Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-03-23
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The ladies took formal possession Of th
Mt. Vernon estate on tho 7th inst. l9b edt
! e. There are 800 students at Oberlin Oollegl
Ohio. They are of all colors and both sexes
Nurserymen around Rochester say ther
will be no peaches in that region this yea,
The great strike Of the London workmsl
has ceased. Both sides - journeymen' an
employers-claim the victory. sb5a Noi
NJ Thursday, April 9th, is the day appoints
by Gov. Banks for the annual fast in Mas
sachusetts.
The Jews Of California forwarded ~ th
last steamer 80, ,4O0for the relief Of thsi
brethren who are driven out of Morocco. z
The slaves owned in the Southern State
number 100000, and their value in mono,
reaches the enormous sum of So ,000, ,0o0, 900
Slavery is nearly extinct in Delaware. l
is estimated that there are only 900 or 100
slaves now in that State. it H ..oaaya od5
For the new marble stores now, bein,
finished on Broadway, N. Y, opposite tn
Metropolitan Hotel, 20 feet wide and 10,
feet deep, the rent is $l2, 200 each. so9 10
Over $500 were donated to the Washing
ton Monument Fund in San Francisco Of
tile 22d, principally in small sums droppet
in the box placed for that purpose st th,
post Office. r ~ rCl.37oD II 3.GzgonaF
Indian outrages continue to be reeountsG
in the Texas papers, but we are told nothing
Of the rascalities on the part of the whites
which, in many, if not in nearly all cases
have provoked them. La. r5yag Gals
The last news from Pixies Peak is very
favorable, quartz mining being carried or
with great success, and rev leads of grea,
promise having been discovered, fourteen
miles from Denver City. .., .'rg5 se..
The storeheuses of II. J. Galbraith. and
Mason & Atterbury, at Waverly, Mo-, were
burned on the 1st inst. Loss not stated.
robbed of nearly $4,000. adam 5sl-
Mr.. Vincent Witchers and his grandson,
who killed the Messrs. Clements, in Franklin
county, Va, on the 25th ult., surrendered
themselves to the authorities, and were
promptly acquitted, on the ground of self
defense.
Daniel Fanshaw, the old printer, who
lately died in New York city, left property
to the amount of $25O,0OO; of which he
bequsathes literally to the American Tract
Society, the Seaman's Friend Society, the
Womens' Hospital Home and other charities.
Congress having granted its permission, !,
Commodore Shubrick has received the sword
presented to him by Gen. Urquiza, President
of the Argentine Confederation. The scab-
bard is silver and gold, the hilt tipped with
diamonds, and is valued at $4,000.
One of the results of exploration in central
from which the Nile was thought to flow,
and which were noted for many years on
the school maps, are found not to exist.
Four large lakes occupy their place.
The old capital building, at Washington,
is to have new dome (the old dome has
been taken down for several years), of iron,
to weigh 3,7OO tons. The cost, as now esti-
mated, amouRts to 1904, 900, including the
bronze statue of the genius of
liberty with which it is to be surmounted.
A rich miser in Auburn, N. Y, has made
arrangements to be buried in Owasco Lake,
a beautiful sheet Of water near that town.
He has stone coffin made, which takes
twelve yoke of oxen to draw it. He gives a
man good farm for burying him. He is
to take him to the middle of the lake and
sink him.
Fred. Whitehead, of St. Louis, is great
shot. With pistol at ten PAGES he shot an
apple from the head of another man, and at
seven PAGES has shot out five of the spots in
q seven-spot diamond card, which tho same
gentleman held out in his hand. Good
but it shows faith in the other
man.
Among the hostile parties now contending
in Africa there are three Sabbaths celebrat-
ed each week. That of the Moors is observed
on FRIDAY the Sabbath of the very few
Jews who fight in the ranks, as irregulars
or settlers in the county, for their hearths
and homes, is on Saturday; while that of
the Roman Catholic Spaniards is on Sunday
o. B. Matteson, the corrupt member of
the XXXlVth Congress, has now been dis.
covered in the Improper use for his own
btneft Of Sc, 500 of the funds of the Central
Bank, Utica, N. Y, of which he was Presi-
dent, and at the request of the directors he
has resigned and retired from the institu-
ton. The bank is fully secured.
A paragraph appeared in our paper few
days since relating the marriage of young
man named Stephen S. Doggett, in Dayton,
o., and his death Immediately afterward.
We have since learned that the young mans
father, W. F. Doggett, Secretary of the
Dayton anu Western Railroad, has become
insane, and ia now confined in the Lunatic
Asylum at hat place.
The New Era and Republic newspapers,
at Washington, have been discontinued.
Mrs. Bailey, the proprietress of the former,
states that the failure to receive the House
printing has rendered its discontinuance
necessity. The latter has been, we believe,
from the start. A movement is
on foot to unite the subscription lists of the
two papers, and found a new journal.
The excitement in regard to the Pennsyl-
vania oil springs does rot abate and their
yield does not diminish at all. One gentle
man at Union recently commenced boring
and at the depth of 5S feet struck a vein
which yields 70 barrels of oil per day. Others
from a greater depth are securing 30 barrels
per day.
The Sons of Malta number 164, ,4S7 mem
bers, the increase within the year past being
100000 members and 439 lodges. At the
time Of the last general report, the lodges
held Sl72,000, and their donations during
the year to outside charities amounted to
nearly $30O,000. A proposition is under
to devote 100000 of the bal
ance on hand to the Washington monument
The famous suit of Miss Carstang against
the rich old bachelor, Shaw, for breach of
promise damages set at $lO0, 1000, for which
q verdict bad been obtained), is again on
trial in St.Louis. Shaw has procured about
. cart-load Of dispositions from New York,
Charleston, and other places where Miss y.
formerly resided, but it is intimated that he
cannot successfully impeach her. character.
So it appears it will be all 'sO' Psha,o !"
in that as we'll as the money matter, so fa r
as the defaulting s'lovyer" is concerned.
~ When, six years ago, Douglas Ne
braska Bill to repeal the Missouri Compromise
was pending in Congress, Gov. Seward
the repealers that there was such
thing as re-enactmsnt as well as repeal, as
they in time would learn. The prediction
was secuted, the idea that the proviso of
Freedom would ever be restored pronounced
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