Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-09-09
News P;lrslSraplls.

"A little boy died at Portage, o., recently
from disease contracted by standing 0
his head.
Van Amburgh, the menagerie man, ha
gone to the East Indies for q white elephau
and a hippopotamus.
The Washington monument contribute
box put up in the New York Post Offic
yields only about half dollar day, whic
is decidedly slow.
/ A negro girl, condemned for the burnin
of the house of Henry Shackelford, Esq a
Culpepper, Va, is TO be hanged on Friday
September Both.
Large shipments of prairie hay are mad
from Chicago eastward. Six hundred ton
have been shipped to Buffalo alone. 1t cost
IS per ton in Chicago, and sells for $l4 il
Buffalo, and SIS to $50 at Pittsburgh ant
Cleveland.
Ex.Judge Watson, Of Charlton County
No., has been indicted for robbing til,
county safe of $1,000, about year since
when he was acting rs County Judge. H,
ing and association.
There is some chance of war between
Austria and Prussia. The relation of thes,
powers have been fur from candid for sew.
eral years. Austria is very sore now, be.
cause Prussia refused to join her in her ltal
ian foray upon free Sa, dinia.
The cost OF the Pilgrim Monument, or
Plymouth Rock, when completed will be
about $500, 700, of which $45, 900 has been
subscribed. 1t will require six years to build
and may be further prolonged if the funds
are not all at command within that time.
A large portion of the business part ol
the villagesof Havana, Schuyler County, N.
York, was consumed by fire on W ednesday
night of last week. Sixteen buildings were
destroyed. The entire damage is estimated
$4,000. The Havana Journal Office was
entirely destroyed-no insurance.
The death of Horace Mann, President of
Antioch (Ohio) College, was caused by ex-
haustion. He was literally worn out, having
done work enough for four men, in his her
culeau efforts to redeem the institution under
his charge from debt. His remains were
buried in the grounds of the College, where
monument will be erected by the students.
JOHN Ross, who has been re- elected Prin-
cipal Chief of the Cherokee Indians, has
held that position for 81 consecutive years.
He was elected under the first Constitution
Of the Nation in 1928, and has been re-
elected every four years since, almost with.
out opposition. He is an educated man, of
mixed Indian and Caucasian blood, some
what over 60 years of age.
Hon. Reverdy johnson is about visiting
Paris to have an eye (now blind) taken out.
Some years ago, while witnessing q duel,
the bali from the pistol of one Of the par
ties struck tree and glancing into his eye,
destroyed its sight. The serious operation
Of removing he whole ball of the eye having
became necessary, his surgeons here advise
the resort to Partisan skill.
Fifteen years ago, two clerks were mur.
dered in the store Of Puterbaugh & Allison,
Xenia, o.. and the buildings afterward fred :.
rhc excitement, terrible at the time, has
siumbered half a generation, to be awakened
by recent letters written to MIR. Puterbaugh,
the author of which processes to know the
murderers, and giving clues which is thought
must lead to their detection.
The first white child born in Cincinnati, is,
and has for a long time, been resident of
Pittsfeld, Illinois. Mrs. Nancy Heath was
born in Columbia, now Cincinnati, Jan. 1st,
1871, and is now 50 years of age. She says
that she has often heard her father say that
she was the first white child born there, and
that the guns of the Fort were fired, drums
beat, and a general rejoicing was had over
The event. Since then, what change!
John Y Brown, the youthful Democratic
member of Congress elect from the 9th dis
trict of Kentucky, will dodge the constitu-
tional provision requiring members to be Is
years of age, by keeping away from Wash
ington until the second session. Oonsldsring
the scarcity of democratic votes, it will be :
rare example of honesty and conscience, for
spolitlcian, should he take part in organic
ing the House.
A little child of Mrs. King, of Putnam
county, Ohio, was lost about fortnight ago,
and u day or two since its remains were
found about mile and half from Kalida.
When discovered the corpse was not entirely
cold, indicating that life had departed but a
short time before its discovery. The little
wanderer appeared to have been at the same
spot for several days together, from the fact
that numerous small playhouses were there.
1t had stripped itself of its clothes, which
were found spread out to dry.
A son of Mr.. David Nelson, of Spencer,
N. Y aged nine years, on the 9th ult., while
driving cow, in childish sport took hold of
her tail. By some means his hand became
'ast in the long hair when the animal took
fright and ran, dragging the child after her
over fences, through brush, aud into the
creek, when the agonized father succeeded
in extricating his boy. The lad, mangIed
and bruised shockingly, was brought home
senseless, and So remained until the 18th
ult, when he died.
There are four Shaker Societies in Ohio,
numbering l,059 persons: one in Connect
cut, numbering 200; two in Maine, number.
ing $50; two in New Hampshire, numbering
500; four in Massachusetts,, numbering 7O9;
two in Kentucky, numbering 900; three in
New York, numbering ,O50; making in all
eighteen Societies, each constituted Of sew
era distinct families or communities, reg.
ularly officated with elders, deacons, care
takers. &C., of both male and female orders,
according to their unique custom, and num-
bering in all some 4,600 members.
A letter in the New York Times, from
Niagara, says that NJ. Blondin is myth
that the story Of the tight-rope perform
| ance-of his carrying man over on his
shoulders - of his cooking omelettes and
dropping them from his perch over the river
to the passengers on the Maid Of the Mist,
is all fiction "a hoax scheme Of land
lords like the story of the sea-serpent, to
draw crowds and fill their houses. The wri-
ter says he has been all the season at the
Falls and there has been no Blondin there
aud no tight-rope performance whatever.
Edward Muliiken, aged ninety.four years
and months, died in Sidney, Maine, on the
9th ult' He was a Revolutionary pensioner,
having enlisted as soldier at the early age
of fifteen years-being SO small, as he often
remarked, that 'they had to str:tch him up
to make him measure enough" His physi-
cal and mental faculties were remarkable.
He has attended every town meeting for the
last fifty years, and has voted for every
whig and Republican President since Wash.
ington. A few weeks since he followed to
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