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


The present has been the hottest SUNNI g,
expert enesd in the extreme Southern Stat 3,
! ]. Queen Xicteris completed the twenty,
third year Of her reign on the Goth of june
She j. Al years Of age. sg ] sd .llfd ssliiga
~ Bayard Taylor is baildinp Z statel,
oonntry-seat on the grounds adjoining hiii
birthplace, in Chester county, Ps. 100 y q
VIM. Branch, formerly worthy residen,
OF Scott county, Iowa, was lately killed II
frseas with an Indian, near San Jose, Gal
The Rock Island Argus says mad dog,
and mad cattle are plenty. Several hse.
recently been killed in that city and vicinity.
During the shot tsrm' there are numer.
ons cases Of sun stroke every day in New
Orleans On the 18th inst, eleven D srsonl
died Of this cause.gdt bsysiog s;sd bigg.a
Hon Sam Oaruthers. conspicuous in the
politics Of Miss ouri, died at Oape Girsrdeau,
July Goth. Il He had been in iii health for q
year OF more. Ytilua oi bsGtH ma ,jnzgslii
The Pixies Peak Express, which srriy ed
ct St. geseph on the 24sh Of Jaly, broug ht
$26, 600 in dnst. the largest mount ever
received ~ one express IQiGgs5 Las ,ss.go.
About $60, 600 have been raised by the
friendsnof Nj. Fowler, late postmaster Of
New York, towards reimbursing the Gov
ernment for his defslcation. ucI So
There are only four Douglas papers in
Connecticut only three in Alabama, two in
Georgia and not one in South Carolina,
Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas
and Florida. odJ a1a5 q, ~ u
There were 496 deaths in New York for
the week ending July 2lst, great increase,
mostly from diseases of the stomach and
other digestive organs, owing, doubtless, to
impradence in eating unwholesome food
and unripe fruits. {S4als 10 3542l II 81
Brigham Young, with hundred followers.
has been on q tour through Cache county.
Utah, scrmonizing, s'to instruct the people
in the discharge Of their several duties az
saints and pioneers" The Norm ms do not
not as If they Intended to sell out and quit
the country. g5at2el. o'2,gjl g1ZEGt I
The States of Wisconsin and Minnesota,
through the Republican Central Commit
tees of their respective States, have extendes.
. joint Invitation to Hon. W. II. Seward to
address the Rerublicans of those States and
Northern Iowa at great Union mass meet.
ing, to be held at Lacrosse. az .as5 q.
The Prince of Wales is to travel in state
in the colonies. Strict orders have been
given by the Queen that he shall be treat ed
like herself in all respects. Nobody can
address the Prince until the Prince ad1res.
ses him, and as the royal scion is extremely
the conversations at his receptions
are not likely to be very brillisnt. q3v.
Judge Terry has been acquitted of killing
Senator Broderick in duel, by jury in
Marion county, California, under such cir
cumstanoes as leave no doubt of collusion
between the prosecution and the defense. |
The Witnesses against him were delayed in |
. boat, and the case went to the jury without
; word of testimony, and under the charge |
Of Judge Hardy a verdict of aoquittal was |
rendered. ".-aa- - . -c !
An extra from the Bonham (Texas) Era
office states that horrible plot has been |
to exist among the negroes of !
hat State to devastate the whole State and !
murder ell the whites. The plan was to |
ay the whole country waste by fire, destroy
ng all arms, ammunition, ETC., to get the,
,ountry into state of helplessness, and
hen on election day, in August, make q
general insurreotion, aided by emissaries
from the North and parties friendly to the |
,ause in Texas. They are charged with set.
ing the fire by which Dallas was destroyed,
md other fires in the northeastern counties, !
,ausing loss of $4,000. Three abolition
sts were caught in Washington county and
ordered to leave the State.