Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-04-22
News raragraDllS.

News Paragraphs.
Col. Robinson, of Dunleith, Ill, has pur-
chased the Mormon temple at Nauvoo, for
female seminary.
Two agents Of the Haytian Government
arc in St. Louis to promote the emigration
of free negroes to that country.
The house Of Michael theny, of New
London, Connecticut, was burned on the
night of the Sth inst. and Mrs. Pbeny and
her two children, aged respectively five and
three years, persisted in the flames.
Spencer, negro, recently convicted of
manslaughter in Me mphis, Tenn, has been
punished by forty lashes and confinement in
the stocks for one hour. The laws Of Ten
nessee do not permit the incarceration OF
slaves in the penitentiary.
The river Niger, in Africa, it is said, is
more than s, 1000 miles in length, and through.
out its entire course it would be navigable
by our Mississippi steamboats,. 1t is nc
where less than half mile wide Its prin
cipal tributaries arc navibable 800 miles.
The official returns show that in tn, State
Of New York the total number of paupers
supported last year was 32l ,073 Of the
whole number the poverty of 40, 623 is traced
directly to intemperance, while many others
were made dependent, indirectly, by the
same vice.
Margaret O'Brien, a young girl employed
in u wooden mill at Oriskany, N. Y, was
caught by a shaft and carried round 26(
times, striking her head each time against
brick wall, before the machinery could be
tstopped. She was shockingly mutilated,
but not killed.
A malignant disease has broken ou
among the horned cattle in Berks county
Pa, commencing with fever, which lasts
| from five to nine hours, and then is follow
ed by chill, which continues from four to
six hours. After this quick modification
ensues, and the cattle die.
The daily arrivals at the hotels in St.
Louis do not fall short of fifteen hundred
persons. Every hotel, boarding house and
boat is crowded to its utmost capacity. in
all, the daily arrivals probably average
a harvest of gold, and will undoubtedly in
crease in population this year from twenty
to thirty thousand.
st. Louis is full Of sharpers, pickpockets,
&c, A man by the name of Stale from
Washington county, ILL.,, on Saturday, had
his pocket picked Of $4,000; trunk be-
longing to a Mr.. Mallory, on board the
steamer Ben Lewis, was broken open and
900 in gold taken a Frenehman at the
General Taylor House was relieved of Jew
elry and sixty dollars in gold.
There is man named Elliot Barrett, at
Chester, N. Y, who has lain hslplessly on
his back for twenty years, a victim of rheu.
matism. The only limb he can move is his
left arm, with which he feeds himself with
q teaspoon, as he can only move his jaw
enough to receive the point of the spoon
In his acute and terrible sufferings no
murmur escapes his lips, but he is always
resigned and cheerful.
AT last accounts from Kilbourn City and
Portage City, Wisconsin, there was great
excitement there between the raftsmen on
the river and the residents, on account of
dams that had been constructed across the
river, which the raftsmen consider obstruc-
tions to navigation and dangerous to their
lives. They threatened to tear up the dams,
there having some 300 excited raftsmen
gathered at Kilbourn City for that purpose.
The citizens were preparing to defend their
property.
The Police of Detroit and Milwaukee a
few days since arrested man named Henry
Monroe, alias Ii. Wallace, charged with
forging drafts on eastern banks, obtained at
various places in the West and altering
them to larger amounts. He is known to
have fraudulently received some $4,000 by
this game In addition to the crime of for.
gerry, it appears that he has been ''gay
deceiver' among the women, having one
wife at Waupaca, Wis, wife and three
children at Clean, N. Y and also wife
and two children in st. Joseph county, Ind.
The officers have taken him to East Saginaw.
Mich, where he will get his deserts, unless
justice is cheated most outrageously.