Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-03-04
News Paragraphs.

Sets of Russian sable furs have been sole
in New York this winter for $4,000 anc
$3.50.
The tax levy upon the city of New 4 orl
for the present year is over ten millions Of
do lars.
The several firms of De Rothschild have a
capital at their instantaneous command
amounting to 5000, 100000.
On the 2lst ut, the Rev J. l.. Dixon, a
practising physician and Baptist clergyman,
# Troy, Ala, was instantly killed by light
ming.
| Mr.. Henry chief electrician of the Allan
tic Cable Company, has arriyed ut st. Johns
with batteries and instruments to commence
operations with them on this eld OF the
cable.
The New York Tribune says there are in
that city seven hundred and seventy nine
legally authorized 'bar-rooms and rum
shops, and four hundred and nnety-six
known houses of prostitution.
During January, only ten barrels Of -four
were exported from the Cnit>d States to
Great Britain; and at present prices in the
two coun res, it will pay to import fl UT
from Liverpool to America.
One of the most stupendous enterprises of
the day is a proposal to unite 'he bays of
Bengal and Siam, by ship canal across the'
Malayan Peninsula, which would shorten the
voyage from Canton to Calcutta over eleven
hundred miles.
There is report of Piccolomini's speech
in response to the serenaders in front of
the Troy house, us follows: "Shentlemen
Il nm veer mooch obligee for dis compli-
mentz am veor poor speak Anglish, unit
l feels shleepy." That will do!
Cyrus Butler, a miser, who died in Hart
ford, Conn.,, only few days since, worth
over five millions, lived as meanly as beg
gar lie ate little save salt Goldfish, bread
and potatoes, and rebuked those who pro-
vided him with delicacies in his last illness.
The Missouri Democrat keeps on arguing
the practicabllity Of constructing great
river to the base of the Rocky Mountains by
draining the head streams of the Platte and
the Arkansas into the Kansas, and thus
making the latter a great river, navgable
at all seasons of the year.
At 4 recent auction sale in Philadelphia,
a letter from Gen. Washington to Co. Bid
die, written at Mount Vernon, six days be-
fore the death of the writer, sold for $5l
a letter Of Gen. Washington to Gen. Knox,
1887, brought $40; a letter of Benjamin
Franklin to Mr.. Pennington, 1862, $40
William Penn's autograph commanded $l4.
A young man named Harrison Wisecup
has been arrested in Highland county, Ohio,
charged with the murder of his sister Lydia,
whose dead body was found in u hay-mow
on Monday of last week. He admits having
quarrelled with her on that day, but denies
having killed sr even struck her. lie is in
Jail awaiting examination.
There is great excitement in Texas among
all classes, owing in part to the enormous
amount of silver which has been discovered
at the mines of the Yelled Meadows, in So
nora and Arizona, near Hermacillo and Te-
picque. 1t lies in blocks and pane's, weigh
ing, in many instances, tons, and frequently
yielding seventy to ninety per cent. of zinc'l
and lead with copper. There are companies
organizing in every county in Western Tex
as, and the fever is spreading preparatory
to emigration to Ell Paso and Donna Anna.