Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-06-15

The daily mail service between Galsns
| and st. Paul has been restored.
A monument is to be erected ct North
Bend in honor Of Gen. Harrison.
In most sections Of New England. the
promise for fruit was never more abundant,
A man in Icckhaven, Pa, he'd finger
ont of close to the hand. A new finger has
since grown out.
! The slaves owned by the Southern States
number 1000 900, and their value IN money
reaches the fguls Of s., 900 100000.
Fred. Douglass has returned from bis
European visit, and announces thss the
weekly publication Of his newspaper will be
resumed.
Samuel D. Inghsm. Secretary Of the
Treasury during Jackson's administration,
died on the 5th inst, at the advanced age
of 81 years.
Vitol Jarrot, Of St. Clair county, has been
nominated by the Republican State Central
COMMITTEES a. q candidate for Lieut. Cover
nor Of Illinois, in place Of Francis A. HoI.
man, declined.
Within the present month about thirty-Ave
hundred first class passengers have sailed
from New York and Boston for Europe. The
summer travel to the old world promises to
be unprecedently large.
Benjamin Harrison, q grandson of the
President, recently addressed tho people of
Lswrenceburg. lad, in very able speech,
in support of the nominees Of the Chicago
| Convention.
The Boston Nus;eal Times says there are
r early two hundred professional musicians
in that city, who are out Of employment
the effect of s'hard times )" or OF protesting
too much and performing too little.
Geo. Hampson ard Sheppard Crownersr,
two men residing near Huntington, were
run over near Mill Creek Station, on the
Pennsylvania Railroad, the other night, and
both instantly killed. They were both in.
toxicated at the time.
A German girl, IA years Of age, was
killed by lightning, recently, in Chicago.
The lightning struck the back Of her head,
passed dewn her back, set FIRE to her clothes,
melted her metal ic hoops and made hole
10 the ground three feet deep.
David Skinner, horse thief, SGT nrs to
the jail at Van Writ, Ohio, with view to
making his escape. But the flames were rot
discovered a. soon as he supposed they
would be, and when his cell was opened
Skinner was pile Of einders.
A half wittsd girl escaped from the Con.
necticut State Prison. She was found, after
thrse weeks search, living in hole she
had dug under hay NOW. During tho three
weeks she had lived in holes, she subsisted
by milking COWS and sucking eggs.
By the newly revised statutes Of Massa.
chusetts, bank 0 Ulcers are required to stamp
al counterfeit and spurious bills which
may be received in the course of business,
under the penalty of paying the full amount |
Of the bill or bills allowed to pass without |
being so stamped.
The town of Chatham, n a., 10 ten
miles long; and what is very singular about
it is, that with population OF 300, it |
contains no church, possofice, store or hotel; !
supp: rts no clergyman, lawyer or physician; |
and contains no msuufaetory. There is only
one pauper in the town. The people are |
farmers, and good livers, and seem perfectly
contented. |
An other horrible tragedy has occurred in |
on the sister Of Dr.. Selser, much against her !
will. She appealed to her brother, who sent |
note to Dr.. B., requesting him to discon-
tinue his visits. DR.. B. returned an insult |
ing reply. On meeting, shortly afterwards,
qusrrel took place between the two !
doctors. Bell stabbed Sel-er twice, killing |
Tim instantly. A bys,ander attempted to |
separate them. but was also stabbed by d., |
Bell, and died of his wounds.
Daniel Turnbull committed suicide At
Mi>hawaks. Ind, on the 18th ult., BY taking
Ia udsnum. Mr.. Turnbull formerly belonged
near Three Rivers, Mich, where he leaves
family. The circumstances which induced
the rash act are these He embraced the
doctrine Of Spirituslism, left his fsmil,
and went to Mishawaks to seek his ''Afin-
ity," a. he was directed by the spirits, but
her he never found, and suicide il the result
of his disappointment. He was formerly
known az con cientious, kind hearted man.
His remains, according to his request, have
been sent to his former home. ~