Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-12-28
the most rapid increase
News Paragraplls.

potatoes are selllng AZ from . TO lO cents
per pound in Denver.
The New York city police force is to be
increased to 1900 men,.
The corn crop of Illinois this year amounts
to 110,000,O0O bushels.
There are 10000 sewing women in Lon.
don who barely earn 81 per week.
The St. Louis Democrat predicts that,
four years hence, Missouri will be leading
anti-slavery State.
There are three times as many white per-
sons in New York city as there are slave.
holders in the South.
The hog crop of the North, West and
East is more valuable than the average cot
ton crop of the South.
Refined sugar is cheaper in Boston by 8
cents per pound than it was ever known be-
fore. So much for secession.
The public libraries in Philadelphia con-
tain 27l, ,98l volumes, and those of the State
457,7l6.
A largo buck, pure white in color, with
four points on each horn, was recently kill
ed near Watertown, n. Y.
Mrs. Hartwell, of Westminster, Mass, a
| AoNy OVVA - ySoAo oAA, LOO cCoeCO ONCI fOO
chairs within year past.
Mrs. Mary Ann Jones, of Dinwiddie
county, Virginia, has in her will liberated
all her slaves, valued at $4,000.
Rev. DR.. Cummings Second Adventist,
has started the idea that the world will come
to an end in 1867. Others are adopting his
opinions.
The relict of an old Revolutionary soldier,
Mrs Hannah Wheelock, the oldest resident
of Ravenna, o., died on the 5th inst, aged
95 years.
A. II. Fahnestock fell into vat of boiling
oysters at Baltimore recently, and suffered
intolerable pains for six hours afterwards,
when he died.
The schooner Richmond, Capt. Jas. Cher
rel, engaged as lighter, sunk on the 1Stt
inst, near the mouth of the Patapsco River
Maryland. The Captain and seven other:
were drowned.
Four million dollars in specie have beer
received in New York within q week from
Europe. Another shipment of 81 ,l25, 900 ii
due from California. This amount ough
to help the money market some.
| Aman named Jeremiah Hally, at McTag
CARTS pork house, in Indianapolis, carriel
from the wheel to the hooks hog weighing
700 pounds, and Edward Cutler, at the same
place, carried another the same way tina
weighed $50 pounds.
1t appears that but Southern States cas-
at the Presidential election more votes thai
Iowa. We beat Georgia, North Carolina
Alabama and South Carolina. Virginia
Missouri, Kentucky and Tennessee cast
few thousand more than Iowa.
On Sunday, 10th inst.,sa many ..as 5000
people visited Central Park. in New Yorl
city, to try their skill on the skating ponds
OF look at others skating. The ponds wer
too thickly covered with people for fair ska
ting.
The report of the death of Ex-Senato
Delazon Smith, of Oregon, proves to be
delusien. The report Of his death had il
origin in a paper politically opposed to hir
I-speaking Of him as dead-in a politico
sense.
The Cattle Commissioners in Massachu
setts have issued circular, in which the
express the belief that the disease calle
s'pleuro-pneumonia," is exterminated, an
recomend the passage of law by Congress
regulating the Importation of cattle.
Californians are complaining strongly {
> the effect coolie labor is having in thu
State. They live on what would starve
white man, whose labor is being driven OF
of the market When work is slack th
: coolies are thrown as paupers on the Sta,
} for support.
IfJohn G. Fremont should live to see tt
l khroo md tav ~1loktoI ko
kind, he will probably be the richest man
the world. The product of his Californi
mines for the past five months was $l76, 49,
and the Improvements in the works and tt
q facilities for getting out the quartz roc
e will bring the monthly profit to 100000.
In speech at Springfield, ILL.,, short
d after the Chicago Convention, Judge Kell
n Of Philadelphia, now n. G. elect, jocose
wagered ton of Pennsylvania coal again
barrel OF Illinois wheat that Pennsylva n
;. would give Lincoln larger majority ths
, his own State The Judge has received b
> barrel of wheat from the Republicans
% Springfield.
y Isaac G. Delaplaine, the Fifth-avenood
n elected to Congress in Horac, F. CLARK
is district, New York, says it cost him 5000
# plump to get his election, and refuses
reimburse the expenses of the rival Dem
:, cratic candidates who were all Withdraw
u in his favor, as compromise, on the eve
q, ne election. There are good many ha,
.. words about it, and clamor for the stems
Il is stated as singular fact that for Il
!. nrst time IN twenty years, wolves are ne
of showing themselves in the Arooatook recio
IL na'ne. IL Is singular fact also, that
the nrst time within the memory of mar
g the prairie fowl is showing itself at sever
e points IN Michigan. A great many bra
!" nave been killed the present season viii
itwsasy miles Of Dssroit.