Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-04-29
News Paragraphs.

formerly newsboy in New York. lie was
also a practical printer.
Hunde Baffo, an Italian woman at Chica-
20, who had given birth to twins, recently,
in fit Of delirium, tore ono of them to
pieces with her teeth.
No less than six men and women and four
children were reported at the Coroners once
in New York, on Saturday last, as lying
dead from unnatural causes, and awaiting
an inquest.
One cent ferriage for foot passengers is
the price agreed upon by the ferries between
New York City and Williamsburg, to be
charged after the last of May. This is COM
ing down to the very lowest charge possible.
Mary Hartung, who murdered her hus
band in Albany, is to be hung on the 9th
of April. Gov. Morgan has absolutely re-
fused to commute her sentence. Her par
amour, who was confederate in the crime,
is yet to be tried.
A man by the name of Robins, indicted
for bigamy, was tried at Raleigh, N. o.,
last week, and convicted. He was branded
with the letter on the right cheek, in open
court-the brand leaving mark that he
will carry to the grave.
The millers of St. Louis offer premiums,
amounting in all to 200, for the best
crops of the several varieties of spring and
winter wheat, the awards to be made at the
next annual Fair of the Missouri Agrlcultu-
raj Society.
A horseman in Hartford has hit upon a
new idea for s'track" for horses for State
Fairs. 1t is an elongated figure Sand as
the track crosses at the intersection, or
middle of the figure, neither horse can get
the advantage of the shorter or inside track.
The difficulty between the citizens at Kill
bourne City, Wis.,. and the raftsmen, has
been settled, the citizens agreeing to fix the
dam so that the rafts can pass through
without damage; so there will probably be
neither riot nor bloodshed about the matter.
At Vicksburg, Miss, on the o0th ult., the
river was so high that steamers, being COM
PEELED to land far into the city, frequently
ran afoul Of the houses on the landing
Awnings were torn away, and one house
was completely destroyed in this manner:
The Illinois Central Railroad Company
has offered premium Of 1900 for sue
cessful steam plow, the award to be made by
the Executive Committee of the State Agri-
cultural Society. That Society has already
offered $4,000 for the same purpose, making
a sum of $4,000.
New Orleans is built upon forest Of cy-
press-trees. For GOO feet down at least that
is the foundation. Rows upon rows of the
stumps of cypress have been found growing
over each other exactly superimposed, each
of which layers must have taken thousand
years to form.
Wheat is now being imported from Eng
land to Philadelphia. The Gazette Of that
city, of the 18th, remarks that this is a
strange change in the natural and proper
current of trade, but it is fact. At let aa4 af
fi5'ha Liverpool, is now offered for sale by
samples, and will probably pay we'll.
A German woman, named Saal, has been
arrested in Chicago for attempting to kill
her husband, by first stupefying him with
opium, and then suffering the gas to escape
from all the burners in the room in which
he lay. The odor Of the gas attracted the
neighbors of the premises, fortunately, in
time to save the sleeper's life.
A catalogue of the rich men of Boston
has been published, from which it appears
that William Appleton is worth 1854, 900;
the Fifty Associates are assessed at 81 1922
900; the heirs to John d. William Shaw,
ST., ,O72, 900; John G. Gray, 1867, 900; Josiah
Quincy $63S, 700, and Mrs. Cornelia A.
lhayer owns $5O0,000.
Mr.. Amadio, of London, whose portrait
of Charles Dickens, no larger than pins
point, was lately noticed in the papers, has
produced view of Westminster bridge with
the House of Parliament and W Westminster
Abbey, within space not larger than the
eye of a worsted needle. Also, portrait
Of youth, which is only just larger than
needles point, but when magnitied is as
perfect as any conceivable likeness.
The St. Paul Pioneer says that many of
the settlers upon the public lands in Min
nesota, advertised for sale in April, are
money to make good their prescriptions,
and it cannot be procured, as in more pros
porous times, by mortgaging the land In
some instances, hard working men, with
families dependent upon them for support,
will be compelled to lose the fruits of one
and two years. labor upon their farms.
The report of the New York State Lunatic
Asylum, Just published, shows that the late
financial difficulties have had an influence
in increasing insanity; and in reference to
the probable causes of deranged intellects,
the report shows that the largest number
have become insane from i'll health; the
next largest from hereditary predispositi ion;
the next from intemperance and vice; the
next from religious excitement, and the
next from business perplexities and loss of
property.
A young man named George W: Lozier,
in Cincinnati, died, a few days since, of
lockiaw. About month since, while walk
ing in his yard, a nail ran through his boot
into his foot, causing him much pain, but
on application of certain lotions became
quite easy. He was somewhat famed, but
thought himself recovered until he set his
feot down suddenly one day, when his
whole frame quivered and his jaws closed
like vice, never to open again. Every
possible effort was made to save him, but
in vain, and his best friends were grateful
when he breathed his last, and his agony
was over.
A horrible tragedy occurred near Mt.
Sterling, Brown county, ILL.,. on the 14th
inst. A woman named Mrs. Whalcn, the
wife Of Andrew Whalen, got up in the light,
and going to a bed where her daughter,
aged 1S years, was asleep deliberately cut
her throat, killing her instantly. he mis-.
erable woman then cut her own thr oat with
the same razor, and the mother and daughter
lay on the blood colored floor dead, when
discovered by the husband and father. This
is his staten ent Of the case. The coroner's
Jury gave verdict in accordance with these
facts. The mother must have been attacked
by a fit of temporary insanity, as no reason
is given for the terrible act.
SIZE OF THE WEsT.-Illinois would make
forty such States as Rhode Island, and Min
nesota sixty. Missouri is larger than all
New England; Ohio exceeds in size either
Ireland, Scotland, or Portugal, and equals
Belgium and Switzerland together. Mis-
souri is more than half as large as Italy, and
larger than d Denmark, Holland, Belgium and
Switzerland. Missouri and Illinois are