Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-11-02
News Paragrapils.

Il A deer was killed in the streets of Mar
shall, Me-, last week.
There are 4,727 pieces of marble in tn,
floor of the rotunda in the new Ohio Stat,
House.
i Rev. M. McNeel fell dead in the pulpit
while preaching, on Sunday, 2lst, at Selma
Alabama.
There are now eight different kinds OF
post office stamps, namely, !, 3, 5, 10, IL, "a
30, and 40 cents.
The people of Windham, VT, and the
region thereabouts, were in their sleighs on
the 22d Oct.
Lady Franklin will soon leave New YIok
to proceed to California, which it is expected
she will make her future residence.
1t is said that in New York, Mr.. Astor
was introduced to the Prince of Wales US
the wealthiest man in America.
Amongst the presents taken to England by
the Prince Of Wales We're two grey squirrels
aud an American turtle for his mother
Cincinnati is hereafter to be lighted by
gas from dark to dawn, moon or no moon !;
this is ahead of any city except New York.
A little child, two years old, died near
St. Joseph, Mo-, lately, from eating colored
waters, supposed to contain poisonous
matter.
The editor of the Carlinville TN Specta-
tor has been presented with sweet pota-
to fourteen inches in circumference, weigh
ing four pounds.
Leaders in the fashionable world are mott
fed that President Buchanan, when he
received and entertained the Prince of Wales,
score no glooes Right for once.
Isham S. Belt, of Laurenceville, s. c., had
become so much harrassed by fear of negro
instruction, that he blew his brains out
with shot gun, on the 10th Oct.
near Oquawka, ILL.,, recently, which measured
five feet and five inches from tip to tip, and
had claws over an inch in length.
There was legal defect in the bonds of
the late Isaac S. Fowler, so that the Govern
ment seems in fair way to lose the entire
SlO5,0O0 embezzled from the New York
post Office.
A slave boy belonging to Maj Cookey, at
Tuskogee, Ala, was burnt to death on the
9th, by sentence ola committee of "regula.
tors" for some crime not specified, but the
local papers say that it was ''such that no
mercy could be shown
James Kelly, blacksmith at CampDells-
port, O., choked to death at his table, while
attempting to swallow piece of meat three
inches lopg and three-fourths OF an inch
thick. 1t was lodged at the entrance of the
windpipe, upon the Pomum Adami, or
adams Apple"
Geo. Hauk and wife, Germans, living near
Marion, Shelby county, lad, were recently
murdered by robbers. Their charred re-
mains were found in the ruins of their dwell
ling, which was fred by the robbers Hauk
served in the war under Napoleon, and was
a very old man.
According to the newspapers the Queen of
Spain received the Moorish ambassadors
with distinguished gracefulness whereupon
leach member of the embassy, in the fash
ion of his country, bowed down and touched
his head to the EARTH" We should call
that last touch running the thing into the
ground"
Thomas Richards, an old and esteemed
merchant, of Philadelphia, died suddenly, a
few days ago, at the moment that his friends
were celebrating his golden wedding, and
the marriage of his daughter. He was in
his eighty first year, and quite inGrm, and
was quite excited, in anticipation Of the
days festivities.
Mrs. I. NJ. Hill, of Racine, Wisconsin,
recently met with shocking death. Mrs.
H. accompanied by several ladies was exam
lining the FIGURING Mills of Messrs. Wells
& Hill, when her dress became entangled
with vertical shaft making 80 revolutions
per minute, which carried her round at q
fearful rate, her head coming in contact
with post Mr.. Wells was severely in
iured in his efforts to save Mrs. Hill.