Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-02-17
News Paragraphs.


At the opening of the House, at Washing
ton, last week, prayer was made by q Jew
ish Rabbi. - l-'.'J ,thJ tIn9'l I.'l tnla
The city council of St. Lonis recent,
passed an order appropriating $8, 600 to ai'
in removing, by legal means, the Rocl
} Island Bridge, but the Mayor vetoed it. ~
Since the organization of tho United
States Government, Congress has convened
thirty-six times. OF the Speakers Of th,
House of Representatives., 26 have beer
from slave States, and 10 from free States
N, rthern visitors to Mount. Vernon are
said to be subject to insult and annoyance
A party of Philadelphians we're close watch:
ed and subjected to insult few days since
This must be remedied. Mount Vernon now
belongs to tue whole country. s.'> Ill
At sale of negroes at Granville, s. O :,
last week, George, likely fellow, q joiner
and carpenter, brought the great price of
$500. He was bought by Rev. j P. Beyce,
who afterwards refused $4,000 for him.
Perhaps he wants George to 'join the
church," .,..s-..-. '.......
The St. Paul Minnesotian says that
Wards Ice Boat is humbug it don't go,
and it can't. The story that it was making
trips is untrue, nor has that paper any faith
that it can be made to 60. We expect, how
ever. that it will make a successful trip
about the 1st Of april.
The Presidents message was published in
San Francisco fifteen days after its present.
alton in Congress. This time might have
been reduced couple of days if the docu.
ment had been telt graphed from Washington
instead of St. Louis to- Meloy's Station,
where it was expressed to the nearest
California telegraph station. -ca .asa.
The introduction of camels into the United
States has been attended with great success.
At recent blowing match in Montgomery,
Alabama, the strength of the camel com-
pared with that of the mule, was tested.
The result in this particular case was de-
eidedly in favor of the camel but whether or
not it is more serviceable for plantation
purposes can hardly be decided as yet. ,
The vicissitudes Of business life in CAL
ifornia are striking enough. The gains of
Page, Bacon & Co.'s branch bank in San
Francisco, at one time, from interest alone,
were $50, 900 month, besides the incident
al profits on bills of exchange and. other
operations. They failed through specula-
tlons in Eastern railroads. Palmer, Cook
Il Go. failed for millions, paying little or
nothing, and SO did Adams & 90. All these
firms would have accumulated great fortunes
had they but confined themselves to lie
legitimate business of banking.
The newspapers of Burleson county, Tex
as, have story Of a young girl, twelve
years old, who, having last fall been bitten
on the foot by snake, is now developing |
reptilian characteristics of rather extraor-
dinary nature. 'sShe first becomes nervous,
then jerky," says the most minute account,
land then her eyeballs begin to protrude,
and in few hours they look like bursting
out and she begs those around her to push
them back" These are the least of her sin
gularities She is given also to much |
squirming, seeks perpetually to coil herself,
and bitterly laments her destitution in the |
of rattles. Physicians are said to !
be in vain, and it appears, on the whole,
that the case is not very hopeful.
tWThe effort to change the time for
holding the Republican National Convention
has failed. Of seven States where Republican
Conventions or Committees have expressed an
opinion on the question, five have pronounced
against any change. A short and sharp
will therefore be the order for next
Summer.