Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-06-10
THE NEWS.

counts of serious injury to the corn from
frost on the night Of the 4th. Fruit, also,
Is said to have been killed in many local..
ties. A telegram from Farther Point,
Canada East, says there was a slight fall of
snow in that vicinity on the 9th.
"A New Orleans dispatch of tho 4th
says: 1.-THE steamer Plata, from Red river,
was destroyed by fire this afternoon, near
Carrolton. Loss estimated at $4,000.
The passengers were all saved, but it lis re-
ported that two of the hands were lost. The
bark Charm, from New York for New Or.
leans, with cargo Of lime, is on fire at
Pass Lontz."
At North Carmel, Maine, on the Sd, a
thunderstorm occurred, during which the
house Of Mr.. L. S. Goss was struck by
lightning, and child Of 8 years killed The
house Of Mr.. VIM. Sutherland, of Clifton,
was also struck and almost torn to pieces.
The family seven in number, were assembled
in the kitchen when the lightning carried the
cook stove through into the cellar from the
midst Of the circle. No person was seri.
ousy injured.
! The advices from Pernambuco represent
that there has been terrible storm on the
coast Of Brazil. The whole coast, from Batia
southwark, is covered with wrecks, and the
loss Of life was terrible. A Brazilian frig to
went down with over 600 on board, only 40
of whom were saved. The yellow fever is
reported worse than ever at Rio Janeiro.-.
People are dying by thousands. The devast-
alton among the shipping was unparalleled.
One English brig had lost five captains, and
the sixth was sick and not expected to re-
cover.
From New York dispatch of June 4th
VIC extract the following: s'Two murders
were committed in this city last night
Henry Rourke, an Irish laborer, kicked his
wife to death. Early in the evening Patrick
Dowdy. notorious rowdy, was stabbed to
the heart at a ealor boarding house in
water street, by rowdy companion.--
Andrew Ketchun was killed by lightning at
Bethpage, Long Island. The boiler of To-
connective attached to a freight train on the
Erie Railroad bursted near Port Jervis.-
The engineer and fireman wero blown into
the air and received mortal injuries. A
woman, named Margaret Cove, was fatally
stabbed last night with an ice pick, at a
dance house on Water street, by compan
ion named E. White. Margaret will die"
The overland mail arrived at St. Louis
on the 9Th. Eight white men, prospecting
for silver near Houri Lakes, were killed by
the Iltians. The house of Col. Steven son,
at Red Bluff was burned on the 1l,h ult.
Mrs. Stevenson, another woman, and FIVE
children persisted in The flames. The d7i-
zonidn Ut the 18th ult. is filled with accounts
of the proceedings OF band of Regulators
who had driven all Mexicans from Sonora
Valley aad committed seve oil murders.
The Americans at Tubao publicly denounc-
ed the outrages, and company of troops
had been detailed from Fort Buchanan to
suppress further proceedings. The Utah
mail brings proclamation from Gov. Cum.
mlnss commanding the immediate disper
sion of various parties of Mormons associa
ted together in a military capacity in the
NOM aims around Salt Lake Valley. The
Valley Ne,cs complains that this proclama
ton was not put in the hands of Federal
officers to execute, instead OF the Territorial
Marshal, and asserts that treason is rife in
the Territory, just as much now as before
the advent of the army.
A dispatch from Charleston. s. c., an
nounces the failure of Frazer, Trenholm &
Co., who were largely engaged in the cotton
and sugar trade.
EARLY Sunday morning, 9th, fire
broke out in the business part OF the town OF
Eaton, Ohio, de>tr"ying thirteen business
houses. Loss $50, 900.
Joseph Charless, who was shot at St.
Louis, died on the 9TH. The excitement was
subsiding. Judge Glover was petitoned to
call special session of the Criminal Court,
in order to bring the prisoner to 81 sedy
| trial.
Paul Morphy was beaten on the 9th, at
Mr.. Kna; per's chess. rooms, Broadway, New
York, by Mr. Thompson. Mr.. Morphy, as
usual, gave the odds Of queens knight, and
after contest of two hours gave up the
game his opponent having the knight al
lowed for o dds.
"A Richmond, Virginia, dispatch of the
4th says that the Secretary of the Common
wealth has official returns from one hun
dred and seven counties, which give Letcher
a majority Of 4,695. There are a. counties
to hear from. The counties officially reported
include most of The opposition strongholds.
1t is now believed that the Democratic
majority will be six Thousand or more.
WIN. Elsa, who has been the acting agent
of Lumley, musical director of London, who
is understood to have had pecuniary interest
in the profits of Madame Piccolomini's visit
to this country. was arrested on the 9TH, for
hotel bill of 81 300, which had been scored
against the divine Piccolomini at the Everett
House, New York. Fish was sent to Jail as
nonresident debtor. His counsel will move
his discharge.
"A New York dispatch of the 9th contains
the following list of murders and mysteries
"a German named J. G. Myers murdered
his wife yesterday morning, by beating her
with smoothing iron and stabbing her
with pair of shears. Myers has served
one term in the States prison for being
concerned in the death Of man ten years
ago.-No clue has yet been obtained to the
box filled with dead bodies found in the
sound. The theory suge ested. thai the hoaies