Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-07-08
News PARAGRAPHS.

There is negro in Philadelphia who is
distinguished for the size of his feet. They
measure 81 inches in length.
The expectation of arms, munitions of all
sorts, horses, sailing and steam vessels. ma.
chinery, &C., is now forbidden by decree
of Louis Napoleon.
The wife of clergyman, in Boston lately
caught one of her feet in her hoop skirt in
such a manner as to throw her down with
great violence, and to break one of her legs.
The Liverpool steamship Arago went
ashore at Trespass Bay, New Foundland,
June 29th., and will probably prove total
loss. Passengers, crew and baggage, all
saved.
A terrible tornado recently passed over
Gloucester Co., Va, destroying twelve houses,
numerous barns and large amount of tim
Der. The only life lost, was that Of negro
cester Point and ork.
A gentleman returning from Nebraska to
Chicago, recently met between Cottonwood
Springs and Fl. Kearney, in the space of
three days, eight hundred and five teams,
which had started out for Pixies Peak, but
were then directed for California.
Henry sperry, noted clock manufactu-
rer and dealer, in New York, died recently.
He was from Connecticut, and was the
first to introduce the American clocks in
England. He took out hundred cases in
1912, on a speculation. This was the be-
ginning of traffic which has reached an
enormous size.
The New York Herald publishes list of
twenty four aspirants for the next Presiden-
cy-twelve of them being democrats. The
six republicans are: William II. Seward,
New York; Nathaniel P. Banks, Massa-
chusetts Salmon P. Chase, Ohio Simon
Cameron, Pennsylvania; John O. Fremont,
California John Mclean, Ohio.
Hon. W. NJ: Mills, late Mayor of the city
Of La Sale, ILL.,, highly esteemed citizen,
died on the 9th ult, Of the terrible disease
of hydrophobia. He was recently bitten by
his small household pet-dog, which he was
fondling at the time, and which proved to
be rabid, and the disease became violently
apparent in few days, and he died Of its
dreadful effects.
1t is limited that the New York police have
obtained knowledge of the existence in that
CITY of an organized band Of Thugs, who
entrap the unwary into certain street dens,
and there murder them for the booty on
their persons, and afterwards endeaver to
conceal their crimes by putting the bodies
into the river. The alarming prevalence
of dead bodies in the North and East rivers
is attributed to the doing Of these Williams.
Italy is about as large in territory as
three such States as Ohio. 1t contains 45,-
100000 people. The largest state is Ma
Piles. 1t occupies more than one third or the
peninsula. The pope ru 'es over about three
millions of people. The State OF Tuscany
has about swo millions, and Parma and
Modena one million of inabitants. Sardinia
has population of five millions, and is
nearly the size of South Carolina. The
States of Lombardy and Venice belong to
Austria in sovereignty, and contain i've
millions of people.
A comparison of the religious statistics
of Germany in 1870 with those of 1858 show
that the number Of Protestants itr nearly
every State has increased in q larger ratio
than that of the Roman Catholic. Whole
congregations of Catholics, or at least a
majority of them, have in a number Of in
stances become Protestants, and Rome has
lost to Professionalism four times as many
priests as she has gained proselytes from
the Protestant clergy. The whole number
of Protestants in the States of the German
confederacy is at present e, 900, 0O0-that
Of Catholics, %, l5o, 200,