Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-03-11

News Paragraphs.
Seventeen ocean steamers have lain idl
in the port of New York the entire winter
The Wings of North Carolina, encourages
by Virginia, propose to run ticket at tn
next election.
President Geffrard, the new ruler of Hayti
was inaugurated on the 23d of January, and
took the customary oath Of office.
The editor the London Times receives tn
same salary as the President of the United
States-$25,0 900 per annum.
There are $500 seamen row in the U. S
Navy, and 1896 marines. The total mum
Der Of vessels is eighty eight.
From the Upper Michigan mines the pas'
season, 5000 tons of copper have been ship
ped. Value nearly $3,OoO,O00.
Comfortable smoking cars, reading tables
and gas lights, are to be furnished on the
New York, Hartford, Springfield and Bos
ton Railway route.
Three murderers have been sentenced to
be hung at Chicago on the 9th of May. One
of them may possibly have his sentence
commuted.
Ouu EduClsCO uooy 0VCly AiShe
English, French and German theatres in full
blast. Probably no other city in the world
of 10000 population could say as much.
Wendell Phillips has recently received in
trust five thousand dollars, from a single
individual, to be used, prir rcipal and inter
est, for the Woman's Rights cause.
The dwelling of 7. Mccormick, at Can
andaigua, New York, was burned on Friday
last, and his little daughter, 8 years of age,
perished in the flames.
The carriage horses of Commodore Van
derbilt, of New York, cost him S 600, and
he has refused $9, 900 for them. They rep
resent more cash than any team in this
country.
Two members of one family in Bureau
county, H., "a child and an old lady,) suf-
ferlng from an inflammation of the eyes, were
almost simultaneously struck blind BY the
bursting of the eye balls last week.
The London Times says that single
message over the cable when first opened,
by which the embarkation of the Canadian
regiments for India was countermanded, !,
saved the Government at least $25O,oO0
Two rival candidates for Senatorial hon
ors in District No. Eight, New Hampshire,
Walter and Benjamin F. Harrington, are
brothers, who live on the same farm, and in
the same house.
On Tuesday morning of last week loco.
motive exploded on the Steubenville and
Indiana Railroad, few miles from Steuben.
vile. instantly killing the engineer, fireman
and brakeman.
The writer of the Burns Prize Ode for
which the Crystal Palace Celebration Com
pany tfered fifty guineas, is ayoung Scotch
woman, born in Edinburg, but resident of
London the last two years.
The great Indian mutiny has entailed up
on the Government of India a military ex-
penditnre of GlS,OOo, 900, beside amounting
to about E5 200, 900 more. The Sepoy out
break has thus cost the enormous sum OF
S21, 100000.
Ninety-two families were recently found
in Rock Island destitute Of any version OF
the Bible. 1t was also observed that where
the strongest opposition to the Bible was
met, the greatest amount of poverty and
vice prevailed.
Tho New York Central and other Rail.
road Companies are adopting the fashion of
Canada railways, in building their bridges
of iron on the tubular girder plan The New
York Central will in time rebuild all their
important bridges in this way.
Bayard Taylor saws the hot houses of the
Cars, in latitude 60 north, contain the
finest collection of tropical plants in Europe.
Palm trees are sixty feet in height, and there
are banks of splendid orchards. The hot
houses are about a mile and half in
length
The massacre of Methodist missionary
in Oregon, named Klitman, short time
ago, is confirmed by late documents sent to
the War Department. He crossed the plains
IN 1888 and settled in the Walla-W all val
1ley, where it is supposed he met his fate at
: he hands of the Indians.
Richard Golden, the celebrated English
statesman, who came passenger in the
Canada, has come to this country on bust
ness of strictly private nature. and will, if
possible, decline any public ovation that
might be offered him by our foolish funkeys
and silly snobocracy.
A woman in Michigan recently gave birth
to four children. and the Legislature hearing
of it passed resolution giving hes $40
acres Of land for the benefit of the children,
the land to be exempt from taxation till the
children are of age. The Governor, how
ever. vetoed the bill for the reason that the
nrecedent was dangerous