Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-07-22
News Paragraphs.

Joseph Charless, who lately met his dealt
by violence in st. Louis, had his life insuret
for $23, 500. - aft .ss..E .
Elegant wigs are now manufactured il
London from hemp. which is dyed, CREASED
and curled to resemble the natural hair.
A bridge over the Shenandoah, near Har
per's Ferry, Va, was lately lifted right OF
its abutments and precipitated into the river
by a tornado.
Frederick Webber was killed in q drunk
en- melee at Cottage grove, near Chicago, or
the 4th. One of the parties engaged in tn
ARRAY has been arrested.
= The bridge at the scene of the recent acci
dent on the Michigan Southern Railroad hn
been repaired, and trains run regularl,
from Chicago to Toledo.
The Railroad Rec ,rd estimates the whea
crop of Ohio at 25 100000. which il consid
ers \ fair average crop, notwithstanding tn,
destruction of 100000 bushels by fro ost
Thre-fourths Of the new Africans pur-
chased by planters in Mississippi have dice
in the process Of accl; nation, so that they
do not prove any cheaper than Virsinia-brec
negroes after all.
At the Fourth of July celebration in Nor.
wich, Conn.,, Il party of juveniles paraded
the streets with a banner on which was in.
scribed: 'Give us liberty, or give US con
fectionary."
Great destitution prevsil lis at the present
time in the townships of Bruce and Kinlow
in Upper Canada, the drought in June hav.
ing utterly burned up the vegetation. These
townships are principally settled by Scotch
emigrants.
There are So churches in the city of New
Orleans; 40 Protestant and 9 Roman Cath
olic. Of the Protestant churches, IA are
Methodist, Presbyterian, Episcopal, and
2 Baptist. DR.. Palmer's church, Presby.
terian, cost 100000.
The remarkable exemption of the city Of
New Orleans from yellow fever this year
thus far, it is believed, is due to the lens
continued overflow of the Mississippi river.
The theory that overAows are preventives ol
this disease is strongly defended in the New
Orleans Medical Reuie,o and is daily becom.
ing stronger in the public mind.
Mr.. Eugene Fuller, of New Orleans, and
for long time news and commercial report
er Of the New Orleans Press, was lost over
board from the steamer Empire City, on her
last trip from Havana. Mr. Fuller was a
brother of the celebrated Margaret Fuller,
Countess d'Ossoli. His fate strangely resem.
bles hers sea has claimed both brother
and sister.
1t is of late becoming quite fash
ionable in New York for ladies to appear
with hair cropped closely behind the from t
locks being long enough to curl. So rapidly
is the style gaining favor, that it threatens
to become general tor time. But it mu st
necessarily be short lived. Long hair is a
glory to a woman, as St. Pail observes, and
its grace cannot we'll be dispensed with by
the handsOmest face.
1t costs good round sum to bury great
man at Washington, espec. ally if the Gov
ernment has to foot the bills. The funeral
expenses of the late Postmaster General
Brown were 81, 200, and were paid on the
order of Secretary, without color of law.
Gov. Brown was rich, and there was no
necessity for this draft upon the Treasury for
his funeral expenses. But that's the way
the money goes.
The two days battle of Magenta swept
from existence and placed hors du combat
more than twice the standing army Of the
Union. The whoe regular Of the U. s..
numbered, on the first Of January, 12,943
men, of all ranks, from the general officers
to privates Making every allowance for
the losses on both sides have
been between twenty-five and thirty thous-
and.
A private letter from Miss Frederlka Bre-
mer, dated Mt. Zion, April 2Ot', states that
she did not 60 to Egypt as she inten ded in
consequence of the stringent quarantine to
which travellers to Palestine trcm that
country are subjected. She will spend a
short time in the Holy Land, whence she
will return to AtheLs aud other parts of
Greece. She expects to reach her home in
Sweden next autumn.
Mr.. William Hunt, who died recently in
New York, Was MIN of great mechanical
genius. Among his contributions to modern
invention are machine for cutting brads at
a single operation, nail machine, a fax
spinning apparatus, a Col: trivance for max
ing paper boxes from the pulp by one oper
alton, and sundry improvements in fire
arms 1t is also claimed that he was the
original inventor of the sewing machine.
The Hamilton (Canada) Banner says the
Town Council of Bradford, at late meeting,
came to the unanimous and extraordinary
conclusion, that they twill loan three. com
panies who will start three good factories
there, the sum Of 100000 for twenty one
years the said companies to pay 6 per cent
per annum interest, and 2 per cent. sinking
tund." This is splepdid opening for some
enterprising Estate" men who have no con-
sciencious scruples against using capital
borrowed at so low a rate of interest
The complete cficial vote of Virginia has
at last been published. Letcher's majo' ity
is $40. The falling off in the Democratic
vote is 6,le2, and in the Opposition vote,
I'LL. The aggregate vote is l48, ,75O; in
1856, presidential election) l50, ,483; and
in 1866, ,629. Though Virginia has
always been Democratic, her Democratic
majorities have greatly varied. In 184Y she
gave Van Buren, 1892 majority in 1874,
Polk, 5,893; in l848 Cass !, ,473; in 1851,
johnson, $3.50; in 1852, Pierce, 1921
in 1856, Wise, 1921 and in 1856, Buch
anan, s9,3o6.
The ITALIAN ClrIEs.-Milan is the first city
of Austrian Italy, an / the second only in the
entire peninsula. The eight great cities OF
Italy, whose population exceeds 100000
each, are: Naples, 4l6,475; Milan, 1879, ..
$50; Rome, 1883; Venice, l26, 1853 :
Genoa, l25, 1897, and Florence, llO,7l4.
Milan is very old city, and was under
various rulers until the treaty of Vienna ir
1916, which restored it to Austria. It i:
renowned tor its beautiful residences, its
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