Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-05-18
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~. 2Al News fafa2fap1ls.
! The Calfornia Pony Express is to be mad
semi weekly. .sbaa Haod
The friends of Fremont are advising hi
nomination at Chicago. 9af5Egd asel s4d
l. Rockford, H., has q standing, debt O.
100000, and floating liabilities of 1000
A passenger describes Aspinwall as "a
4 very lively place, the business being cock.
lighting and negro Iandangoes."o s1lz&ai3
Juarez pronounced Wharays), the leade,
of the literal Or anti-Chul ch party il
Mexico, is q full blooded Mexican Indian.
An apothecary IN New Bedford, Mass.
named r. IL. Dodge, came near losing his
life, lately. by the explosion of soda
fountain. s,t fgsi ,es.rgar Jglb ,55aU
Gen. Trezel, somo time Minister of Wal
under Louis Philippe, and afterward tutor
so-the Count de Paris, has just died, at the
ago Of eighty. 10 ] III 10 Esia4aah 'Dl9
! The one vote that was cast at Charleston
for JEFF. Davis, was given by the melanch oily
Caleb Gushing, of Massachusetts, President
of the Convention.
IN. P. Willis has taken census of the
"stylish men" Of New York, and finds that
they number three hundred or SO; possibly
l A0oo Shoh eaoe ASuic' .,,rf..,E 7BF .ygRT
Over one hundred editors and reporters to
the press attended the Charleston Conven-
tion, and they ha / u meeting and a convivial
time by themselves. geAl4-gIG "a osgoa
An exchange says that s'seven hundred
Industrious individuals gain a respectable
| livelihood in the State Of Ohio by manufac.
turing counterfeit money" ''i
In Mobile, last week, cricket match came
off in which eleven married men were pitted
against eleven bachelors. The bachelors
beat. Good for the bachelors 800 81
| MIR. Fillmore, who ran against the Repub-
licans in 1856, will 90 in with them this
year and it is even said will stump Penn
sylvania for Seward, if he is nominated. Q
John ". Browne, we'll known lawy er of
| Boston, committed suicide, recently, by
jumping from train of cars on the Fall
River Railroad. He was about 30 years old.
Our country exchanges all contain brief
editorials headed prepare for the Census.'
A W. man in Herkimer county, N. Y, has
done so. She presented her husband with
two fine boys and girl.
Eight hundred thousasd acres of the finest
land in Kansas will be thrown into market
in June. This land lies south of the road
from Independence to Salt Lake City, and
contains abundant supplies of coal. .a
The LEIPZIG Common council has, under
heavy penalties, interdicted the sale of cot.
ton goods for ball dresses Of a green color,
on account OF their being dyed with
Schveenfurt's green, which is arsenate Of
copper, u deadly poison. ..s
A deep laid plot to effect a general Jail
delivery Of tue Ohio penitentiary, at
Columbus, was discovered last week, just
in time to be frustra' ed. There are 1000
men confined in the prison, and their organ.
ization was very nearly complete.
Mr.. Charles Flanders, for fifty years an
honored member of the New Hampshire bar,
died on the 18th of April, at Plainield, in
that State, aged - years. He was the
author of s.Liyes and Times of the Chief
Justices Of the United States," and of two |
legal works.
Mrs. Jane 7. Paine, relict Of the late Hon.
Lemuel Paine, died at Winslow, Maine, on
the 10Th ult. In the death of Mrs. Paine
another Of the links which bind the present
generation to the trying days Of the Revo-
luton is broken. She was the daughter Of |
the Hon. Ebenezer Warren, brother of Gen.
Joseph Warren, who fell at Bunker's Hill.
The Vicksburg Sun of Saturday, March
3lst, says that negro man, belonging to
MIR. Voolfolk, on Deer creek, was recently
burned at the stake, for the murder of a
negro woman. All the negroes on that and
the adjoining plantations witnessed the
horrid scene. His fate, says the Sun, was
decreed by council of highly respectable
gentlemen ..45t. ,. ..s.s.- sa
Tie Legislature of Massachusetts passed
All act whereby "any person who shall will
fully send to the publishers of any newspa.
per, for the purpose of publication, frau
dulent notice of the birth of child,
or of the marriage of any parties, or of the
thereof, be punished by a fine not exceeding
one hupdred dollars" a""
The Patent Office has received several of |
the choicest varieties of grape slips from
Hungary, which it is proposed to have
propagated under the direction of that Office,
in order to determine their adaptability to
soil of the different States. The fruit of
these vines is said to be superior to any
thing of the kind grown in this country, |
either for wine or for table use.
A new thermometer has been invented by
NJ Victor Beaumont, which is said to be far
superior to the merourial thermometer. 1t
consists of strip CT steel and one Of brass
soldered together and bent in the form Of o
segment of circle. Brass is affected twice
as much as steel by the temperature, and
hence, by graduating the movements at the
end of the compound strip, the variations of
temperature are recorded. .
BY census recently taken in Washington
Territory, it appears that the population Of
the Territory is 1854, and the assessed |
value of property So, 1893, sos. Of the 1885,
OOJ square miles of land, only 13, ,467 acres
are cultivated; 29l,472 acres have been
taken by donation and pre-. empton. There
are 80 saw mills and Touring mills, 81 |
schools and 10 churches. A very different |
report will be made Of Washington in 1870.
The Japanese have discovered that few
seconds previous to an earthquake, the
magnet temporarily loses its power, and
have ingeniousy constructed light frame
supporting horseshoe magnet, beneath
which is q cup of bell metal. To the arma.
ture is attached weight; so that upon the
magnet becoming paralyzed, the weight
drops, and striking the cup, gives the alarm.
Every one in the house then seeks the open
air for safety. GO ! zai e a2E1 zsz-a- 10 81
They are in ludicrocs hobble in Troy.
hat city is full of cents, coppers and nick.
els; they are increasing SO rapidly that the
people are growing superstltious, thinking
that they either multiply themselves or that
they attract other cents thither. Gents bid
fair to become the exclusive currency of the
city; already, ladies who buy for cash are
forced to take with them boy and basket
to carry the circulating medium. One of
the papers calls for public meeting on the
subject, for a concert of action.
+ An extraordinary and exciting trial Of
skill came of between two blacksmiths of
Troy, N. Y, recently, John Mckinney
challenged Patrick Kennedy to. compete
with him in the number of horse shoes to be
made in ten hours. Mckinney was assisted
by helper John Hennesy, and Kennedy by
helper John Doyle. Each swurked with d
hearty, good will, and the shoes fell thick