Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-06-24
Novys Paragraphs.

NoIys Paragraphs.
A perfectly formed dog. with six legs, was
recently born in Baltimore.
Eggs are selling in Minnesota at five cents
per dozen, and potatoes at forty cents per
bushel.
The subscription in New York to the fund
for the relief Of families of Italian soldiers
engaged in the war amounts to $4,000.
The St. Paul Pioneer gives the militia
the age Of eighteen and forty-6ve.
1t is said that there are several young
Americans in Paris mere boys who spend
800 per day in fast living.
The Supreme Court of California has
decided that idol.worship is not forbidden
by the Constitution of the United States.
Mr.. Fay, our Minister to Switzerland, will
soon be recalled. lie has not been within
the limits of the United States for thirty
years
The Hon. j. 4. Headley has been ap.
pointed by the New York Associated Press
their special correspondent at the eat OF
war in Italy.
The Cincinnatlans, to tie number Of about
1,1OO, visited Chicago last week. They
were formally received on Thursday, and
engaged in II general BENDER"
The ST. Louis News has a communication
from one Of the jury recently engaged in the
notorious 800, 900 breach Of marriage case,
in which the juror confesses he was Sold
The Swedenborgian General Conven' ion,
recently held in Philadelphia, will hold its
in 10 cd
nesday in June, in 1860.
Two little girls in Kenosha, Wis, one 10
and the other IL years of age, have been
arrested for burglary They lie a watch
and chain and various other things, and
were sent to Jail for thirty days. .
The Germans of Boston commemohk ted
the death of Humboldt by solemn exerc ses
at Tnrn Halle. George A. Schmitt, in
structor of German at HARVARD Coll ege,
pronounced the eulogy.
Phelan has, We are told, been challenged
to billiard match, by Roberts, the famous
British player. The stakes are set down at
$4,000 side. If the terms of the match
can be agreed upon, it will take place in the
Fall.
A barrel Of whisky took fire and exploded,
III IL u oCeIy " nAoolie, Ieeenely, causing Iue
death of Mrs. Kelly, the wife Of the grocer.
The head Of the barrel was blown complete
ly through the roof Of the building, and ev-
cry pane of glass was broken.
A Livingston county paper tells of man
who mixed large quantity Of arsenic with
several bushels of corn, and strewed it over
his fields, which killed the rats by thousands
The paper adds that six cart loads of dead
rats had been car led from the fields, and half
were not then removed.
Kit Carson has been sent from New Mex
loo towards Pixies Peak, to caution the mi
ners who are about extending their pros
pecting as far down as the Villa Salada, not
to provoke the Indians to hostility, and also
to urge the Indians to keep away from the
mining country.
A terrible tragedy is reported from the
vicinity of Milwaukee. Adam Rettig, q
from the city, butchered his wife with an
axe, afterwards shooting and sea ding her,
and then blew out his own brains. lie was
probably insane.
The colored people of Chicago, at a meet
ing on the 18th ult., which was very numcr-
Gus y attended, adopted resolutions declar-
ing it the imperative duty Of every oolored
man in the United States to emigrate to
lIayti, and appointed committee to open
Il correspondence on that subject with that
republic.
The remains of Alexander Hamilton, bu-
ried thirty seven years ago in the New lla
ven Cemetery, were lately eShumed, for the
purpose Of removing them to bridgeport,
where his sons remains were deposited a
few years since The coffin, of mahogany
is in an excellent state of preservation, and
the skeleton appeared perfect.
A "Commiltee of one Hundred on Pow
ers' statue of Webster have voted against
allowing it to be placed on the Boston State
House grounds. Mr. Everett opposed this
action, praised the statue as q work of art,
and said it faithfully represented MIR. Web,
sier at the age of A. to As. The people in
general do not think so, AMI are glad that
The State House yard is rot to be disfsured
by it.
A correspondent of the N. Y. Tribune
states that Warren Chase, noted infdel
and SpirituaIst lecturer, has recently as
serted and confirmed the staten ent, that the
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher is not only full
believer in modern spirituaism, but is also
q medium, and delivers his discourses under
spiritual influence and that he has known
this to be a fact for several years. In a
horn, most likely)