Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-08-03

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The Democratic press Of Virginia stands
"a for Bxeckinridge and for Douglas.
Bats in India are called flying foxes, and
measure six feet from tip 20 zip Of their
wings.
Father Ohiniquy left Kankakee for SCOT.
land, last week. He will visit England, and
be absent about two months.
Hon. Jonathan Phillips, one of the most
worthy and benevolent citizens of Boston,
died on the 30th, aged 80 years.
The business failure of F. W. @. Denver
h Co.,, Cincinnati, is reported. Liabilities
Sic, 900, with but little assets. ....H
! Ex-senator Foote, (nicknsmed sHang-
man. ~ now resident of Tennessee, goes
for Douglas. He means to be in at the
execution.
P. H. Lowe, a police officer of Lynn,
Mass, was beaten to death, recently, while
endeavoring to quell q fight among some
Irish.
The damage occasioned by the lombard.
ment of Palermo is estimated by the jour
mails of that place ct more than &c, 900, 900
ounces-GlO, 800, 900. -a
All the convicts who have been ct the
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have now been transferred to the new
institution at Joliets
During recent violent thunder storm,
the lightning killed q man, and his wife
and child, near Perrysburg, Miami county,
Ind. One child escaped.
For killing man at Dallas, Ala, the
killer was sentenced to six months and q
fine of $500. For stealing slave, the thief
was sent up for ten years.
The reason given for the unsatisfactory
working of the gold washers at Pixies Peak
is that the quartz is SO hard that it ruins the
machinery in very short time.
| Mrs. Mary Ellis, of Thompson, Maine,
died on the 11,h of June, at the age of 81.
Shc had read the Bible through eighty
times in the course of her long life.
They have calf in Winona, Mimi, with
two heads, two mouths, and four eyes,
which is being exhibited to tho curious
under the appropriate title of the Demo
cratic animal"
The Indiana State Fair will be held at
indianapolis, from the 10Th to the Goth of
October. The premium list amounts to
$4,000, the largest offered by any State
Board.
Isaac N. Arnold has been nominated for
Congress in the I'd Congressional District
of Illinois, by 40 against "a votes for Farms.
worth. An effort to mako the nomination
unanimous was defeated.
Five persons - Mrs. j. Il. Prineau and
child, Mrs. j. j. NJ. Prineau, Mrs. Buisdei
and Miss Louisa Beban went over the
Black River Falls, at Watertown, N. Y, on
the 9th ult., and all were drowned.
The British government is said to have
received intelligence of q fearful massacre
of Christians at Damascus. Five hundred
were killed, among whom was the Dutch
Consul. The American Consul was wounded.
Some fifty prisoners escaped from the
penitentiary at Jefferson City, Mo-, on the
23d. In the efforts made to recapturs them,
three were killed and several wounded.
Only seven finally succeeded in making
good their escape.
The Illinois Central Railroad has in use
1l8 locomotives, the Michigan Central So,
the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago 96,
the Michigan Southern 81, and the Baltimore
and Ohio 235, which is the largest number
owned by any railroad.
There were 269 deaths in St. Louis last
week, 81 more than during the week previ-
Gus. The mortality among children Of five
years of age and under was over fifty per
cent. of the total, there having been no less
than 1879 deaths of this GLASS:
The last news from Pixies Peak reports
some half dozen murders, in one of which a
woman was the cause, and the rest liquor or
something worse. The country is said to be
overrun with thieves and murderers, and a
vigilance committee has been organized at
Denver City.
1t is said the number of strangers travel
ing from the South this season has never
been surpassed. New York hotels for some
time past have been thronged with people
from the cotton States. All the fine resoIu-
tons passed after the John Brown raid seem
to have ssmelted into thin air.'
The English have already completed four
hundred and thirty-tw miles of railway in
India, at an expense of twenty millions of
dollars, and in two years, if the improve.
ments already begun are finished, there will
be ten times thai number of miles Of road.
Telegraphs accompany every line.
In 1856, the Republicans had but one
German paper in Indiana, but now the
tables are turned, and the Democrats have
but one, while six are doing service for the
Republican cause. The Illinois State Jour-
nal gives a list of SO German papers in the
country that have raised the Lincoln and
Hamlin flag.
A man up in Wisconsin somewhere has
gone to fattening frogs and fish for the
Chicago market. He has large pond in
feeding them with oat meal and grasshop-
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been seen this side of the river Nile some
of them being as largo as very small boy.
So the papers say.
The Cincinnati Press records remarka-
bio physical phenomenon, which is the
restoration to sight of beautiful blind
girl, Immediately after her marriage.
Ladies' eyes are generally opened by matri-
mony, and the Press argues that this incl
dent is practical illustration of what has
been witti1y said, Glove is blind, but uymen
is the occulist who alone can open his eyes,
A horrible murder by poison, in Medford,
Otsego county, N. y, is reported, the victim
being Huldah Ann McCranev, and the
poisoner her ep-mother, Mrs. Elizabeth P.
McCraney. The poisoned young lady is
described as Of attractive personal appear
ance, of unusual beauty, aged at her death
about II years. The poisoner, Mrs. McCra-
ney, is spoken of rs being about 80 years of
age, and her ep.daughter is said to be her
seventh victim. Her father is q Methodist
preacher, residing in Wisconsin, at Prairie
du Chen. Her trial takes place in December.
The final destination of the s'small parties
of emigrants' who have for several months
past, with the knowledge Of the authorities
at Washington, been leaving New Orleans
and other Southern ports for Central Amer
lea has now TRANSFERRED. Gen. William
Walker has ere this probably landed either
at Truxillo or Omoa, and is on his way
through Honduras to Nicaragua. 1t appears
that his men have been quietly assembling
at Busta, where he himself landed about the
25th of June, and on the 9th the whole
party, numbering some 800 men, sailed in