Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-12-02
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Judge Douglas is reported to be rapid,
convalescing. 20" u ,9a'asa., Si''
i They have dramatised the Harper's Ferr,
affair, and are playing it at Worcester, Mass
i The potate-digger, invented by j. E
Hardenburg, of Fultonville, N. Y, perform
the labor Of twenty men. .y;a r9c, NJ
There are now nineteen steam fire engines
in Philadelphia. Cincinnati, where they
were first introduced, has but six. ,aqrn,
91Morphy. blindfold, beat four of the bes
chess players in Philadelphia last week
one at the 24th, another at the 25th, a thirl
at the goth, and fourth at the 33d move.
At a late sale of old United States coins
in Philadelphia, the following prices were
obtained: 1894 dollar, $ll; 1898 chair
cent, $5.25; 1881 half cent, $1l.50; 1791
Washington cent, $6.75. 10 ''3'"" '.
The prospects Of continuance Of peace
IN Europe grow more gloomy every day
Italy is in q state of feyerish excitement
which the proposed settlement of the Great
Powers is not calculated to allay. -.,
The appropriation for carrying forward
the artesian well at Columbus, O., has been
exhausted, and the work stopped unfinished.
The well is already 2,S40 feet deep, being
feet deeper than any we'll of the kind here.
tofore existing in the world. 49, s.1.....era
The tunnel on the Covington and Ohio R.
H., in Virginia, is 4,7OO feet long, and 700
feet below the surface of the earth-3OO feet
longer than the Blue Ridge tunnel. 1t is ~
feet wide, to accommodate a double track,
and in hight % feet. y.55sr.oJ Lg,
A young lady in Aurora, Ind, lately got
up in her sleep and ran half mile to a
school house and back again to bed. When
told of her exploit she said that she dream
ed two men came to kill her aunt, and she
flew to the school-house for aid. e,,W II g.a
Copper ore received from Chill, Cuba.
Venezuela, Mexico, and various parts of the
United States, is smelted at a new conner
smelling establishment recently started at
Bergen Point, N j. There are only three
other establishments Of the kind in the
United States. -" TO-
The latest news from California gives won
derful accounts of the new gold discoveries
near Carson Valley. All the hill, in sight
Of Eagle Valley hive been ''prospected,"
and immense sums had been offered by spec
ulators for some of the claims Companies
of miners were actively at work, and the re-
ports grew better. The discoveries contin-
ued to create the greatest excitement.
Cortinas has been under Indictment in
Brownsville, for murder, for the last eight
years, and at the last term of the Court
several indictments We're found against him
for horse stealing. Much had been said
about arresting him, and hence his anxiety
to put the civil authority oxt of existence.
Since his attack of the 29th of September,
he has had the audacity to propose that, as
a consideration for his retiring, the aulhori-
ties should pledge themselves to dismiss all
indictments against him, and that in future
no prosecution should be instituted against
him or his men.
The Coolie ship Shah Jehan, on her voy-
age from Calcutta to Mauritius, was burned
on the 9th of June, in lat. 12o S., long.
75o E. The fire broke out between the
decks, and although every thing possible
was done by the officers Of the ship, it was
found necessary to abandon her on the 29th.
The boats were got out and provisioned and
filled with the crew, and the coolies, to the
number of 80, put upon RATS, without any
provisions. The boats were shortly after,
on the sixth Cay, picked up by French
vessel, but, as the RATS could not be found,
the coolies are all supposed to Lave perished.
There was terrible scene at Sidney,
Australia, recently, occasioned by the burn
ing of balloon. A lighted match was
thrown where it communicated in some way
with the gas, and the flame ascending to the
balloon, it burst, sending out sheets Of flame
among the crowds assembled in the euclos.
ure. Many persons were burnt, although
not seriously, but the alarm and the rush
out Of the enclosure were terrible, and many
were thrown down and nearly trampled to
death. Those who witnessed the combustion
of the balloon out of the reach Of harm,
describe it as a most magnificent spectacle.
A man named Roam has been convicted
in Clay county, ILL.,, of murder in the second
degree, for causing the death of blind boy
by neglect and starvation, and sentenced to
5 years imprisonment in the penitentiary.
The facts disclosed were revolving in the
extreme. The poor boy was put in an out
house, and left to starye and freeze to death,
covered with rags and vermin! Roam is
wealthy, and paid his counsel thousand
dollars He had taken change of venue
from Jasper county, where he was indicted
last spring. a portion of the jury were for
the death penalty, as also nearly all the
people. A motion was made for new trial,
which is under advisement. ...
ORIGIN OF THE PRESENT PARr1Es-The
Republican party numbers ir its ranks
one million five hundred thousand voters.
It was made up from the old Whig, Demo
cratic and Free Soil parties, Five hundred