Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-04-08
News Paragraplls.

Baltimore, in chartering City Railroa
has fixed the fare at five cents, reserving OF
cent on each passenger to create fund
buy large City Park with.
In Wheeling, Va, an old man named Nj
Elroy, who has long been supported at th
pubic expense, has been discovered to hay
at interest about $4,000.
The Washington Union, the organ {
President Buchanan's Administration, ha
been sold to Col. Geo. W. Boardman, VIII
takes possession on the llth of April.
Awoman in New York recently complain
ed against Chatham street merchant fo
selling her horse-hair mattrass lined wit
rat tails!
Hamilton, who shot his wife at st. Loui
the other day, and then put q pistol bal
through himself, has died frsm the injur,
sustained. His wife is getting well.
In his new work On Ancient Egypt, Bar
on Bunson comes to the conclusion that tn
land of the Pharaohs was inhabited 'b..
men who made use of potters," 1000 year
before the Christian era.
The steamer Quaker City at New Orleans
brings intelligence from Australia that tn
bark Yemaudile had been wrecked and ont
hundred and fifteen lives lost, at the mouth
of Macinac river.
The latest style of hoop-skirt is the self
adjusting, double back action hustle, etrus
can lace expansion, Piccolomini attachment
possamer indestructible. 1t is very
charming thing. $50 We are told.)
"The Hidden Hand" "a "blood and thun
der'' story in the New York Ledger was
advertised in over 1000 papers throughout
the country, at an expense of about $500
to Bonner, the publisher. Viva Ia bagatel'e
Aman named Foster, convicted of bur
elary, was executed at Charleston, S. O., or
Friday, the 25th ult. South Carolina, We
believe, is the only State in which burglary
is punishable by death, and this is probably
the only instance in which such sentence
has been carried into effect.
A negro at Cincinnnti is turning white
his back, one arm and shoulder having be
come perfectly Anglo-Saxon in appearance
and the wh,teness is gradually extending -
When he is thoroughly bleached will he have
constitutionally any s'rights that a white
man is bound to respect?'
A young mechanic of Springfield, Mass,
has made an important improvement In
sewing machines. It's value consists IN
preventing the machine from starting back
ward, and enabling the operator to start II
at any point with his feet, and without any
use Of his hands, and to run it by his feet
alone, at any rate, slow or fast, he may
choose. 1t can be applied to any machine
For some two or three years past. there
has been but one steamer line to California
which has had everything its own way
Recently new line has been started. The
effect has been to reduce the prices Of passage
The Illineis, which left on the 7th, and the
Northern Light on the 10th of March, car
ried, together, about one thousand passen
pers-the first which is the mail steamer.
taking them for 500 and the second for 500
Some steerage passengers, it is stated, ob'
tanned throug Oh tickets for twenty five dol
lars-the price only Of the tickets fol
crossing the Isthmus.
The Utica Herald has been shown draf
Of yery handsome monument to the aeronaut
Ira j. Thurston, which Mons. Carlincourt
of that city, has had prepared. 1t represents
the unfortunate Thurston cllnging to tht
valve board of his balloon, from which he
was precipitated to the earth, and the in.
scription recites the manner Of his DEATH
Mons. Carlincourt proposes that the AFRO
nauts of the United States shall get up thu
monument, and he is now corresponding
with Messrs. Wise, La Mountain, and others
proposing that each shall give an ascension
and appropriate the proceeds to the pur'
chase Of the monument.
Nearly three weeks have been consumed
in the trial of William Stephens, in New
York, on a charge of having poisoned hi'
wife. The charge was made by two niece.
of the deceased, who are themselves impli
Gated by part of the testimony. In the an
alysis the whole of the body Of the deceased
was reduced to half gallon of liquid which
was found to contain arsenic. The counse
for the prisoner contended that by the same
process arsenic would be found in every
body, and that the deceased was not pois
oned either by her husband or niece. The
jury on the 26th gave verdict of murder
but the prisoners counsel have given notice
for an application for new tria', and tn
prosecuting attorney has applied to th'
court to commit James Hanna, susan Han
ma, Isabella Bennett, and Maria Hanna, al
witnesses for the defence, on a charge oi
perjury.
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