Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-07-29

There is firm doing business in st. Louis
under the name Of "Livepoor and Dietrich"
The National convention of the young
Mems Christian Association has fixed on
New Orleans for the next annual meeting.
Rufus Choate, whose recent death at Hal.
flax has been ann onnced, had an insurance
on his life for $25, 900.
Kossuth's fuency in Italian is admired at
Genoa and Turin, as much as his English
orations in America.
The Secretary of the Interior has appoint
ed Mr.. Joseph O. G. Kennedy to superin-
tend the taking Of the eighth census of the
United States.
The Oldest house in Cincinnati is on Filth
street near Plum. 1t is two story hewed-
log frame house, and was built about sixty.
Eve years ago.
John Cobb, a young man of Is, was
hung at Atlanta, Ga, lately, for shooting a
wealthy libertine who seduced his sister.
Cobb was convicted and sentenced last year,
but the feeling in his behalf was so strong
that Gov. Ellis was induced to reprieve him
for twelve months.
A great excitement exists in Philadelphia
on the question of running the city Railroad
cars on Sunday, and Sunday travelling, and
the matter is beginning to wear serious ap
pearance. The c'ergy are preaching against
it, and the Mayor and police have pat a stop
to the running of the cars.
Gov. Chase, of Ohio, has accepted an
invitation to be present at a great celebra-
ton at Plymouth, Mass, on the I'd of August
next; and Gov. Buckingham, of Connect
cut, is also expected by the committee of
management. The old Pilgrim town is to
be decorated in superb style On the occasion.
Francis A. Maffit son of the late Rev. John
Newland Mafit, the eloquent but cratic revi-
val preacher, who hourished in the West
some years ago, died in the Jail at St. Louis
on sunday night, the 18th inst, in an apo
plectic fit. He was awaiting trial on a
charge CT forgery.
| Roger A. Pryor has retired from the
editorship of the Washingtom States, as.
signing as a reason therefor desire to fur
tber his private interest by returning to
4 Virginia and resum ng the practice of law
The remaining publishers are to change the
name OF the paper on September LIST, to
''The States and Union"
Mons. B!ondin, the fool hardy French
man, gave the last performance, for the
present, at Niagara Falls on the 18th inst.
lie walked the rope from the American to
the Canadian side of the river, backwards,
and returned wheeling wheel barrow. The
danger of the feat may be imagined when it
is known that the cable is suspended $50
feet above the waters of the river.
| 1t is said that almost every vessel arriv-
Ing at New York from Europe reports pass
ing the largest kind of icebergs in the Gulf
stream, involving not unfrequen:ly narrow
escapes. The Zurich from Havre passed one
as high as the masthead, which for while
appeared to insist upon an unpleasanty
close acquaintance. Had the ship come upon
it at night. destruction. the cal tain says,
must have been inevitable.
Mrs. Thomas Jones, Welch woman, 6S
years of age, was killed at the crossroads
near Lake Emily, Dodge county, Wis.,, one
day last week, in stopping span of unrul y
colts, that were running away from her son.
She seized them by the brides, and succeed
ed in arresting their progress, but in so
doing was struck violently in the breast by
the pole of the wagon, and trampled upon
by the horses, which caused her death in a
few minutes.
A specimen of the "Hoosier Girl" worth
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Knox county, Indiana. The Vincennes Ga
Sette say she is under twenty, weighs 40 lbs,
lives in Bethlehem, in Knox county, and on
Monday, the 18th inst, followed and kept
up with a cradle all day, binding one hun
dred and sirty dozen large bundles of oats
She said she could as easy have bound two
hundred if the cradle could have cut them.
Can anybody male or female Of like weight
or age beat the Hoosier Girl?
Mr.. II. Willard. of Cincinnati, one of the
signers of the famous Horace Greeley gold
letter from Pixies Peak, publishes long
article in the Cincinnati Commercial of the
2lst inst, deprecating all excitement on the
gold question, and warning those whom the
late favorable news is tempting to start tor
the mines to stay at home, for if they 60 so
late as this, they will 60 at their peril. He
says there are thirty thousand persons there
now, not one in ten of whom are making
anything.
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