Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-12-16
MUsCAT1NE, IOWA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER le,
News Paragraplas.

I-.5E NeWs Paragraphs.
The steamer W. S Nelson was destro
ed by fro at Carrollton, Mo-, on the 9th in
Loss 81 900. @ pam. .' '''
A carpenter who was building Bapti
Church in Charlestown, Va. got the contra
for building the gallows of Old Brown. DG
The iron for the Rock Island and Sterliz
Railroad has been secured, and it is expeet<
that the road will be finished IN July next
VIM. Wells Brown, the colored autho
has just written new drama, entitled "Ti
Hour and the Man; or, the Hero of Harper
Ferry" .sa s-s =
| The Boston Transcript says that the ladie
have clear and unembarrassed title to Nj
Vernon. The report to the contrary is evi
IDENTIFY hoax. -s s1. sgs9s i.cssaa5 l7zss
The people of St. Louis had excellen
sleighing on Tuesday, the 9th inst. Livery
stable keepers charged So per hour for
horse and sleigh. '-s 7
The rate of taxation fixed upon in Sal
Francisco, for l859-6O is 50 10 per $lOl
of taxable property The rate in New Yorl
is only 81 79 per 800
A good telegraph operator, working ter
hours per day, on paying messages, bring.
receipt of about $75 to the treasury of ths
Company employing him. =. =
The ladies of the French Court are in oper
rebellion against the Empress. It it said
they do not at all like the dethronement ol
crinoline or short de laine dresses.
The number of steamboat arrivals at St.
Paul during the season of navigation Just
closed was S08, being 260 less than last year.
This year navigation closed IL days later
than last year.
Washington Irving leaves large fortune
to be divided amongst his nephews and
nicces. For the last eight or ten years he
has probably received from his books afon 9
an average annual income of $4,000 q
Judge Warden, of Ohio, has recovered
damages to the amount of one cent @ from
the editor of the Cincinnati Times, whom he
had sued for libel. Wonder if that is the
value of his character?
Prof. Wilson and young lady made an
ascension lately from the fair grounds at
Ala, in balloon filled with
smoke. They came down safely, quarter
cf mile from the point of departure.
James Sutherland has been fined 500 in
New York, for kissing Maria Bohman, a
married woman, against her will. James
will probably after this feel the propriety
of leaving other peoples sweetmeats alone.
The colored waiter who was accused of
Offering to sell lfe-preservers to the passen.
gers on board the steamer New W orld, when
sinking, committed suicide recently by
Jumping overheard from the Hendrick Hud-
SON.
The Pixies Peak Express of the I'd has
reached Leavenworth, with $4,000 in gold
dus; and a large mail. Severe weather had
set in and mining was generally abandoned.
Heavy snow storms had occurred on the
Plains. VIZ
The Grand Jury of Carson Valley have
presented the whole Mormon Church s'for
making and unmaking laws ad li6ituna, and
for committing murder and the highest
crimes, in defiance Of the United States
authority and in contempt of law"
The dispatch received by the steamer
Europa announcing that the Chinese had
repudiated the Ar erican treaty is ridiculed
by the Department of State at Washington,
as part of the systematic efforts of England
to underrate the triumph of our diplomacy.
The term of Gov. Wise expires on the lst
Monday in January. He has disposed Of
his estate in Accoma, and will locate him
self permanently near Richmond. Hon
John Letchcr will enter upon his duties as
Governor of Virginia, the 1st Monday in
January:
In response to the recent appeal of Father
Chiniquy, the Brick Church of New York
sent on TO the colony at st. Anne, about
49, 900 worth of clothing, and q similar
donation to the amount OF $1,000 has since
been made by ths West Spruce street Church
of Philadelphia.
The Pittsheid, (Mass.) Sun states that A..
W. Richardson & Co., wool dealers, in
North Adams, took one hundred pounds of
sand from a bale of wool they purchased
recently at low rate. Pretty good proof
that the cheapest article is not always had
for tile least money.
Richard RandoIph's will, which dedicated
all his property. amounting to $4,000, to
purchasing the freedom of the living Ran
dolph slaves in Virginia, has been sustained.
1t was his own brother who labored to break
the instrument, on the ground that the
testator was crazy.
The Anti-Slavery portion of the Disciple.
(Campbelites) he'd Convention at Indi.
annapolis, Ind., last month, in which seven
States and Kansas Territory were represent.
ed, the latter by Elder Pardee Butler, who
by the Missouri border ruf6ans. was tied te
raft and sent afoat down the river tt
perish.
Week before last there was severe fros
in some portions of Louisiana. The ther
mome'er stood at lSo and ice was frozer
an inch thick. Cane standing in the felt
was completely frozen through, and the GRO,
was considerably damaged in consequence
The prospects are that the sugar crop viii
be light this year.
In the case Of Ogier vs. the Pennsylvani.
Railroad, tried in Chester county, last week
the Jury rendered verdict in favor of Mrs
Ogier, the plaintiff, of $lO,25O The cars
it will be remembered, came in contact will
DR.. Ogier's carriage, and killed him on th
spot. Mr.. Bond, who was also injured, wa
awarded $500 damages.
A slave named Green was hanged at ST
Joseph, Mo-, on Friday, 81 inst, for havin
murdered his master. His arms being inn
perfectly fastened, he succeeded in catchin
the rope and lifting himself on the platform
The rope was then re-adjusted, his limb
we'll secured and he was launched int
eternity with scarcely struggle.
Sknting has grown to be very fashiona
BILE amusement in Massachusetts,, and, it j
said, skating clubs are being organized, o
both males and females, all over the Stat,
Wher ever pond of water can be found
club exists In New York artificial pond
are being made in he new Central Park fo
the indu gence of this invigorating sport.
The Hon. Thomas Corwin, twenty min
years ago, Dec 5th, took his seat in th
House of Representatives as member fro,
the same District now represented by hin
There is not q member Of the House wit
him who was there when he first took b
seat. In less than a generation there ha
been an entire change, with single excer
tion1
j. Mortimer Thompson, Esq. Doesticks
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