Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-01-21
News Paragraphs.

The prosecutors Of Judge Watrous, of
Texas, are preparing other charges to pro
cure his impeachment.
A young German woman, aged nineteen
years, while waltzing in Cincinnati, few
evenings since, fell to the floor, dead.
The United States Treasury is reported
empty, and the Government is therefore
obliged to suspend payment for the present.
Judson J. lutchison, Of the celebrated
Hutcl,ison family Of singers, died at Lynn,
Mass, on the llth.
The st. Louis Republican publishes a list
of seven hundred names of owners of $780,
900 and upwards of property in that city.
The expenditures of the British Govern
ment for the financial year ending March
3ls5, 1858, averaged one miIti'rs Of dollars
day.!
The United States has paid $S5,376,0S7
for pensions since the government was es-
tablished- $8l ,499, PAL in army pensions
and s., ,S76, ,846 in navy. ..
| There are eighty eight railroad compa-
nes. with running roads of greater or less
extent, in the State of New York, and of al
these, there are but fourteen that pay any
dividends at all. ......-...
| Numbers Of gentlemen who devoted New
Years day in New York to making calls,
presented cards with neat little likeness of
themselves engraved upon one corner about
the size of a ten cent piece.
The Legislature of Kansas is now in ses.
sion, and is about to pass an act aboiishing
| slavery in the Territory. 1t is thought that
though the bill will pass the Legislature,
Gov Modaru will veto IT. ...f-
Delaware is one of the original thirteen
states, but not very large one. Its reve
nue. last year was a fraction over SAC, 900,
while the expenditures for the same period
were about $4,000.
In the cases of the lads, Anthony Leite
and icholas Trautwein, at St. Louis, who
were sentenced to be hanged on the 18th
inst, respite has been granted by the Gov
crnOr. ... .... .-t tss - -ls f-a
Ii is said that it has cost the public over
forty thousand dollars to convict ''ancemi
of manslaughter in the first degree in New
York The conviction of m urderer costs
SO much in New York that they can afford
to punish only one year. -. 81
| The father and mother of Samuel F. Ca
ry, the distinguished temperance advocate OF
Ohio, celebrated their golden wedding, the
anniversary of the iftieth year of their con-
nubial bliss, on the 9th of this month, in
Hamilton county, Ohio, where they have re-
sided on a farm for more than 40 years.
The papers report more drunkenness in
New York on New Years day than on any
other day for year past. Much disorder
and several deaths by violence occurred, all
growing out of the detestable and degrading
custom OF furnishing liquor to callers on
New Years day. 37-.-' al ,a-f e..
= NJ. Erton, while chopping wood near
Indianap oils, recently, cut his foot severe
h, \ physic;;.n n was called, who found him
:y;..;no ~. = chair, dead, his foot in q ba-
sin filed VIII. blood, = he had been placed
in horizontal pc csition, the application Of
"a single bandage wouIu nave saw '''A'' "'-''
but no one present knew it. .. .'zalA 2
| The sum real zed for the rent o. the pews
| in Henry Ward Bee hers church, fol 'ne
present year, amounts to $54 672.2O, being
ov.r $4,000 more than they brought last
| year. Every seat was taken, and many per
sons were unable to obtain seats, although
the premiums above the assessments ran
high, in one case reaching $780, 81. e.
A female Christian Association has been
started in New York upon tn game general
plan4as that of the Young Mems -Christian
4 Associations. The iadies naturally, and
with proper modesty, decline oil unneces
! sary publicity. but anything that sets Christ.
ian ben violence atwork, is public blessing
and there is no other work on earth so i'm
1 portant to be done for the City Of New Yorl
4 Just now, orsany of our cities, as that whict
Christian women can.perforln in taking carr
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