Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-03-02
News Paragraphs.

A steam boiler exploded at Harmonv
Owen county, Indiana, on the 23d mat and
killed two men named Mr.. Watson and John
O. Cumming.
Our exchanges from nearly all part. Of
South say that the wheat crop is kill ed. and
tho farmers arc blowing and sowing lar pe
quantity Of spring wheat.
What is called q 'shalf-holiday movement"
has been started in London. 1t is to give
merchants, mechanics, laborsrs and others,
Saturday afternoon for leisure. A good idea.
Mary Day, of Baltimore, mysteriously
disappeared on election day, and recently
ner BODY was found in the river, horribly
mutllated. Sheh had evidently been murdered,
and then thrust in bag and sunk.
Affairs in Utah are worse than ever. No
less than eight U. s. soldiers have been
murdered by Mormons, one being shot in
the city, to which he had been summoned on
civil process. The Mormon authorities
refuse to bring the offenders to justice.
Mrs. Margaret Fisher, stopping at the
4irard House, in Louisville, had her trunk
broken open and robbed of $578 in gold,
last week. She was on her way to Iowa, A
corn doctor, named W. F. Purcell, his wife.
and another man were arrested on suspicion
OF having committed the robbery:
Col. Gray, of the army, who came to st.
Louis with the overland mail, afer eight
months surveys and ex plorations in Arizona
and Sonora, reports the journey in no wise
tedious, the stock on the route in fine con-
dition, the meal stations good and eonnec-
tons made with wonderful precision.
Somebody finds that all the child ess
Presidents, except Polk, have been re.
elected, and argues tberefrom that Buchanan
VIII have second term. But the analogy
fails, Tor Buchanan is wifeless as we'll as
ehildless; and there is no telling how
many children he might not have had if any
woman had ever been willing to take him
A Yankee in Utica has invented and set in
operation an artificial lady, in full dress,
propelled by small boy, and adverrisss to
sweep the sidewalks and crossings for a
certain annual salary. The lady is crinolined
according to the width of the sidewalk, and
the erinoline so rugged that it can be widen
ed or narrowed as occasion may require.
A firm in Newark, N. j., have a number
OF ponds for the propagation of frogsfo
the market. There they may be seen in
every stage of development--spawn tadpole,
and perfect.limbed vocalist. Hundreds Of
pairs of legs (there is no price on the heads)
are sold daily by travelling vendors, at the
low wholesale price of ST per hundred; .
trltlng appreciation for the sacrifice Of so
many harmless lives.
John Rose, wealthy citizen of New
York, lately deceased, has bequeathsd
$3.50, 900 This whole property with tho
exception of about $3O,oO0) to benevolent
and charitable distributions, including
100000 which goes conditionally to tho
colonization society, unless citizens of New
York make up like sum to be Joined with
thi. for the education in agriculture of
INDECENT white children.
Kew. George Chandler, the oldest preacher
in Philadelphia, died last week. He was
called to the pastorship of the First Prssby-
terrain Church in 1915, but commenced his
preaching there in November, 1914. During
his long ministry he added over 1900
members to his church, baptized many
thousands of persons, married 8, 166 couples
and, since 1920, attended 5000 funerals.
Mr.: Chandler was man very widely known
and much respected.