Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-09-09
News Paragraphs.

Fears are expressed of q famine in Nor
mondom. The wheat crop is said to be a
failure.
The English government is about to SUBJ
stitute bronze coin for its bulky copper cur
rency The metal has already been tried in
Canada.
The frost of last week was quite disas.
trous in Wisconsin. The GAINESVILLE Gazette
says the last hope Of the corn crop is goae.
Buckwheat and potatoes are also destroyed.
The steamer Great Eastern sails from
Galway for New York about the middle OF
September. Passengers are to be brought
over by her at rates ranging from ELS
to ELS.
A man named Mulholland has been ar
rested in New York, charged with being the
murderer of Mike Walsh, last Spring, though
there is no evidence, it is said, that will hold
him.
A young man who was among the specta.
tors of NJ. de Lave's rope walking ut Roch'
ester, on the 3lst ult, fell from above Gen.
essee Falls, ninety feet, and striking the
rocks, was killed.
De Marbais, who recently shot his wife
and himself in the streets of Cincinnati, has
gone raving mad, and has been sent to thu
Licking Lunatic Asylum. His wife is i'm.
proving, and likely to recover from hel
wound.
DIR. Xavier Chabert, the celebrated F'Fir'
King,' who some years ago gave exhibition!
of his great power to endure heat, by enter
ing on oven and cooking his dinner there
died recently in New York, in reduced cir
cumstances.
The Major A. J. Donelson, who died re
Gently at Lafoueche, La, was not Andrew
Jackson Donelson, the adopted son of tn
Hero of the Hermitage, and candidate TO-
Vice President on the ticket with the Hon
Willard Fillmore. So says the LouisviW
Journal.
MIR. N. I. Spear, Of New York city, ha'
invented a machine for husking corn. 1t il
claimed to be the only practical machine
ever invented for supplying a want which
now costs our farmers and plante: through
out the United States, in severe hand labor
more than forty millions of dollars pc
annum.
Miss Carroll, connected with JAWS
Crosbie's Circus, eloped from Bloomington
ILL.,, q few days since, with one of the show
men. W. B. Carroll offers Il reward of $5(
for the delivery of Maria Carroll at the Pix
House, and $50 more for the incarceration
of John J. Brand and one Mahoney in an,
jail wherever taken.
At q camp meeting in East Kingston, N
H., IL Deputy Sheriff was arrested for ped
ding cakes and pies without q license
After paying his fine, So and costs, h.
arrested Elder J. V. Hines, for sellin!
'Second Advent books, who was fined il
the same sum, but believing it a maliciou
prosecution, refused to pay and was sent t
Jail.
Col. II. P. Shaffner sailed from Boston OF
the 29th ult., in the bark Wyman, on n voy
age of exploration to the North Atlantic, il
search Of a feasible route for a line Of tel
egraphic communication between this coun
try and Europe, by way of Greenland, Ice
land, the Farce Islands, and Scotland +; hi
object being to examine the seas, bays ant
lands contemplated to be traversed.
Barnum is said to have offered Mr.. Spur
geon, the celebrated English Baptist preach
er, $4,000 a year to come to America an
make a lecturing tour. MIR. Spurgeon replies
by writing simply, "Acts XIII: TO-" an
sending it to Barnum. The verse reads thus
so, full of subtility and all mischief, tho
child of the devil, wilt thou not cease t
pervert the right ways Of the Lord ?"
BloDdin is not yet satisfied with his tigh
rope performances at Niagara. Havin;
walkei and ran, danced, stood on his head
turned summersetts, hung by one hand, an,
by one leg, carried a man on his back, ant
cooked an omelet on the rope, by daylight
he now proposes to give a pyrotechnic ex
hibition at night, on the center Of the rope
in which he will appear performing over tn
black abyss, surrounded by a blaze Of fire