Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-12-23

A pocket umbrella is among the latest
inventions that have been patented.
The health of Mr.. Douglas is still such as
to require great care and attention.
Gerrit Smith continues to improve. and
his early recovery is confidently anticipated.
Kahn, who killed Singleton, the seducer
of his daughter, at Cincinnati, has been
tried and acquitted. 90"
Golden Syrup, manufactured from the
Chinese cane, in imitation of the ordinary
syrup of that brand, and quite equal to it,
it is said, is now sold in the Cincinnati
maakct.
The greatest work on the continent-the
Victoria Bridge, across the St. Lawrence at
Montreal-is SO far completed as to be used
for freight trains. Only the ornamental part
of the work remains incomplete.
We learn from the Church Journal that
Rev. DR.. Forbes, who recently left the Ro-
man Catholic Church, which he joined about
ten years ago, has been re-admitted to til g
communion of the Episcopal Church, but
not to the ministry. at 7e
They are putting up singed bacon, at Chi
cago, for the English market Instead of
scaldlng and pulling off the bristles, the car.
easses are covered with straw, which is set
on fire. Tho fbres of the pork are said to be
hrmer, when treated in this way.
There is no Sabbath law in California. one
of the last official acts OF the Infamous muir
derer OF Senator Broderick, Chief Justice
Terry, having been to pronounce the Sab
bath statute unconstitutional. The law was
similar to that of New York and other States
of the Union. ..
Beauregard, who murdered .Charston, at
st. Hyacinthe, Canada, last Spring, was
hanged at Montreal, en- Friday, 10th. He
made no confession, showed no signs of ire
pidation, and appeared to die without q
struggle. A great crowd witnessed the OK.
ecution.
There is singular fact connected with
the recent coal oil discoveries in Pennsyl-
vania. In many cases in the valley of Oil
creek the ground is covered with pits, dug
evidently for the purpose Of gathering oil,
and at period SO remote that trees $50
years old are growing over them.
Mrs. Catharine Benoist, one of the Oldest
native residents Of St. Leuis, died in that
city, on the 9Th inst, in her 10Th year. She
was the daughter of Charles Sanguinett, o
Canadian, who settled in St. Louis in lI73.
Her husband was one of the earliest mer.
chants of that city, and died in 1922.
The French war against Morocco is termi-
mated, the frontier tribes having offered to
submit to the French Commander-in-C Chief,
Gen. Martimprey. The cholera made more
ravages in the ranks of the French than the
enemy, their loss being estimated at one
ffths, which is enormous.
Margaret Fox, one of the Rochester rappers,
has published card, the gst of which is !:
! have for many years been stranger to
all spiritual affairs, and have never had any
acquaintance with these spiritual mediums,
or with the followers Of that subject.
have never associated with any of them,
neither the mediums or spiritualists.
NJ. Camille Vert, Partisan, has invented
a flying machine in the shape of 6 fish,
which, while in the air, he can guide in any
direction. The Emperor was present at the
trial trip, which took place under the high
ceiling of the Industrial Palace, and has
authorized a public exhibition of the nov ell
machine.
Lola Montez publishes card, defending
herself with much spirit from the accusation
of having abused America and Americans in
her lectures abroad. She says she is nat
uralized citizen of this country, and after
having seen something of almost every other
nation On earth, prefers it for home. She
asserts that, instead of abusing this country,
she always defended it.
Several of the party who left New, York
in August last by the schooner Nautilus, TO
make examination of the alleged gold dspes-
its among the Indian graves at Chiriqui,
have returned. They report that these dig
gings will not pay. In examining othor
localities, however, valuable gold deposits
were discovered in the shape Of aurifsrous
quartz, and fine gold in the beds of streams,
tempting specimens of which have been
exhibited. A small party is organizing to
return and renew operations, which were
suspended for lack of provisions and tools.
They sail on the 9Th of January.