Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-09-30
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who had s'cat" with nine tails
The Atlantic Monthly has reached cir
culation Of 81 700 copies, and is now one O.
the most profitable magazinesin the country
| New York City is about nine miles lonl
and not more than mile wide. Presen
population not far from 100000 including
suburbs. ea@ aaest
The Jews in New York propose to erect ,
temple that will rival in extent and magnif
cence the Catholic Cathedral now in course
Of erection in that city.
The whole number of dogs destroyed &c
Fcording to law, in New York, during the
present season, was 96s2 dogs and 3S7 pup
pies at cost of II cents each.
The White Mountains in New Hampshire
put on their white night cap of snow on the
9th of August, preparatory to long win
ter's snooze of eight months.
ltis said that the militia Of the United
States number a,766,726, Of which about
2,700,000 are infantry, 10000 cavalry,
10000 artillery, and 1000 rihemen.
Col. Kinney, the great fillibuster and
Central American colonist, having returned
to Texas, has just been elected to the Legis-
lature of that State from Nueces county.
tits reported that Stevenson, the celebrat-
ed English engineer, received $225,OOO for
the plan Of the Victoria bridge, at Montreal.
Pretty good pay for head work.
Hon. Jesse d. Bright is lying dangerously
ill in Madison, Ind, =, of inflammatory rheu-
matism. He suffered severely from the same
complaint year or two since.
Very pretty Geneva watches are sold in
Paris this season in the form of heart, in
that of tulip, or representing shell, on
which are admirably painted views Of Gene
va, or pastoral scenes.
A first class locomotive costs about $l0,-
600; passenger car $4,000; a baggage
car or freight car $3.50; gravel car
$500. The iron of railway costs from
IS, 900 to $4,000 per mile.
A large body of land-20, 900 acres Lying
in the counties Of Highland, Randolph and
Pendleton, Va, has been sold for 100000,
or so cents per acre, to a northern Emigra-
ton Company, whose design is to settle it.
The body of an unknows man, supposed
to be that of Jew peddler, was found in
the woods, six miles west of Piqua, o., on
Friday Of last week. He was evidently
murdered, having been shot through his
head.
The agricu tural department of the Patent
Office will have one hundred thousand vigor
Gus tea plants ready for gratuitous distrib
usion within three or four months. 1t is
expected that American grown tea will en-
ter the market within five years.
In boring to find the source of the oil
which is so common along the banks of Oil
Greek, in Crawford county, North western
Pennsylvania, a fssure was struck last week
at depth Of II feet, which proved to be a
vein of water and oil, yielding 400 gallons
of pure oil daily.
The Northern Times, of August 18th, says: !:
1.-The hitherto unaccomplshed feat of trot-
ting twenty miles within an hour (in Eng
land) was performed yesterday by horse
called s'Jack Rossiter," an American He
was handled by a Yankee jockey, especially
brought over for the OCCASION"
Sylvanus P. Lowry, the Democratic can
didate for Lieutenant Governor of Mime
sofa, is the man who headed the mob which
DESTROYED the press of Mrs. Swisshelm, at
St. Cloud, year since. The spirited lady
has OF course undertaken to defeat him, and
will do it, whatever becomes of tho rest of
the ticket.
A Mrs.Wilmot of Carthage, Jefferson CO.,
New York, went to the rescue of child three
wears old that had fallen in the cistern. She
had her babe in her arms, and BY some
means fell with it into the cistern. She lay
there for hours until her husband came home,
and hearing her means, drew her and her two
dead children from the water.
Alison and MacauIey, the great living
historians of England, are severely CRITICS.
ing each others works in the BlacAacOod and
Ffazer's Magazine respectively, each en-
deavoring to show the glaring perversions
of history of the other, until one is at a loss
whom to trust and tempted to doubt the
very existence of truth in historic guise.
loves balloon, which is to start in two
or three weeks from New York for Europe,
will cost $4,000, and has the capacity to
carry 10 tons. The company who will attend
Mr.. L. consists of persons. He thinks he
can land in London forty eight hours after
leaving New York. The balloon is $50 feet
high, and 13O feet in diameter.
The papers from the northern coast of
Cuba contain glowing descriptions Of the
recent Aurora Boreal:s, which appears to
have been as brilliant in the tropics as in
the northern zone. But twice before have
the Northern lights been seen in Havana
within the remembrance of the Oldest in.
habitants-the FIRST Nov. IA, 1889, and the
second Nov. II, 1s48.
The Spanish titled aristocraoy, according
to one Of the journals, consists of 2 princes,
80 dukes $50 marquises, $40 counts, "a Wis
counts and 63 barons. The American titled
aristocracy consists of 675,327 captains,
14O, l6O colonels, 102,349 majors, 1922
generals, 526 excellencies, 97,325 honora-
bles, 374,532 deacons, 46, 1876 able editors
nd ] baron, not to mention the esquires,
d, - no man can count for number.
" ,ou % years old, named Streeter, liv.
a 10y ;sh,n n. H.. went to catch colt
ing my, IN had % heen tie down to bis fore foot to
Isep lar him him from from JUMPING and after uaoosing
neep .he rone n from the COILS iss he slipped the
Moose @ over his wrist, when the colt started
and ran till the boy was killed. 1t ac"s 20
the sadness of the fatality that the boy OBJ,
;ected to going on the dangerous errand' ana
was forced by his father to undertake 1t.
At the ROYAL Agricultural Society OF Eng,
lands show this year, there were exnioiteG
six steam plows and cultivators IN actuai
work. Of these the best was that OF 1ohn
Fowler, jr., of London, whose engine IS sta-
toned at one side of field, sell moving
drum at the other, and wire cable. when
winds and unwinds on the above drum, and
another beneath the engine itself, draws
double gang of plows-one half set to pow
in the forward direction and the other hall
on the return. With this apparatus, taking
four burrows and employing power eqaa
to ten horses, 2 roods l6 perch.es only OF
ground we're broken per hour. 10 this ma
chine the Society awarded last year III
Grand Prize Of $500 and this year new
prize of ESQ. The steam'plow OF fawkes
is in every respect its superior, having
at the Illinois Fairs plowed in the sam
space, of time 81 acres with perfect ease ant
~ IL x-...o,rs oil fha time. JOhI