Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-12-21
News Paragraphs.

Major J. B. Scott, of the U. S. Army, died
in San Francisco on the 22d ult.
There are four daily papers published in
the Pixies Peak region.
Hon. Edward Bates, of st. Louis, is on a
visit to Mr. Lincoln at Springfield.
The last Pony Express reached San Eran-
cisco in precisely six days from Missouri.
A German inventor has made little ma
| chine which turns out two thousand cigars
Idaily.
A German blew his brains out at Walters
vile, Ill.,, because his wife gave birth to
boy instead ola girl.
A farmer in Watertown, Conn.,, has been
fined for letting Canada taistles go to seed
on his land. Served him right.
Gov. Lane of Indiana announces in letter
which has been published that he is can
didate for United States Senator.
Ellen Walsh, aged eleven years, fell into
vat of hot whisky, at Richmond, Va, on the
18th inst, and was literally boiled alive
In Boston there is woman eight feet
high and large in proportion, She is esti-
mated to weigh upwards of 500 pounds.
A musical rat comes out in tho house of
Mr.. Ross, at Albany, N. Y, sqnats on his
launches, any accompanies the piano with
very good must
A disease called the horse cholera is pre-
vailing in Bradley county, Tenn, and the
} citizens have lost nearly one hundred head
, within the last three weeks by it.
The Coroner of New Orleans reports 35
murders in that city during tho year, 32
suicides, 100 accidental deaths from intern
perance, and los cases of drowning.
A letter from Friar's Point, Miss says
: that the Vigilance Committee have hanged
, three carpenters for melting the slaves to
!, rebellion. Other Northerners were shipped
A new religious sect has begun to develop
itself in the Northern part of Denmark, it.
believers claiming that there are five gods in
one, and calling themselves Pentarians.
r L. w. Pickens, late Minister to Russia
, has been chosen, On the seventh ballot, Gov
ernor of South Carolina, receiving so votes
to 76 for all others. He is violent SO
cessionist.
Mr. Shubert, the long efficient Chief Olerl
in the Patient Office, is by law now the
acting Commissioner, in place of Mr.. Thorn
, as, who has been confirmed as Secretary o.
. the Treasury.
Enos Marshall aged LOG years, min,
months and nine days, died at Covert, Seneci
county, n. Y, on the 23d of November. ii,
:, was soldier under Gen. Gates, and was il
{ loga in TIT.
VI An Abolitionist whose opinions were OBJ
noxious to some Mississippians, was barrelet
up and rolled into the Mississippi river a few
y days since. So says a Memphis correspon
+ dent of the New York Tribune
: A John Brown pike has been deposited il
d the Capitol Of South Carolina, to be KEEP
y, there forever The Ex-Governor does not tel
US whether it is trophy, for South Carolin,
: glorifcation, Or Il relic for South Carolin
q reverence and devotion.
q Miss Ruth Waterman, about 10 years o
&, age, died from accidentally setting he
: clothes on fire, while intoxicated, at Spring
field, O., on the Sd inst She was respect
IDLY connected in Marion county, but ha
" or some time lea a life of prostitution.
i That negro instruction in Kentucky, Q
IS which we heard by telegraph the other day
, las subsidized. No one was hung, and onl
me white man, Aaron Harlan, was arrested
The proof seems conclusive that he tampere
with the negroes, and he was held Tor trial
& The Pilot (Catholc) complains that il
this country, all seven of the Archbishop
a of their Church. and more than half of tn
forty whine Bishops are of foreign birth
two hundred and twenty-five Priests ar
natives.
e Six or seven hundred oil wells have beef
e sunk at Mecca, Trumbull county, Ohio a
= an average cost of SIS each. About on
hundred engines are now employed in pump
" ing the oil, Two of the wells average z
barrels day the others from to II bar
rels each.
Rev. Dr. Heron, for forty-fve years past
or of the First Presbyterian Church, in Pitts
burg, died on the 7th inst, aged 81 years.
. Although the pastorate of the Church ha
been for five years past in the hands of an
other, he received a yearly salary of 81, OCT
T in consideration Of his long and faithful
i services.
S Over year since Mr.. Drinkwater, 0
=, North Yarmouth, Ne, was rendered speeches
by being knocked down by an OK Hi
1orse last week having taken fright aud run
ning away with him, in his effort to c.
whoa" his vocal powers returned, and hi
: tempt to stop his horse oosened his voice
S md he now art.oulates distinctly
!, The Evansville Ond) Journal say the res
4 ;dence of Judge Thorne, an old and estima
bic citizen of Knox county, and former,
one of the Representatives in the State Leg
, stature was burned lew days ago ant
t the Judge, after saving his family, returnct
:, to the house for some money that had beer
forgotten. when the roof fell upon him, anc
ne persisted in the ruins.
| Il;
persons were weighed on Howe's scales, thu
average weight of the men being lac pounds
md that Of the women l16 pounds. AT the
D slaine State Fair, 1900 were weighed, the
men averaging 1872, and the women 12(
pounds, A difference between Massachu
sets and Maine men Of 6 pounds, and Of
omen 10 pounds.
During the late storm, Of Nov. Oath, &C,
cording to the mos5 authentic reports thirty
! six vessels went ashore on Lake Ontario.
seventeen on Lake Erie, Two on Like HUI
ron. and six Or seven on Lake Michigan.
lhree propellers were Totally destsoyed
: and two with large loss Of life. Three or
four sal! vessels were also totally lost; and
the loss of men is over ninety.
Mr.. Simmons, an aronaut, who recently
ascended from Baltimore, found the evening
passenger train Of the Northern entral rail
road leaving the city at the same time; he
kept vertically over the train for a distance
of five or six miles, then, on rising to great
err altitude, he lost sight oft. Landing near
"Rider's Switch Station" he had nearly com
pleted the packing of his balloon before the
train, which he lad outrun, arrived at the
same station.
At San Francisco, Mr.. Henry R. Roland
has accomplished the remarkable feat OF
walking half mile out into the Bay with
his newly invented and curious water shoes.
These shoes consist of u couple of boat
ike looking affairs, decked over, and sharp
1T each end, like surf or whale boat. They