.
The Telegraph Gable has been laid under
the Red Sea from Alden to Suez.
Count Teleki, Kossuth's former Ambassa-
dor to Paris, has left Italy as volunteer in
the Allied Army.
Abraham Norris, of Newburyport, Mass,
has been sentenced to five years in the State
Prison, for biting off a woman's nose.
The s'Little Pig Monthly" is the name of
new juvenile magazine just started in New
York. "Root, little pig, or die"
The Jackson Monument, in New Orleans,
has risen to the height of 70 feet, and 70
feet more are required to complete it.
The loss by the great fire at Key West, on
the 10th, will reach $3.50, 900, while the in
surance does not exceed 1000.
A strong movement is making in New
York to secure the enforcement of the law
against the Sunday liquor traffic.
William G. Halsey, an artist of fine abili-
ties, died in New York, on Tuesday night,
from the effect of intemperance.
President Buchanan has selected the Pres
btterian Church property as site for the
Custom House in Baltimore.
Mr.. Vorren, rector of the French Episco-
pal Church, New York, was shot at two
times by an insane Frenchman, named Ma.
poleon de La Place.
The western slope of the Blue Ridge in
Virginia, is now covered with millions of
!qcusts. They appeared first near the sum
mits and are moving westerly.
The total amount of expenses incurred by
the various removals of the Canadian seat
of government since l849, is about ST.
49O,535.
Some $4,000 are lying under protest in
Illinois, because the banks refuse to redeem
their bills with anything but small silver
coins.
A New York correspondent of the Phila-
delphia Pres says Gen. Scott has wagered
five hundred bottles Of champagne that Louis
Napoleon will never return to Paris.
A procession of old folks is proposed at
Clinton, Oneida county, N. Y, on the 4th
of July. None are to appear in the ranks
who are under 70.
The Milwaukee News says that since
Sickles shot Key, no less than thirty four
men have been shot, or shot at, by injured
husbands, and the number is daily increas.
ing.
At the late term of the Circuit Court of
Lawrence county, Mississippi, edward
Langsford was indicted for selling a hoop
skirt to negro, without permission, and
fined one hundred dollars and cost of suit.
Dispatches to the Secretary Of the Nayy
render it certain that slavers bound to sew
eral Southern States are now on the coast
of Africa. Their cargoes are expected to
arrive this Fall in Mississippi and Texas.
Horace Greeley was received with great
enthusiasm in Kansas. At Lawrence he was
welcomed by hundreds Of men, each of whom
had copy of the Tribune neatly folded
and fastened on his hat like plume.
A trial Of Moving Machines, for a purse
of Fl 900, is to take place near Chambers
burgh, Pa, on the 9Th inst. The competing
machines are Pennock's Iron Harvester, and
Manny's Combined Reaper and Mower.
The Jews of Tuscany have rendered to the
Provincial Government an expression of
their grateful sense If the seasonable act
which makes all religious sects equal before
the law.
A wagon got stuck in the mud in central
Missouri one night last week, and the owner
and negro boy got inside to sleep. Du-
ring the night a rain came on, and they
were foated away, and the negro drowned.
Auguste Belmont, late Austrian consul
of New York, has contributed 5000 to the
Italian fund, and accompanied the gift with
letter expressive of the greatest sympathy
for the oppressed liberals.
Louis Napoleon's decree, ordering the
erection Of statue If Humboldt In Paris,
is charged by European politicians as a
diplomatic stroke, intended to have its in.
t1uence in conciliating Prussia.
Frederick Rusch, prominent citizen and
produce dealer of Indianapolis, Ind, lately
IN ade a visit to his old home and frie nds in
Prussia, and while there was snapp cd up
for service in the Prussian army
Horace Greeley left Leavenworth for the
Pixies Peak region on Tuesday He thinks
Pixies Peak is not entirely humbug, but
that thousands have, nevertheless, been
badly humbugged.
The Warren Independent says that Mr..
Simmons, Esq, of Rush, has a we'll of
water on his farm in which the water rises
about foot whenever the south wind
blows, and falls again when the wind
ceases.
Theophilus Fiske, lifelong advocate
OF the rights and interests of the laboring
classes, has issued the prospectus of larg
week y paper, to be published in Philadel-
phia, ut 81 year, and devoted to the cause
Of the toiling million.
Paul Morphy has accepted the invitation
of the Chess Club of Cincinnati to pass that
way and accept their hospitaites Prepa-
rations are also being made in Louisville TO
receive him with distinguished consider
alton.
The Buffalo Courier states that the Rev.
A. G. Laurie, we'll known Unversalst
clergyman, formerly of that place, but more
recently Of Charlestown, Mass, is now
hopelessly insane and an inmate of the
Asylum near the latter city.
Dr. J. II. Robinson, of Worcester, Mass,
one of the most successful and popular
writers of American romance, has been en-
gagged by the New York Mercury foS term
Of five years. 1t is said that he is to receive
for his services $4,000 per annum.
A man in East Machias, Me-, lost cow
in singular manner. A neighbor set u
trap for bear, and baited it with salt her.
ring. The COW probably attempted to lick
off the salt, when the trap caught her by the
nose and killed her.
The Memphis appeal learns that six mills
north Of that city, the locusts are appear
ing in swarms, eating up everything in the
gardens; the chickens are so fond OF them
that many have been killed by overgorging
with them
A happy couple have just returned to Fal.
mouth, Mass, from their wedding trip,
which was whaling voyage that lasted FIVE
years. During the absence, the wife gave
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