Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-01-14

By railway accidents in theUnited States
in 1858, there were killed l03 persons and
injured 229.
A French theatre is now established il
New York, and six Paris artists are on theil
way thither to play there.
North Carolina is the only State in thu
Union that excludes Jews from holding Of
! fees of profit and trust.
Over four hundred persons were arrested
in Baltimore on Christmas night for beins
| drunk and disorderly.
A firm has just been established at Gam
bridge under the title of ''Kmight & Doy.'
This is what may be termed partnership
on tine
George G. Thorburn, the florist, will take
! charge of the grounds of the Mount Vernon
estate, when it shall be purchased by the
ladies'.
A young man was almost instantly killet
in Berks county, Pa, few days since, by
inhaling carbonic acid gas from burning
lime kiln, before which he was standing.
Henry l.. Ellsworth, late of Hartford, has
given by his will all of his large property,
except about $500, 900, to Yale College. II
is estimated that the College gets $780,
900.
A barrel of sauer kraut exploded in eel
lar IN Cincinnati, the slaves flying in every
direction, and injuring several men who were
moving it. 1t had been standing some time,
and the gases were strong in various senses
OF all the learning, the most difficult de.
partment is to unlearn. Drawing mistake
or prejudice out of the head, is as difficult as
1ro I'd
thanks the operator.
During the past year, &C murders were
committed in the city of New York, and
only one man was hung. There are l,2OC
grog shops in New York city and 700 in
Williamsburg and Brooklyn.
From recent report Of the Secretary OF
the Interior, made to the Senate.;t appear.
that the entire cost of the GoverIEaient build
iDgs in Washington, including statuary and
paintings, has been $l4, ,7o9,339 %!
Woods Theatre in Cincinnati was sold
last week by the sheriff for $4,000. The
mortgages bought it in, upon claims
amounting to some $4,000 1t was bid of
by Miss Eliza Logan and Jas. H. Bagwell.
Brigham Young, it is said, still keeps
close, as if in dread of his life. 1t seems he
has forfeited the power which he formerly
possessed over the people, and instead Of
swaying the multitude at his will he is now
afraid to meet his deceived and deluded
| followers in the streets.
Hon. Charles B. Phelps, Of Connecticut,
| fell dead in the streets Of Roxbury, one day
last week. He had been a prominent man
in the Democratic party of that State, and
was over 70 years Of age at the time of his
death.
Tecumseh, Chief of the Omaha Indians,
was killed near Decatur, Nebraska, few
weeks since, by Lewis Neil, quarter breed,
who married the sister Of the deceased
Neil was arrested, and it was thought the
Indians would kill HIM.
The public will remember that the quar-
rel between Jenkins and Lane, of Kansas,
which finally terminated in the death of the
former, grew out of a contested land claim.
The case has just been determined, by the
General Land Office, in favor OF the heirs of
Col. Jenkins.
a statement is published of the product
| of the California gold mines during the year
just ended, and compared with that of the
previous year. In 1857, the shipment of
gold from California to the port of New
York alone, amounted to $34, ,222,904. in
1858 the amount was SO, ITS, ,344, being
nearly two millions more than the previous
year.
Ia Blair county, Pa, the other day, the
house of Mr.. Bender was consumed by fire,
and his three children, one an infant, per-
ished in the flames. Mr.. B. went to his
work after breakfast, and Mrs. b. left the
children in the house while she went out to
milk. When she was out the house took fire,
and before she returned the fire had made
such progress in the lower story that the
children could not be got out.
A little fellow, five or six years of age,
fell through the ice on Back Bay, Boston.
and was rescued by little Miss, some ten
years cid, by the name Of Lizzie Whitmore,
who happening to see his red scarf above
the water, crept to the hole, seized his hands,
and by pulling and struggling, finally sue
ceeded in dragging him upon the ice She
then took him, all covered with mud and
water, in her arms, and carried him to his
home.