Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-06-17
News l1;lraSr;lpllS.

Stephen A. Douglas has returned to Chi
cago from his Southern tour.
1t is estimated that there are five thousand
clerks in st. Louis seeking and waiting fol
employment.
A gentleman in Waterloo, N. Y, owns q
canary that MARBLES "Hail Columbia" with.
out missing a note. Talented bird that,
The N. Y. Tribune says that John Morris
sey, the pugilist, lost $4,000 on the recent
trot between Ethan Allen and Flora Temple
A box containing lot of wooden-soed
shoes, which are supposed to date back to
the time of VIM. Penn, was recently exhum.
ed in Philadelphia.
Allopathic doctors in Hartford, Conn.,.
recently expelled from the County Society
DR.. l. S. Curtis, because he held a consult
alton with u Hom@pathist.
The property destroyed by fire during the
month of May in the United States amounted
in the aggregate to over one million SIX
hundred thousand dollars.
Adelaide Cortesi, new prima donna, has
been brought out in New York, under the
direction of Max Maretzek. She sang in the
opera of ''SaHo" and met with great success.
The Secretary Of the Treasury has decided,
on appeal, that engravings, colored in whole
or part, are on that account subject to a duty
of Is per cent, and linen shlrt-bosoms the
same amount.
While plowing in field the other day,
Mr.. William Ostender, of Wiltbeck, N. T.,
struck buried box, on opening which he
found in it the skeleton of human body.
Foul play is. suspected.
1t has just been discovered that law in
relation to school districts, which has been
on the Massachusetts, statute. book for ten
years, was never really passed, owing to a
mistake in its engrossment.
Piccolomini sailed for Europe in the
steamship Vanderbilt, on Saturday (4th),
after as popular and successful a career as
any singer, except Jenny Lind, has ever en-
joyed in this country.
The sum promised by Bonner to Charles
Dickens for Ledger story is said does not
exceed $4,000. Mr.. Thackeray refused as
much from the London Illustrated Nevs for
a no greater mental effort.
The wife of Livingstone, the missionary
explorer, has given birth to daughter at
Kurnman, near the Cape Of Good Hope, SO
that distinguished gentleman has now a
native African in his family.
The Detroit Tribune is informed that a
citizen of that place, formerly engineer for
the D. l. NJ. +. r., has fallen heir to a tract
of the Military Reservation Lands in llli-
nois, worth from $500, 1000 to $5OO,0oO.
1t is a somewhat singular fact that the
number of emigrants from the Eastern States
to California is, by actual count, great er
than it was during the height of the gold
fever. At this rate, the Pacific coast will
soon be populated.
Ransom Tomlinson, the late proprietor of
the Humphrey House, at Seymour, Conn.,,
who is over SO years of age and has a wife
and family, has eloped with the wife of
David Retts, the Postmaster at Seymour,
who is &c, and has daughter of Is years.
The St. Paul Times of the 3lst ult says
The bridge spanning the "Father of Waters''
at this point is nearly completed. 1t is as
firm as a rock, and is a work that reflects
the highest merit upon its builders and will
prove of inestimable benefit to St. Paul.
Mayor Tiemann has been riding all about
the city of New York, seeing its filth with
his own official eyes. No Mayor was ever
known to do it before; and such an act of
cred as emitting him to an unobstructed re-
election.
Col. Fuller, of New York, learned, while
on visit to the Bank Of England, that "not
single piece of American paper which laid
over during the late panic now remains I'm :
paid. This says Mr.. Elsey, the Governor,
'cannot be said Of any other nation on the
earth y"
New Jersey ranks the fifth State in the
Union in point of manufacturing industry.
There are 4,207 establishments, employing
22,209, ,25S Of capital, and 29,O9S male aud
s, 1862 female operatives the cost of whose
labor is $S, 1854 GAO and the value of articles
manufactured $39, 1851, ,256 per annum.
A fashionably dressed pickpocket in New
York omnibus recently relieved lady OF
her purse. In the operation, diamond ring
valued at $500 slipped from his finger and
remained in the lady's pocket, where it was
found by her. She shed no tears over the
transaction.
A fight occurred at Magistrates Office
in Lafayette, Ind. In the course of the ex-
citement, constable, in his efforts to part
couple of belligerent lawyers, was severely
bitten in the hand. The Journal says "Ue
Immediately took the precaution to have the
wound cautcrized."
John Underwood, of Virginia, who was
fined $3.50 for speaking against slavery, was
supported by some of his neighbors in the
late election as a candidate for the Legisla-
ture, and in the town of Occoque received
sc votes against 81 for the Democratic can
didates His fine has been RENTED by the
Circuit Court, On appeal.
William Smith O'Brien, in his parting
speech to his countrymen at New York, gave
them some excellent advice-among other
things, that they should not seek Office, aud
that in voting for candidates, they should
always prefer the most honest and honorable
man, whether American or Irish. This ad-
vice is as good for native as for foreign
born citizen.
Heenan, the Benicia Boy, intends passing
the summer months at Avon Springs, where
he will occupy himself with doing the fash
ionable, and training for his great fight with
Tom Savers. 1t is said the s'literary LADY,
to whom he was recently married, warmly
approves of the proposed contest, and proud.
ly anticipates the championship of England
for her gallant young husband.
The San Francisco Herald vouches for the
following: A young man by the name Of
Tisdale, from Toronto, Canada, returned to
this city on Wednesday, after an absence
of about six months, and deposited in the
banking house of Davidson & Co., gold dust
to the amount of $4,000, which he OBJ
tained in the vicinity Of Marysville. 1t ap.
pears that he purchased small claim at
'sPinch- em.tight diggings," struck rich
sspocket," and by diligent labor, in the
short space Of half year, accumulated an
independent fortune. He leaves by the next
steamer for home.
FRox TIE GOLD REaIoNs.-Dr. Swift o1
the U. S. Army, who has been stationed al
the Cheyenne Pass, arrived at Fort Leaven'
worth ON the 9th. The DR.. is in no way
interested in the gold speculations, but be
longs to the Army. He gives fair candid
and impartial opinion of the mines. Ht