Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-01-28
News Paragraphs.

News Paragraphs.
There were twenty four affrays in Cincin
natl last year, in which death resulted.
The Legislature of New York costs th'
State over 50 500 every day.
A free negro, convicted at Easton Md, Of
larceny, has been sold as slave for q
years. service, for $lsS,75. sl. gzT
An 'sair. ship is now being construct &c
by Prof. Steiner, of Ohio, by which he OK
poets to cross the Atlantic in sixty hours
The losses by fire in the United States in
1858, excluding al losses less than $40 ,OOO
make an aggregate of $l2,00O,OOO.
Hon. l.. d.. Campbell, who was so serious
ly injured by a rufian's blew, struck in the
dark, ut Dayton, Ohio, is rapidly recovering
1t is stated that Dr. o. w. Holmes has
refused an offer from Nr. Bonner of $4,000
to write half column weekly for one year
for the .New York Ledger. s~
In Reading, Pa, few days since, a cir
cular' saw, used in saving wood, broke
while in m oti on, and one Of the pieces flew
distance of three fourths of mile.
The st. Louis Democrat estimates that
the census of 1860 will increase the number
of representatives from the Northern States
to l55, and decrease the number from the
South to 49,.
a bust Of sndrew Jackson was innugara-
ted at Memphis on the 9th inst. The cere
mony of laying the pedestal of the bust Vas
performed by the Masons, of which body
Gen. jackson was an honored member.
Deacon Adam Pee, son of Andrew Poe,
who had the famous hand tO-hand battle
with the Indian, Big Foot, aud cousin to
Edgar A. Poe, the poet, died on the 18th
inst, at Revenna, Ohio.
A Galveston paper says the camels there
carry 400 and 1900 pounds with ease. They
are very tractnble; one of them belongs to u
lady, and a ways kisses her when she comes
near enough. .s
The aggregate numerical strength OF the
Society of Friends is stimated ut about
$4,000 in Great Britain. During the last
twenty years the Society in this county has
been gradually increasing in numbers
Henry jackson, a shoemaker, and his
wife, got beastly intoxicated in New Y ork
city, on Wednesday night, and in that con-
dition retired. They were found dead next
morning. Drunk together in life, and in
death not divided.
The record of deaths in Chicago for 1858
shows a total of 2,043. In 1853 the deaths
were ,2O6, in 1854 they were 3,o29, 1865
they fell off to $40, in 1856 they were ,S95,
in 1857 the total was 2,l7O, and in 1888,
2U43 ..
BY drawing off pond in St. Louis some
IN onths since, the beer cave Of MIR. Felix
Coste was overhowed, destroying 5000 bar
rcls of lager beer. lie sued the city and has
just recovered SIT 700 damages. He had
claimed $4,000.
De Sauty, the great, mysterious De Sauty,
still remains at the Cyrus station of the At
lantic telegraph. with several assistants who,
by night and by day, are watching for "sg
nals," broken currents" "unintelligible
transmissions,' and all that sort OF thing
There are six street railroads in operation
in New York and Brooklyn, all except one
paying dividends of eight to ten per cent
stock ranges from l0l to l45 In Boston
horse railways are equally successful. In
Philadelphia shares are selling at 80 to 100
per cent above par.
The public debt Of the United States is
$64, ,9l0,777, and the aggregate public debt
of all the States foots UP $239 ,499, ,S75.-
The debts of cities, towns and villages are
estimated at $lo0,000,0o0. Total public
debts If all kinds in the United States is
$I04, ,4l0,653.
Mrs. Cora " Hatch, the spiritual trance
has commenced suit for divorce
a mens~ ct thora from DR. Benjamin Hatch,
her husband, on the ground of ill-treatment.
The allegations in the complaint, now on
file, form an extraordinary narrative, and
the case threatens to be another Bennett af-
fair.
The amendment to the Constitution of
Missouri proposed recently in the Senate, to
limit the State debt to $50, 100000, passed
that body by vote of Sc to 5. The report
started II few days ago to the effect that the
would not be adopted, had
damaging effect on the State Bonds, and in
two days Missouri 6's declined l-2 per
cent.
A man in Buffalo. New York, wears most
rare and ancient curiosity, in the shape of
woodea watch, only one hundred and fifty
six years old 1t was made by Casper Glatz
Steften, in Switzerland, IN 1902. The pin
ions and verge are Of steel the barre, main
and scope wheels are composed ?f brass, ana
so is the balance. The rest of the Watch Is
entirely of wood, including the case.
A notorious atheist naned Thompson,
who has of late considered it his mission in
this world to get up burlcsque prayer meet
ings, for the amusement of anti revivalists,
has been found dead in ditch near New
York, having fallen through bridge in the
night. This may be considered Providence,
but a very natural one. A man of such
tast.s was very likely to be fond of other
vicious exaitements besides profanity.
RAILROAD CONVENTION AT RoME.-A very
respectable and harmonious Railroad Conven-
ton was held at Rome, in Jones county, the
18th inst, for the purpose of securing the
construction of link necessary to secure
continuous Railroad from Dubuque to Musca-
tine, via Anamosa, Rome and Upton. The
two ends Of such road are now completed.
The link to be supplied is over "a fertile and
populous country, abounding in necessary
materials for the construction of aroad. The
r-~ of the country is level, and the road can
be built at the minimum cost OF western roads,
From Muscatine south, tho Muscatine and
Oskaloosa road can be used for twenty miles.
From thence short link must be supplied to
Mount Pleasant, where a connection will be
made with the Keokuk and Mount Pleasant
road now partially completed. When these
links are supplied, we shall have continuous
Railroad from Dubuque to keokuk. -
Davenport, in the meantime, is not asleep,
but is using every honorable means to meet
us at Anamosa before the Muscatine road
reaches that point. Let our people put
shoulder to the wheel, and help complete the