Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-11-25

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q The editor of the st. Louis RepubNco
recently received a. turnip from Minnssot
weighing 223 lbs. h.. ..
Samuel Rail, one of the slaves emancipa
ted by John Randolph, died at Piqua, O., O.
the lst inst, aged about eighty. -
Nine churches are to be sold in Cincinnati
in December, for non-paymept of taxes
Religion must be at discount in the Queel
City. .a .. ......-.-.E- 80.
| Late information from Utah states tha
there are yet frequent assassinations, ant
that the Mormcns obstruet the course O.
justice. gas 81 b. s.a alr.s @ H ss
| John Brown was born in 1900, and il
now SO years and months old. His grand
father was Capt. John Brown, an officer il
the Revolutionary army.
At Fair, near Wilmington, Del. recently
a walking g-match with horses took place
The horse that took the prize walked the
mile in AIS and 4:27 respectively.
Among the Pennsylvanians named for the
place of Bigler in the United States Senate,
we observe the names of ex-Gov. Pollock,
Morton McMlchael and Judge Wilmot.
A down East editor says he has seen the
contrivance our lawyers use when they
s'warn up with the subject" He says it il
q glass concern and holds about pint. .sgs
Bayard Taylor spent seven weeks in Cal
ifornia, and delivered about two dozen lec-
lures, with clear profit, estimated by some
of his acquaintances there at about $5, 900.
A Frenchman in St. Louis, under an attack
of dyspepsia which caused him to believe
that be had a stomach full of devils, sought
relief few days ago by suicide. He shot
himself. -.-.-.... ~. 49, 81,
Receipts of gold from Kansas increase
IL is estimated by those best posted in the
matter, that not less than $2,OO0,OOO in
gold has been mined at Pixies Peak in the
last four months. a,..
In August cloud of locusts visited Sc
vastopol, settling in masses three feet in
thickness, covering the trees, bushes and
fruit and so breaking down the boughs that
the ground was strewn with wood. j. .....r.
Divers at Port Royal, Jamaica, in diving
down to recover freight sunk in a steamer,
report that they have discovered the ruins
VI du Olu SlGy Ill SCNCIdA AUtuOuS Wdt6r-Uuc
streets were entire, and ruins of buildings
on each side.
John and Jesse Lewis, brothers, convicted
in the Circuit Court of Anderson county,
Tenn, of the murder of the Sheriff and
OF Oampball county, have
been sentenced to be hung At Jacksborough,
on the third Friday in December. ..-'
The following are the names of several
political clubs which lately figured at a
public meeting in Baltimore: The Blood
] ubs, Red Necks, Pioneer, Ashland, Spart-
ans, Regul ators, Black Snakes, Tigers,
Eubolts, Gladiators, Rip Raps, Little Eel
lows and Plug Uglies. 60.
On Coroner's inquest held in England it |
was shown that the deceased who proved to
be woman, had for, forty years passed as
. man, and had for twenty FIVE years work
ed as brick setter, had at one time kept a |
beer shop and had during that forty years
been twice married as man. ..-A
Wesley G. Simmons, arrested at Richmond, |
Va, charged with uttering seditious senti-
nents, is a native of Anne Arundel county,
Mary land, but has lived ten years in Bel |
mont county, Ohio. If convicted he can be |
Imprisoned one year, and fined five hundred
dollars.
A few days ago, John Med Dermott, of Joli.
It, ILL.,, who had been much debilitated by
illness, was leaning against q picket fence
n that town, when h. slipped, and his neck
was caught between two of the pickets,
where he strangled to death, being too weak
70 extricate himself.
A golden eagle was killed last week on the
Lower St. Lawrence and brought to Que
oec, which was shot while endeav oripg to
carry off child about three years of age.
This is the only bird in America that will |
attack the human species. They breed in
he North, following at this eason, the birds
and animals that seek milder climate.
Count Fueschi, Venitian silk grower.
inds that the silk worms in India are affect
I'd with the same disease as in Italy, and he |
ears that the worm is going out of exist.
snce. What sad prospect for the votaries
of fashion. When the silk worms all die the |
aides will be obliged to shut themselves up,
for nothing but silk answers for the street
in these days. at -.n.. 1-
A gentleman in Cincinnati, recently, sent
. basket OF choice wine to lady friend,
but by mistake the servant carried it to the |
door of beautiful woman who had a zeal.
ous husband. Thereupon, greatly enraged,
The said husband proceeded to the lodgings
Of the donor and administered to him a
sound fagellation, after which mutual
explanations ensued.
Senator Seward is on his way homeward |
from his Oriental tour. The last heard from
him he was at Jaffa, in the Mediterrane an
Sea. He had completed his journey up the
Valley Of the Nile to ancient Thebes, had
surveyed the Pyramids, and was about to
proceed to Jerusalem, and thence to Damas-
Gus and to Constantinople. He is expected
10 reach home again by the lst of December.
The State Normal School Buildings. at
Ypsilanti, Michigan, including the library,
furniture, labratory, sc. ,were consumed by
FIRE on the 2Sth ult. The loss of property
is estimated at $25, ,O00-insurance $l0, 900:
but the loss to the cause of schools in
Michigan will be much greater, as it will
take some years, perhaps to place the insti-
tuition in the condition it was prior to the
fire.
The dogs killed in Cleveland, o., are sold
to glove mandatory in Litchfeld, Medi-
ma county, where the skins are made up into
kid and buckskin gloves. Some of the citi-
zens, grateful for this accession to the
industrial pursuits Of their town, presented
a pair Of dog-skin gloves, through Mr.. Ossian
E.. Dodge, to the Mayor of Cleveland. The
occur renee Was dog-matically improved by
various speakers. -. -,
An official census taken in China twice
during the present century, at an interval
OF forty years, gives the following results:
The first, taken in 1912, by order Of the EN-.
peror Kia King, gave the number of iDhab-
itants at 36O, 9.597 the second, in 1852,
under the reipn and hv ordar of tho ,,,os,, ~