Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-04-15
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The peach crop in Sou hern Illinois was
destroyed by the late unfavorable weather
| he Pittsburg press says the grand jury
of that city has indicted Joe Barker, the
street preacher as nuisance
Emigration from California to the Allan.
tic States is increasing. The two latest ar.
rivals brought an aggregate of over ZOO
passengers.
| A girl named Ellen Vaughn, recently
died in Troy, N. Y, in consequence of in
flammation caused by perforating her ears
for ear rings.
During the past winter there have been
forty odd steamships plying between New
York and European ports, and only two of
them have been American.
The land sales to be held in Kansas and
Nebraska in July, August and September,
will embrace, in the former, $3.50, 900 acres,
and in the latter, 4,SS3,OOO acres.
The triple sheet Of the New York Herald
of April 5th contained l ,4O1 advertisements.
This is claimed to be the greatest number
ever inserted in single daily paper in this
country.
Billy Bowlegs, the famous Seminole Chief,
is dead. Intelligence of his death reached
Fort Smith, Arkansas, on the 31st u!timo.
suspicious are entertained that he was pois-
oned.
From several notices and illusions in our
eastern exchanges we see that some of the
eastern steamboats, are provided with steam
organs, or "Calliopes," which announce
their arrival at any town by playing tune.
1t is great improvement.
Gen. Charles B. Stuart, of Geneva, N. Y,
has been made President of the projected
Joliet Railroad in Illinois, from the Michi-
gan Central branch at Joliet, one hundred
and twenty miles, to the Mississippi river
at Clinton.
The London Timesgives the professions, af-
ter the manner Of city directory, of the Nea
politan exiles, who recently arrived in and
marched in procession through the city
Among them all, there are only four ''gen-
tlemen"-nearly all the rest are s'lawyers."
The P. O. Department invites proposals
for carrying the mails between New York
and San Francisco from the 1st of October,
1859, to the Both of June, 1860. Bids will
be received until Saturday, April Both. The
existing contracts by Panama and Tehuan-
tepec expire on the LIST of October.
The Republicans of Wheeling, Va, have
addressed a memorial to the Republican
National Committee, urging the selection
of Wheeling as the place for holding the
National Convention that is to nominate
the next President. This is capital sug-
gestion.
The Local Inspectors Of Steamboats, at
Cincinnati, having fully and carefully in
vestigated the cause of the recent disastrous
collision between the steamers Nat Holmes
and David Gibson, attribute the blame to
MIR. Irwin, the pilot of the Gibson, who,
they say, neglected his duty at the time
They have accordingly revoked his license
as river pilot.
Mr.. H. w. Derby, of Cincinnati, pur-
chased and paid down for it, the whole of
the celebrated Dusseldorf collection of
paintings, exhibited for several years past
at 54S Broadway, N. Y. The amount of
the whole transaction exceeded one hundred
and eighty thousand dollars. This gallery
will now become the permanent head quar-
tiers Of the Cosmopolitan Art Association"
A man from Indiana, named Fox, was
badly swindled in New York few days
ago. He exchanged a thousand acres Of
land for hundred 'sgold chains" alleged
to be worth from $40 to SIG apiece. Fox
soon afterwards ascertained that the chains
were mere trash, and instituted proceedings
against the ,swindler, whose name was Har-
ris, who was arrested and held to bail in the
sum of $4,000.