Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-02-25

News Paragraphs.
The Massachusetts Legislature has refused
to abolish capital punishment.
Miss Alice j. Chase, sister Of Gov. Chase
of Ohio, died at Columbus, on the 18th inst,
after few hours illness. She was 50 years
of age.
letter from Jerusalem announces that
tho cupola of the Holy Sepulehre is falling
to ruins. A subscription has been opened
to repair it.
The Bloomington Qll) Paragraph Gays
that the winter wheat of that region has
been mostly destroyed by the open weather.
The Hessian fly ravaged many fields in the
fall.
The little slow State of Rhode Island, that
took nearly seventy years to make its first
State Constitution, is talking about abolish
ing it's law of Imprisonment for debt.
Humboldt closes note to DR.. Lieber,
dated December 18th, 1853, as follows: 81
am ninety years old-harrassed with cor.
respondence beyond all bounds ty-five
hundred letters year!' --.-.
New York city has 80 Fire Insur ance Com.
panies, representing SIG, 731 900 of capital,
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416, 900 Of capital also 10 Life Companies
with an aggregate capital of $4,000, 700.
Louis Napoleon is now said to posses a
navy that, In effective strength, is not in.
ferior to that of England, whose boast it
has always been to maintain the sovereignty
of the seas.
A bill has been introduced into the Mis-
souri, Legislature requiring the State to take
possession Of the Iron Mountain and North
Missouri Railroads, which failed to pay the
interest on their. bonds.
Prof. Lee, of the Georgia University, has
come out with an elaborate letter in favor
of the revival of the African slave trade
This is one of the striking indications of the
way in which the tide is setting in the South.
The Secretary Of War reports the number
of animals now in use in the Army, as fol-
lows: 6,O6O cavalry and artillery horses
1915 horses in the Quartermaster's Depart.
ment-l3, $50 mules, As camels, and 132 OK
en-.
A conspiracy has been discovered at Ma
Piles against the lives of King Ferdinand and
the Emperor Napoleon. The Austrian police
were the discoveries of the plot. So it is
said and an Austrian letter intimates that
the Kings illness is attributable to poison.
The honors of q seat in the illinois Legis
lature have grown to be exceedingly irksome
to the majority of the members. They are
now working for dollar day, and board
ing themselves at $l4 q week-a dispropor.
ton between wages and expenditure that
will not long be endured.
Recent agricultural statistics show thai
the yearly wheat crop in New England il
rapidly declining in amount. In the Mid
de States it is about stationary, while the
Northwest is yearly becoming more and
more the wheat supplying portion of the
!. Union.
Chas. Kennedy, of St. Louis, in the EN-.
ploy of R. & II. B. Whittemor was murdered
at Fl Smith, Arkansas, on the 9th inst. by
q man named Stowe. Kennedy had chal
lenged Stowe, but he refused to fight him
and subsequently, in most cowardiy man.
ner, assasslnated him.
The new passenger cars on the Central
Ohio Express = running through from
Wheeling and Bellair to New Yerk-are lii
with gas, made by the company from some
combination of burning fluids. he light i:
) brilliant, and contributes materially to thu
cheerful appe arance Of the coaches at night
A despatch from Washing ton says Gov.
eminent has been informed of the intent o1
of England to carry out the Clayton ulwe,
treaty according to the American under
standing. This fact obviates the necessity
of abrogating the treaty, as England with.
draws from her Central American posses
sions and relinquishes all jurisdiction.
The late Message of the Governor of Cal
ifornia estimates the population at 532. 600
Among other statistics it says that 1886, 00C
gallons of wine and 10000 gallons of bran.
dy were manufactured in that State last
year. The gold yie!d since 1857 was $685..
$50 700, and the total yield since the dis
covery, $6Oo,000,OOo. The State debt is
$4,l5O,o00.
A liberal reward is offered for the appre.
hension Of Elijah Brown, who shot and kill
ed, VIM. Carhart in Wisconsin, recently
He is described as being five feet nine inch.
es high, slim built, rather dark complexion.
ed, black hair, slightly curled, light beard
slightly inclined to stoop, had on when be
left, black coat, Kossuth hat and grayish
coiored pants. He has relatives living at
Rock Island, ILL.,, and Pittsburgh, Pa.
The Rock Island Argus says that Mr.. D
Barnes, Collector for Bowling Township
J last Tuesday lost between Rock Island and
Camden nine hundred dollars, or therea-
bouts, which he was bringing to town to pay
over to the County Treasurer. Four hundred
dollars were in gold the balance n bank
notes. He had it in his breast pocket, from
which it escaped without his knowingit. He
came in on horseback.
aenry Hallam, the eminent author Of
Europe during the Middle Ages,'' ssIntro.
duction to the Literature Of Europe" and
''The Constitutional History of England
died on the 22d ult., at the age of 81. VIM.
H. Prescott, the American historian, died
on the 28th ult.-one week after the death
of Hallam, lacking one day. In these two
deaths England and the United States have
lost their most eminent historians.
Judah Touro. the Jew, left to the city of
New Orleans, the sum of $50, 900 for the
building of an almshouse. The execution
of the plan was confded to Mr. Touro's old
friend, R. D. Shepherd, who invested the
money so that 1t is now increased to $ll5,-
900. Mr.. Shepherd has also added to the
resources of the fund by Offering the city a
fine square, $50 feet deep by $50 front, as
the site for the proposed erection, and he
will also give $4,000 to complete the edi-
fee in proper manner.
Resolutions are now pending in the Wis
consin Legislature giving its consent to the
organization of a new State along the south
ern shore of Lake Michigan and that portion
of the State of Wisconsin which lies above
the 45th deg. of latitude, or from about the
mouth of the Menomenee River in Green
Bay, westward, in nearly direct line, to
the St. Croix branch of the Mississippi Riv-
or, thence up that branch, on the present
boundary, to Lake Superior.
On the trial of Jumpertz, at Chicago, for
the murder of Sophia Wer ner, the door of
the room on which he says she hung herself
was exhibited in court, and experimental
on by some of the jurors aud both the law
yers for the prosecution and defense. Jump
ertz alleged that she hung herself on some