Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-01-27

Irsss News Paragraphs aartaios
! 3 During the past year 26s persons died i
the United States over 100 years Of age. &C.
Frederick Douglass, the absconding col
ored orator, is at present in the town 9
Halifax, England h'7.' g 'H s'~' ''..'.'
70 There were 1,O17 deaths in Detroit durin
the past year, of which SAL were under fiv
years ,of, age. aa .5s1aaf viibg4qa IND
"A man and five children broke sthrougl
the ice at Cold Spring, N. T., on the lot
inst, and were drowned. -,
Magnetizing locomotives are about to b
manufactured in Connecticut. They ough
to be attached to sleeping cars. z.@.'a., JsTu
The population of the provinces (Canad'
East and West) is now estimated to be ex
actly 5000, 1000. ,4r .roa.e.fe 10 gj;rg5
!, Newspapers in pearly all the Southern
States speak of cold frosty weather will
the mercury in some instances near zero.
A preacher III Wisconsin offers u reward
for "a Wisconsin christian, who can be rec
ognized BY the world as such, without th
aid of church label ~. b,s,..,,,r, sblsa
There are in the United States forty-eigh
Catholic Archbishops., and Bishops, ftw,
mitre Abbots, and two hundred and twenty
three secular and religious priests. a"7
B The destruction by FIRE of the Female Sem
mary at Oxford, Ohio already reported
will involve loss Of 100000. Insurance
$4,000. '''' -. -,
Rev. John Finley Grove, founder of th,
Hanover COLLEGE, Ind, and for seven years
teacher of the institution, died on the It'll
inst, of disease of the heart, aged IS years
n, Snow fell to the depth of four inches ir
Marengo Co., Alabama, on tie Both ult
This is the greatest fall of snow within the
memory Of the Oldest iAhabitant of thai
section. " .7- s&D
The southern freights from northern fac
tories and wholesale houses is said to be
much greater this season than ever before
Notwithstanding all the "bosh'' about non
intercourse.
A subscription to relieve the pecuniary
embarrassments of the Pope has been com.
menced in this country, and two devoted
Catholics of Baltimore, Md, have given $3.50
to the subject. ..r...,... g.r .r..
A western paper boasts that there is g
young lady in Kane county, ILL.,, by the name
of Peck, only fourteen years of age, who
weghs 2O2 pounds. When that Peck grows
to be a bushel, what whopper she will be
There are 934 prisoners confined at tn.
Auburn IN. Y.,) State Prison, the largest
number that has eyer been in this prison al
one time. The accommodations at the prison
are intended tor but 776. -"
The question, stIs it lawful for man tc
marry his mother ?" has been brought up in
new shape at Boston, where the Rev. D. G.
Eddy united MIR. Jacob Bacon to Mrs. Marths
w. Eddy, mother of the officiating clergy
man. .-...
On Monday, twelve Mayors, in Massachu
sets addressed messages to their several
city governments, and nearly every one
every one that had anything to- say about it
- recommended the adoption Of steam
engines. O.. .-...
The death of DR.. John Frost, of Philadel.
phia, is announced. He occupied some year
ago, the post of principal of the High
School Of that city. and during his life was
the compiler Of more than one hundred
school books. ..-.3
A brigand has been captured in Sardinia
who is known to have perpetrated sixty mur
ders. He was followed at all times by three
enormous mastiffs, fed, according to the
traditions of the peasantry, upon human
flesh. ..4-.. .-....-a 81"
For the aid of Grace Church, in sar
Francisco, the parishioners got up rafae
which yielded So, 900, and mean to follow
it up with ball, and perhaps grand con.
solidated "buck'' at faro-until $4,000
necessary funds are raised. - I'LL ~
A large collection of anonymous contri.
buttons to periodical literature, by Major
Andre, has recently been discovered and
satisfactorily authenticated. 1t will form
mat erial for one thick octave volume, and
will probably be published by Scribner.
The State Of Michigan has forty-three
cities and villages, containing over one
thousand population each. The city o1
Detroit has the greatest number of people
1000, and Grand Rapids is next, having q
population of $4,000. =, .t;..,.- .-....-
The western papers say that the upward
bound boats on the Mississippi river arr
crowded with free coord people, expelled
from Arkansas by the recent laws Of thai
State. Forty-three arrived at Cincinnati
one day last week. Some were bound te
the North and East.
The late Judge Blackford, of the Court
of Claims, according to the Indiana Senti
mel, leaves no family, and was encumberei
with property to the value IF quarter oi
a million of dollars. He is said to have
often remarked that he did not know how
to spend money. Wv .
The celebrated Charles Heidsick (aftel
whom the celebrated Heidsick wine is nam
ed) at present in New York, it is said
wears a bottle-green coat with blue labels
and glasses upon bottle nose. He is sale
to be sparkling in conversation when drawn
out, but sours if neglected. .rsil H9'Sao.
There were 312 patents granted during
the month of December. From this larg'
number, probably but small proportion O.
them can be made usefully practicable ant
even among those that have some elements
of utility, very few are sufficiently novel t.
interest the general reader.
& The Richmond Despatch says that TIL
Rev. E. H. Chaplin was formerly clergy
man in that city, and holds that heis NOR
to be condemned than ordinary Abolition
lists because he has had better opportunitie
Of forming a correct opinion upon the sub
iect of slavery as it exists at the south.
Of The Montgomery (Ala) Mail of a lat
date says: The House of Representative
has passed a bill and sent it forthwith to, ,th
Sentate, by whom it was, passed instanter
imposing $500 per day on all persons deal
ing in spiritual manifestations, &c. Gu
departed friends, cannot visit us at tina
prlce.s -..ss, #. z. .fsaa ri. J! noinIg
Mr.. Price, Of St. Stephen, in Maine, wa
burned ont of house twice in one night 81
owned two houses short distance from eacl
other The one he lived in took fire abou
nine o'clock, and his family had barely tim
to escape to the other. About twelve o'clocl
that also was found to be on fire, and, as th
night was bitterly cold, was laid in ashes.
The famous Indian brave, Hole in the
day. has built him a gay old house on hi
reserved $40 acres at Grow Wing, on tn
Mississippi, and has, so far adopted tn
modes Of civilization that he lives there il
all the splendor of an eastern prince, Wit
his pix. wives, seventeen rocking chairs9 ian'
china s'sset OUT for every day. table use
IJ:. bo,,.o ooot him dc O00