Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-10-14
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mond, Ind, called ssThe Broad Axe Of Free
dom and Grabbing Hoe of Truth"
Promenade concerts for the benefit Of
CHURCHES have become quite fashionable IN
San Francisco. -'fa-. -a'l'
"A boy named James Harris, only ID years
Old, has been found guilty Of murder in
Bonneville, Mo.
President Buchanan is engaged upon his
forthcoming message. 1t is said that he
intends to attack the recent declarations of
Senator Douglas pointedly. ..,,.Ir
Washington Irving, after, life devoted
increasingly to literary duties is now for the
first time resting from his labors, and will
no more assume the pen Of the author. :.
De Lave, the rope walker. has been for
hidden by the Mayor of Rochester, bso give
any further exhibitions of rope walking at
the Falls of that city.
Maine sends six Republicans to the next
Congress by the following maiorities: First
district, S92 second, 2l3S third, 1866 !;
fourth, A 200; fifth, 1886; sixth, 1873.
The boiler used for cooking purposes in
the Cirard Hotel, n. Y, ploded with an
awful crash, on the Both ult., killing two.
men and demolishing the furniture and
building to great extent. 0 .
An old man in Cincinnati, aged eighty
years, challenges the world to run foot
race with any man of similar age, one or
two hundred yards, and is backed by resi-
dent of that city to, the amount OF $4,000.
The Russian government has just com
menced a railroad to connect Kew to Odes-
sa. 1t Will take Is years to build it, and
will involve more difficulties and greater
outlay than would road from St. Louis to
san francisco.
Some months since Mrs. Corey fell in o
a drain careles-ly left unprotected, in De-
troit By the fall, her spine was so injured
that she was made cripple for life. A
jury has just given her verdict of $40 200
against the city.
DR.. W. NJ. Daily, on trial at Bloomfield,
before the Indiana Conference, has been
convicted by that body of drunkenness and
lewdness, and expelled from the Conference
by a vote Of g. to lG. An appeal has been
taken to the General Conference.
Notwithstanding the failure Of Congress
to make appropriations for the service of
the Post Office Department. it has thus far
been able to transact its business without
serious difficulty. With prop management
the Department could be made to sustain
itself.
The Covington and Lexington (Ky.) r.
r. was sold at auction on the 5 !h inst for
So, l25, 600 The bid was made by w. H.
Gedge, of Oovington, for what is known as
the Bowler Company. The sale was made
to satisfy judgment obtained by second
mortgage bond holders.
A large robbery was committed in Albany,
N. Y, on Thursday night of last week,
Hood G. Tobey's jewelry store having been
completely stripped OF its cor tents. The
ieweIry stolen consists mainly of watches,
clains, and diamonds. Most of the watches
have Hoods name upon them. Loss esti-
mated at from $50, 900 to $4,000.
The threatened difficulty at San Juan sug-
gcsts an inquiry as to the American naval
fierce in the Pacific. Upon examination we
find that there are 3 steam frigates and four
sloops Of war on the Pacific side CARRYING
Isl guns and manned by 2 $50 men. The
British have twelve vessels at and near
Victoria, manned by over 5000 men.
Mr.. Fisher, Of Patterson, N. j., has cen
structel a steam carriage or common roads,
which promises excel emily. A short time
since IL steamed to Aquackamonk. Twelve
passengers were on board, and the carriage
went on u level at the rate Of Is miles an
hour. Ono mile was run in three minutes
The builder does not doubt that, when COM
pleted, the carriage will run anywhere.
On the 18th ult,, the wife of Richard
Davis, of Lebanon, o., administered death
dose Of laudanum to her little boy of three
years. and then took enc herself. Next
morning they were both found dead, the child
10 the mothers arms. 1t is said that Davis
is dis>ipated, and Neglected his family to
degree that his wife sought death, rather
than suffer deeper misery and degradation.
Such ARE the fruits of whisky.
! he Spanish papers are beginning to get
4 little uneasy about the position of the
Eng ISL at Gibraltar. The latter are con-
structing new Notifications there, and the
place is becoming day by day more formi-
dabie IN dimensions and strength. hey call
in question the apathy of the Government,
which quietly see thesa preparations going
on, with its arms crossed, and without
taking any measures to resist an attack, or
to drive an invading army from Spanish
territory.
The L ~fayette (nd) Courier says that
case OF revolving brutality occurred recently
in that city. a Mr.. Stevens had died, and
number of ycung men came to sit up with
the corpse. During the night, one of the
number, Thomas Wickens alias English
Tom, slipped out Of the room, and Chamber
ed up to the room where the widow of TIE
deceased, worn out by incessant watching,
was sleeping, and there attempted an out
rag upon her person. Her cries aroused the