Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-09-02
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The cranberry and whortleberry crops are
about total failuresin Minnesota this seas on.
St. Louis seems to be very sickly this
season. The interments for the week end.
ing Aug. goth, were 1853. ~ N
Two steam plows Wilde on exhibition at
the Illinois State Fair at Responsibilities.
of Pa, and Fields, Of Seneca Falls, N. Y
The st. Louis Court House has already
cost 81 100000, and it is thought will cost
a million and quarter before it is finished.
There is large business done in neckties,
One firm in New York manufactured $780,
900 last spring, and have been all summer
selling Them. "--sa.A 81. .sas1 .ss
child recently fell from q third story
window in Cincinnati, upon dog, which it
Instantly killed, while the child toddled in
differently away aavaa 9ss 81 Fs.zig
A young man named Foster, employed as
!, breaksman on the Chicago and Rock Isl
and Railroad, was instantly killed near Jol-
let on the 9th ult., by falling between the
cars, ~ssr.rss.7--g I'd. . s.....-.sA z
Col. Hickey. of Miss, who served in the
Mexican war with Gen. Quitman, and dis
tinguished himself at the battle of Monterey,
recently fell into the Mississippi river from
the deck of q steamer and was drowned.
The ST., Joseph Gazette says that about
the LIST ult., a man on his way to the Mines.
with abou5 $4,000 in his possession, was
robbed and murdered by party of rufians,
who had not at last accounts been arrested.
The fool hardy feats of M. Blondin at
Niagara Fails prove perfect god-send to
the railroads centering there and the first
class" hotels Astounding in that locality.
Go it = anything to keep up business.
Some beautiful specimens of the Cashmere
Fair next month, by Mr.. G. B. Long, of
Kentucky. Some Of these ANIMALS were
imported into this country at great expense
The Vcrm ont & Canada r. r. cars were
recently detained several hours in going
from Rutland to the next station South, a
di-tauco Of but miles, in consequence Of
the track being covered with myriads of
grasshoppers.
The people of Carson Valley, now part
of Utah, are throwing OFF the Mormon yoke.
They have called Convention and will ask
a separate Territorial organization. Carson
Valley has no geographi al connection with
the Salt Lake Basin, and should be politically
separate. ...
The correspondents of the St. Louis Dem
ocrat represent the Pixies Peak diggings as
paying moderately So to s. day per
man, on an average. a few make much more
and many much less, A capital of from
$500 to $1,000 is required for successful
mining . 49,.
The greatest race of the season came off
last week at the Eclipse Course, Long Island,
between Flora Temple and Princess The
race was fer 81 900, two mile heats in har-
ness, best two in three, and was won by
Flora Temple in two strait heats, the first
of which she made in 4:5Ua.
The New York and Erie railroad, which
has cost $43, 100000, is now bankrupt
corporation 1t is in the hands of receiver.
The value of the road Is e-timated at from
$4,000, 600 to $4,000, 900. There are
some other roads which will sooner or later
60 the same way of the Erie. .s.-ss
The money market both in Chicago and
New York, IS now stringent. In New York
the bank S are alarmed at their own rashness
in over discounting, and are s!drawing in
their horns," for fear of another ''squall''
4 like that of 1857. A check will probably
soon be put to our excessive importations.
Rev. John A. McClung, D. D., pastor Of
the Presbyterian Church at Maysville, KY,
and one of the ablest and most eloquent d.
vines on the continent, was drowned in the
Niagara River, about two miles above the
Falls, where he had gone to battle. His
body was recovered below the Falls on the
22d ult. aa u
Bayard Taylor's California lccturing spec
,1,3s l. A. L.. -
engagement OF the sort ever yet made. He
is to receive five thousand dollars for what
he does in San Francisco, AMI will make five
thousand more in side lectures Ten thou
sand in three months is pretty fair play
more than B. T. ever expected to get when
he worked at the case in a printing Office, at
thirty cents a thousand ems.
Not content with the. unsurpassed and
thrilling feat Of carrying a man on his back,
across Niagara river, Blondin has devised
and executed a new feat. On the 25th ult. :,
in the presence of thousands, he carried a
cook stove ever the rope en- his back At
the centre Of the rope he halted-set the
stove down start ed q fire in it, and cooked
an ome,ette with the skill Of chef de cuis-
inc. Alter it was completed he lowered the
delicacy to the deck OF the Maid of the Mist
below. lea $50.
A lock NTH in Frankfort on the Main, has
hit upon the ingenious idea of constructing
a strong box without any keyhole at all,
and which even The owner himself cannot
open. Inside is clockwork, the hand OF
which the owner places at the hour and min
ute when he again wants to have access to
the box. The clockwork begins to move as
sooa as the lid is shut, and opens the lock
from the inside ut the moment when the
hand indicates.