Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-06-29
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4 The Boston Pilot estimates the numbe
Of Catholics ID this county At 8, SOC, 1900.
"A Philadelpbian has rrecsived "a order t
| set up b paper mill IN Utahg for brigham
Youngj stis cost Of $50, ,ao0snfnor sswt
a1Oolleotions amounting 9 t0o 81 ,88lvhav
thus far q been made in New York for tn
tornado sufferers ct the West. ", -
The black leprosy, e terrible disease
communicated BY Chihamat, hsS broker
out, II IL said, il New dYorklsisyIs1 odt
The Legislature Of Kentucky offer I
reward of $1,000 for abonrso Of the ho,
cholera, now prevailing in that State.
j. Il is alleged that the pleuro-pneumohi'
10 disease born of the distillery COW stables
The report Of the New Jersey AgrriUuitura
Society, just out, says so!h' '1i9d7 jadi
Chicago will soon boast Of tho largest ant
best Post Office andI Custom House. in th,
Union.s9 The work on the, q. s., building ii
being pushed forward rapidly. -
A boy, Charles Byers. while, oarryin,
locusts in his hat, in Wetzel county, Va.
recently, was stung on the head, and diet
from the effects Of the injury eds
7 In Driftwood township, Jaoksen county
Ind, 1900 ceres Of watermelons have, beer
planted, and it isI estimated that the ,crol
will be worth thirty thousand dollars Dll
Lady Byron, widow Of the great Doc {
died at London on the ,17th hult., aged 6e
years. She was married to Lord Byron ir
1915, the union proving most unhappy te
both. l,r,..T - -, :,
Mrs. Lincoln. wife Of our III. next d President
is only 35 years Of age and an active mean
ber Of the Presbyterian Church, which hei
husband attends regularly, although not q
member 80 et
Mrs. Martin, of Menroe, Green Co., Wis,
was killed by lightning on the 18th inst.
The bolt entered through the window,
breaking several panss Of glass, and killing
her instantly. 80 ;.,.r.f..,,,. ..r,..,,..|,Dat
Boston desires to secure the National
Agricultural Fair this year, and is about to
raise $40, 900 for the purpose of ldefraying
expenses and Offering premiums. d, The con
test for the fair will be between Boston and
Cincinnati. -@''' l'l' ''''l" S'''7s :
? Among the Democrats in the House Of
Representatives who voted with the Opposi-
'tion, to censure the President and the Sec
retary Of the Navy, for improper conduct in
the giving out OF contracts, was Roger A.
Pryor, of Virginia. Sa'aA' g as.i 80 7IiJ1
'- John W. Hutchinson, of the famous
Hutchinson Family, has issued q Republican
Song Book of over seventy pages, full of
appropriate patriotic songs, which will often
be heard before November. 1t is published
by 0. Hutchinson, New York. -, g
While the Japanese were in Philadelphia,
their doctors were invited to witness an
operation of "lithotomy,o performed by
Dr.. Gross, of Jefferson College. They are
Ignorant Of ether and the use of delicate
surgical instruments. =
Among late inventions mentioned in the
Scientific american is patent machine for
"skinning eels," originated by Adam
Emeigh, of Jerusalem, Long Island; also
.'cow mixer" perfected to entire success
by L. Q. Colvin, of Cincinnatus, N. Y. = Il
Mrs. Chestnut, of South Carolina, the
Vice Regent of the Mount Vernon Associa-
tion in that State, is eighty 1--we years Of age
She was one of the young girls who strewed
flowers in his path, when in 1890 Washing
ton was received with public honors at
Trenton. 81 -'--" %.
The late Daniel Fanshaw, leading
printer and publisher of New York for
many years, made curious codieil to his
will. 1t is to the effect that in addition to
other legacies, his son shall have five lots of
land, provided he abstains from fhe use Of
tobacco, but if he uses the weed, the lots in
question shall go to build home for sober
printera- e5 elsijoiI2rI -
General Jessup, who died at W ashington,
recently in his 73d year, was distinguished
officer in the war of 1912, and was breyetted
for distinguished services at Chippewa and
at the battle of Niagara. His name is fire..
quently mentioned for gallant ssrvicein the
history of that period. In the Florida Indian
War he was wounded and gave up the COM
mand to General Taylor. He was at the
head of the Quarter Masters Department at
Washington, and was distinguished for his
knowledge of all the details Of that depart
ment, managing its vast concerns with
foresight and with great administrative
ability. 10 ,i.a.
The seventeen.year locusts are very plenty
down South, and are said to be making
their way North in large swarms. They
have very pretty wings, are plump in body,
and an inch and half long. The wings are
of light color; the body dark brown. After
emerging from the ground, they get upon a
blade of grass or green shrub, and in "a
hours cast off their shell, emerging perfect
locusts, with their wings folded under their
bodies. In about 4S hours, their wings
expand, and they commence to hum and fly
away to the tops of the trees, where they
fasten upon the young shoots and deposit
their eggs. As these hatch, the insect eats a
way into the shoot so that it drops off. 1t
is supposed that the damage they will do
will be principally confined to forest trees,
as they do not appear to attack fruit trees.