Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-04-08
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By the falling of n church ut Ulm, in
Europe, few weeks ago, thirty persons.
including the preacher, were killed.
James Russell, member of the Massachu
sets Legislature, from Haverhill, has been
taken to the Mclean Insane Asylum.
A drove of one thousand hogs were
drowned last Thursday, week, near Troy,
New York, by the giving way of bridge.
Bayard Taylor has actually accepted an
offer of the New York Mercury to write for
that paper for $1,000 a year. lie is to run
opposition to Edward Everettin the Ledger.
Gen. Ward H. Burnett, of New ork, has
gone to Tennessee to claim the gold snuff
box left by Gen. jackson to the bravest
soldier from New York in the Mexican war.
Wiley Smith, of Pike county, N. g., 70
years old, recently murdered a relative near
ly as old as himself, on account of jealousy.
lie is to be tried in May.
The late match at chess between Morphy
and Montgredieu, President of the London
Chess Club, resulted as follows Morphy I,
Montgredieu none, drawn |. ..s ....
On Thursday evening, 3lst ult., the dwell
ling house of Mr.. Richard Stearns, in the
village Of Darien, near Delayan, Wis, was
destroyed by fire, a little daughter, Hattie,
aged four years, perishing in the flames.
In 1853, for the first time, English exports
to British India exceeded those to the United
States, the value to the former country be-
ing about "a 5000 while to the this they
reached only 7O,oo0,ooO. ~ a. =
Margaret Snyder committed suicide at
Baltimore, on the 25th, because her parents
required her attendance at a church of q
certain denomination, and chastised her for
non compliance with their wishes.
The parties who were married in Cincin-
natl recently, after four hours acquaintance
in railroad car, had fiare-up while go
ing round to St. Louis on the Martha Put
nam, and separated. The lady returned to
Ohio on the same boat. -... g..
Mr.. Buchanan expresses great indigna-
ton because Gov. Douglass would not al
low the Yankees at Frazer River to celebrate
Washington's birth day. The matter is to
be brought to the attention of the British
Government.
The tariff recently adopted by the Cana
dian Parliament, makes some sweeping
charges. Duties on manufactured articles
are in some cases raised FIVE, ten and even
twenty or thirty per cent. Unmanufactured
articles being regulated by the Reciprocity
Treaty, are Of course left untouched,
Flogging is not abolished in the British
navy, as many people have supposed, but in
1851 there were 1887 men logged with, in
the aggregate, IS, 1887 lashes. The London
Neaos is astonished that the men do not all
desert from under such barbarous system
and 90 to America. q.
The ssmen about town. in New Orleans
are fighting about Piccolomini. Hiriart,
who killed one man in a duel, on this ques
ton, fought another duel on the subject,
and several other parties have been placed
under bonds to prevent their meeting. Lit
tie Pic must feel very much hattered at such
devotion.
Upwards of $4,000 skunk skins have been
shipped from New York to Russia and Tur
kew within two months A druggist on
Broadway also buys up the fat at five cents
new linament, as skunk's grease is ira
ditional specific for Group, and various 9TH
er diseases.
| 1t is a singular fact that the watch which
was carried by Mr.. Thurston, the unfortu-
tie balloonist, when he fell from the bal
loon, near Adrian, Michigan, on the 10th OF
September last, was not broken by the fall
of more than half mile to the earth. Both
the crystal and the works were uninJured.
1t continued t. 60 until run down-twenty
four hours after.
Potatoes have been shipped in such great
quantities to New Orleans this season as to
overstock the market, and they are now
coming back again. tits said that they have
been sold in that city lately as low as Soc
per barrel. 1000 bbls were shipped from
New Orleans to Cincinnati, and large guam
titles have been received at St. Louis from
the same market.
| Congress has passed an act extending the
! time for exchanging, ut the U. s. Mint, the
new cent coin, for the fractional parts of
the Spanish and Mexican dollar, for two
years from the 2lst of February, 1889
Deposits of such coin will therefore contin-
ne to be received at the Mint, in exchange
for cents of the new issue, under the same
| regulations as heretofore.
| In the United States there are $50 paper.
mills in active operation. They produce
| 27O 200 10000 Tbs, which, at an average of
1Oc % tb, would be worth $27 100000. As
III requires pounu anu d Hdll VI rugs w
make one pound Of paper, there are con-
sumed by these mills 40,000,0O0 TBS of rags
in a single year. If we estimate the rags
| to cost &c p fb, there would be profit of
$ll zoo, 900 in this branch of manufacturing.
Another volcanic eruption has taken place
recently at Mauna Loa, the great volcano of
the Sandwich Islands. The light of the
flames was visible two hundred and fifty
| miles distant, and river of molten lava
rushed down the mountain and over the
country in stream over thousand yards
wide, at the narrowest points, unit it met
the sea, after course of 60 miles, where it
disappeared under the waves, kissing and
throwing up immense columns of steam.
The great battle between the Church of
England and the Non nformists, protract-
ed through many years Of discouragement
and defeat, has been practically brought to
close by the complete triumph of the latter
in the House of Commons-the bill tor the
abolition of Church rates having been passed
to second reading by the decisive vote Of
242 against 16S This may be deemed con-
elusive against the system of taxing one
class of religionists to support the faith OF
an Their class. If the bill for the abolition
of the Church rates shall become a law, as
seems inevitable, the blow will be fatal to
the existence of the established Church as
political power. ......