Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-01-14
News Paragraul,s.

gia after June, 1859, has become a law.
There is said to be not one unmarried
man in the town Of Yarmouth, Mass.
During the year 1858, ninety four slaves
were set free at Cincinnati, Ohio, by their
owners.
|. "A new suspension bridge at Grand Falls,
N. B., fell on the 18th ult., causing the death
of two persons. s.,.ss..,.s.a...,
The relations between some of the pro-
fessors a. West Poin', are said to be any
thing but harmonious.
The losses by fire in the United States in
1883, excluding all losses less than $40 200,
make an aggregate of So: 0O0,0 900.
Tho number of deaths in Philadelphia for
the year. 1858, was 10,907, forty eight less
than the mortality of the previous year.
John M0Barnard, Esq, of Boston, has Of
fered a preRium of 81, 900 for the best es-
say on Temperance Legislation.
The Boston Melodeon estate, adjoining
Boston Theatre;was sold at auction on the
9TH, and brought nearly S76 900, Hon. Chas.
Francis Adams befw the purchaser.
The New Jersey RAILROAD Co. renewed
their annual presentation on the lst inst,
of 81 to all their emf -number ng
about five hundred persons AS New Year
gift.
A German named Law}~pce Lullia has
been arrested Mt Prairie du ehien, charged
with having murdered his WIN at st. Paul
about two years since, and burning the body.
He has been taken to st. Paul.
The Piccolomini fever which at,frst at
ked Boston but slightly, is nov fairly
B. The young men are paying NJ the
Rege OF going on the stage as supethu
lries, so as to be near the prima doIAa.
A whole military company, in Dayton,
Ohio, short time since, fell in love with a
beautiful young lady, Jewess, and as they
couldn't all have her, they compromised the
matter by selecting her as their captain!
Lieut.. Andrew jackson, son of John jack
son, of Petersburg, Va, has been appointed
assistant tutor in Spanish at West Point,
with salary of $4,000. He is the first
American to whom the post has ever been
assigned.
One of the first official acts Of Governor
Morgan, of New York, has been to order the
withdrawal of the troops from Staten ISL
and. Accordingly on Monday the military
evacuated Camp Washington and returned
to their homes.
Two men named Al. Clark and A. Fench-
twanger have been indicted by the Grand
Jury at Milwaukee, on a charge Of fraudu-
lently obtaining land warrants. They have
been committed to Jail in default Of 900
each. Clark is a lawyer.
Among the late California Court decisions
are, that man may kick his wife out of
bed for jealousy without its giving cause TO,
divorce, and that unearthly snoring and
granting on the part of the wife justifes
the husband in seeking relief in divorce.
A German, about 80 years of age, who
called himself Count Morczyski, but who
had really been waiter in saloon near
Boston, was arrested in New York, on Mon.
day, just as he had made preparations to
swindle the fashionables, by false letters of
introduction.
Some rascals robbed a countryman at Gin
cinnati, last Saturday night, right in the
city, and not only took away his money, but
stripped him of his clothing. The "gentle-
man from the interior" appeared at his
hotel and asked for admission, in uest,
and nothing else!
Mrs. Elizabeth Sinclair has sued before
the Supreme Court in New York, to recover
the custody of her husband, John S. Sin
clair, taken from her by his father, four days
after marriage, and shut up at home. The
imprisoned husband is nineteen years old.
but the wife confesses to years Of greater
discretion.
a remarkable explosion occurred in Wor-
cester, Mass, on Saturday afternoon. A
large two-story engine house was blown to
pieces, mot one brick being left upon anoth-
er, " and the city shaken from turret to foun-
dation stone. A fire had been left burning,
the gas from which is supposed to have done
the mischief.
Miss Mary Hawey, of Hartford, won a
gold bracelet, at a ball in that city, the
other evening, for waltzing without cesssa-
tlon for fifty one minutes, having distanced
all the other Terpsichorean competitors.
Her partner, Mr.. Gardiner E. Green, was
presented at the same time silver cup.
E. Merriam, the weather. wise, says that
during the past year, so far as he has been
able to learn, 50 persons have been killed
by lightning and IS injured There are also
three accounts where it is reported s'several
persons were killed. Thunder and light
ming storms occurred on sixty one days in
the three summer months.
Mr.. Ullman, the manager of the N. Y.
Opera Troupe, recently refused admi ssion to
the Boston Theatre to the critic Of the Cour-
Ter, who had offended him by his criticisms
upon the opera. A telegraphic dispatch to
the Philadelphia Bulletin says that the
critic knocked Mr.. Ullman down, and then
passed in and took his seat.
There is a movement on foot in Buffalo,
to reduce the salaries of public school teach
ers in that city, to the following rates -
Principals of schools at $500 per year; lady
Principals of departments at 1925. This is
reduction of 5000 year on Principals
salaries and $500 year on those Of lady
teachers
In the Prussian standing army of one
hundred and twenty-six thousand men, but
two soldiers are unable to read; and of two
million nine hundred thousand children be-
tween the ages of seven and fourteen. at the
last census, two millions three hundred
and twenty-eight thousand were actually
the schools.
An ingenious down easter has construct
ed miniature factory village, with engines,
wheels, wind-mlls, carriages, water falls,
persons walking, playing, swinging, &c., and
t he whole SO delicately arranged and so
nicely adjusted as to be put in complete OPP
Grafton by a single mouse which travels in
a small circular cage as squirrels are often
seen doing.
A colored man, named Herman Curran,
was murdered in his own house in Sullivan
street, New York, on the 9Th, by his son-in-
aw, Felix sancho, Spaniard. Curran was
stabbed in the heart with sword-cane.-I
Sancho also inflicted mortal wound on his
wife, and attempted to kill his mother-in-
aw. Jealousy was the cause. The mur-
lerer escaped.
The most beautiful woman in ngland has
ately died Lady Clementina Villiers,
laughter of the Earl Of Jersey. She had re-
used some Of the richest and noblest in the
British empire, in consequence Of her attach
nent to poor Unidentified clergyman, VIII ON
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