Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-04-13
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| The number OF persons driven out OF th
South as ''suspects" upon the negro question
since the John Brown affair, is over 200!
A fire on Thursday of last week, at Mar
chester, o., above Maysvills, destroyed a
buildings. Loss So, 600; insurance unknown
A merchant at Baton Rouge, La, wa
arrested for vagrancy last week. In fv
Years he gambled away fortune Of $150,00
and was reduced to absolute destitution.
E. z. G. Judson, once notorious as "Ne
Buntine," has lost his wife, Mrs. Ev
Judsou, a woman of some literary preter
sions. She died at their residence, i
Hamilton, N. Y.
Oxen, in any required number and suita
BILE for aoy service, are for sale at ST
Joseph-so the papers there state-at from
800 to $40 per yoke. Mules are held at $40
to 1925 per head.
At restaurant in New York, recently,
young man bought some oysters, for whicl
he paid twenty five cents. Before he hat
finished eating them he discovered in then
seven large and valuable pearls, which h,
readily sold for two hundred dollars.
The San Franciscans have established 6
direct fruit trade with the Mediterranean
The "fruit clipper" Ida D. Rogers, recently
arrived there iD l44 days from the Straits Of
Gibraltar, with cargo of raisins, lemons
tlberts, and almonds, in excellent condition
Desiring to hire two obscure rooms in tht
city for two weeks in April, Charleston
gentleman inquired of the owner what he
would charge for rent, who replied that he
would take four hundred dollars for them
paid in advance. This is what q comment
ator calls ga high old joke" .r
The Galveston News says that twenty
counties of Texas are overrun with hostile
Indians. Fathers are murdered before the
eyes OF their children, daughters are torn
from their mothers arms and outraged, and
whole families are slaughtered and neigh
borhoods dispersed.
The ST Louis Agricultural and Mechanical
Association cff.rs $4,000 in premiums for
the next fair. 1t is probable that 81 900 to
$5, 900 in private awards will be given for
the best stallion. A direct importation from
Belgium has already been received for
exhibition, and others from different parts
Of Europe are expected. No effort will be
spared to make this fair excel all Others
The oil prospects in Pennsylvania are still
brilliant. The most productive well is one
owned by MIR. Crosley, which yields from
80 to 100 barrels of oil daily. There are
now some 200 wells completed or in pro-
gress, and there will be towards thousand
IN the course of the summer. The speculative
excitement is great, and farmers are mort
yaging their farms and paying 2 per cent. a
month to raise money for buying oil claims.
Joseph g. Mckinney, who was arrested
about six months since, in Burlington, Iowa,
for possessing counterfeit money, was sen.
fenced at the last term of the criminal court
in Dayton, o., to four years in the peniten-
tiary. This scoundrel is known extensively
throughout the West, as one of the greatest
rascals in the country, and his incarceration
will be welcomed as joyful news by all we'll
wishers of the public safety.
Heavy orders have been received in New
York from Charleston, S. c., for fire proof
ocks and other precautions against burglars
and thieves. A Charleston paper has
cautioned the citizens to look out for their
spoons during the approaching Democratic
National Convention. They seem to have
quite an appreciation of the taking ways of
The Democracy.
The cargo of the two Mexican steamers
captured at Vera Cruz consisted of 1000
fourteen pound bombs. two bronze mortars,
1000 small arms, and more than 10000
.ations. is asserted that the total expen.
1tures of the expedition amounted to not
e>s than $500, 600, the greater part of which
money was fur ished by the government at
Havana, in conformity with secret article
Of the Almonte treaty between Spain and
Mexico.
A phenomenon occurred lately in Savoy,
which will attract the attention of geologists
At Orcier, in the mountain chain above
ronon, part of the ground sunk, and in it's
place lake formed The hig gh chestnut
trees disappeared entirely, with the piece of
ground on which they stood, and in their
lead rose trunks of trees to the surface, and
which must have long been under water.
They belong to species not known to that
region IF country.
Brigham Young has furnished Rev. Elias
Mason, of Medford, the following facts con-
,erning his personal history: 81 was born
in Nottingham, Windham county, Vermont,
June 1st, 1902. have living four brothers
John, Phineas H., and Joseph, older than
myself, and Lorenzo D., younger; and a
sister, named Nancy, all of whom live in
Great Salt Lake City. My fathers name
was John. He was born in Hopkinson,
Mddlese1 county, Massachusetts,"
A Washington CORE pondent of the Boston
Traveler says that the ys1ed question as to
The proper pronunciation Of the word
inquiry was settled yesterday in the
Senate, in manner appr caching in dignity
almost to legislative enactment. Mr.. Hale,
in offering his resolution in regard to the
capture of the Mexican vessels, said it was
a resolution of "inquiry,' placing the
accent on the first syllable, as is the habit
by some Senators. Upon this Mr.. Sumner,
who sits Lext to Mr.. hae, said sufficiently
loud for MS friend to hear, s'Please say in
quiry p" emphasizing the second syllable,
according to Webster. Mr.. - ale, who was
still on his feet, said, s'Inquiry l mean; |
ask pardon of the Senate for saying i4quiry!''
The officers of the Smithsonian Institute,
at Washington. are endeavoring to obtain
$4,000 by subscription, to defray the
expenses of hiring small vessel and equip
her, to convey party of astronomers tc
Cape Chidlay, the northeast point OF Labra'
dor, to make observations of the solar
eclipse on the 18th of July; the party te
give their time and services without COM
pensation. The duration of the eclipse a
that poiut will be I'm. sos. Apart from
the study of the solar physics, for which the
next eclipse will be remarkably favorable
its range entirely across the continent and ,
part Of Europe, whose longitude has beer
carefully determined, affords an opportunity
to fix the geographical position Of both th'
east and the west coasts of North Americ'
with precision which will not again Occur
during many years. a.st- =
Blind Tom, the negro-boy pianist, is Civ
ing concerts at New Orleans. 1t is stated
that, though he has never had any tuition
he can play more than eleven hundred
different pieces or the piano. He was bori
in Columbus, ia, and is only years ant
9 months old, and has been blind from
infancy. In consideration of this afiictio,
he was petted by the family who owned
him, and allowed access to the parlor. On
day, says his biographer, he accidentally
stumbled against the open piano forte, an
though scarcely able to reach the keys, bega1