Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-05-06
News Panoramic

News Paragra phs.
President Buchanan was 6S years of age
on the 23d ult.
Great destitution is said to exist in the
inland les of C;.aadl.
Over five million d liars worth Of build
ings are now in course of erection in New
York.
The debt of The State of New York will,
it is estimated, amount by the end OF the
present year to forty millions of dollars.
A son of ex-S:cretary Gilmer, of Tyler's
Cabinet, committed suicide on the 25th ut,
by throwing himself under the wheels OF u
locomotive at the Washington depot.
There has been fearful calamity in the
Island of Sicily. The mountain beyond the
town slipped down, sweeping off some 80
houses, and burying over 100 persons.
A new hotel, FIVE stories high and other
wise ''in proportion" to cost from $780,
900 to $l50,O00, is about to be erected at
st. Paul, MINI. 1t is to be called the Met.
ropolitan.
The cattle are said to be dying in large
numbers in the vicinity of Metamora, H.,
from feeding upon diseased straw. Large
Y,
from the same cause.
The people of Ohio will vote at the ensu.
ing October election. upon the proposed
amendment to the State Constitution sub
shutting annual sessions of the Legislature
for biennial, rs at present.
The Newark Mercury states that tho Mil
lerites in New Jersey expected the world to
come to an end Easter Sunday, but have
now concluded to postpone it for forty days
longer.
| The free-lovers at Berlin Heights, Ohio,
publish monthly paper callcl 'sThe Good
Time Coming" the motto of which is, "For
in Heaven they neither marry nor are given
in marriage"
Mrs Arson G. Phelps, the we'll known
friend of the poor, died on the Oath, at her
residence in New York, at the age of rs.
She was renowned for her charities, and her
death will be sincerely lamented by all good
hearts.
The cost of set of billiard balls, four in
number, is twenty dollars. The high price
of ivory is the cause of their expensiveness.
An average pair of elephants tusks are
worth in New York about three hundred
dollars.
The Legislature of Maryland, at its last
session, pas ed law prohibiting lotteries
after the first day of April, 1859. 1t seems,
however, that the law is imperative and
worthless, by reason that no penalty attach
es to its violation.
The California Legislature has been guilty
of the folly of appropriating ST. 90 per year
to the Washington monument till it is com.
Nyn I'D h. L.
sheds in repair that cover up the unsightly
abortion.
Hon. Nathan Dayton. formerly Judge OF
the Supreme Court of New York, died very
suddenly Of apoplexy, while dressing, Tues
day morning of last week, at his residence
in Lockport. He was in the 9th year of
his age.
The Jury in the case of Mr.. Sickles were
out 70 minutes. All but one were ready on
the instant for verdict of not guilty, and
he soon came to it. The delay seems, how
ever, to have been mostly for appearance s
sake--to maintain the so!emnity of the
farce.
Senior Mata, the new Minister to the United
States from Mexico, was formally presented
to the President on the 18th ult. The inter-
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est, especially as to a recognition of the
Constitutional Government of our southern
neighbor.
Antioch College, at Yellow Springs, O.,
was sold at auction on Wednesday, the 18th
ult. 1t was purchased by Mr.. NJ Cummins,
of New York, for Mr.. j. Palmer, who has
transferred it to the former owners of the
institution. A new charter secures it to the
''Christian Denominations
Recently, in St. Louis, Mexican fell
upon his knees in front Of q revolving wax
fashion figure, and proceeded with his devo-
tions, in spite Of the Interruptions of the
passers by. lie had evidently mistaken
the figure for som. saint or for the Virgin.
The idlers laughed at the mistake, but if che
worshipper was sincere, he got just as much
benefit as if it had been real Virgin
A letter from Cairo of the 22d says that
ssthe extensive pump which Eads & Nelson
sen. here to pump out the town, suddenl y
quit business last night. The boiler burst
ut 10 O'Clock, and was landed about fifty
feet from the machine, the whole arrange.
ment being knocked into flinders. Three
men were hit by it at the time, but no one
was hurt, although one man was knocked
down and had his shirt torn by the boiler
passing over. him.
Chancellor Bib, who recently died in
Washington at the advanced age of IS years,
was an extraordinary man. lie bore a
wonderful likeness in person to Chief just
ice Marshall, and was man OF the same
class and the same physical construct on.
10 the last, he wore long black silk stock.
ings, knee buckles, aud whi'e cravat and
rutfles, an i long queue. But what is more
remarkable, he never lost his passion for
his violin. and would take it now and then
in his study for amusement. Ills habits Of
life presented a model of moderation.