Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-02-04


Philadelphia amounts yearly to $l6,ll7.
In the State of Penna. there are IL, ,281
schools, l8, 1856 teachers, and 628,9 ,90l schol'
ars.
The population of Baltimore, the Anseri.
can Of that oity puts down at 2S5,OOO
while the number Of church edi6ces is $50
There are about IL, ,OOO. 900 acres of sur
veyed lands in Minnesota not offered fol
sale, but subject to pre- emption.
A giant, named Hubbard. at Nashville
Tenn. is perform ng daily the feat of waltz
ing around a room with three persons hang
ing to his hair.
| The entire manufactures Of Paris are es
timated yearly at 10000, 900 francs, OF
which 4,3O, 900 francs worth are children's
toys. E
The city of New York consumes annually
,13O. .OOO,OOO cubic feet Of gas at 81, 5Opel
600 feet, amounting to no less than $2,'
1875 900.
The battle sword of General Israel Put.
nam was presented to the Connecticut Histor
ical Society on Wednesday las' by Hon. II
G. Deming.
A provision boat was sunk q few days
since by the waves of passing st amboat
opposite Memphis, Tenn, and six men, Il II
on board, were drowned.
| A French physician has discovered that
whooping cough is the result Of snppresse
cutaneous eruptions, and yields invariably
to the production o. an exte' mai rash.
The police in Philadelphia the other night
captured 6fty-four ersons in attendance on
dog fight /; the two logs were arrested as
principals-the bipeds Us accessories.
The citizens of Cleveland, Ohio, have es-
tablished Travellers Reading Room,
which is entirely free to all strangers visit
ing that city
A man in Machias, Ne having some hay
destroyed by some drunken men, sued the
man who sold them the liquor, for its value,
and the jury gave him verdict.
The bronze statue of Daniel Webster,
made for the citizens of Boston, by Hiram
Powers, arrived on the 10Th, in the bark
Lucy Frances, fro" Leshorn.
Father Bernhisel, the Utah Congressional
delegate at Washington, cost the Govern
ment $1,000 asst year, by franking docu.
ments to his nine wives, and nine hundred
sanity friends in Utah.
Religious REVEALS are noticeable events
in many of the villages and cities of NJ. n
nesota. The Methodist denomination par,
tleu arly is increasing its numbers under
the revival spirit.
SlideIl's Cuba report admits thai one hun
dred and twenty five millions at lea~t will
be required for the purchase of cuba, AID,
therefore, the thirty millions now proposed
is only beginning.
A little girl seven years of age. daughter
of Mr.. McWilIiams, was burned to death in
Aurora, ILL.,. a few days since. Her clothes
took fire from canphene explo osion while
filling lamp that was light d..
A Paris correspondent, under date of Dec
Both, furnishes the particulars of the death,
at the early age Of thirty six Of one who,
though entirely innocent, suffered seven
years. imp isonment in the gaieys, on a
charge OF murder and arson,
Prof. Nutter has presented to the college
of physicians at Philadelphia, his pathoog-
icaI museum, which ha> cost IS ,OoO and the
labor of twenty years, besides $50, 1000 in
trust for the preservation of the museum
and endowing lectureship.
Rev. Mrs. Antonette Brown Blackwell has
re appeared ns lecturer and clergywoman
at Rochester. Since her marriage she has
been little in pubic life Previous to that
event, she oficiated as the pastor of a Con-
sregational Church at Butler, Wayne coun.
ty, Ny.
A woman in Saginaw county, Michigan.
recently gave birth TO four children at one
time, and to reward her, bill has been. or
will be introduced into the Legislature, d.
mating her two hundred and twenty acres OF
land, situated in that county. That kind of
legislation establishes a very bad precedent
A row occurred in jury room at Pitts
burg, recently They stood eleven against
one on knotty case, when the one becom-
ing insolsnt, and giving the lie to an cd
man, he was put through in god style. -
Three broken chairs were found in the jury
room, and there were other evidences IT a
general muss.
The Investigations of the charges against
Rev. DR. baily before the hurch ommit
tee ut Indianapolis, closed on Friday even
ing, and resulted in his suspension until the
meeting of the Conference to VIII ch he is
attach d He has rendered his resi- nation
as Pre- idsnt of the Indiana University Th'
charges against hun are Of the m '-t serious
character: drunkenness lew ness decrp
rion.
The ladies of Havana h We forwar ed an
a'!,lr IS To Queen Isabel protesting ng inst
the sal. of III, Qut II IF O. Antiilrs ~ :h
United State Thy ID. ire 80 aie ~ r
the 81 rious h.g winch thy lui ! t tl"'r
birth md tht the stand of 'u'..., he ir>t
Ame lean land discovered by Chr stopher
, olumbus, shall remain to the last united tn
the crown of Spa n. since her sons ar Span
ish by birth and feeling'
.Isev" Henry T. Lever has been astonish
ing the inmates Of private boarding house
in Petersburg, Va. ty pu ting III, there
promising to educate the son of the In dla-
dy, cour,ing and promising to marry her
sister, and final y running off with l5o
worth of gold and silver trinkets belonging
to the fami Y, including locket borrowed
to put his likeness in, MI detective watch,
which he said he would make 60. tdid g..
A Mr.. Lander proposes to bui ara'lroad
from Pacific City to Salt Lake, for $4,000
per mile, provided he can import his ir"n
, ,.--;,hout duty and be allowed one section Of
,and fo,, every ten miles Of road If the
,rocort;ons WEE reversed, the project would
be utopian enough; cut as it is. it SCUM Is
to US like the speed of the horse who maze
for hours to the mile.
Mr.. Gerard Stuyvesant, a we'll known cit
izen of New York, died recently, at he age
of ffty-four. Mr.. Stuyvesant was descend
ant of the old Dutch Governor of the same
name. Being one of the three heirs among
whom the buk of the late Peter Stuyvesant's
property was divided, he enjoyed, says the
Evening Post, during the last ten years Of
his life, a very large fortune which ne dis
pensed literally in acts of kindness and hos
p'tality. "..
Two children were burned to death il
Newark, N. j, few days ago Their
mother locked them in the house while sh'
carrie ed her husband his dinner. and whil
she was gone, fire communicated to the hec
on which they lay. and the neighb"rs foune