Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-07-15
News Paragraphs.


We export ginseng to China. The Chinese
chew it as we do tobacco.
The Rev. Nathaniel Childs, formerly tried
on the charge of robbing the Bank of Mis-
souri, of 1926, 900, has been arrested for
forgery at St. Louis.
On the 4th, when on a pleasure trip to
Waukegan, Rufus H. Bacon, one of the
editors of the Chicago Times, fell over
board from the steamer Salvor and was
drowned.
The number of dogs put to death in the
New York city pond, the present season, is
1900, besides 1873 puppies. The amount
paid by the city for this canine slaughter is
1904, 80.
gang of burglars has recently been bro
ken up in New York, and it has been dis
covered that several of their heaviest rob-
berries have been executed through the help
of servent girls whose lovers the robbers
pretended to be.
An anvil block was lately cast in England,
which, when finished, will weigh twenty one
and half tons. The quantity Of metal melt
ed for it was twenty.three tons, and it was
cast in one run. 1t is to be used in tie
making of Sir VIM. Armstrong; gun.
Recent accounts from Central America
covered near Huatuleco. They cover four
miles, and embrace stone Notifications and
bastions, extending to the sea. Curious and
rich antiquities wore found, including vases
and silverings.
They are now trying the experiment of
running boats on the Ohio Canal by steam
power, and the impression is that it will
work we'll, and make a saving of 25 per cent
in the expenses for the motive power, be
sides making nearly double the usual speed,
with one-t third more than the usual freight.
The Presided has decided to retain Post.
master Cook of Chicago, Notwithstanding
the many charges Of corruption against him.
The President says they have all been sat"
isfactorily refuted, and intimates that any
further efforts for his removal will fail, no
matter how we'll they are authenticated.
A Lodge of the Sons of Malta has been
organized in Quincy. This is probably the
most numerous if not also the most popular
benevolent organization in the country. 1t
numbers five thousand members in New
Orleans, three thousand in Chicago, twenty
five hundred in st. Louis, and is equally
strong in other large cities.
There are IS breweries in st. Louis, and
vicinity, which during tho past year, turned
out liz 900 barrels Lager, and "a 900 bar
rels common beer, the total value of which
was 81, 400. In addition to this, $4,000
barrels were imported daring the year from
Milwaukee, Bellville and Pittsburg, all of
which were needed for home consumption
The Detroit Free Press has made the
discovery that there are now no voters in
Michigan. This happens from blunder
of the Legislature in drafting the Registry
bill passed at its last session. The law
provides that no person shall be allowed to
vote unless his name shall be duly registered,
but makes no provision for registering until
October next. As the law was to take effect
Immediately upon it's passage, it follows
that all voters are disfranchised until Octo-
Der.
The chief motive that prompted the Nor.
mons to commit the Mountain Meadow mas
sacre seems to have been to plumber the
company. Atrocities too horrible to be
related, and which seemed to shock the
savages themselves, are related by persons
who claim to have been compelled to join
in the massacre. The number of persons in
the train was one hundred and forty. The
property confiscated was worth from $50, 900
to $50, 900, counting 700 cattle horses and
mules, some very fine stock, and upwards
of forty wagons and carriages.
~I tell you, Susan, that will commit
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