Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-07-29
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News P;.ragraplls.
Two men were killed at the Washingtc
Navy Yard by the bursting of a cannon o
. ,he llth.
}, The average temperature at Tu bac, Ariz
onia, the present season, ranges from lO8 {
n to 1900 in the shade.
0 A national association of Germans ha
Q been organized, for the object of erecting il
= = the city of Washington, an equestrian statu
y y Of Gen. Steuben
: A Church has been purchased for tn
Deaf and Dumb in New York, in whicl
services ara to be conducted, after the frs
OF August, in the sign language.
Mr.. La MountaiH has challenged Mr.. Johl
Wise to test their "relative capacity, scien
=, tiically considered, in trial trip from
San Francisco to the Atlantic seaboard
with balloons"
Forty-fve of the New York Insuranc,
Companies have declared their July divi
dends. The average is 8 per cent. Tel
Companies go up to 10 per cent, and seve,a
to II and Is per cent!
"Ned Buntline," the story-writer and
} otherwise notorious character, now lives
soberly and happily with his wife, way up
in northern New York, hunting, fishing, and
writing for the N. Y. Mercury.
The June number of the Cosmopolitan Ar,
Journal contains a magnificent representa-.
tion of that bully bird, the American Eagle,
doing just what it ought to do guarding the
''sperrit" of Washington.
Elias Howe, Jr, who has purchased P. T.
Bsrnum's famous place in Bridgeport, Conn.,,
is the inventor of the sewing machine nee
die, which, We arc informed, yields the pat
entee the Snug sum of $1,000 day.
Those whose fondness for trinkets, and
their display, is only second in their desire
to be in the tip of the fashion, may be inter-
ested to learn that in Paris, now nobody
wears gold in the street.
During the last week a member of DR..
Cheever's Church, in New York, was excom-
municated for asserting that there is no
authority in the New Testament for keeping
Sunday after the manner of the Jewish sab
bath.
The Coroner at St. Louis held inquests
on the bodies Of eleven person. who died of
sun stroke in that city On Friday and Satur-
day. July 18th and 10th. In Cincinnati i,
during the same period, there were nine
| deaths Oy sun stroke.
The first sale of public lands in Nebraska
commenced at Omaha July 5th and contnu-
ed four days. 1895 acres We're sold for
$50 Not more than three hundred per-
sons were present, and settlers claims were
invariable respected.
Gen. Tom Thumb (Charles L. Stratton) is
nu lis W y home from England. He is now
OF age, IS a smart little man, and declares
himself IN he matrimonial market. Here's
chance for me young lady to secure a
nice IL tie pet and fortune to boot.
Sine, the 4'h # July it has been unlaw III
ia the Stat, of \rkansas to pass any bank
bill "t les den animation than $40. After
the At, "t ly. 1860, no bill OF less de-
t.nn. THIS is approximating to specie
currenC,.
Soterino. which gives its name to one If
t.. greatest battles in the worlds history, is
q village of a <trian Italy, 18 miles West
-. Mantua and containing about l095 in,
h.bitsnts In 1896, the Austrians were here
defeated by the French prior to the siege OF
! Nantua.
The Chicago Press records the singular
| fact in that market that standard spring
wheat has been offered in exchange for No.
corn, bushel for bushel, The corn being
nominally one cent the highest. Subse-
ouenlly wheat rose to the level of corn, and
several thousand bushels were exchanged
even.
The politicians of Tennessee of both par
ties repudiate Gen. Cass' doctrine lin the
Hofer and LIE Clerc letters,) in regard to
naturalized citizens. The Hon. Isham G..
Harris. the Democratic candidate for Gov
ernOr, has written q letter, in which, while
attempting to screen the Administration, he
is compelled to repudiate the Cass doctrine.
The uylng advice Of Prince Metternich to
Francis Joseph, in relation to the present
war, i. said to have been: "Defeat is no:
des,ructi m; a city, a fortress may be rebuilt
AN Empire never. Listen to no advice
hearken to no propositions of peace; and,
above all, enter into no treaty whatever,
either with the Bonapartes or the House of
Savoy"
Naples dates of June IA states that the
forges OF Vesuvius, are active, and large
river of fire is laying waste the rich lands
giving promise Of harvest. From Naples
the river appears arrested AMI attached to
the mountains, but within the last six
months it has increased wonderfully in its
proportion, until the sheet of fire has risen
and overAowed its banks.
Two Indians at Troy, N. Y, started with
the thermometer at 900 in the shade, to per-
form matched foot race of 100 miles with
in l3 hours. One gave out in the 23th mile,
leaving his rival to accomplish the feat
alone. He ran so miles in seven hours and
twenty. four seconds, but on the sixty6rst
mile, ut which time he had used up nine
hours, and twenty nine minutes and 80 sec
oud.. he gave out. No such distance was
ever accomplished in the same time on foot
The horrors of the Michigan Southern
Railroad accidenr are not all told. recenf
letter says of the scene: "The ground was
strewed with heads, arms, legs and dead
bodies. saw several with their backs bro
ken, and their lower limbs paHlyzed, with
!. ing in the sand Some Oh them would
clutch me as passed with grasp from
W. ich it was almost impossible to free my
self. several beautiful boys and girls were
taken from the water and lain on the bank
They were drowned, but looked beautiful in
deaeh. Others were crushed between the
wheels, with their faces and hands upturneC
in suppicating manner"
DsLu~1oN SMITH, OF OREGON. Another
great l,gh. Of democracy has been snuffec
out. Un ted States Senator Delazon Smith
better known for nearly twenty years al
"Delusion' Smith, whose term ex ired las
March, in ended to be re elected by the Or
!. eyon legislature, but though the par y had
forty three out of the fifty members, ane
though Delusion obtained the caucus nomi
ma ion by % to 81, his opponents joining
the Republicans, prevented a joint conven'
, ton.
There was little scene between Senator
Hale aud Delusion last winter, which Is tot
GOOD to be lost, and which we have Heve