Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-05-11

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A Paris letter writer says ladies' dresses
low are worn "short at both ends"
There are indications Ct full, old.
fashioned peach crop in New Jersey. Good
Geo. Raymond, Frenclrman, was choked
to death, recently, in Richmond, Va, while
eating his dinner.
A New Orleans cat lately gave birth to
four kittens and puppy. The Delta thinks
it "strange doings."
Thirty.four slaves, men and boys, all Fl ON
one plantation. were sold in New Orleans
for $5o,250.
The Waukesha (Wis.) Democrat says the
wool crop of the present season in that
county will be worth $l50,0J0.
Fred. Douglass autobiography has been
translated into German by Ottilie Assing,
and published at Hamburg.
BENZ. Compton, justice of the peace,
eloped with his sister-in-law, Miss Badgley,
from Somerset, KY, a few days since.
There is a young woman living in Alstead,
N. H., who weighs over 700 pounds, and it
takes about 20 yards of calico for dress.
The N. Y. Herald announces that Capt.
de Riviere, the gallant Zouave, has enterel
Redemptorist monastery in Philadelphia.
The next Ohio State Fair will be held at
Dayton, in September. Thirty five acres
near the city have been provided for its
accommodation.
Maple sugar enough has been made in
Vermont during the present spring, to
sweeten the coffee once of every coffee
drinker on the globe.
Rev. Byrd Parker, of Oshkosh, Wis, died
last week. He was preaching at Randolph,
and in the midst of his discourse fell down
in fit, from which he never recovered.
There is said to be COW in Washington,
D. c., that is nineteen years old, now giving
from four to six quarts of milk per day, and
has not had a calf for nearly seven years.
Rev. Archibald Maclay, D. D., highly
esteemed and venerable Baptist clergyman,
expired a. his residence in New York, last
week, at the advanced age of 80 years.
Texas has now completed nearly 800 miles
of railroad; in addition to which, there are
164 miles graded, and iron provided for III
miles. The Lone Star is bound to shine!
A man struck with apoplexy was turned
out of the cars in New York, lately, by the
conductor, who thought he was drunk. Tho
unfortunate man fell speeches. to the ground
and died.
Over two thousand persons have been
sued in Montreal for arrears of water rent,
and one of the defaulters said that he thought
swater was bringing more people into court
than whisky"
Eight men, employed at the canal basin,
Albany, N. Y, SUCCESSFULLY outraged poor
married woman, who came there last week
to solicit employment as cook Three of
the fendish wretches have been arrested.
There is growing in paror in New York
a thrifty plant sprung from a seed pro.
cured from an Egyptian mummy, entombed
thousands of years ago. Though the seed
had been injured, the terminating princip pie
still remained.
The Chicago people have been astonishing
the nation by their success in raising whole
blocks of houses. They are now prosecuting
this kind of work by hydraulic power. One
contractor says he can raise the fremont
House with five men
Philadelphia papers claim population
of $50, 900 for their city. This, however
must embrace the whole county OF Philadel
phia, which, for some years, has been
incorporated with the city proper, by act OF
Legislature.
A golden wedding" was celebrated at
the Catholic Church, Dayton, O., on Mon
day of last week. AS the venerable pair,
who had lived together for half century,
retired from the church, children strewed
flowers in their way.
Tho en-; dido mania r,,1a, et,o,. =: NJ
York city. On Tuesday of last week, drug
clerk on Houston street died of morphine; .
man shot himself through the head and died,
and a woman jumped from one of the Full
ton ferry boats and was narrowly rescued.
The clown attached TO circus exhibiting
at Nashville, Tenn, was, on Wednesday Of
last week, drawn about the Cumberland
river il wash tub, to which pair of geese
were attached The sublime spectacle was
witnessed by large crowd.
Thaddeus Hyatt is beginning to tire of
what he a. first regarded as luxury. Jail
life loses its attractions with its novelty.
He writes letter to the n Y. Tribune in
which he calls the Jail human s,y," and
wants to knew when and how he is to get
out.
A party Ct laborers, while digging in one
OF the streets of Cincinnati, last week, came
upon an immense tusk, supposed to be that
of mastadon. 1t was fifteen feet below
the surface of the ground, and about 10 feet
in length. Tkis is the second discovery of
the kind in that city.
The County Judge at Brooklyn, N Y, has
recently decided in the matter of the
new Sunday liquor law, that the officer has
no right to enter the premises of LIQUOR
dealer by the back or side door for detecting
him in the commission of crime This is
about all the liquor sellers could want.
1t is costly to be profane in Worcester.
On Saturday Joseph s. Hill was ined s.
and costs, amounting in all to $3.50, for
"profane swearing" If some people this
way were to be fined after that style every
time they let slip string of profanity, they
would very soon reach recuniary ruin.
Rev. Philip Slaughter, of Culpepper Va,
is about to publish work entitled "Man
AMI Woman or the law of honor applied TO
the solution of the problem why there are
so many more women Christians than men,
The subject, if well s'worked up" will fur
1ish basis for much ingenious speculation.
The rooms, u in number, provided at the
Metropolitan Hotel, in New York, for the
ise Of The japanese embassy, are to be
rranged with special reference to Japanese
lousehold customs, and supplied, so far Ms
circumstances will allow, with the convent
noes peculiar to Japanese residences of the
rst class.
MIR. Andrews, tho editor and publisher of
paper at Delavsn, Wis, who, together
nth his wife, was arrested on charge of
aving set fire to the building in which his
flee was located, last winter, has Just had
is trial, by a change of venue at Milwauk ee,
nd been acquitted. The trial was attended
18th much interest.
Tho Metropolitan Record, the official
ryan OF Archbishop Hughes, in New York, !
lhlishes letter from Pope Plus TX. dated
ONE, March S, 1860, in answer to the
'mpathy communication of the archbishops
I'd bishops of the United States. of the