Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-04-29

Inc jews OF NEW OrK are about TO build
a synagogue at a cost of 100000.
The President has postponed the sale Of
the agricultural lands in the Cambridge Dis
trict, Minnesota.
A justice in Troy, N. Y, has actually
sentenced man to twenty five days i'm
prisonmcnt for stealing an umbrella.
The State of Ohio annually appropri
ates $82, 1000 to the purchase of school ap-
paratus and books for her school libraries
John Campbell, convicted in PHILADELPHIA
Of robbing an unknown man of nine cents
has been sent to the penitentiary for three
years.
j. A. Lingo has been convicted at Mari
eta, Ca, Of the killing of Robert Duncan
and sentenced to be hung on the 9th oil
May.
One-fourth Of the deaths in London arc
from consumption, and one, ighth of the
deaths arise from drinking spirituous Ii.
quors.
A law recently passed in Maine establish
es the annual salary of the members of thu
Legislature at $3.50. They can sit twelve
months, if they please, for this princely
sum.
The jackson monument in New Orleans
has risen to the height of 70 feet, and Il
feet more are required to complete it, call
ing for an additional outlay of $2l ,000,-
The Monument AS ISOLATION is making ar
attempt to raise funds.
A bill for dividing California into two
States has passed the lower branch Of the
Legislature. Should the Senate concur, the
consent of Congress will be required to give
effect to the law. 1t is not very likely tc
pass muster at present.
The mock auctioneers in New York city
have agreed, and so informed the Mayor, tC
be honest in future, by selling brass watch.
es as such and gold watches for what they
really are, and to refund the money in all
cases where the purchaser thinks he has
been cheated.
General Twiggs has ordered out cavalry
force for active service against the Indian:
in Texas. Major Van Dorm is charged with
the duty of securing the country to the west
ern line of the State The force numbers
about one thousand men. The settlers on
the frontier complain bitterly of new out.
RACES from the savages.
A late Act of the Massachusetts Leeisla
ture prescribes that loaf Of bread shall be
two pounds in weight; and bread may be
baked and sold in loaves, half, three quar-.
tiers. and quarter loaves, but not otherwise
except in bread composed in chief part Of
rye or maize. Small loaves of clancy
bread" may be made and sold without re.
gard to weight. Every shop where bread
is sold shall post conspicuously in the front
window list of kinds and price.
Hon. George NJ. Bib died at GEORGETOWN
d. @, on the 18th inst, in the S2d year OF
his age. Mr.. Bib had been Chief Justice
of the Supreme Court of Kentucky, United
States Senator for two terms, Chancellor of
the Louisville Chancery Court, and Secre-
tary of the Treasury, under the administra-
ton of President Tyler Since his retire
ment from Office he has resided in the
District of Columbia, practising his profess
sion. lie at one time occupied very
prominent position,
Mrs. Antoniette Blackwell nee Brown
preached at the Music Hall, Boston, in the
pull pit Of Rev. Theodore Parker, Sunday,
the 18th. She took for her text the words
'Bear ye one another's burdens" and de-
livered quite an orthodox essay. In read
ing the Scriptures, irreverent people smiled
when she came to the passage in the thir-
teenth chapter of first Corinthians, 'sWhen
was a child spake as child, understood
as child, thought as child but when
became man put away childish things"
In pursuance Of orders from the War De-
paftmeht, trio --.-.,itinr servica thronrbout
the United States was discohiSHIinuuHdrt.o
Doth ut. The ranks of the army are now
not only full for the first time in twenty
years, but there is considerable surplus Of
recruits from which to ill future vacancies.
The unusual prosperity of the recruiting
business may be attributed partly to the de-
PresoiHe -Ge~t af the financial revulsion, but
mainly to the increase Of tho soldiers nav
about four years ago up to the decently re-
munerative standard of $l1 per month for
foot, and Sl2 for cavalry service.
in Cincinnati, a day OR two since, while
some boys were playing in the street, one of
them playfully pointed pistol at one of
his playmates, and it went off, entering the
forehead of the lad, killing him almost
instantly. The boy with the pistol, becom-
ing frightened at the unfortunate result of
his sport, ran away, and another was arrest
ed by mistake; but the boy who actually
fired the pistol afterwards appeared and
gave himself up, and in the greatest distress
of mind and almost heart broken, related
the circumstances Of the accident. The
coroner's jury found a verdict Of death by
accident, and the boy was discharged.