Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-08-26
New. Paragraplls.

Mr. jeremiah Paul, we'll know residen
of Newark, N. j., died on the 7tl inst. from
lockjaw, caused by rusty nail entering hil
foot.
Stephen H. Houser, who was to have beer
hung last Friday at st. Louis for the muir.
der o. Farris, three years ago, has had hi
sentence commuted to imprisonment for life
All the pr soners in the Rock Island Jail
nine in number, escaped last week. Two ol
them were sub ,equently re-captured at Por
Byron. The rest are still at large.
Judge Daley. of the Common Pleas Cour
of New York, has recently decided, in re-
spect to the right of man to change his
name, that man may do it without any
order Of the Court.
The New York Post says that Blondin'.
next feat at Niagara Falls is to be the most
astonishing of all. He will trundle wheel
barrow over the rope. taking up the rope
and coiling it in the barrow as he goes along
George Loring, the abscr rnded Grand Mas.
ter of Odd Fell VS. in England, has turned
up in Clifton, Canada West. 1t will be rec,
objected that, before leaving England, he
stole $4,000 of the funds belonging to the
order.
Joseph NJ. Schloss, Hebrew, having
been arrested ut Cincinnati for violation of
the Sunday law, in exposing goods for sale.
it was decided that as he kept the Jewish
Sabbath, he had right to transact his ordi-
nary business on Sunday.
A Sick'es affair has occurred at Albany.
Mo. Dr.. Carter, the treasurer of the county,
was shot and fatally wounded by man
named Evans, whose wife has confessed an
imp, ,per intimacy with Carter. Evans gave
himself up to the authorities.
A lad in Chicago. who persisted in cling
ing to the rear of freight Car in order to
steal . ride, on the 10th inst, was thro wn
across the rail, the wheel passing over his
head and one of his arms, crushing him hor-
ribly, and of course killing him instantly.
The N. Y. Herald Of the 10th publishes
list in detail of al messages sent over the
Atlantic Cable during the few weeks it Was
in order. The list fills seven columns of
that journal, foots up as follows: Four hun
dred messages, 1859 words, 2S,2al letters
The Boar of Education of New York h IS
resolved to apply to the next Legislature fnr
an act empowering it to provide for free
vaccination Of children in the public schoo
and that no child. en be admitted to the pub
tic schools unless vaccinated. This is a
good idea.
The new wire bridge over the Ohio. at
Wheeling, Va, is composed of four cables,
each one thousand three hundred and eighty
feet long. Each cable is composed o: $50
strands of wire, making sing e strand of
9,273 900 teet, or within fraction Ut 1857
miles in length.
The blackberry trade between Kentucky
and Cincinnati amounts his year to about
$4,000. In Trimb.e county, KY. where
most of this bssi ess is done, the farmers
direct their attention to the cultivat on OF
blackberries, and the crop brings them in a
greater yield than wheat at 80 cents bushel.
The most elegant suite OF rooms in the
world is at the Hotel de Vile, IN Paris.
They form ci: emit of about half mile, and
REQUIRE tor their complete illumina ion g.
7l4 taper and 1887 &, S burners. 1000 Wis
itors can be accv,nm, d tied at once, without
discomf, .rt, iu these .paci"us ro.ms.
Two parties of ten hunters each, recently
closed a six weeks 'scalp hunt" in Arkan-
sas, with the following result: Birds and
amin ais destructive to farmers alone were
to be counted-such as hawks, owls, wild
cats, wolves, squirrels, sc Small birds
were not counted IN. lie hunters produced
the enormous number of fourteen thousand
scalps!
Th.re was q terrible tornado in Upton
county, Indiana, on ednesday, the 3dl nst.
Houses were blown down, tree. torn. up by
the roots, corn fields destroyed, and fences
prostrated. A large dam in Wild Cat Greek
was baled almost dry, and q large turtle was
found the same evening near y ml!e from
the creek. The cloud appeared to De almost
red, and whirled about with spiral motion
till it struck the earth with roar like the
discharge Of a cannon. NJ lives We're lost
The body of Elisha r. Sterling, a we'll
known citizen of Cleveland, was found on
the streets of tha, city, with his skull frac
tured, On the morning of the 7;h inst The
iury returned verdict of probable murder.
rh. City Council of Cleveland have au-
thorized reward of $4,000 to be paid for
the arrest and conviction the murderer.
| The county has also off red q reward OF ST.
600. The sum offered by VII. w. J. Warner
will make the reward amount to S3,5OO.
A splendid iron bridge has been construct
ed across Green river. in Kentucky, on the
Louisville and Nashville line, which, with
the exception of Victoria bridge, at Mon.
treal, is said to be the largest Of the kind
in America. 1t is 984 feet long fr' m abut-
ment to abutment and lis fee high above
low water mark. 1t is divided into five
spans, the two spa, at the extremes being
| l8o fee. long, and the three intervening 20e
feet each from centre to centre of pies.
Mrs. Betsy Danforth who mysteriously
disappeared on the Oath of July. from the
vicinity of Franklin, N. H., was found on
the 10Th inst, alive but reduced aim st to
skeleton, in a slough half a mile from the
house where she lived. She says the only
sustenance she had for twenty-six days was
water. Mrs. D. is "a years of age and par
italy insane. She was nnsucce> 8. ully search
ed for by large party of Citizens for two
weeks after her disapp 'arance, when al
hopes Of finding her were abandoned.
The last mail from Utah brought &C
counts of an attempt to pass cou terfe
warra, is upon the U. s. Treasury, purport
| ing to be igned by Maj. G. Il. Crossman
q. ), Quarter Masters Dep ,rtmens, a
Camp Floyd the counterfeiters, TWO Nor
mons, have been arrested, but it is doubtful
whether jury can be found in the erritor,
to convict them. The counterfeiting app T.
tus was found in the thurch- tith'ng otic
Of Brigham Young. Both prisoners are Of
high standing in the Church. to which als'
it is understood the profits of the transac
ton were to have Injured.
: Mrs. Billansky, murderess, convicted
, the murder of her husband, escaped fron
, the Jail at St Paul, (Minn.,) on Monda
night, July 26th. Some of the st. Pau
papers charge that her escape was due to tn
criminal carelessness, if not still moro Grim
) inal corruption, on the part of the jailo,
Sheriff Caldwell offers reward of $50
for her arrest. Mrs. Billansky is thus de