Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-09-02
News Paragraphs.

Now. Paragraphs.
The cholera is raging terribly in Japan.
The second comet of 1859 10 now visibl
BY telescope. Its position is near the sta
Alpha, in the constellation Perseus.
Sixty-four railroad trains arrive or depar
from Indianapolis daily. Each road runs
freight train every day, except the Lafay
ette, which runs but three per week.
The Fifth Avenue Hotel, N. Y, wa
opened to the pnblic on the 22d. 1t 10 tn
largest establishment of the kind in thi
country. Paran Stevens is the proprietor.
The ssmilk sickness" is raging fearfully i,
the western part of Indiana, and many per
sons who have eaten the flesh of cattle whicl
were under the influence of the disease hav
died. lae .
lone farmer in Illinois, near Freeport, hat
| so acres in sugar cane or sorghum. He
has prepared powerful engine, which will
drive huge set of rollers, it being his in
tention to give sorghum fair trial.
s. X. kepner, until recently Treasurer o.
Schuylkill county, Pa, has been discovered
detaulter in the sum of $45, ,000-$3O,0 ,0O(
to the State, and $l5, 900 to the county. Hi
bondsmen have already paid $4,000 fol
him.
In the sale of the late Marquis of Water.
ford's effects, now advertised in England, il
his valuable stud of horses-l43 in number
viz: 80 hunters, 33 brood mares, II stal
lions, 8 carriage horses, lS 2-year olds. 2s
yearlings, colts, and tilly foals. Quite
a horse -fancier that old Marquis must have
been.
Daniel Stone, poor farmer in Wayne
township, N. j., was driving hogs out of his
corn and hearing q noise and seeing . dark
object moving near the fence, he threw big
stone violently in that direction. The object
proved to be his wife, who had come to help
him, and the stone striking her on the
temple killed her.
There ure said to be 10000 Chinese in
California. They have splendid temple in
San Francisco, and have lately imported, at
great cost, magniticently ugly idol. The
efforts to prevent the settlement of this
money making people in California have not
been successful. An attempt to put down
their idolatry by law has also failed.
The cotton crop this year is the greatest
ever known. That of Texas alone is 35O, 900
bales, against $50, 900 of 1858. The South
was never so prosperous as now. This large
increase in her staple it is hoped will do
something to balance our enormous importa-
tions, which more than double those Of '58,
and even far exceed those of 1857.
The grass in some parts of Indiana has
become so dry that it catches fire from the
sparks of the locomotives. On the Terre
Haute road, they have cut bitches near the
track, to check the flames and prevent their
consuming the ties Of the road. At several
places on the Bellefontaine road, the trains
have been forced to stop and extinguish the
fires.
On the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, not
far from Jackson, in Tennessee, still stands
the humble log cabin, l8 by 90 feet in size,
built and occupied by the far.famed Davy
Crockett. Its logs arc fast decaying, and
desolation surrounds it, but no traveller
passes that way without an ardent desire to
gaze upon this "reminiscences of most
man. ......-.
The Postmaster at Warren, Ohio, writes
at the request of Mr.. Timothy Bradley of
Johnston, Ohio, to the New York Tribune
to say that the story of its correspondent
that Mrs. B. was the happy
mother of 8 children at birth is mali
cious hoax, and adds: "Mr. and Mrs. Brad
ley are both respectable persons of respect
able families-have been married about six
years, and have never had any children"
Another new street railway, called the
Franklin Avenue Line, has been put in op.
Grafton in St. Louis, with two.h horse cars.
The example of New York and Philadelphia
has been rapidly followed and street rail-
roads are already introduced in all the
principal cities of the Union-Pittsburgh,
st. Louis, Chicago, Baltimore, &c., and
soon will be in Milwaukee, Washington,
Detroit, Buffalo and Cincinnati. These
great convenienees are fast superseding the
noisy, numbering omnibusses.
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