Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-05-20

ped from Charleston, last week, to New
York.
A building for the education of horse
doctors is now going up in the city of New
York, at Il cost of 5000.
A colony numbering nearly a thousand
! Norwcgians and Swedes are about removing
from Illinois into Minnesota.
The Wisconsin bankers refuse Illinois
money except at discount of J per cent.
In Illinois the boot is exactly on tho other
foot.
Brigham Young keeps shut up, from fear
it requires the opening of twenty doors,
exclusive Of gates, to gain access to his
sleeping apartments.
DIR. boy, of Kansas, is still in Jail at St.
Joseph, Mo. lie is unable to give the re-
uuired bonds, as the law provides that the
sureties must live in Missouri.
Rev. Jno. B. Hudson, better known as
Father Hudson, a pioneer minister in the
Methodist Church, died on the 26th ult., at
Leicester, N. Y, at the advanced age of st.
Judge Cradlebl lugh, United States Judge
in Utah, whose course brought him in con
tlict with Gov Cumming, has been removed.
The vacancy will not be filled for some
time.
The telegraph in India has to encounter
many difficulties. By elephants rubbing
themselves against the poles and monkeys
playing on the wire, the line is frequently
broken.
A Young man named VIM. Dumfrey, of
Macon county, Ill.,, was struck by lightnin 8
and instantly killed while driving his team
the other day. His horses were also both
killed.
Mrs Anderson, of London, @. W. insured
her life for $4,000, for the benefit of her
son, who last week administered strychnine
to the mother, from the effects Of which she
died.
1t is stated that there is member of
one of the oldest dry-goods houses in Phil
adelphia who has had box in Il theatre
there for thirty years, and in all that time
has not missed a single night!
1t is gratifying fact that receipts at the
U. S. Treasury tor the past quarter exceeded
the expenditures about $4,000, 900. This is
the result of increased importations and a
strict economy in expenditures.
The number Of persons destroyed by the
terrible earthquake in Quito was set own
BY the first report at three thousand. 1t
turns out. however, that only ten persons
were killed. Quite large discount.
Mrs Ada Coan, who recently lectured on
spiritualism in the eastern cities, has re-
nounced spiritulaism, and publicly stated
that nine tenths of the so-called spiritual
manifestations were utter shameless impo-
sitions.
The little son of Mr.. S. Earl, of New
London, Huron county, O., a few days since,
placed his mouth to the spout Of a tea. ket
tie filled with boiling water, and drank a
swallow. He survived, in great agony, till
the next day.
Mr.. James Fauzer killed a man named
William Derrie, at San Francisco, for hay
ing seduced his daughter, a girl of l5 years.
Mr.. Fauzer was tried, and the jury acquitted
him, a verdict which the sentiment Of man
kind will approve.
James Kennoven, in San Francisco, who
had undertaken to travel four hundred miles
on foot, in one hundred hours. did it in %
hours and 20 minutes. The greatest distance
travelled in one hour was miles; the least,
the last hour, was but one mile and half.
A correspondent Of the St. Louis Repu6-
licam gives very discouraging accounts from
the Pixies Peak mines. Large numbers of
miners are returning without means of sub
sistance, and it is feared many will die from
starvation. 1t is thought they will attack
the outgoing trains.
The project for bridging the British Chan
mel from Calais to Dover is seriously con-
templated. The greatest depth of water is
1SO feet. A project for tunneling has been
presented, the cost of which is estimated at
500, 600, 900, or about one-fourth the esti-
mated cost Of a bridge.
Mrs. Cunningham who was prosecuting
a claim on Harry Burdell, failed to appear
when her case was called up in the Superior
Court of New York, last week. Judgment
was given against her. So that, at last, the
great Cunning ham Burdell case is con-
cluded.
So great is the competition for eastern
travel, between the Pennsylvania Railroad
via. Pittsburg, and the N. Y. Central and
Erie Roads, that the Pittsburg Road has cut
down the fares from Cleveland to New York
city to $S, and 81 to Philadelphia. The
Lake Shore Road has reduced to SO to New
York and Sc to Philadelphia and Baltimore
The robber of Adams' Express Company,
who took $40,0 900 some time ago at Mont
gomery, Ala, and who was supposed to
have escaped, was captured in New York on
Saturday evening. He was held to bail in
$50, 900, and in default was sent to Jail. 1t
was supposed that he was making for Eu-
rope.
The average amount of advertisements in
the London Times under the head of 'want
places" is about seven columns daily, and
Al
about half of them two line announcements,
the reader may form some idea Of the num-
Der of persons in London constantly in want
of employment.
The new Canadian cent pieces, which have
lately been thrown off at the British mint,
possess peculiarities which give them value
additional to that Of their currency. They
are not only tokens of value, but also stand
ards of weig int and measure 100 cents weigh
exactly one pound and one cent measures
one inch.
Peterson's Detector warns persons who
are compelled to handle bank notes not to
wet their thumbs while counting the bills.
1t remarks that if the thumb comes in con-
tact with the tongue after handling note
from the pocket of man infected with the
smallpox, the infection is as sure to take
effect as the incubation of a child.
From the Sandwich Islands we learn that
the crater Of Kilanea was still in. state of
decided activity. A vessel had recently
arrived at Honolulu, with party of visitors
who had been to take near view of the
magnificent scene. The travellers had a
hard time of it, were two days without
water, travelling over clinker with their boots
torn to tatters, and the blood during the last
day marking their steps over the lava.
Considerable excitement prevails among
the ministers and members of the Episcopal
Church in Canada. They seem to be divided
into veto and non-veto parties; the one sus-
tanning the rights of the Bishops to negative
the action of the Church Synods, the other
denying such right, The recent election of
lay delegates at Quebec and vicinity, turned
upon this point, and considerable excitement