Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-08-17
News ParagraDlls.


Commodore Vanderbilt gave his SO,
$50, 900 for graduating creditably at Yves
Point.
Dan Rice's elephant swan the Ohio rive,
from Covington to Cincinnati, Thursday Of
last week. The novelty attracted an immers;
crowd of spectators.
Thsddeus Hyatt has gone to Kansas, tt
see how badly its people have suffered by
the drought, and to ascertain and report K
the country their needs.
Alexander Wilson killed his father-in
law, Samuel Pierson, in St. Joseph county
Ind last week The murderer escaped, anC
q reward of 5000 is offered for his arrest.
Miss Harriet Hosmer, the sculptor, will
visit St. Louis in September next, in pur
suit of material for the statue of Benton,
which she will commence Immediately or
her return to Rome, in October.
The Office of Clerk of the Court Of
Appeals in Kentucky, to which Gen. Leslie
Coombs has just been elected, is the mos,
lucrative in the State, being worth $25, 200
per annum - same as President of the
United States.
Thaddeus Hyatt has new hobby. He
offers, in the columns of the Scientific
american, a reward of s., 900 for the inven-
ton of practical flying machine, adapted
to individual locomotion. He is sure the
thing con be done.
Thomas A. Clay, son Of Henry Clay,
has written an ardent letter for John Bell.
Considering that his brother Jas. B. Clay is
bitter Breckinridge follower, the family
of the great Commoner must be exceedingly
harmonious in political sentiments.
Mr.. Obed Hussey, Of Baltimore, the
inventor of the celebrated Hussey reap or
and mower, lost his life at Exeter, N. H., q
few days since, by falling between the cars,
two of which PASSED directly over his body,
across the abdomen, killing him instantly.
On Monday last, John Ryan, q workman
in the new Sherman House at
Chicago, got entan sled in rope tied to
derrick while on the sixth story
OF the building and was dragged over the
wall and hurled across the street, striking
the opposite pavement, which, Of curse,
caused his death instantly.
The meteor of the "a was seen at Knoxville,
Tenn, in Caroline county, Va, and at
various points in Pennsylvania and Ohio.
It travelled in the opposite direction to the
meteor of July Goth, coming from the east
Ind going vest, but seems to have been at
about the same distance from the earth, and
8 described by some to have been equally
brilliant. The moon was shining brightly,
,ut the light Of the meteor was of dazzling
and it made separate shadows.
f these things are to continue we shall get
INTO the habit of looking heavenward, which
s not bad way to look.
Kansas and western Missouri were visited
y another simeon or heated wind on the I'd |
nst. It came from the South, and contin-
led from IL O'Clock till nearly night. The
Vestport (Mo) Border Star says the breath
rom heated oven is the nearest thing it
an be compared to. During its prevalence,
7indows and doors were closed, people had
0 confne themselves within shelter, and
nimals and fowls lay painting on the ground
8 if for life. The Thermometer in protected
ituations was at 102 Q and where exposed
, the hot wind, even in the shade, it went
p to l06! Such q remarkable spell of dry,
OF weather has never before been known in
II that region.