Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-04-22
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1uIly TcuCu Cpl pA3coo,oo0s
Some ladies in New York have an associ'
alton called the Hearthstone Club, which
meets at the Cooper Institute, and talks over
!. domestic economy and the work and welfare
of women generally.
By late law of Indiana the salaries Of
all public officers have been increased. The
Governor receives $4,000; Treasurer 50 900;
Auditor $4,000; Secretary 81, 900; President
of the Sinking Fund Commissioners 50 900.
A great many people are going to Europe
the ensuing summer. About sixty passports
have been issued daily by the State Depart
ment for month past, and probably that
ratio will continue till July.
John Mclaughlin, charged with misplac-
ing switch on the Galena and Chicago, r..
r.. has been held to answer for murder
The misplacing of the switch caused the cars
to run off the track, smash up, and kill the
fireman.
Her Majesty, Queen Victoria, has sent a
gold snuff box and q medal to Capt. Hudson,
the commander of the United States frigate
Niagara, for his arduous and successful ex-
ertions in assisting to lay down the Allan.
tic Gable.
The Hon. VIM. McKinna, who died re-
Gently at Lancaster, S. c., cut off his kind
red with the merest pittance, and left the
bulk of his property, valued at 5000, 900, to
the Roman Catholic Church. The Lancas-
ter papers are exceedingly wrathful thereat.
A four hundred dollar cradle is on exhi.
bition at one Of the furniture stores in Phil
adephia. 1t is made of papier mache, inlaid
with pearl, and got up with a degree of
splendor exceeding anything Of the kind
that has yet been presented to the extrava-
CANT public.
The bill granting the petition of Mrs.
Emily l.: Fry for divorce from her h1s-
band, Horace G. Fry, which passed the
last, defeated in the House by the over
helming vote of y to 8. This action is
worthy of commendation.
The libel suit of Edwin Forrest, the trag-
edian, against N. P. Willis. of the Home
Journal, was concluded in New York last
week, in a verdict Of $500 against Mr.. Will
lis. The suit was based on Willis charge
that Forrest got up fictitious evidence to
procure divorce from his wife.
The merchants Of Albany, N. Y, have
opened war upon the old copper cents-the
greatest nuisance in the country. They are
worth their weight in copper, and that is all :,
and the sooner we are rid of them the better.
In the West and South and South West a
bushel of copper cents would not purchase a
bushel Of corn.
The value of the ships and cargoes that
pass through the Florida Keys, annually, is
estimated at about $3.50, 100000. In the
ten years from 1S48 to 1857 inclusive, 400
vessels, wrecked or in distress, have been
carried into Key West, valued at SIG, $780,
427, and there expenses there, including
ST., 1881 salvage, have been $2,l25,334
Gov. Morgan, of New York, has refused
to commute the sentence Of Mrs. Hartung,
the murderess, who is now awaiting capital
punishment at Albany. lie refers to the
| but believing that the prisoner is guilty of
deliberate murder, he thinks that public jus
tice as we'll as the safety of human life de-
mands her execution.
DR.. VIM. A. Alcott, the we'll known
physiological writer and lecturer, died at
his residence in Aburndale, Mass, on the
29th of March. DR.. Alcott was rigid veg
etarian, and believed that the use Of meats
was contrary to the laws of health. He alb
stained from the use of water for whole
year to prove that water was not essential
to life, and lived wholly on fruits and veg
etables for many years.
| The New York Police War is revived
The New York Court of Appeals has decided
in favor of the Mayor Wood Police, and
against the authority of the Metropolitan
Board. The Daily Neaos, Mayor Woods
organ, says that under this decision, the
old Police are entitled to two years. back
paw, the amount being ST. 100000. Thus
the New York police warfare Of June, 1857,
is re-opened.
During the service of Mass at the Catho-
lie Church in Forty y-Second street, N. Y, on
the 10th, the curtain covering portion of
the altar took fire from a candle. The
church was crowded at the time, and fear
full stampede took place. Upwards Of thir-
ty persons, mostly women and children,
were tramped under foot and badly injured,
many having their arms and legs broken
Two of the children received fatal injuries.
Miss Riley, Of Indiana, who was visiting
in the family of Hon. W. E. Niblack, Of
the same State, met her death in singular
manner. She mixed Seidlitz powder in
two different glasses, and instead of pouring
them together before drinking, drank them
off separately, when the effervescence oc-
Cured in the stomach, partially strangling
her. In the excitement dose of mustard
was given to make her vomit what she had
taken, and physician sent for, but before
he arrived she was corpse.
Elder Knapp, of the Baptist Church in
Ohio, has declined public religious discus
sion with the Rev. w. s Burton, Universal
ist, of Dayton. In the Elders letter Of de-
clination is this delicate naorceau: ss1 have
never known Universalist Minister (and
have known many of them) who would ac-
knowledge or own up when he was used up,
but, like goose when thoroughly picked,
not pin feather left, and thrown over the
fence, would jump up and run after you,
hissing!"