Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-09-30
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Leayenworth, Kansas, with population
of not more than 10000, has six daily
papers, half Republican and half Democrat.
The St. Louis Democrat estimates that
about 400 slaves are sent South from Mis-
souri, each week, and not ten nre taken into
the State. The slave-h olders are preparing
for q free State
The Registry law in Michigan goes into
operation at the coming election. None but
he registered are allowed to vote. and all
the challenging must be done before the
Board of Kegi,try.
7 en- Brock writes from England to a friend
in Memphis thai his winnings in England
this year topped $40, 700! to gain which h e
risked but $4,000, Think of that, hewers Of
wood and drawers of water.
The daughter of Gctfrard, President OF
ilayti, was shot dead while sitting in her
fathers chair in the palace, on the Sd inst.
The shot is supposed to have been from an
assassin in the palace garden, who sought
the Presidents life.
The "ncrhern lights" that were so bril-
liant here, some two weeks since, were 8 .en
in London and Brussels, on the Oath ut.
| lucy NCIc AioO SUCH III LOHuoH Ou Vic = iIu,
the date Of the remarkable display in this
country.
The stables of the United States Hotel, t
Easton, Pa, were destroyed by fire on the
morning OF the 18th inst, and twelve Of Dan
Rice's horses persisted in the flames. The
fire originated by the bursting Of a fluid
lamp.
Mr.. Leslie, the enterprising young man
who swindled platoon of girls by hiring
them as teachers and leaving them in New
York, at the same time stealing their bag
gage from them, was sentenced in Philadel-
phia to years hard labor in the peniten.
tiary. Served him right.
The death Of the oldest Methodist minis
ter in the West is announced. The Rev.
Jacob Young died at his residence at Harris
burgh, Franklin county, Ohio, last week.
He was probably the o!dtsc man and the
United States. He was beloved by all who
knew him.
Slavery has been abolished at Fernando
Pc, the new Spanish settlement in the Gulf
of Guinea. The Spanish Government has
refused to give up some fugitive slaves from
the Portuguese islands of Santa Torno and
Principe, on the ground that at Fernando Pa
slavery is not recognized, and all men, in
such countries, are considered tree.
There is now on exhibition at fashiona-
bic jewelry establishment in New York, in a
small showcase less than 80 inches square,
COLLECTION of gorgeous diamond jewelry,
forming an outfit for Il lady, valued at $7S,-
600. a pin, forming single white diamond,
is valued at So 900; one necklace, OF a
large diamond, $1,000; two small ones,
$4,000 each two parasols, $75 each.
All the rich leads in California havn't
been exhausted yet. A hunter in Tou!umn e
county, in climbing down into a ravine after
week 81, 900 Of gold. John 9. Fremont is
taking about $4,000 u week out of his
mines at Mariposa. y man near Placerville,
in prospecting dccayed quartz lode, took
out 81 200 in Il few days.
Rev. Thomas Hill has been inaugu rated
President OF Antioch College, wee Hon.
Horace Mann, deceased. lie is from Wal
than. Mass. and his abilities are highly
spoken of. lie is said to resemble Horace
Greeley in AZ pearahce, only thar he is "a
little more re pectable." That means, we
suppose, that he dresses a little better than
Horace, the philosopher and editor.
A breach Of promise case has recently
been tried at Cut;in, Chemung county, N.
Y, and the defendant, D. 9. Kimball, has
been adjudged t, have disappointed the
sighted lady, Miss Amelia NJ Mas crs, to
the extent of 81, 900. The case has made
much scandal, for the defendant testified
that the fair Amelia had voluntarily become
his wife De ,tacto if T. OF lie jure. AS the
parties are what is called "respectable,' the
affair furnishe, ample food Tor the village
gossips.
The Colonial Government of Jamaica is
about to appoint an agent in Canada, under
the Immigration Act of 1913, to enc ourage
the immi grafton of colored laborers to that
Island. Provisions will be made to pay the
passage of emigrants, with whom contracts
will be made for three years at Il stipulat d
rate per month. 1t is estimated that the e
are IN Canada 1000 colored crsons, tn.
great maj GRITTY being male adults, Many Ct
them have become possessed uf considerable
property.
While Mon. Je Lave was crossing the
Genesee river at Rochester, on his rope with
Il chair strapped on his back, which he ad
justed on the rope and ate luncheon he had
provided young man named Jennison got
upoa some lumber piled upon the bank of
the prec pice One of the boards tipped so
as 10 throw him off his balance, and he fell
Il distance IF 100 feet, without touching
anything in his descent, striking on the
rocks below. Of course he was instantly
killed.
~ The lion. K. G. Schenck, who has
stood aloof from party politics since the
organization of the Republican party, deliv-
cred an address to his fellow citizens OF
Dayton, recently, in which he gave in his
unqualified adhesion to the Republican
parry,
A FRANK ADMISSION. = The Louisville