Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-10-05

message Tor general thanksgiving on
Thursday, Nov. 29th:
The Prince of Wales, at twenty-on will
stand possessed of nearly five millions of
dollars in hard cash.
Lady Franklin, attended by her neice, Miss
Cracraft, spent last Sabbath in Chicago
She goes from there to New York.
Col. E. l.. Snow, of New York, who was
the founder of the Order of Sons OF Tenn.
perance, died in that city on the ga ult.
John G. Whittier, the Quaker poet, repre-.
sents the 9th district on the Lincoln and
Hamlin Electoral ticket in Massachusetts,.
Among the deaths at Denver City, we
notice that of man named Green, caused
by the sting ola centipede, while the man
was sleeping on the grass.
The colored population of Philadelphia is
from 1000 to $4,000. They own property
to the amount of nearly 100000 and have
churches and schools valued at from $780,
900 to $5OO,O00
A man in Williamstown, Mass, has
large stock of bull frogs, all fattened for q
foreign market. Some of them have been
highly fed for several years, and are of an
enormous size, weighing about forty pounds.
The wife of the now ex King of Naples is
a daughter of the King Of Baravia. The
Queen of Spain is now the only Bourbon
reigning in Europe. and the dethroned King
of Naples has gone to take up his abode
with her.
The livery and sale stable connected with
the Fuller House at St. Paul, Mimi, large
building, filled with valuable property, was
consumed by fire one night last week. Eight
fine horses and thirty vehicles were burned
with the building.
A young murderer named John Henry
Price, aged eleven years, has been convicted
of the killing of a boy named James Cox,
aged ten years, in Saratoga county, New
York. The verdict was manslaughter in
the fourth degree.
A wretch named Aldrich, who is belle we'd
to have murdered his sister and son, after
committing brutal outrage on the former
in Lawrence county, Kentucky, was take n
from the jail by his neighbors on the 18th
ult., and hung, because they feared he
would escape the penalty of the law through
lack of evidence to convict.
A novel steam car has been constructed
and run upon the railroad between Lynn
and Salem, Mass. The car combines loco-
motive engine, boiler, passenger car, &C.,
and carries wood and water to run it fifty
miles. Its construction is said to be OF
such character as to effect a saving of fuel,
and to be generally economical.
Mrs. Moffat, better known as Rosina Town.
send, and keeper of the house Of ILL fame al
New York wherein Helen Jewett was muir.
dered, q quarter of n century since, died al
Castleton, Staten Island, Saturday week
She had reformed her life, and for more
than twenty years had been q woman of
piety and active benevolence.
Henry Dexter, sculptor of Cambridge
Mass, whose statue of Gen. Warren was in
auyurated on Bunker Hill few years ago
has visited all the States of the Union bu
California and Oregon, and made bust o.
each of the Governors. He is about to ado
to his collection, busts of the Judges of the
Supreme Court of the United States, and the
Cabinet.
After Mile Carolirta, circus artist, haG
walked across a tight-ropc in Olive, nea,
Rondout, n. Y, last week, Robert Winchell,
a citizen, proposed to 90 across hanging by
his hands and did it; but he reached the
other side too much exhausted to climb up,
and so fell distance of twenty. five feet,
of which injuries by his falling he has since
died he leaves a young family.
Frank Miller, sergeant U. S. Army, il
New Mexico, recently shot woman who
accompanied the regiment from Utah. The
parties were engaged to be married, bu
after their arrival she, for some cause OF
other ''bolted,' and while they were sitting
in tent together, he drew a revolver anc
shot her, the ball entering her throat. A,
the same time he discharged the contents Of
another barrel at his own breast, the bal
entering his heart They both expired a
almost the same moment.
The California papers report that some
of the pear trees in that State, of the Bart
lett variety, bear two distinct crops of fruit
this year. The trees blossomed in Apri
and July. The pears of the first crop, at the
first of September,;w large, weighing eight
or nine ounces each the second crop then
weighed about two ounces. 1t would as
tonish the fruit growers of the Atlantic States
to find two healthy crops growing on one
tree, both holding fair to mature into the
most delicious fruit
A very remarkable feature of the mex
Horticultural exhibition of the American
Institute at New York, will be the number
of singing and talking birds entered 70,
premiums. One belonging to Capt John
Brooks is said to be capable of repeating
the Lords Prayer, and of improvising con-
versation at will. Capt Brooks states that
the bird once accosted him, on his return
after an absence of several days, with the
exclamation F.: 81 am SO glad to see YOU =
Come here, want to kiss you'll"
The great storm on the Gulf coast on the
| 10th inst. was one of the most disastrous
that ever visited this country. So far, at
least thirty three lives are known to have
been lost, on land and water. The loss of
property in Mobile alone amounts to $740,-
900. Biloxi and Belize are in heaps of
ruins. Pascogoula and other small towns
were submerged to the depth of several feet,
and nearly all the HOUSES either blown down
or washed away. The total loss along the
coast in towns and in the country, and on
tho Gulf, is computed at million dollars.
At the grea+ Republican meeting at Pitts
burgh, on the 9th ult, there were $500
Wide Awakes by actual count in the pro-
cession. And they did not constitute one.
third of the people in that monster process
sion. The number Of people at the four
speaking stands was estimated at $4,000.
The largest meeting held in Pitts burgh in
y
1856 was cniy 1000 The Pittsburgh Jour-
ndl pre- licts 5000 majority for the Repub.
lican ticket in Allegheny county. At the
October election in 1856 it was 1895. We
shall not be surprised if it now exceeds 6ooo
The late Gen. Walker, the fllibu>ter lead
err, was born at Nashville, Tennessee, in 1924,
and was consequently but 26 years of age
He graduated at the University of Nashville,
taking the highest honors Of his class, and
studied medicine in Philadelphia and Paris
He had distaste for medicine, and after
wards went into the law at New Orleans !;
but that city was too quiet for him and he
went to California, where the manifest
destiny idea took possession of him and
directed the future current of his life. Col.
Rudler, who accompanied Walker in Hon-
duras, was native of Alabama, and served
with credit in the Mexican war. He be-