Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-03-18
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q $bUO per annum Collector $5OU; Marsha
0 $500; Clerk $500; Aldermen 5000 each.
, DR.. George Abbott, American vice-C Cour
B sci at Cairo, Egypt, died in Alexandria i
January last.
The French army, it is said, is composed Q
GIL 900 fighting men, Of which over 10000
are available for foreign war.
A monster OK, measuring II feet from
tip to tip, 10 feet in girth, and weighin
$500 pounds, is now being exhibited il
Augusta, Ga.
The government of the United States il
about to erect mammoth foundry on tn
Pacific coast. 1t will be located at tn
Mare Island Navy yard, near San Francisco
Professor Mitchell, of the Cincinnati Oh
servatory, has accepted the Office of Directo
of the Dudley observatory at Albany, N
Y. His time and services will be divided
between the two observatories.
The wages o. farm laborers in England
have been reduced to nine shillings or 50, Il
per week. This does not include theil
board, and the English papers declare tina
their farmer laborers are we'll paid.
Massachusetts is not the only State thai
makes legal holiday of the 22d of Febru
ary. In Louisiana it is one of the five or
dered by law. They are Jan. lst, Jan. 9Th,
Feb. 22d, Good Friday, and July 4th.
John F. King, newspaper correspondent
who committed suicide at Poughkeepsie on
the 1lth ult., was from Waterford, N. Y. In
his dying statement he declares his infdel
views and says they ''stand the test of this,
the hour of death"
The Rock Islander says that one L. D.
Barnes who undertook to deposit nine hun.
| dred dollars of public funds with the coun-
ty treasurer, and alleged that he had lost
| the money, has been arrested and held for
trial on suspicion that he didn't lose it.
Ten Brock and another turtle sailed in
the City of Manchester for Liverpool, taking
with them several ''thorough-breeds'' for
the English race-courses, among them the
horses Starke and Jack Rossiter. The
former cost $1,000.
The number of Indians within the limits
of the United States is $4,000. More than
three hundred and fifty treaties have been
ratified with the Indians since the adoption
of the Constitution, by which the Govern
ment has acquired 53l, ,l6s,l88 acres of
land. .... ....
The Cincinnati Press says that the caloric
engine by which their paper is worked off,
is perfect success. 1t runs Hoes lightning
double cylinder press, throwing of three
thousand impressions an hour, and the ex-
pense for fuel is only cent and half an
hour.
In accordance with the constitutional pro-
vision, an enumeration Of the inhabitants of
the United States must be taken next year.
The law under which the last census was
taken, contains clause giving it vitality in
1860, unless Congress shall, in the meantime,
pass some other law on the subject.
Field, who has absconded from Brooklyn,
N. Y, having embezzled over $5O,0O0, it
appears has squandered his money at the
gaming table. Within three months he lost
heavily at one evening $500, on New
Years eve $1,000, and at another time all
the money he had, and his gold watch.
Mr.. Josiah Godwise, who died in Joppa,
Mass, was quite q Samson. Among his
feats Of strength was the swinging of bar
rel of -four by each arm, jumping distance
of twelve feet, &c. Thoug Oh he was seventy
seven years of age when he died, the longest
Journey he had taken was distance of ten
miles to military training.
Messers. Douglas & Sherwood, of New
York, finish not less than 5000 hooped
skirts day, and daily use in the manufac-
ture of their hoops ton Of steel. A foun-
cutting them and covering them with braided
York. Some 800 girls are employed in
putting them together
Our foreign ministers now numhee.,. -,
tween thirty and forty our oqrrhsv lev cost about
two and s three hspff1p t.a1f per annum Probably
= on wn.,l f De difficult to find an equal number
~ Office holders anywhere who are appoint
I'd so entirely without reference to qua,ifi
cations, who are so unfit for the places they
6ll, and who, while doing so little, cost so
much. ....
Philip Barton Key, the victim Of the late
terrible tragedy in Washington, had an
elder brother, who was killed many years
ago, in a duel, by Midshipman Sherburne,
Of New Hampshire. Keys wife, who Is
dead, was Miss Swan, of Baltimore. Her
marriage came near causing duel between
her husband and Col. May, Of Mexican War
notoriety, the latter alleging that Key had
unfairly supplanted him in the ladys affec-
lions.
A Door widow in New York, who was
obliged to ask aid from a charitable society |
to nav her rent, was found at work upon
mems cloth caps, which she was making for
two cents apiece. Working night and day,
she was able to earn only ,25 per week,
for the support of herself and two little
daughters. The employer who pays two
cents for making mans cap ought to be
hunted up and advertised gratuitously.
While Rev. Thomas P. Calhoun, Presby-
terian minister, and his wife were crossing
a bridge at St. Cloud, Minnesota, in sleigh,
on the Goth ult., the horse became unman-
ageable, and jumped from the bridge to the
hard frozen. bottom below, a distance of
some 80 feet, killing Mr.. Calhoun and
severely injuring his wife. The horse was
also killed, and the sleigh broken into frag-
ments. MIR. Calhoun was native of Ten
nessee.
Tho demand for Skunk skins to take to
Germany and change into sSiberian Squir.
rel" has led to the capture of enormous
numbers in the West. Some 1900 pelts
were sent to New York from Painesville
(O.) last week, $500 have been purchased
At Adrian, Mich, and one lad in Union
county. Ohio, has taken 800, which brought
$1 so. cash. Some farmers think this indis-
criminate slaughter of skunks will prove an
,niusv to the country, a. they destroy the
mice, grasshoppers, &C., in the fields.
Mrs. Gerard, wife Of Emanual Gerard,
tobacconiss, 620 Vine street, Cincinnati,
committed suicide by blowing out her brains
on Friday evening, 4th inst. Her husband
having accused her of criminal Intercourse
with a Doctor living near, having come into
possession of letter from her, appointing
a place of meeting with the Doctor, she
walked behind the counter, took loaded
pistol, put it to her temple and literally blew
the top of her head OF: The Gerards were
Hungarians, and Mrs. G. is said to have de-
scended from o noble family.
| On the Sd inst. a most shocking case OF