Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-08-26
News Para, gra pins.

Jose Joaquin Fernandez, aged 80 years,
and for 30 years citizen of New Orleans,
died in that city on the 9th.
Ex-Governor Stevens has been elected
Delegate to Congress from Washington
Territory over Col. Wallace.
The Illinois Central Railroad Company
offer premium of $500 for the best ditch
ing machine for open ditching.
A man named Gibson bit off another mans
eyebrow in Chicago the other day, and had
to pay $40 for the savory delicacy. The
rascal had it too cheap at that.
In order to sell American -four at the
prices at which it is now selling in England,
it must be shipped in this country at $3.50
per barrel.
DR.. Atwood, of Carrollton, Mo-, died last
week from the effects of wound from
needle, which had been used in post NOR
tenn examination.
Col. Thos. s. Miller, a worthy and highly
esteemed citizen of Hannibal, Mo-, died in
that city on the 10th inst, from injuries
received at the hands of mob in PALMYRA
recently.
Some Cincinnati officers few DAYS ago
arrested three men named Johnson on a ira.
ding boat near Jacksonville, Ind, and seiz.
ed some SOC, 900 of counterfeit bills on Ken
lucky banks, and the requisite tools for
making more.
1t is rumored that the uncertainties of
financial operations in Europe, and the
deplOruble state of paralysis of Nathaniel
Rotshchild, the head of the house, have been
the cause of the contemplated retirement of
all the Rotshchilds from business.
The recent meteoric explosion in Rensa.
leer county, N. r., was pronounced ga slight
shock of an earthquake in Waterford, Sar-
atoga county, AMI at other points within Is
miles of that place. Houses were shaken
and low rumbling sound was heard.
Quite an excitement il existing in New
York city on account OF strange and dis
gushing odor emitted by the Croton water
supplied to the people Of that city. Scien-
tifc men have gone to work to analyze it,
and in the meantime thousands are afraid to
drink it.
humboldt, IN an essay on meteors, remarks
that they are apt to occur at periodic times,
among which are August 10th, November
18th to 18th and 9th to Goth. The recent
"meteoric explosion" near Troy was on the
18th of August. Maybe there will be s'more
Of the same sort" at the other dates.
One lady is reported to have given din.
ner at Saratoga to twenty friends which cost
$40O, and a New York banker paid $3.50 for
twenty eight persons. A Southerner, how
ever, surpassed that, he having paid $l400
for one dinner, the largest private dinner
ever given at that fashionable resort.
Mr.. Golden has recently made a speech
in Parliament on the subject of National De-
fences and French Invasion, which created
quite sensation. He took the ground that
France only increased her Navy because
England went on increasing hers. He proved
by the statistics that the English Navy wa.
much greater than the French.
The great rebellion was still progressing
in China at the latest dates from that ceun-
try. The Friend of china publishes long
article on the rebellion, and says that there
is no very clear evidence either that it will
succeed or that the Government will be able
to suppress it. A letter from one of the
provinces in partial possession of the rebels,
states that the insurgents were publishing
the Bible or certain parts of it, demolishing
idols or certain Budhistc images, opening
schools &C. 1t is said, however, that The
insurgents have imbibed gross errors, and
the Bible printed by them is the version Of
Gutzlaff, in whole or in part, in which his
phraseology and that of others are sadly
mixed up.