Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-05-13
News ParagraDI,s.

Massachusetts, bay is reported to be full
of hump back whales. ~----s<
Rufus Choate, now in ill-health, sails
from Boston for Europe, on the 18th inst.
Twenty one camels have arrived at Mo-
bile from Texas, and are to be applied to
plantation use.
Nicholas Hill, the foremost man at the
bar of New York State, died in ALBANY on
the 23d ult., aged SO years.
Joe Barker, the Pittsburg demagoque. has
been convicted of being common nuisance
after trial by jury.
A number of the U. S. soldiers in Utah
have turned Mormons, through the influence
Of crinoline, it is intimated.
The City Council of Salem, Mass, have
by an ordinance forbidden the smoking of
cigars in their streets, in the evening.
Gov. Sibley, of Minnesota, has offered a
reward of $500 for the arrest and conviction
Of the men in Wright county who lynched
Jackson.
There are now three hundred patients in
the Indiana hospital for the insane-the
largest number that has ever been within
its walls.
The bell swinging in the tower of St.
Stephens Church, East Haddam, Ct, is
over thousand years old. 1t bears the
date of A. d. Sl5.
Cholera has been raging in the northern
part of Japan to frightful extent. At
Yeddo alone the deaths are reported at
$50, 900 in one month.
Benito Jaurez, the Mexican President, is
a pure Indian, and the first Indian since the
days of Montezuma who has administered the
government of that country.
Bayard Taylor goes on a visit to the Up.
per Mississippi region the last of this month.
He is announced to lecture at St. Paul on
the 18th inst; also at St. Anthony, Mime
apolis and Saltwater.
Jas. N. Dubbins, late clerk of the Hamil.
ton and Dayton r. K. Co., has got the cash
on a $1,000 forged check at the Lafayette
Bank, Cincinnati, and has left with his
prize for parts unknown.
A family consisting of a man and his
wife, named Aiken, were recently found
lost in q swamp, at St. Francis county, Ark,
having been there three weeks with no food,
save persimmons and acorns.
Sentence of death has been passed Sec
ond time on Stephen IL. Houser of St. Louis,
years ago, in Gasconade county. He is to
be hung on the 1st Of July.
There is newspaper CONTROVERSY as to
whether the new cents are poisonous to
children. Some say they are, and others
are sure they 60 through without any diff
Guilty. We have doubts about using them
as a regular diet.
The death of Prof. W. G. Larrabie is an
nounced in the indianapolis Journal. He
was native of Maine and nearly go years
of age He had been a Superintendent Of
Public instruction Of Indiana, and was one
of the proprietors of the indianapolis Senti-
| mel.
ticcolomini has given thirty three operas
in New York, the receipts Of which amoun-
ted to the enormous sum of 5000. In
other cities she gave thirty. one operas and
thirty-fo concerts. The receipts up to
this time have reached $4,000, and she
has travelled over 10000 miles.
The last words of Bishop Doane were:
81 die in the faith of the son of God, and
confidence of His One Catholic Church.
have no merits-no man has; but my trust
is in the mercy of Jesus"
Bishop Johns last words were: eyes,
dear Jesus, come"
The heaviest reward ever offered for the
detection of crime in this country, is that
announced by the insurance companies of
Boston, for the arrest and conviction of the
| incendary who set fire to the mechanical
bakery in that city, some time since. They
have offered ten thousand dollars for detect
ing the miscreant.
Chestnut street, in Philadelphia, is now
;~Lk
is not only swept, but washed, and is as
clean every morning as grainary floor. A
perfect immunity from dust is thus enjoyed,
| rendering Chestnut street delectable as a
promenade, when other streets are so dirty
as to be uncomfortable.
A young lady at Baltimore, who saw the
four men hung on the 9Th ult., acted
strangely, saying that she was to be hung
on Friday would partake of no food or
medicine. She gradually sunk, expressing
much qualification at the thought of dying,
as it would save her from hanging, and on
Wednesday last she died.
A locomotive of the Pittsburg, Fl Wayne
& Chicago Railroad blew up while standing
on side track at Bucyrus, last week. The
men had left but few minutes before to
20 to dinner. 1t was blown to pieces. The
bell was landed up town near the residence
of the former President of the Company
Part of tn, engine was thrown upon the top
Of the Court House.
Crawford. the Judge who acquitted Sick
les, is the same one who acquitted Herbert,
charg with shooting waiter at the Ma
tional Hotel, Washington, and the same one
who let Brooks off with contemplate fine
for almost killing Charles Sumner. The
N. Y. Tribune says: at may now be re-
garded as settled that while Mr.. Crawford
is Judge, no member of Congress con be
convicted of criminal offence
A steamer has just been built at Pittsburgh,
to navigate the Kansas river to within a hun
dred and fifty miles of Pixies Peak. She
has ample accomm odation for passengers,
and is fitted up with much taste and ele-
GAUGE. Her draught is only six inches a.
the stern and seven inches forward. She is |
one hundred and thirty feet on deck, three
feet hold, and carries two hundred tons.
The Pittsburgh NJ. E. Conference has just
adopted rule that those who did so sell or
lease property knowing that it was to be
used for the purpose of selling or distiling
intoxicating liquors, would be considered
guilty Of an immortality, and as such should
be saccordingly dealt With under the rule.
Action on the resolution of the Cincinnati |
Conference in regard to Slavery, was defer
red till the next meeting, as that will be in
time for the General Conference.
In Paris, large number of girls, selected
for their beauty Of form and face, are hired
by the dry goods dealers to show off goods.
1t was formerly the custom to use wax
figure, or dummy Of some sort, whereon the
shawl or dress might be placed to be seen
at advantage. But the beauty of live fig
ure was found to be so certain an addition
to the apparent value of the dress each
lady customer, of course, fancying it would
look quite as handsome upon herself-that
the vendors have universally adopted the
expedient.