Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-06-22
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News Paragraphs.
The widow of Ossawatomie Brown ha
received $4,000 from her oolored sympa
thizers in Hayti. .-svg- f .}:'s. 4.
1t is estimated that over 10, 900 barrels Q
oil are now ready for market in the oi
regions of western Pennsylvania. wa
Noah H. Bishop, of Groveland, Mass, ha
been sentenced to the state prison for 81,
years, for having four wives. ii
The cholera is raging with grsat violence
on the Malabar coast. OF 5,043 people
attacked by this awful scourge in January
4,45S died.
About eighty dogs are drowned per day
from the dog pound in New York. They are
put into tank. 9 cover put on, and ther
filed with Croton water. .-, 4
The Rev. Starr King, on his way to Cali
fornia, was astonished by the size, boldness
and voracity OF the sharks in Panama Bay
He says sthey are the Vanderbilts of the
sea-" ,. ..I .--r
The horse "Patchen," that has beaten
ETHAN Allen," and almost stripped the
laurels from s'Flora Temple" is held at the
altogether fancy price of $s5, 900; $25,ool
has been refused.
Geo. W. Scott, highly respected citizen
of Toledo, and said to be worth $60, 200,
and did not owe dime, committed suicide
recently by drowning himself, through fear
tLat he should come to want.
The celebrated bronze doors modled by
Rogers for the national capitol, and cast in
Munich, have arrived in New York. They
have cost some $4,000, and have excited
general admiration abroad.
The Macoupin county Jail at Carlinyi!le,
ILL.,, was destroyed by fire On Thursday last,
and negro horse thief, its only inmate,
who, it is thought, set the fire, perished in
the flames. Loss to the county about 81 900.
Many of the Agricultural Societies in
New England will this year dispense with
the usual exhibition of cattle at their
county fairs, in order to lessen the chances
for the spread of pleuro- pneumonia.
A machine for making button holes is said
to be the latest thing in the way Of inven.
tions. twill work, it is reported, ten button
holes in minute. The next thing will be a
machine to sew on buttons - then, hurrah
for the bachelors
Job Crabtree, few years since q member
of tha Virginia Legislature from Lee county,
has been convicted of an assault upon II. G.
Weirman with intent to kill, and sentenced
to twelve months Imprisonment in the
county Jail and $500 fine. @
An engraving, executed by Victor Hugo,
representing on very dark background a
man suspended from galiows, with "Ecce
K "A SsT>hn d. Id LII
has appeared in print shops in Paris and
been suppressed BY the police.
The news of the great prize fight was
received in San Francisco in nineteen days
and a half from the time it left England, BY
the opportune arrival of the Vanderbilt at
New York the day that the pony express left
st. Joseph. This ia the quickest time between
England and the Pacific ever made.
The Lafayette Qnd) Journal learns that
a desperate fight took place at Montezuma,
in that State, on Sunday week, between q
circus company and some of the citizens, in
which two of the latter were killed by being
beaten with the pins used to fasten do WI
the tent.
A miniature bureau of beautiful polished
wood, with six drawers. and q set Of five
boxes, richly lac9uered aud ornament ed
with embossed flowers, leaves, butterflies
and various insects, has been sent a. 9
present to Mayor Wood, of New York, BY
che Japanese ambassadors.
The manufacture of lager beer in st. Louil
the present year will reach 122, 400 barrels;
of common beer, 81, 900 barrels Of all other
4, 400 barrels. The value of the mauufac
ftursd articles, $l,523, 400. Estimating tn,
working capital of each brewery at an aver
age OF SIS 900, we get the further sum ol
$500, 900 invested in beer, making total 0
/ So, Ia, 400. ...-.
Among the FIRST fruits Of the settlement o.
the dispute about the belt, is the laying ou
of two campaigns by the champions, from
which they will, no doubt, reap q COLDER
harvest. We learn, says Wilkss' Spirit 0
tie Times, that after tour of eight week
in England and Ireland, in the course o
which they will give exhibitions in tn
principal towns, Heenan aud Sayers vii
come to this country together. b rs e5r
1t is expected that the peach crop 0
Louisiana, this year, will be 90 large tina
the New Orleans market will be over
run, and it is proposed to ship, BY express
peaches from Mississippi to Chicago, wher
they will arrive at least two months il
advance of the season North. Arrangement
are being made by Adams Southern EXPIRES
for tho transportation Of the luscious irui
to Cincinnati, Chicago, st. Louis, Louisville
and other points north. .gg9ae eff io} COZ
q, A large failure is reported in Vera Cru,
that Of Messrs Jecker & Co, with iisbilitis
81, ,00O, ,OO0;i assets, $7U0, 600. They ask q
extension Of five years. promisipg to surrea
der % per ce:It. OF their, capital each yea,
logttt'er with SIX pr cent. interest. Yh-i
eredta..rs refu . the proposition. The TAI
u~e caused immense lvsses thr0uy hout Ii
country. IA. Gaharisc, the iaIe Frenc
Minister, was in great distrsss, having lo
au. r51sVm aeaaDigoIG 10 ByBw 9d3 10 7asi
es ufpI sI0-1I a1l go SZ T--7TT -0Tta Sv
The MASSACHUSETTS CATTLn sDIsEAss.-
Notwiib bs anaiug the stringent sanirary re,
ulat,ons adopted, the lung ma,raia contii
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