Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-11-23
News ParagraDfas.

r.. E.,' News AfaSr1pnS.
Two cents a day will find man with fe
|. in China.
Speaker Pennington fails Of q re-electi
by 3l8 votes. ~ a5g & s s j
The number of unclaimed letters in I
Denver City Z. O., Oct. 3Oth, was 5000.
A The German population in this eou ntry
} estimated at 10000.
Abel Knapp has served the town of Berli
( Vermont, forty nine years as township oler
The vote for Lincoln in Ohio county, V
sinia, in which Wheeling is situated,
100. H.aE< sa = -
Thomas Sully the best portrait painter
the world, now in his seventy. eighth year,
Il resident Of Philadelphia.
! The deaths in London, for the week endi,
October 2oth, numbered LIS; the birth
l,S0o, of whom s39 were boys, s6l girls.
Twelve vessels have been raised at Seba
tapol, including sixty gun frigate in goc
condition s-...
An act for the enslavement of free negro,
was submitted to the people of Maryland ,
the late election and voted down almo
unanimously 9@
Hon. James +. Suit of Frankfort, Clinic
county, Ind, committed suicide on the 13t
inst, by shooting himself with a pistol I
his residence.
Paul P. Drake, q dwarf, 40 inches higl
and 25 years old, was killed in Columbus
Ohio, week before last, by falling from
counter in grog shop.
Cardinal Macchi Dean, of the College q
Cardinals, and as such the highest function
ary of the Roman Catholic Church next t
the Pope, has died in his Goth year.
The population of Wisconsin by the lat
census, is 777,777, in round numbers, ont
numbers which are remarkable for being al
secens Increase in ten years, 472,3s6.
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher has received
five hundred invitations for the winters lee
turing tour He has yet accepted but TWEEN
ty-five.
Green corn, beans, radishes, and the gen.
eral run of early vegetables, are in the mar
ket tagain from The second crop, at Browns.
vile, Texas. ,Eo1
Corn in Liberty, Tenn, is selling at 81. Sc
to - per busheL Flour 1926 to $3.50 pei
100 lbs. Irish potatoes 75c. Turnips zoe
There is a cotton batting manufactury in
Chicago, working twenty machines
The batting is pronounced by good judges to
be superior article.
The returns from Illinois indicate that the
proposition to hold Convention to amend the
Constitution of that State has been carried
by considerable majority
+. 5. Bartram, merchant of Marysville,
O., was robbed at Springfield, in that State,
last week, of 81 200 in cash. He was on his
way to Cincinnati to purchase goods.
Mrs. Abigail Grout, of Monroe, was killed
by lightning on the 10th ult., at Bangor, Ne.
She was in the act of throwing pail of
water from the door. Her age was 72.
Mrs. Farrell fell into death-like trance
on Sunday week, at Webster, Mass Prepa-
rations were made for her funeral, when she
recovered, but died in reality on Tuesday.
A grasshopper has been brought to this
country from Panama, which measures five
inches in length and giris four inches 1t is
said to be only an ordinary sized animal for
the lsthmus.
4 young descendent of the original sea
serpent was captured in Miles river, Mary
land, last Saturday. 1t was three feet three
inches long, had a head like maokerel, a
tail Ikea rat, and q main an inch and half
Oapt. Geo. Mclean, of the Mounted Rifles
WIS killed by the Navajoe Indians in skir-
mish near Fl Defiance, New Mexico on the
Both ult. He was a son Of Senator Mclean,
Of Delaware, and has a family residing at
Benjamin Wood, the Congressman elect
from New York city, who succeeds Daniel
E. Sickles, was formerly great lottery deal
er. He is q brother of the Mayor, Fernando
Wood.
The stables OF the Spring street omnibus
line, New York city, were consumed by fire
Oh Sunday cvening, llth inst, and eighty
horses Of an average value of 500 each
persisted in the flames.
& General Scott is six feet six inches high,
and weighs two hundred and sixty pounds.
He is "A years cid, yet his health is good,
and his whole system apparently vigorous,
much Of which is doubtless owing to his
habits.
A couple of spiritualists have been con-
victed Of manslaughter and are in jail at
Z. W., for causing the death of
q little gisl, sufl ring from scarlet fever, by
1ashing a bucket of cold water and salt
over ier naked body.
The new dimes and half dimes for 1860
have appeared. The thirteen stars encircling
Liberty are omitted-the words United
States of America appearing in their stead.
On the reverse, the pieceis enoircled with a
sheaf of corn and other American products.
Late statistics show that five million
persons ere supported in Eng.and by cotton
that thirty million spindles are employed in
the production of the yarn, and that the
capital absorbed exceeds $750,00O, ,000.-
-Four fiiths of the cotton consumed in England
800 900 pounds-is American.
W. O. Grey, prominent merchant of St.
Paul, committed suicide by drowning him
self, Oh the 10th inst, on the discovery of a
number of forgeries which he had perpetrat-
ed, amounting to about $55,0aO, various in
divduals being the losers. His total indebt-
edness is estimat ed at about $50 ,OO0..
The insurrectionaiy war in Florida is at
an end. The parties accused (negroes) as
a general thing submitted to the authorities
Seventeen have been committed on charge
of murder, then with an assault with intent
to XII and large number were required
to find securities to keep the peace. thirty
three mere committed on charge of con-
spiracy
According to the French accounts, on the
2lst the Allies, after vehement resistance,
carried by assault the most important of the
Tuka forts. 200 French and 200 English
soldiers were put hors du combat 1000
Tartars were killed and found in the fort,
among whom was the General-in Chief
The other forts surrendered successfully th
same evening The capitulat;on gave th
whole country to the Allies as far as lien
son, and 600 brass guns of large calibre.
Leyi Durbin, formerly of Davenport, Iowa
was hung at Pixies Peak short time since
by the Vigilance Committee, for stealing
mules. When be learned that the Commit
tee vas after him, he got some comrades tc
lay him out after the manner of corpse
he figuring stark dead. One of the Vigi
lance boys was left to watch at convenient
place to see whether it was ruse or not
and soon the corpse took to itself legs
He was then arrested and hung.
Skating is going to be fashionable amuse
ment this winter. Taking their cue fron