Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-10-28
News Paragraphs.


A list Of statistics states that the number.
OF suicides throughout the United States {:
averages about nine per week. yls8w rasE,,
The longest whaling voyage on record was 8
made by the schooner Exile, which arrived "a
at New London, having been absent six a
years, nine months, and twenty five days. I
Messrs. Eldreds 4 Bascom, the most exten-aa
sive lumber manufacturers and dealers of
Chicago, have failed. Their liabilities a.
amount to $3.50, 900 or 100000. a fa gglE
Mr.. La Mountains balloon, the All On ii 9, za
which was abandoned by him in the Canada ~
woods, has been secured and returned to n
Watertowu, somewhat torn, but serviceable.g ]!
The large new stables attached to the 70
q. 3. Barracks, at Carlisle, Pa. were
destroyed by fire on the night Of the 10th, %
together with Is horses and y quantity Of 4!
feed. .f.h' 'sH ~ -'@ laa'
The accounts from Louisiana agree in re.
gard to the damage to the growing sugar IL
crop. Private letters put the yield ct net 81
more than SOC, 900 hogsheads, which is 10, Cd
600 less than last year. $50 az.@ss 1sss
A valuable slave man, belonging to Mr.
Benton, of Sharpsburgh, Nd, hung himself
recently, in consequence Of his master re-
fusing to sell him to 60 South with color 2
ed girl upon whom his hearts affections had :
been placed. " aFis2 5,fg $50. "a
De Marbsis and his wife. whose narrow e.
cape from double tragedy Of murder and
suicide made q stir in Cincinnati some
months ago, are still in that city. The wo-
man.has recovered from her wounds, and the !,
man from his poison. ,-4.-f Il, sgg
Snow fell at Chstaugay, in northern New
York, on Thursday of last week, to the depth
of over two feet. Western New York was e
visited by q snow storm on the same day.
At Montreal, also, two inches Of snow fell i.
on Thursday night. e. t5gz
Land warrants have run down to q lew
ebb. They can be bought in New York at q
80s; but 40 nobody is buying, and the last
foot of land in Kansas has already been Ia. :
ken that could be pre-. empted, they would
hardly be profitable at that The failure of
Messrs. Sewell, Ferris & Co.,, bankers in
New York, was occasioned by their holding i
so many land warrants during the rapid Il
decline. ..- go. - !.
. Hon. J. r. Giddings publishes card de- :,
Tending himself from the insinuations im- 70
piled by the refusal ef Capt. Brown to am X
swer the question, in conversation with Ma.
son, Faulkner, and Vsllandigham, whether "a
he (Giddings) had been consulted about the d
Virginia expedition. He pronounces this
attempt to assail him dishonorable, and de-
mics having been consulted by Brown in re-
gard to this or any other expedition what e
ever. .a = Efr "a - q h qslt .assss5,5,
The late John Y. Mason, our Minister to .
France, who recently died at Paris, of s
apoplexy, was IS years of age, natiye.of
Virginia. He was in Congress from 1881 to
1887, was Secretary Of the Navy one year 3
uader Tyler, and one year Attorney General
and three years Secretary Of the Navy under !
Polk. President Pierce appointed him to !,
the French mission. Secretary Floyd 10 ].
talked Of ~ his successor, in which case M. =
Faulkner, Of Virginia, viii come into, the =
{ abinet. ~. -. -
Table Rock, once so conspicuous at Niagara !.
Falls, has quite disappeared, and the face Of
Goat or Lunar Island has also much retreat 4
ed. These facts justify the presumption =.
started by practical geologist, that in ten, a.
Or twelve thousand years hence the rocky, :.
ledge, which now eaases the falls, will b q
worn away, and the water will descend in 8 -,
series of rapids, similar to those which 49,
the st. Lawrence. This being "A
the. case, those who have not seen Niagara =
in its grandeur had better go soon. -, sga