Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-11-16

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The population of Maine is 645137. which
is an increase of 81 1858 over that Of 1850
The Prince of Wales visit to the United
States was induced by Senator Seward.
Nearly sixty locomotives are on order at
the works of single firm in Philadelphia.
New York and States adjoining have col.
lected $4,000 for the suffering Christians of
Syria.
Thirty six tuns of tacks were recently sent
from Taunton. Mass, to the different pur-
chasing localities. -'
Peter Boyle fell from the roof of his house
near Quebec, Canada, one night last week,
while sleep-walking, and was killed
A pear weighing pound and half, was
ons of nine grown on bush five feet high,
by Joseph Hall, Of Rochester, n Y.
Asa NJ. Wagner, revolutionary pensioner
died recently in Ashland, Vermont, at the
advanced age of 10 years.
Anthony B. Nelson, one of the most prom.
nent business men Of New York, died
recently. '- 80 "..t
Miss Davenport, the actress, was married
to Col Lander, (Potters second in the PRYOR
due, } at San Francisco, on the 18th ult
Col Ruckstuhl, local editor of the Louisville
Aneeger, who was assaulted in saloon in
that city few weeks since, has died of his
wounds.
Gerrit Smith has settled his libel suits
against the Fifth Avenue Committee, for
So, 900 sufficient to cover the expenses in
Cured.
p Fenelan was knocked down and robbed
of 50, IT'S, in Pittsburgh, recently, while 60
ing from the train to his brother laws
after night.
| There are twenty-five physicians in New
Y ork city who are said to earn annually
from ten to forty thousa'd dollars, and of
this number four are homepathists.
j. &C. Warning, President of the Cleve.
land u Toledo Railroad, died at Poughkeep.
sic, N. Y, on the 10th inst. He had lust
returned from Europe.
Areturning Pixies Peaker, passing through
Elwood, X. H., last week, had for pets q
grizzly bear, two buffer calves, two black
tailed deer and two mountain lions.
tannery firm in New Orleans have gone
i:to the business of tanning alligator hides
with great success. The skin of the alliga
tor makes excellent leather.
The total receipts Of grain of all sorts at
Chicago during the month Of October, was
l6, l44, $50 bushels. OF this grand aggregate
there were 5,492, 703 bushels of wheat
| Col. John Hivling, foe many years citi-
izen of Greene county, and we'll known
throughout all Southern Ohio, died at his
residence in Xenia, on the 4th inst, aged 81
years
The census shows only $500 unoccupied
dwellings in the whole of NJ ,ssachusests. and
they are chiefly in the shipbuildIng districts,
owing to the low state of this brancn of bus
ness.
James Redpath, accredited Commissioner
of the Haytien Government, to promote
, colored emigration to Hayti, is addressing
the people Of New England in behalf of the
enterprise.
Rev. J d. Terry, minister of long stand. .
ing in the Oneida NJ E. Conference, has
been Suspended on charge of using the
church where he ofticiated as a place of as
slgu alton.
A va liable watch has been presented TO
Edward W Spencer, of the Garrett Biblical
Institute, Chicago, who so gallantly rescued
a number the passengers of the Lady FL
3 gin, at the eril Of his own life
man named Elmer was run over by a
freight train at Dixon, H., on the 9th inst,
and instantly killed. Forts -four cars passed
over him. lie was an employee and by SINE
e mishap fell from the train.
Flora 'emple is no longer Queen of the
Turf Tie horse Geo. n. Patehen beat her
at Geneva, n. Y, On the 9th ult., in q
trot for purse mile heats, best three in
fiye Patchen's best time was 2:2S.
, The Pacific Knitting Co., at Manchester,
Connecticut, has failed, having not only
sunk the entire capital of $50, 900, but draw
ing heavily on the personal property O! the
shareholders. There liabilities are about
$4,000.
A west India steamer recently landed at
SonthamptOI 1862 900 in Mexican specie,
the weight OF which was upwards of 1876
tons. Ii fl led SO wagons, drawn BY 100
horses. The whole amount was deposited
In the Bank of England
flying Machine has just been patented
} IN London, consisting of IL very light steam
engine which Is to operate huge pair of
wings. Oil S to be used Tor fuel instead of
wood or COAL that the greater heat may be OBJ
tanned with rhe same weight
I Frederick Meyers, mechanic, was on
gagged in msFing some repairs to The gutter
spout Of Mitchell Il ommelsbursn's furpi-
ture man liac tory, in cincinnati, last week,
when he mis- sed his footing and fell into
the cellar, m eting horrible death.
An intern; machine, called the centrifu
gal gun, is OF exhibition at Columbus Ohio,
which will throw five hundred balls per
minute with the force of an ordinary rifle.
without the aid of powder or caps, by mere
ly turning tie crank like coffee mil
IT Ill.
brook Staff ii, Shelby county, Ind, was shot
and Killed ~ blacksmith named Tooey a
few since. They had quarreled about some
hog. Ioo'ey was threatened with lynchin:
but was fir lly lodged in Jail.
The pass ,ort system is entirely abolished
by royal or nance in Sweden henceforth
30 su.h document will he required either in
entering the country or in departing from
1t. nwedet' is tho first continental country
to abolish the veSatious system by law.
| The Prussian Gazette says that 400 per-
sons have died in Southern Russia and Kiey
from the puncture of absorption of poison
! Gus y, which made its way from Asia
abo' sixty or seventy years ago, a great
| number OF persons died from similar
| cause.
Henry seabold, aged los years, of North
township, Marshan cou ty, Indiana, and
| the oldestman probably, in Indiana, went on
the ms land voted for Lincoln and Hamlin.
He voted i'r Washington, then 80 years of
age. Mr. 3 is in possession of all his faculties.
and enjoys excellent health.
A singular cause of death is reported from
Truxtou, Cortland county, n. Y. Several
months since Mr.. Charles Mcknight bought
Of apedlar .ome salve for corns. He applied
it, and it caused sore, which continued
to spread and cause intense pain until he
was relieved by death.
DR.. Lyman Beecher, who cast his first
vote for Washington, was taken to the polls
on the 9TH inst, by his son, that he might
cast his Il &c vote for Lincoln Az the