Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-12-09
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1858 is the Official majority for the r
publican Governor in Minnesota.
A MIR. Rhoads, proprietor of hotel, net
Lafayette, Ind, very athletic and vigoror
man, died of bleeding at the nose, recently
Gold has been discovered in souther
Missouri. The mines are said to be unusuall
rich. The report causes considerable excite
ment. @ f'F
Frederick Brown, an only full brother 0
Capt. John Brown, is delivering lectures o
the history OF the latter, in Oberlin an
other places. ,
As old John is called Ossawatomie Brown
correspondent of the Evening Post sug
gests that old Wise should be called What
an. ss-amie Wise. --f orggg e1stj.
The practice of vitriol throwing is carrie,
on quite extensively in Troy, N. Y. Severa
ladies have had valuable dresses completed,
ruined by it, within q few days. u =
The Hartford Times saws sixty spots il
the sun may now be seen with a telescope
Such general eruption indicates that some
thing is out of order in the solar system.
John A. Washington has performed one
generous act, in presenting to the Mt. Yer.
non fund the sum of $l,228. 25, being the
proceeds of the Mt. Vernon steamboat trips
for the past year.
The great suit in Chicago of Bates vs the
Illinois Central Railroad Company, claiming
title to the land on which the vast Depot
Of the Road is built, has been decided in
favor of the Company.
AT the late State Fair of California, cab
bage was exhibited that weighed SO pounds.
This was beaten, however, by beet, which
was exhibited last year at AZ pounds weight,
and then replanted, and grew to ll5 pounds.
1t appears to be a well-established fact
that railroad transportation completely
destroys the vitality of eggs. No matter
how carefully packed, if they are carried any
distance on the cars, the continued shaking
renders them useless for setting.
The police have arrested a man named
Gilbert at St. Louis for having robbed a
German farmer in Pike county, NO., of a
lot of mules valued at $500, through the
agency of the worthless notes of the Hartford
Exchange Bank, of Indiana.
When Mr.. Ward, the U. s. Minister to
China, visited Pekin, the Chinese accorded
him cart without springs, drawn by mule
and jackass, tandem fashion. The English
writer's assert that this was done to person.
ally insult him and the nation he represents.
The first steamship that crossed the.Atlantic
was the Sirius, in 1888. The regular line of
European steamships was started by Mr..
Cunard, in 1910, and since that time there
have been lost on the Atlantic twelve steam
vessels, making an average in nineteen years
of about one in every eighteen months.
The birds nests, which are esteemed 80
great luxury in China, have become an ar.
ticle of consumption in Paris. Although
the greater portion Of what is consumed un.
der that name is nothing more than fish-glue,
still the genuine nests can be purchased at
about $40 per hundred weight in its crude
state.
John A. Washington, late owner of Mt.
Vernon, has s'burst up and gone to smash.''
Speculation is the cause of it, whether farm
or stock. can't say. The ladies who paid
him $l75,0OO are swindled out of their
money. He can't give clear title until all
his old liabilities are Cancelled. He owes, it
is said, about $50O,0oO.
Myers, the man who was charged with
kidnapping three colored men Fugitive
'laves) and carrying them off to Maryland
on his own private account, was tried few
days since in Carlisle, Pa, and found
guilty. He will have to 60 to the penitentiary
for not less than nor more than IL years,
and pay fine of not less than ST. 900.
AN extraordinary land slip, or subsistence,
as it is called, occurred at St. Hilaire,
Canada, on Monday, the l4th inst. 1t COM
menced about o'clock in the evening,
accompanied by a sound like thunder, and
lasted about half an hour A correspondent
Of the Montreal Gazette, who visited the
spot, says that about fifty acres of land sank
to the depth of thirty feet.
Mr.. Palmer, who, as our readers will re.
collect, was lately arrested at Nashville on
suspicion that he was concerned in the Ha F.
per's Ferry affair, applied for a habeas
corpus to test the legality of the proceedings
against him, but the Court refused to enter
tain the motion, and he was held to bail in
The sum of $4,000 for his appearance at the
aext term Of the Circuit Court.
The Prairie du Chem (Wisconsin) Leader
states that two young ladies, Miss Haskill
and Miss Pool, when walking in the vicinity
Of Fancy Creek, Richland county, were
pursued by two bears, one of which struck
Miss Pool with his paw, tearing her breast
TO the bone, and ca using her death in few
hours. Miss Haskill escaped with a few
scratches The bears were shot soon after.
From the City of Mexico we have advices
to the 18th ult. The loss of the Constitu.
tionaists at Queretaro was 81 cannon and
large number of prisoners, including Gems.
Alvarez and Tapia and an American officer.
The Liberals were victorious at Tudanango.
Four hundred men were killed and half the
town burned. 1t was reported that
had been proposed-Suarez to
be Provisional President at Mexico, and the
Constitution Of 1857 to be restored, and the
law confscating the Church property to be
annulled.
Very glittering reports, says the Spring
field Republican, are coming down to us
from the Vermont gold diggings, respecting
The luck of our townsmen, Hankerson, Beals
and Graves. The former is said to have ia
ken from his claim between $4,000 and
$40 1000 within twelve months past, and now
be has purchased the mill pond, just alb owe
his old claim, and proposes next year to ex-
cavate in the bottom of that. The two lat
ter are said to have paid 1925 for their
claim, and to have realized in three months
the past summer about $l,7O0 by working
it.
BRIGHT & BR1NDIE-BUcK & BRowN.-|
Bright and Brindle were o we'll matched
yoke of cattle, though they differed some
what in color. So of Buck and Brown. Thew
are of different colors and aims, but in other
respects are not so badly matched, and Gov.
Wise should consult the ends of justice BY
serving both alike. Buck, to forward his
own selfish objects, was bent on making
society soorse !; Brown on making it better.
Buck violated the Constitution and laws of
Kansas Brown violated the Constitution
and the laws of Virginia. Buck invaded a
State to make men slaves Brown invaded