Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-06-10
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The comet now approaching the sun vii
be visible to the naked eye, if at all, in les
than two weeks.
\ The tickets for the dinner on the S1st ult
given by the Boston Chess Club to Mr.. Pau
Morphy, were $40 each.
A wife in Portage is the mother of clever
girls, the eldest but twelve years old. Thrc
of them arrived together, a few days ago.
The General Convention of the New
Church (Swedenborgian) is to meet in Phila
delphia on Wednesday, June sth.
Mr.. J. ". Audubon is in Boston, arrang
ing for republication his fa hers work OF
the ''Birds of America"
mmodore Vanderbilt says that, during
the time his Nicaragua line was in opera.
tion, he made 81, ,0O0, 200 per year, clear o.
cost
Paul Morphy, the great Chess champion
has been engaged by Bonner, of the New
York Ledger, to edit Chess Department in
that paper.
The Connecticut Legislature has repealed
the law of 1857, which imposed an extrs
tax upon banks and savings banks in thai
State.
John Tubbs, of Freeport ILL., accidentally
shot himself in Council Bluffs, few day.
ago. Throwing down his coat negligently
pistol in pocket of it exploded.
A law has been passed in France tina,
Protestant churches shall receive no aid
from abroad, and Protestant ministers must
not only be natives, but educated in France
The New York Historical Society is at.
tempting to raise 100000 to purchase Alb.
bott's Egyptian Museum, which they intend
to make the basis of a great national muse.
um in New York.
! The excise commissioners of New York
have the names of 5000 persons who sell
| liquors without authority of law, and 800
of them are to be placed in the hands of
the sheriff for prosecution.
Richard Ansdale, the we'll known animal
painter, Of London, proposes to visit this
country during the present season, for the
purpose of studying the buffalo of our west.
ern prairies.
COL Fremont has lately instituted sever
al new suits to drive intruders from his
Mariposa grant, and the California papers
consider his complete vindication of his
rights nearly accomplished.
A man named Darcy was killed one even
ing last week at Gilman Station, on the
Illinois Central Road, by being run over by
the cars. He was waiting the arrival of
his wife from Chicago She came on that
train to find him corpse.
Ayacht, thirty-fve feet in length, nine
feet in beam, is being built at Skaneatelas,
N. Y, for gentleman of St. Louis, that
is to be propelled by caloric engine
This will be the first introduction Of this
motive power on the Mississippi.
A Benevolent Fuel Company has been
organized in St. Louis, with capital of
$4,000. The design of the company is to
purchase fuel, when cheap, in large quaint
ties, and retail to the worthy poor in the
winter, without profit.
1t is said that Francis j. Grund, the
Doughfacc German politician, formerly of
Chicago, is now and has been for some time,
a secret agent of our Government upon the
contin mt of Europe, and receives eighteen
dollars per day for his services.
The Buffalo papers state that the banks of
that city have suffered over three thousand
dollars by taking the forged one hundred
dollar bills on the Brighton Bank. The
notes, it is alleged, are from the genuine
plate, but the signatures are forged.
1t is said the Government is seriously
prosecuting the enterprise of introducing
into the United States the culture of the tea
plant. A ship is now on her way from
Canton to New York, with 10000 plants,
selected with great care by special agent
of the Patent Office.
Miss Efie Carstang has brought an action
against MIR. Henry Shaw, rich old gentle
man living at Tower Grove, near St. Louis,
for breach of promise of marriage, claim
ing damages to the amount of 100000 for
her "blig ghted affections" The defendant
denies the promise.
Rev. John G. Baker, D. D., we'll known
Lutheran clergyman of Philadelphia, died
on Friday last, at the age of 81. His fidelity
and zeal is best attested by the fact that for
five years preceding his death, he not only
served his congregation without pay, but
actually contributed to its support.
In Pontotoc county, Mich, a man named
Holiday waylaid and shot Mr.. L. E. D.
Roberts, planter, while he was going to
church. The whole neighborhood thereupon
pursued Holiday and having captured him,
tried and hung him. This is the third case
of lynching that has occurred in the county
within two years.
The Crockett (Texas) Telegraph is in
formed that more than two thousand ne
groes have been brought to and settled in
the region of country within eight miles of
Hampstead, during the winter. This as
tonishing growth Of the productive popula-
ton is attributed to the railroad which is
in operation to that town.
Last week an elderly man was brought as
convict to the Kentucky State Penitentia-
ry, whose six sons were already IN that in
stitution as convicts. They were all con-
yicted of se-stealing. They have been
engaged in this business for thirty years.
Does crime-especially that of horse steal
ing-run Gin the family?"
A we'll known miser died recently in New
Jersey, leaving large sum of money, which
| will 20 to his two nephews. He was eighty
wears old, and died with the firm belief that,
after some years of slumber, he should re-
turn to this earth young man, when he il
to receive the money with interest. His
heirs seem quite willing to take the money
on those terms.
The Buffalo Republic states that NJ. Blon
din, of the Martinetti Troupe, is abou
crossing Niagara Falls on tight rope
The rope on which he is to cross is sixteer
hundred feet in length, and six inches il
circumference, has been purchased expressly
for this feat, and is now being inspected
This feat will take place in about two
weeks. The crossing is to be effected from
the lower end of Goat Island to point ir
Canada opposite.
Two murders are reported from Western
New York. In an alteration between twt
men, brothers in-law, on Phillips Creek, il
Allegheny county, one named Mulvany
struck the other on the head with the butt o
a gun, killing him. They were both drunk
and the murderer is in Jail. The othe
murder was committed at Charlotte, il
Chautanque county. Two young men namee
Martin Battles and Cornelius Lynch got in
L - L u l. Il h.