Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-08-12

The boiler OF steam mill, near Mill ark,
in Fulton county, Indiana, called the Ger.
mantewn Mill, exploded on Wednesday last,
killing two men and severely wounding .
third.
: A fly trap, invented by B. Atwater, of
Berlin, Conn.,, which costs only one dollar,
caught in dining.room in q hotel in Man.
chester, N. H., seventeen hundred flies in
one minute, on wager, and Of course won
2. A young woman in Cincinnati. lately,
when about to descend fight Of stairs,
stubbed her toe on cat, and fell headlong
to the bottom Of the staircase, cutting and
bruising her head, and marking her face, .
serious catastrophe to her.
The accounts from Northern Sonora say
that the Indians have become very trouble.
some there-that they shoot the men and
violate the women. 1t is utterly impossible
for an American to travel in that country
now without being mastered or robbed Of
everything.
The running Of steam engines on common
roads, though new in this country, has been
tested in England. There is an engine run
ming daily from Manchester to . colliery,
eight miles distant. The road is undulating,
and has several sharp curves, yet the en-
CINE draws Eve four-wheeled wagons, con-
tanning thirty tons weight, with ease.
Not satisfied with having . double-headed
girl down South, they have produced horn
ed boy to compete with her for notoriety.
The lad is a negro, in Kinds county, Missis-
sippi, has horns on his head three inches
long projecting over each ear, and interfer.
ing considerably with wearing hat. They
are stiff and hard but not finly, a. the horns
Of quadrupeds.
A man named Folsom and his wife were
drowned, on the 18th ult, while crossing
Lake Catharine, in Wright County, Mime
sofa. by some accident, the wife fell out of
the canoe into the water, and he jumped out
to rescue her, and they both sunk. Two of
their children were on the shore and Wit.
messed the melancholy disappearance of their
parents.
The Richmond (Va.) D;spatch furnishes
the following tariff of the prices of slaves in
that market No. men, 20 to 26 years old,
from 81 ,45O to 500; best gsarn girls, 10
to 20 years old, from s., as sel, 1875; girls
from is to II years old, 81 900 to 100
best pillow boys, II to 20 years old, 81, 1859 to
l ,425 boys from Is to II years old, 1857
to 1876 boys from ID to Is years old,
81 100 to 200. Likely families, and also
boys and girls command high prices, as
there are several gentlemen in market who
are purchasing for their own plantations IN
the South.
DR.. Edison Denny Odds, formerly Of Cir
cleville, Ohio, the youngest son Of Dr.. E. B.
Olds, was killed BY cannon ball near To.
cubaya, Mexico, on the ID Of April last.
He Joined one of the revolutionary armies
of Mexico, at Monterey, in 1858, in tho co.
pacity of surgeon. On the morning Of the
second day Of April, the army to which he
was attached marched from Tacubaya to
attack the City of Mexico, and met the Con-
army at San Cosme, where cam
nonading easued, during which DR.. Olds
was struck by cannon ball, and died in .
few minutes, and was buried ct Tacubaya
by his friends.
An iron spire is about to b erected on q
church in Pittsburg. This will be the first
Of the kind in the United States,
and it is fitting that it should be put mp in
the s'Iron City" This church (St. Philo.
IS Catholic has now brick tower
100 feet high, which 10 to b carried up 65
feet higher, and upon it will be erected .
beautiful cast iron spirs, IS fest high, exelu- |
sive of the GROSS that will crown the apex.
The style il to be the perforated Gothic Of
he middle ages. Il will cost about SIC, OO0.
There are now, it is stated, but two church
,pires in the world that are made Of iron,
Iiz: at Vienna and Frankfort PM the. Main. |
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