Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-10-21
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News FoK08F0pnS.
The scarlet fever IL raging in Cincinnati. I
twenty one children died Of that disease
last week. Z -
Gov. Wise, of Virgins, announces BY |
the failure Of the Manassas
Bank.
Hon. James Knox, Of the Fourth District
of Illinois, has gone to Europe for medical
old, having become blind from cataract.
Jenny Lind retains her full vocal powers,
but .hs sings only for charitable purposes.
She sang la,ely.is Dublin, when the profits
Of the oceaais 1nopnted to several thous-
and doll 81. -
The new "a the St. Louis court house
tas been an M Two competent arohi.
tects to be vnsafs, and ready to fall in at
any moment. It will have to be taken down
and another built, involving ON expense of
$4,000.
Abraham Apgar, of Tewksbury. N. j.,
being offered sack Of salt weighing $50 lbs.,
if be would carry it distance of one mile,
resting himself only once, accomplished the
feat few weeks ago, and didn't even draw
q long breath at it.
There have been some extraordinary do.
ings at Brownsville, Texas. A large party
Of Mexican banditti, on the 28th ult. attack
ed the town, killed FIVE citizens, freed the
prisoners from tina Jail, and committed other
outrages. They were quieted by the inter
ference # the Mexican forces from Mata.
moras.
Horace Greeley reached home on the night
of the 26th ult. Last Spring lie had prom
dali in
Wyoming county IN. ~, on the 28th, elf
took the cars immediat, ly on his landing
and delivered his address ut the appointed
hour This is characteristic of the man.
An arrival at St. Joseph, from Sioux City,
announces terrible malady among the
Omaha Indians, some so of their number
having died recently. The Indians think it
is the effect of eating the meat Of the buffa-
| 10, affected with bloody murrain. They had
thrown away all tho IN ,at of the one thou
ssnd buffaIoes which they had got for winter
use, and were preparing for another buffalo
hunt.
A voluminous correspondence will be laid
before Congress next session, which has ia.
ken place between this Government and that
of Prussia in regard to the forced military
service required of Prussans who have been
naturalized here. Prussia declines to con.
cede the principle contended for by us, of
the right of expatriation, but a. an act of
courtesy has yielded to our representations
in Individual instances.
A lady came near losing her life by a
singular accident, in Louisville, while riding
| 90 <,f IF al no
wore around her shoulders blew off, and was
caught in the spokes of one of the wheels.
and wound up in such a manner as to draw
ing her very severely, when a gentleman
stopped the buggy and relieved her.
PENNSYLVANIA ELEcrIoN.--T Republican
majority in Pennsylvania will reach $4,000.
Nearly all the counties have been heard from,
and the official account may carry it up to
$4,000. Referring to this result, Forney says
"When we consider that the vote is not
much more than two thirds of the whole vote,
and that the majority of this election is equal
to three fourths of the majority Of last year,
it shows that there IS an absolute increase
against the Administration"
In regard to the State Senate, there are
holding over eleven Republicans and eleven
Democrats. Eleven new ones were elected
this year, and the Republicans have made q
clean sweep of the whole batch. This will
make the next Senate stand % Republicans
to IL Democrats. Bigler's term in the United
States Senate expires March 4, 1861, and the
people of the Keystone State are impatient to
get rid of the old doughface, and, to make o
sure thing of it, they elected eleven State
Senator's, pledged to help turn him out, when
the time comes when it can be lawfully done