Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-08-12

Lomoardy thirteen times.
q Sixty styles of moving machines are nov
/. manufactured and have good SALE e
Grasshoppers are said to be verp distruc
o tive to crops in some sections Of New Yorl
0 this season. " aa
. Large failures are recently reported i,
\ New York Of men who suspended in 1851
) and have been unable to 90 through.
A returning Pixies Peak party came t.
the Missouri nearly the whole distance BY
water, navigating the Platte.
. warm contro versy still continues in Chi
cago, St Louis, Philadelphia and New York
respecting the running Of horse railroads OIL
Sunday. @ ..e. sv rs
The emigration to Wisconsin and Mime.
sofa is said to be larger than for three
years past. A considerable portion of the
emigrants are Norwegians.
Sha-be-ne, distinguished Indian chief,
died at his wigwam, about fifteen miles east
of Ottawa, Ill. on the 18th ult. He was a
soldier with Blackhawk, and between SO
and IS years of age. -
Richard Golden has written q letter re-
specting the illinois Central Railroad, giving
his opinion, from an examination of the SUBJ
ject, that the lands owned by the company
will eventually entirely pay for the road.
The Omaha and Sioux Indians are having
frequent battles; one occurred one hundred
miles from Decatur, Nebraska, on the night
of the 23d ult. The Omahas lost seventeen
killed and seventeen wounded. The Omahas
took five Sioux scalps. -.s-
Mr.. D. NJ. Cook, of Mansfield, O., is now
engaged in lying machine, combining bal.
loon and steam power. The balloon is used
for elevating, and steam for propeiling the
air steamboat. Will Mr.. O. warrant against
colIapses and explosions? '"-'
o. Leonard, manager of Buckley s. Co.'s
Circus, was killed at White Springs, Fa :,
on the 1st isst., by Lewis Hogans. Hogans
was noisy about the tent, and Leonard or
dered him to be quiet, when Hogans drew a
knife and killed him on the spot.
The Michigan Central Railroad Company
have one Of the finest equipments in the
country. They have SO locomotives, includ-
ing AZ large passenger locomotives, 1ls
passenger, AZ emigrant, 33 baggage, 1926
freight, 2O6 wood. gravel and hand cars.
On the 25th ult., the land sales COM
menced at Leeompton, K. L. OF over 10,
900 acres offered, only 800 acres were sold.
The prospect is that but little land will be
sold during the sale. Those who wish t.
obtain lands can do so at a cheap rate by
locating land warrants.
The official returns of the earthquake at
Erzeroum, Turkey, on the I'd Of June, report
the number of dead at $50, of wounded at
200, and of missing 60. Of the 5000 houses
in the town, 1000 were totally destroyed,
1,500 seriously damaged, and about 1000
of the remainder were more or less injured.
| A notorious ruffian. known in southwest
ern Arkansas as Jack Cade, was recently
killed by woman whose husband he had
shot. The widow challenged him to duel,
and as the ruf6an declined, she attacked him
with a revolver and lodged three balls in his
body, one of which passed through his heart
| The latest intelligence is that the Nor
mons are fast disintegrating; many of the
women are applying for divorces, and are
ashamed Of their kind of life, and many are
leaving the territory. This fearful fabric.
like fungus of corruption, seems destined
to short life.
1t was the new artillery which decided
the day at Solferino. French hollow balls
can be fred with complete precision at two
miles distance. Fourteen seconds is required
for them to travel thatdi stance; when they
strike they burst with frightful effect. This
artillery completely demoralizes the Austri-
ans, and they pro6ted by the storm to retreat
An ingenious Scotchman has trained a
couple OF mice to turn small reel of twist
ing twine. The laborers run about ten
miles a day, and reel from about l08 to 12O
threads. A half-peRny's worth of oat meal
LISTS mouse five weeks, and the clear an
nual profit of each animal per year is COM
puted at six shillings. This beats the 'fin-
dustrious feas" ees sse -ss- ,-= 8
A carboy of muria ic acid burst in drug
store in Wheeling in the night. The c ERIK
awoke nearly suf Gated, made for the win-
dow ard stepp ng into the acid left the skin
of his foot on the floor. He got to thefresh
air, dragged the carboy Out Of doors, where
it spontaneously ignited, burning acid and
can and lighting up the street. All the paint
IN the store and labels were discolored and
the iron work oxidized.
A DR.. Hankinson has been arrested in
New York as a swindler, who pretended to
sell secret for transmitting all metals into
god at $l8 per pound, the waters of life at
81 a bottle which produced perpetual youth,
and various love powders and other charms
1t is startling fact, showing the amount of
ignorance and credulity among us, that DR..
Hankinson was in the receipt of from fifty
to one hundred money letters daily, and was
realizing rapid fortune. .,..s.
The Chicago Board of Trade have resolved
that the following prices be offered for the
best samples of wheat, to be exhibited at
the United States Agricultural Society, to
be held in that city in September next: So
per bushel tor the best 100 bushels spring
wheat 1925 per bushel for the best 100
bushels red winter wheat; $3.50 for the
best 100 bushels white winter wheat-the
Board of Trade to take the wheat and dis
tribute it for seed this Fall and next Spring.
George.W. Matsell, lato chief of police
in New York, is about to publish diction-
ary of the rogues' dialect-the words en-
ployed by thieves, burglars, stock jobbers
and other d. epredators upon property. A large
proportion Of the words are from the Gipsey
dialect, with a mixture of Hebrew and San
scrit, So perfect is the rogues' language, !,
that Mr.. Matsell declared that two thieves
of different countries, perfectly ignorant of
each others vernaculars, are able to con-
verse intelligibly by using this dialect alone
An Irishman named Dennis Shea recently
died in the State prison at Columbus, Ohio,
where he was serving out life sentence on
. verdict Of manslaughter. His dying de.
clarations, confirmed by other testimony.
leave NO doubt of his innocence. He found
man by the road side wounded and bleed
ing, and dragging him to ., spring was try
ling to restore him by applying water, when
he was discovered and seized as the MUIR
derer. His declaration of innocence went
for nothing, and after being placed in prison,
he gradually pined away and died of bro.
ken heart. Itis Q very cruel case. a.
!. ! SUNDAY LIQUOR SELLINa.-At tlfe late
election in St. Louis the question Of closing