Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-09-23
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| During the last three months 4,747 chil'
rem have died in New York aA average ,
fifty per day! ti4 a}sle
The Revs. Antoinette Brown Blackws
and Susan B. Anthony are lecturing in th
northern part of New York. ss.seas4
Col. cambridge, who owns peach orcl
ard near Jonesboro, Illinois, has been sent
ing the fruit to Chicago at the ratio Of 6ft
baskets n day, and selling them at 81 . bs'
ket. Not bad business. gasg1s
The valuable miscellaneous and law Ii
brary of the late Rufus Choate will be pub
licly sold next month. The miscellaneou
library comprises upwards of 1000 vol
umes; the law library 5000.
The last feat of Biondin was walking tn
rope over Niagara river with his feet in bas
kets.. 1t was proposed that he should mex
90 over with his head in his pocket, but j
IS announced that the rope has been takel
down for the season. '" seq 'a.
WIN. Owney, of Southampton county, Va.
died few days since, aged 100 years and
months. lie was engaged at the battle ol
DENuuy VINE, Hnu HASV ~ oscIoOu1Sui vn'
when Arnold paid that town visit. Tht
old soldier had never taken medicine in nj:
life. 3s tt' sEs "t -A" tst3
The monument in honor of the late EN-.
peror Nicholas was inaugurated in ST.
Petersburg July 7th last. 1t cost over
$500, 600, took three years to build it, first
under the superintendence of the sculptor
Mon.ferrand, who, on his death in June,
1858, was succeeded by Yerzeinoh.
N. P. Fetterman, an attorney Of Pitts
burgh, Pa, has imported pair Of Ecliptcn
dan breed of chickens. Instead of feathers,
they are covered with hair like that OF q lap
dog, and have fanciful red ornament on the
top of their heads. They are as white as
snow, and are really beautiful.
Some fellow, who took advantage of o
dark night of last week, to steal a pet melon
from German, near Alton, in his haste to
leave, incoasiderately left the tail OF his
coat sticking on the sharp points of the pick
ct fence that surrounds the enclosure. In
the pocket of the fragment, a valuable silver
watch was found. The German has no COM
plaints to offer.
Mr.. A. Jr. Knight, Of Belmont, Wis, in
the Spirit Of the Times, makes this BET !:
"lst, will bet $500 that Wat Jones, of
Belmont, Wis, can raise more at 'arms.
length than any man in the United States.
I'd, will bet $1,000 that he can throw
down, out-ruu, outjump any man in the
,oorld. The money is now ready on appli-
cation to me at Belmont.'
The New York letter writer's keep an eye
out for weekly paragraph at the expense
Of Senior Oviedo, the old Cuban Of "untold
wealth. who is about to marry the young
and beautiful Miss Bartlett. One of these
fellows has had squint ut the brides t'os.
seau at Genin's, and says that seventy-five
dresses are now ready for her, while her lin
gerie French for clean clothesD cost two
thousand dollars.
A marble sarcophagus for the remains of
Henry Clay has just been completed in Phil
adelphia. IT is designed for the monument
now erecting in Lexington, Ky. 1t is cut
from a solid block of marble of the shape of
a coffin, and the interior is Of sufficient size
to admit the leaden case containing the re-
mains of the departed statesman. The outside
Of the sarcophagus is beautifully carved
with appropriate enblems.
BENJAMIN Whitlock, merchant on Beck.
man street, New York, owns an estate of
one thousand acres in Westchester, on which
be is erecting palace, not yet completed,
after the style IF the Tuilleries, With sta
Bile of sixty horses, and other things to
match. 1t has cost him already half mil
lion of dollars, and the plans are only half
carried out. When completed it will be the
grandest country seat on the western conti-
nent.
A female domestic in England lately gave
notice to her master that she was about to
leave him to be married. Her master re-
fused to accept her notice, but in spite of
The master then obtained the services of an
officer who arrested the delinquent and car
ried her before magistrate. The official
sentenced her to pay fine Of FL and to re-
turn to the service of her master, and the
science was put in immediate execution.
OREGoN NEws.-The dates from Portland
are to August 5th. The official returns of
the Congressional election give the seat to
Stout, the Democratic candidate, by l6 ma
jority. 1t is probable that Logan will con-
test the seat at Washington, but may not, Us
the expenses of such a contest would be
very heavy:
Senator Delazon Smith is about to
start new Democratic paper, to be- called
the Oregon Democrat, at Portland. 1t is
to be devoted to the welfare of the Ex-
Senator and his claims upon the people Of
Oregon for reelection in 1860 to seat in
the U. S. Senate. Delazon stulnped the
State for Stout, and means to be repaid for
all he does.