Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-06-24
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the shape OF metallic blinds.
Park Benjamin has opened real estate
Office at Philadelphia.
Elk Governor Thomas Whiffle, of Rhode
Island, died at Coventry, June 'th, aged l.
DR.. Elizabeth Blackwell is lecturing with
success at Manchester, England.
n Westera exchange says that Garibaldi
kept coffee house in Cincinnati a few years
ago, and retailed liquor by the dram.
A Bowery boy says his Occupation is
gone," for all the sewing girls now "run vic
dc mashccn.''
| Ripe peaches have made their appearance
in Savannah. They were raised in Burke
county, Georgia.
Much excitement prevails in Tallnadge
county, Alabama, in consequence Of the
discovery of gold mines.
! A Young man in Southern Berkshire
lately gave birth to Il baby whose paternity
she charges upon her own brother.
| Max Mlretzek has sued Carl Formes fol
$25 900 damages for alleged non fulfill
ment of contract to s.ng in Havana
! Prof Agassiz has received from Brazil a
butterfly that measures ten feet from the TIP
of one wing to the other.
A colored gentleman who claims to be the
veritabe George Harris, of Uncle Toms
Cabin, is now lecturing in Cleveland.
The people of IIadley, Mass, celebrated
the two hundredth anniversary Of the settle.
ment Of that town, on the Sth inst, with
great eclat
Twelve hundred and six sheep have been
killed by dogs at Muskingum county, Ohio
according to the return of the assessors, du-
ring the year 1859, and 7S6 wounded.
Some papers have queer way of talking.
For instance, the Boston Gazette boasts of
the ''healthy growth of cemetery in that
nei Q hborhood.
A marriage broker of Cincinnati has just
obtained q judgment of three dollars and
costs for services rendered in procuring a
husband for widow.
Gen. a. C. Dodge, of Iowa, late U. s.
Minister to Spain, and P. I. Barnum, the
great humbusger. have recently lived in
New York from Europe.
An emisrant who WIS on his way to Pi ke's
Peak was fortunate enough to be struck by
lightning, last week, before La had gone be-
yond st. Joseph.
The amount raised for railroads in India,
on which the British Government has guer-
anteed four and five per cent, is $160, ,00O,-
900, whereof about $l05, 100000 have been
paid up.
Inquiry is made-who's Thompson, he
that beat Morphy? We understand that he
is the Broadway confectioner, whose saloon
has long been famous, and even now rvals
the illustrious Taylor.
regular prize fight will shortly occur
near Louisville. dublin Tricks" well
known among head breakers, proposes to
pummel Coley, of Cincinnati. The former
is now training in Louisville.
Twenty four of the persons concerned in
the whipping of Henry G. johnson, tlief,
in Pike county, Illinois, have been bound
over in $3.50 each for trial. They comprise
some of the most influential farmers in the
vicinity.
MIR. William Shapleigh, of Parsonville,
Me-, while engaged in narrowing, was
thrown down by one of the oxen, and in
jured in such q manner that. after lingering
in great pain for thirty.six hours, he ex-
pired. His age was about IS
AS a name for the magnificent new hotel
which they are building in Philadelphia,
correspondent of the United States Gaz-
cite suggests -s'rhe now-and forever-one-
and-inseparable Union House of Entertain
ment for man and beast!'
A mans wife lately died in New York,
and upon exhumation of the dy, not
trace of poison was found in it. This is
regarded as remarkable proof of the ad
vancemcnt of virtue and domestic happ iness
in that exemplary city.
At the grave of Humboldt the United
States were represented not only by our
Minister at Berlin, but by representative
from each State of the Union, gathered for
that purpose at Berlin from different parts
of the continent.
Hackett, the great personifier of Jack
Falstaff, has recently been married to
young lady not yet out of her teens, and
will shortly depart with her for Europe for
a prolonged absence. The groom is at least
fifty and the bride only fifteen.
The barque Massillon sailed from Cleve-
land on Friday for Europe, with cargo Of
slaves and black wa, nut and maple lumber.
She is commanded by Capt. Richard Flood,
an old sea captain, and sails for the port of
Queenstown, Ireland.
some thousand lambs passed through Rich
m0Dd, Mo-, few days since, en- route for
California About 400 of the flock died,
after being sheared, in Pettis county during
late cold rain in that section of country.
Benton N. Perley, liquor seller Of New.
buryport, Mass, who had been confined for
four months in the House of Correc: ion for
violation of the liquor law, received
public reception from his friends on his re-
turn home on Wednesday. A shower inter
fered with the fun.
The Paris Prose- states that NJ Pertz,
librarian at Berlin, has just discovered the
manuscript journals of two Genoese naviga-
tors, Teodoso Dorio and Ugolino Vivaldi,
who doubled the Cape of Good Hope in
1890, or two hundred and seven years before
Vasco de Cana.
A Baptist church was struck by lightning
at New Haven, CT, on Friday. The damage,
however, was but triiing. The same church
was struck by lightning about year since,
20 that the old adage that ''lightning never
strikes but once in the same place" is
proved to be false one.
The Vicksburg Su,, says: Mr.. Barnes,
who resides on the Louisiana side of the
river, has large Durham COW which swims
across the Mississippi river every morning
ana evening. one s"lhs oSe. 'niS uo IL
the morning to pick grass, and swims back
in the evening to be milked.
Among the manuscripts left by Humboldt
is geographical work of greater extent
than any hitherto published. All his im-
n,ense library he bequeathed to his servant
Sieffert, as we'll as the small remainder of
his property, except some few gifts to friends
AZ mementoes Seifert had served him
faithfully for 33 years.
A Boston paper states that of 953 clergy
men attending the late anniversaries in that
city, but 73 wore the professional badge,
the white cravat. The growth Of hair on
the faces of many of the divines, was an
other sign that they are willing to stand as
men among men; and to find their appro-
pirate distinctions in something Of more