Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-08-31
News Paragraphs.

News Paragraphs.
Ninety cent postage stamps have now
been issued. and the demonstrations are now
one, three, ten, twelve, twenty -four, thirty,
Col. Forbes Of Kansas notoriety, has
turned up in Sicily, whore he enjoys the
entire confidence Of Garibaldi, and occupies
q brilliant military position.
OF the l73 deaths that occurred in st. Louis
for the week ending the 18th inst, one hun
dred and twenty-five were those Of children
under five years OF age!
The line of telegraph between st. Paul
and the East, via Ohiesgo, was completed on
the 2lst inst, when the 6rst dispatch was
received at st. Paul. .5..,.,.....-= n,
Benjamin Howard, Esq, an esteemed
merchant of Boston, fell dead in the chspel
Of Trinity Church, in that city, on the 2lst,
while he was reading missionary paper.
The modern Sampson, DR.. Winship, Of
Boston, has recently astonished his friends
and admirers by lifting dead weight of
l ,l60 pounds. ~ laG flo.. a. .E4aa
Philadelphia, as city, is in very bad
way. She is very much in debt, needing
some $2l ,000,0 900 to pay her accumulated
debts, Of which she can hardly pay the
interest. Y5.g a le .tt As#Jt4
Dates from Denver City to the 7th inst.
says that the U. s. troops from Forts Kear-
ney and Riley, had q battle with the Kio.
was, near Bent's Fort, on the Oath ult. Five
Kiowas were killed and 13 taken prisoners.
Caleb G. Woodbury., postmaster at White
Pigeon, Michigan, who was lately arrested
for robbing the mail, and held in $4,000
bail, failing to find sureties for the amount,
killed himself on Sunday, the 10Th inst, to
escape oommittal to prison. -
The third Presbyterian church in Jersey
City, N. j., has become actively militant
At a recent session meeting, one of the
session put his fist in the minister's face,
another threatened to tear down the meeting
house, and all the parties have been brought
up before the police judge. -
There are twenty thousand Chinese slaves
now in Peru, and the demand continues.
The last cargo of these coolies was landed
about month since, and they sold for $400
each; the term Of sefvitude being eight
years, and the wages 81 q month, with two
suits of clothes each year and two pounds
of rice per day. .t.....
A letter from Fort Cobb, Texas, dated
August Goth, speaks of the heat there az
being almost inereditable. On the day pre-.
vious, (tHe 25th, the thermometer stood q,
114e in the hospital, the coolest place 81
the Fort, and the heat had averaged fol-
sometime 100 in the hospital. In the
open sun the heat was of course almost
intolerable. ............s.
| One Ballard, desperate character, in
Hawkins county, Tenn, made tour of the
neighborhood, the other day, assaulting men
women and children with scythe blade,
and when the town had turned out and
chased him home, he received some seventy
five shots before he died. He was power
full man, the terror Of the whole region, and
| would have been more than q match fol-
any half dozen. 3D.. ...s. ......
The Augusta (Ga.) Dispatch, of the 1lth
learned that negro boy, who had killed a
white man, was burned at the stake at Sta.
ton No. IL, on the Southwestern Railroad
Twelve persons took him from the Sheriff
custody, giving bonds for his re-delivery
after which they tried, sentenced and exc
cuted the murderer, returning his ashes tt
the officer. Such are some of the humapizine
and refining influences of the s'divine insti
tuition !"
Adam Hageman, German baker a
Chicago, killed man in his employ named
Henry Castor, on the 23d inst, because b,
suffered batch Of several dozen loaves Of
bread to burn and spoil. He beat the poor
man to death with slat used in pie-rack
after knocking him down with his fist. Hag
eman is man of powerful frame, and Otter
gave way to hts of violent rage He is in
Jail. ...
Perry S. Belden, formerly of Lorain
county, Ohio, hung himself in Elkhart, Ind.
recently, from disappointment. He had
parted from his family in Ohio, on an
agreement for divorce, and gone to Indi.
ana to see young lady to whom he was
attached, but having met with no encour
agement from her. it seems that he altered
the object of his attachment, and attached
himself to tree by the neck, with fatal
effect.
A meteoric stone, weighing from 400 to 500
pounds, fell, or was supposed to have fallen,
in McAlisterville, Juniata county, Pa, on
the 9th inst. A rumbling noise was heard
by many persons at S O'Clock P. n and one
lady saw something fall rapidly in field.
Near the place indicated by her, this stone
was found. Having been examined by q
geologist, he reports that it resembles lime
stone is circular in form, feet inch es
in diameter, and 18 inches thick.
a murderer named William Watts was
being taken to Sacramento, in coach. on
the 18th ult., by three officers named VIM.
S. Ssoddard, JOS Armstrong and Timothy
Sebaston, and in the night he seized Arm
strong's pistol, while the latter was asleep,
and killed them all three, and then fed. He
had been arrested for numbering o man
named Witzler, at Sacramento. At last
accounts he had not been re-arrested, but
the country was being secured for him by
On excited party of men. e7
He DOES NOT ANSWER. -The boast of