Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-06-03

of the Emperor.
All the saltpetre in the New York market
has been withdrawn to anticipate gunpow-
der necessity.
1t is stated the London reprint of Web
ster's Dictionary, as edited by DR.. Good
rich, has reached the fifteenth edition.
1t is reported from Washington that the
Administration is said to have in contem-
plation the sending of relief to the Pixies
Peak sufferers.
A. T. Stewart, the dry goods king of New
York, has bought Powers Greek slave, to
be placed in his establishment. He will
probably have skeleton skirt upon it.
The cost of inserting an advertisement
one column long in n single number of the
N. Y. Weekly Tribune is 1850, or one dollar
line.
All the preachers of the NJ. f. Church
(North) except two, have been driven out of
Texas by the pious Democratic slave holders
of that State.
1t is reported that Mrs. Southworth, the
novelist, who is soon to sail for Europe to
spend the summer, is convert to Catholic
ism. She has been Unitarian.
Bayard Taylor and his wife sojourned at
and purchased farm, near that city, for
some German friends of his.
A Convention of wool growers and man
ufacturers is called to assemble at q eveland,
Ohio, on the 4th day of August. The pro-
priety of establishing 4 Market Fair is to be
considered.
The Grand Jury of Alachua county,
Florida, have presented Gov. Perry Of that
State, as "a nuisance.' Their Indignation
was aroused by his course on q rail road
question.
Mr.. John G. Grannis, United States Com
missile ner at Cleveland, Ohio, has resigned
his Office, in consequence of the recent fusi-
tive slave rendition troubles he declines to
serve in such cases.
William Allen, Philadelphia Alderman,
has been convicted of conspiracy to de-
fraud Jacob Karstetc, and has entered upon
nine months sentence in the county prison.
| The law is no respecter of persons.
Gen. G.. J. Pillow, whose son was lost BY
the explosion of the St. Nicholas, in his
search has recovered % bodies from the Mis-
sissippi river, between Sterling and Helena,
but that of his son was not among thcm.
The Order of the Sons of Malta having
recently become so popular, the ladies have
taken the matter in hand, and have org an
i1ed Lodge of the Daughters of Malta, at
BKssfeld, Mich, and are holding mysterious
meetings two Or three times week.
The expense of the Napier ball, at Will
lard's Hotel, Washington, last February,
was $l2,345. 1t was the most expensive
Joke of it is that it amt paid for yet, the
,bao how IN hou FOIL oI 70
up to the scratch"
Mr.. Rarey, the American horse tanner,
continues to astonish Europe. The London
Illustrated News says that this renowned
parsonage has made arrangements with the
Horse Guards to teach the British cavalry,
and will enter upon bis duties in June. At
last accounts MIR. Rarey was successfully
exhibiting at St. Petersburg.
The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher has re-
Gently purchased twenty seven acres of
land in Westminster county. They form
part of the estate formerly known as the
Trowbridge Farm, situated about a mile
from Peekskill, on the road leading from
the lakes Mohegan and Mahopac. The
price was $4,000.
The Spiritualists of Sturgis, Mich, and
vicinity, are about to open brick church,
costing over $4,000, for service in that
place. 1t is built in Gothic style, and will
seat 600 persons. Andrew Jackson Davis
and other notables are expected to be
present at the opening on the 18th, 18th and
10Th of June.
Fashionable religion is an expensive lux
ury in New York. Sixty-four pews in the
Broadway Tabernacle were rented Mt auction
Wednesday evening, for S., 400 per annum.
The premium paid for choice of pews was
1850. The highest price paid for rent of q
pew was 1925, and the lowest figure was
$2O-rented probably by some publican or
sinner.
1t is said that the old Duke Malakoff
would have been Governor of Paris during
the absence of Napoleon to Italy, but the
Empress objected. She dislikes the rough
old veteran because he spits right and lett
like western brother Jonathan, and he is
ever knocking the shins of his interl ocutors
with heavy bamboo cane, his constant
companion.
In Augusta, Ca, recently, man was in
toxicated, and told his wife he intended to
kill himself. She seconded the proposition
and aided him in getting a rope over o
beam in the house, and getting it around
his neck. She then knocked the chair from
under him, and he fell breaking his neck
She Immediately ran away.
Mr.. Wise, the aeronaut, has completed his
arrangements for an aerial voyage from St.
Louis to the Atlantic seaboard. His bal
loon, the "Nineteenth Century," is &c feet
in diameter, and contains 5000 feet of gas.
Mr.. Wise undertakes this journey chiefly as
an experiment with which to satisfy himself
of the practicability of his scheme of cross
ing the Atlantic in a balloon.
The United Synod of the Presbyterian
Cnurch-Dr Ross and his associates-is
now in session at Lynchburg, Va. In addi-
ton to the renewed efforts in hehalf of the
College at Marysville, Team, it is proposed
to establish Theological Seminary near
! the University of Virginia, for which pur-
pose 2l,3lO were subscribed during the
session of the Synod.
A new German paper, entitled, Cots
Teund: der Pfqtsn Fsind Goods friend,
the Pope's enemy has been started in St.
Louis, published by L. G. Bessel which has
undertaken to publish in successive numbers
sketches of all the Popes who ever occupied
| the Pontifcal throne. 1t pursues a novel
way of ridiculing Popery, which is its sole
Object.
/ The inventor of lucifer matches, Mr.. John
Walker, Chemist, died at Stockton, Eng
rland, early in May, at the age of 70 years.
Mr.. Walker made the discovery Of the use of
sslucifers" several years ago while expert
menting with various chemical substances,
and for considerable time he realized a
handsome income from the sale of his
matches in boxes at Is. Cd. each.
A foreign exchange says :-sFor nearly
! two months the Rev. G. G. Finney, of Ober-
lin, Ohio, has been preaching at the Bor-
Dug Road Chapel, during which time he
has delivered six sermons every week. The
attendance has been we'll sustained through
out, and on Sunday evenings the chapel has
been crowded. Mrs. Finney has also con-
Quoted series of meetings for women in
the afternoons, which have been productive
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