Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-04-15
News EsaraSra p:as.

The President has issued proclamation
for extensive sales of public lands in Kan
sas and Nebraska during themonths OF July,
August and September.
Advices from California indicate good
deal of indignation at the defeat of the Pacific
Railroad bill, and there is earnest talk of
attempted secession.
In York county, Pa, they have got up a
new kind of Insurance Company. 1t insures
horses against being stolen. Their capital
is not less than 100000.
The highest value of ground per foot in
Louisville is 5000 in St. Louis it 50 900 ;
in Chicago $1,000, and in Pittsburgh it is
$1,000.
1t is stated that Jenny Lind's fortune has
been squandered, and that she is about to
attempt to make another. She is advertised
to sing in England.
The times are very hard in Clay county,
Ind, and some are said to be suffering for
the necessrres of life. Even the cattle in
places are dying Of starvation.
An insane prisoner had his reason COM
pletetely restored through fright, at the
burning of a Jail, in Ohio, last week, in
which he was confined
The Deseret Neus of February 10th, con-
tains the new Mormon alphabet, by which
the English language is entirely revolution
lied. When this is learned, that sect will
write in an unknown tongue.
Whisky is 81 per gallon, wheat 50 per
bushel, fire wood $40 per cord, single meal
at hotel 81, board, without lodging, per
week $40, and horse to grain per night 50,
at Salt Lake City.
Hon. Daniel Cady, of Johnstown, Mont
gomery county, New York, one morning re-
Gently awoke entirely blind. He had had
severe pain in his great toe and in his
temples, a few days previously.
There are three excellent steam ferries in
operation at St. Joseph, No., and all of
them are as busy as they can be every day.
The travel in that direction is unprece-
dented.
The largest comb factory in the world is
at Aberdeen, Scotland, where 100000 of
combs, both horn and shell, are produced
annually. The quantity of OK and buffalo
horns worked is immense.
The Chicago Post Office is claimed to be
second only to that of New York in the
amount of business DONE 1t employs 90
clerks, express mail-agents and 3 route
agents.
According to new law in Connecticut,
defining the qualifications of voters, no one
can vote unless he is able to read any article
of the Constitution or any section of the
Statutes, and sustains good moral char
acter.
The Victoria Bridge, the most expensive
bridge structure on this continent, which
spans the ST. Lawrence river at Montreal,
forming a connecting link between the
Canadas and the States, is expected to be
completed by the first of October next.
The steamboat Augusta was burned on
the Savannah river on Friday, the 1st inst.
The engineer and three negroes were drown
ed, and the boat with seven hundred bales
of cotton, forty barrels of -four and other
produce were burned up.
Mr.. Williams, Editor of the Utica Her
aid, in writing from Tunis, states that the
American Consulate is supported at Tunls
at an expense Of 81, 100 per year, and yet
but one American vessel has anchored in
that harbor in five years.
Mrs. Catharinc Preston and two of her
children-both boys, aged nine and seven
years-were drowned in attempting to cross
Stout's Creek, near Centerville, in st. Clair
county, Illinois, no the 2lst ult. The hus-
band barely escaped with his life.
They have lusus naturae at Cincinnati in
the shape of an Irish child, seventeen months
old, who never cries or talks, but whistles
instead. lie doesn't whistle tunes, of course,
but his whistle is as clear as an adults. A
young locomotive, probably.
1t appears, from the report of the New
York a ssembly, that the amount OF unclalm-
ed deposits in the Savings Banks of New
York city is $l39,705. All this has remain
ed unclaimed for ten years past. No pro
vision of law now exists for disposing Of
such funds.
The boiler of the new war steamer build
ing at Philadelphia weighs $4,000 pounds.
1t was drawn to the navy yard by string
of thirty-two horses and mules. The weight
was so great that the wheels Of the truck
sank hub deep into the macadamized road
in the yard, and in the street outside it
crushed the paving-stones like so many
cocoanuts.
The War Department has advices from
Utah to the 1st Of March. Mormoni SIN is
represented to be waning, and apostacy
quite common. Brigham Young keeps Sc
cluded. 1t is said he intends leaving Salt
Lake, and he has agents negotiating in some
northern provinces in Mexico and also in
Central America, for the purpose OF obtain
ing site for new settlement.
About a year since, Sarah J. Gould, of
Louisville, ST. Lawrence county, N. 7 ork,
a school teacher, was murdered by James Z.
Eldredge, young man who was thought TO
be engaged to her in marriage. He was
tried and convicted of the murder, but
new trial was ordered, which was soon to
have taken place. But he died of consump-
tion, in the Canton Jail, on the oath ult
A man named " illiam Joy has been tried
and convicted at Wabash, Ind, for burning
his own child to death. The wretch was
sentenced to but eighteen months impris-
onment, probably on account OF the youth
of the principal witness, little daughter OF
the prisoner. The deed was perpetrated in
the fall of 1857, but until now, through fear
of the father, the daughter dared not reveal
it.
The Cincinnati Enquirer, Of a late date,
informs its readers that during marriage
in one Of the churches crazy man entered
and called loudly for a knife with which to
sacrifice himself on the altar. The EnQuir-
er says that "the bride and her friends were
frozen qoiM h0rrorW but omits to state what
disposition was made of the frozen fair.
We venture to guess they have thawed out
ere this by the melting influence Of conjugal
love. We certainly hope so.
Another mysterious case of supposed
murder is agitating the people Of Albany,
and New York city. A few days ago soap
box in the office of the Hudson River Rail
road at Albany, was discovered to contain
human remains. The box was sent from
New York city, and directed to Oh. Rip
per, Franklin, Indiana" The remains in
the box were those of female, and it is
supposed that she had been outraged and
murdered and disposed of as above.
A man has been arrested at Paw Paw,
Mich, for disturbing religious assemblage
while they were immersing several OF their