Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-08-19
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News Paragraphs.
A lot of land in ST. Louis, 10 feet front
by 10 in depth, was recently sold for $685.
600; which is said TO be the highest price
ever paid for land in that city.
A first class locomotive costs about 80
600; passenger car So 900; baggage car
$1,000; freight Car $3.50; a gravel col
$3.50. The iron of railroad costs from
S., 900 to $4,000 per mile.
Tie $25, 900 salary of Mr.. Moran, Presi.
dent of the New York and Erie Railroad,
has been reduced. The affairs of the road
have gone into chancery, receiver has been
app ,inted to manage the finances, &c.
David Bronson, the artist, died at Little
Rock, Arkansas, July 10Th, aged about fifty
two years. He was New Yorker and a
companion of the celebrated traveller, Ste
pAeus, in the Holy Land.
The body of John Wilkinson was found
on the railroad track near Chicago, the head
in one place, the arms and legs in another,
and the chest in another, and near by IN
empty whi ky bottle.
"Old DR. James, the retired physician,
is letting the balance of his sands run out in
England, and advertses regularly in the
Times and other papers, as willing to com
mum cate for stamps
During thunder storm on the 2 at Sing
Sing, N. Y, the electric fluid entered the
telegraph office, burst the gas pipe, ignited
the gas, set the building on fire, but was
extinguished without great damage.
Chief Justice Taney, of the U. S. Su-
preme Court, is in the eighty third year of
his age. His eight associates in the court,
with one single exception, are three score
years and ten, and some Of them considera-
bly, exceed that number.
Edmond l.. Griffith, a Baggage Master on
the Illinois Central Railroad, Committed sui
eide in Chicago, on the 4th inst. This step
was taken in consequence of the involved
state of his pecuniary affairs. He leaves a
wife and family.
The ticket wagon of Van Amburg's Man
agerie is claimed to have been robbed of
$l,275, on the night of the I'd inst, at
Moorsville, Morgan county, Ind. A reward
of $500 is offered for the recovery of the
money and conviction of the th,et.
The people of Norwich, Conn.,, are pre-
pairing to celebrate the 200th anniversary Of
the settlement of that town on the 7th and
Sth of September. The corner stone of a
Monument to John Mason, one of the ear
liest settlers of the town. is to be la ID. lion
John a. Rockwell is to deliver the oration
and Mrs Sigourney to contribute hymn.
Great excitement prevails among the cit
izens of Napoleon, Arkansas, consequent
upon the murder of Mr.. Harding, well
known citizen and prominent lawyer 81 thai
place. The deed is supposed to have been
done for money, as Mr.. Harding had col.
leeted some $1,000, the greater part Of
VIII ch was in his possession at the time o1
the murder
In the case of the Jew boy Mortara, wht
was taken from his parents, conveyed tt
Rome, and now is retained by the Pope, al
hope of rescue seems to be at an end. Tit
Jews, all over the world, have exerted th~m
selves to accomplish his deiverance, iI
which they have had the active sympathy o.
Protestants-the champions of religious lib
erty. As last effort Sir Moses Montefore
distinguished Israelite Of England, mad
specia visit to Rome in hopes he coult
have personal interview with the Pope OF
the subject. The nearest he could get to tn
.'Vicar of Christ" was an interview with tn
famous Cardinal AntoneIli, who assured hin
that, as the child had been baptized, i
would be contrary to the laws OF the llo
See to allow it to returnto its parents with
out that religious education to which it wa
entitled as member of the Roman Catholi
Church.
Virginia Stewart, of Mobile, the woma
who was shot by her paramour, Mcdonald
at the corner of Broadway and Canal streets
New York, on the 2sd of July, died on tn
4th inst. at the hospital, where she wa
taken at the time of the shooting. Befor
her death she became entirely sensible 0
her situation, showed great penitence, re
ceived the last sacred ordinance of the Ro
man Catholic Church and died requestin
her mother not to prosecute her murderer
The case has attracted great deal of tn
attention of medical men, from the fac
that she fingered SO long (thirteen days
with a bullet in her brain. Upon a po!
mortem examination, the ball was foun
close by the ori6ce of the wound, in the lei
, hemisphere of the brain, anu a piece o. - "a
~ sKuIi, corresponding III sino ~-.., -
found bshnd,is. Tie, skull was fracture
hLip the vicinity of the wound, and aquantit
of nextravasated blood was found betwee
tha.scalp and the bone. J. .-;,.. =