Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-08-10

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g Ihe New York Herald oyphers Jub d
Y account of the Great Eastern. and NAL
out that she will clear $40 200 BY her tn
J, TO America. al g.Teg ii, aims f.1,9~7D-
The land near Fort Bergen Hill, on Il
2 line Of the Jersey City and Bergen bo,
= tailfoads sank ten feet on the 26Eb It
supposed to have been caused By an and,
strata of qdicksand. aao ali 5as -
I The Democracy of Vermont have nom
mated John G.. SAKE, the poet, for Goyerpo
They tried this experiment last wear, an
when the votes .were counted gout the no,
lacked just 1859 votes of being elected
twill bs the same this year, only more &C
DArchy French, one Of the Oldest resident
Of Galens, of which he has been City Cler
for three years past, died il that place On th
S1st uft. He was gentleman Of tnuc
learning and research, and has publishe,
several elementary works. He was seyent
years OF age. 20 '-l'ai:S ,F3tf
Danbury, the great hat-making town town i,
vonnectlcut, has nearly half million dol
sats invested in the business. The sales O.
nsss tnere made amount to a million and ,
nslt Of collars yearly, or about dollar 9
piece for all the hats made. Thirteen hun
oe cted persons are employed in the work
chiefly men and boys. ','t''..' t9 ..'.''"s ~
There was Breckinridge State Convention
at indianapolis on the 3lst ult.. ,at vhiol
an electoral ticket and Q State Committee
were appointed. The State COMMITTEES Was
advlsed to; secure the running Of, q Joint
electoral ticket, and cast the vote for b On.
e!as or Breckinridge - whoever gets the
nlgnest electoral vote from other States.
1t 10 now pretty we'll understoo cd that Mr..
Seward will visit the Northwest, making
one speech certainly in the States Of Mich.
lgen, wisconsin and Minnesota, and prob
ABLY also in Iowa, Illineis, Indiana and
Ohio. dc will himself name the dsys.
Leaving to the State Central Committees he
cno!ce OF location, and his advent will be
used to draw together at great central points
the largest crowds of tho campaign
The Washington correspondent I ,of the N.
,. ~. MerN, under date Of the 24th ult., says
that Forney is in Washington, but does not
iraseInize with the Douglas men at all; that
.ne hcpnohcans have sent out, under direc.
zion OF Senator King, more documents than
any other party club ; and that Office holders
nave Deen seeking to become members of
the Republican association, secretly, but
were driven off when it was ascertained that
the names OF members were to be published
A terrible tragedy is reported from Coun>
Oh drove, Kansas. A man named Josiah
Taylor, alias "Cye Smith, )" who had been
married only abont a month, and lived
unnaPplly with his wife, shot her with
pistol, but not fatally. He then escaped,
out was pursued, and when his pursuers
were about capturing him, he shot himself
through the head, dying instantly. He left
q letter behind him, stating that the reason
why ne could not live happily with his wife
was that she .cohabited with other men.
Among the latest discoveries in California
ls large petrifed tree. 1t is living in q
6eso!ate region about sixty miles north of
BLACK Rock, near what is called the High
Rock Canon. and is partly buried in the soil.
its length, so far as measured, the top being
deep underground, was 666 feet, and the
general opinion of the company, looking at
II, was that it was from 40 to 60 feet in
diameter. In the same place, the Company
round the shin bone of a man petrifed, end
the upper jaw Of grizzly bear, twice as
large as the jaw Of any grizzly bear ever
seen IN modern times.
The amount of gum sschswed'' hy tiia
ladies of New York State is astonishing.
To supply the demand several factories ara
Kept incessantly busy. There is oneat West
Troy, which does Gland office business,
and another at Rochester, which does even
more. The Rochester Express, speaking of
the latter, says that the daily demand keeps
ahead OF the supply, though 5000 boxes are
manufactured nor6 6ou ooob
2OO rolls, and thus 100000 rolls are the
daily make and sale. Allowing four chews
to the roll, this would give 8, 100000 per-
sons sschew" daily. .
The horrible domestic tragedy at Bound
Brook, Somerset county, N. j., last week, is
accounted for in this wise Col. Lewis and
his wife, young married people, in comfort
able circumstances, probably quarreled in
the night, and Lewis choked his wife.
Unconscious Of the fact that he had killed
her, he slept by her dead body until morn.
ing. At an early hour a neighbor saw him
rise, as usual, and open his store, and heard
him call his wife. Only an hour or so later
he was discovered weltering in his own gore,
and his wife dead in bed. 1t is supposed
that ss his wife did not rise when called he
went to her room, where the awful truth was
revealed to him. The woman's neck showed
evidences of choking.
Sherman M. Booth, late editor of the
Milwaukee Free Democrat, and who has
been in custody Of the U. s. authorities in
that city, for several months past, suffering
imprisonment on conviction of having
helped to rescue the alleged slave of q Mr..
Glover from the Federal officers, several
years ago, was on the 1st inst. taken by
force from his place of confinement in the
Milwaukee Custom House, by ten armed
men, while the U. s. Marshal and his depu-
ties were at dinner, and no one but the
keeper present. The party rushed up stairs
to Booths room, silencing the keeper with
threats Of violence, unlocked the door and
took Booth out, locking the keeper in. A
carriage being in readiness, the party pro-
oeeded with the prisoner into the country.
No blood was shed.
An Ours1DER's VIEWS OF TIE MATTER
"71e World" the new and Independent
paper recently commenced in New York.