Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-07-01
News Par0graplls.

Tho Mineral Point (Wisconsin) copper
mines are yielding at the rate Of about three
tons of ore daily.
The British sloop-of-war Heron capsized,
recently. in a tornado on the African coast,
and 107 lives lost. The captain and 26
men were saved.
The Buffalo Commercial refers to another
new canal steamer which has left that port
for New York. Steam on the canals, long
thought visionary, seems fixed fact.
a machine to manufacture paper bags,
such as are used by grocers, has recently
turns out from $4,000 to rs, 900 bags per day.
Jenny Lind recently sang for charity in
| the Haymarket-quite private affair. The
receipts were over $1,000. 1t was neither
billed nor advertised. She is in full health
and sang her best. 1t was a re- union of the
select of the aristocracy.
A terrible storm occurred on the coast of
Brazil, recently, strewing the shore with
wrecks, and causing terrible loss of life
Brazilian frigate with six hundred passen-
gers on board, was foundered, and only forty
of her crew saved.
A gentleman of Newburyport, Mass, has
something like 100 toads, which he keeps in
his garden to destroy insects He has a
house built for them, keeping them as he
would chickens, and they are SO tame that
they will come at his call.
An epidemic is prevailing among the hogs
belonging to the distillery in Auburn, N. Y,
and they are dying off at the rate of 200 per
day. The cause of death is unknown. This
distillery Company have lost over $4,000
worth of hogs within four years past.
1t is said that it is the intention of the
Pennsylvania Central Railroad to make the
sleeping cars free for first class passengers,
instead of, as now, charging so cents extra
for a berth. If this is true, 20 doubt the
Northern roads will do the same.
Utah dates to the oath of May state that
portions of Salt Lake Valley were inundated
in consequence of the swelling creeks. The
Northern part of Salt Lake City was in dan
ger of being flooded. Ogden City was also
in dagger Of being swept away by the food
of the Ogden river.
From a census Of Egypt, just completed,
it is shown that the population, which in
1917 was 100000, and in lS47 had in
creased to 4,25o00O, is now S, l25 ,000-a
great increase for only twelve years, in a
Alexandria, at the mouth Of the Nile, is
within small fraction Of 100000.
S. W. Northop, of Duchess county, N. Y,
is getting up a steam wagon to run between
Stamfordville and Poughkeepsie. If the
thing works according to his expectations,
he can make trip from the former place to
the latter and back again with so worth
of fuel, carry five tons at a time, and run at
the rate of six or eight miles an hour.
At I.ockport, N. Y, there is person
seven feet five and three fourths inches in
height who claims to be a descendant of
the huge Philistine-says his name is Dou-
ct Goshen, from Charen, Isthmus of Suez,
and that he is an Arabian of hig Oh rank. He
is described as of good proportions and
| pleasant countenance.
Going into battle by rail is one of the
peculiarities of the present war. At the
battle of Montebello the allied supports
came into the fed under the lead of locomo-
| tives, rapidly succeeding trains, each bring
ing up brigade. The scream of the engine
whistle must have mingled oddly with tho
rattle of musketry and the roar of cannon.
A tax payer in Cincinnati objects to being
assessed upon side-hill property, on the
ground that it is not real estate, within
the meaning of the law. He claims that it
is movable property, as during the recent
rain, some half an acre or less made its way
into the river, and contends that if a mort
gage will not hold it, the side-hill should
not be taxed.