Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-04-06
News P;lragraDl,S.

A fellow in New York offers to match an
American eagle in a 6gh; against any dog
in tho country.
The St. Louis Hotel, at Fort Smelling,
Mimi, was destroyed by fire last week.
Loss about $4,000.
Chas. P. Tidd, recently of Charlestown,
Va, who was one of John Browns seventeen
followers, is now in Worcester, Mass.
The Illinois Central Railroad Company
propose new 8 per cent. mortgage, to
take the place of their So, 100000 of bonds
maturing this year.
Glass Theoretically sealed cof6ns the first
ever made in the world of that material,
are now being successfully manufactured at
some of our glass works.
There are at present 1900 male and l42
female coDvicts ia the New York State prison
at Sing Sing. This is the highest number
that were ever before there at one time.
The two negro women who were to have
been executed last Friday, in Essex county,
Va, for the brutal murder Of their master,
DR.. Croxton, committed some months ago,
have been repr;eved by Gov. Letcher until
the 9th of next month.
Nets for the hair, made of silk. silk and
bugles, and gold and silver braid, are all
the rage among the ladies at present, and
form simple yet very elegant and bscom-
ing head dress.
I The drinking establishments in Charleston
are not allowed to keep open on Sundays.
Visitors to that city at the time Of the hold
ing of the Democratic National Convention
should make q note of this fact and prepare
their outfit accordingly.
William Wilkey, residing st Salem, ILL.,,
deliberately shot and killed his son-in-law,
Carmi q. Reed, on Friday of last week.
There had been long standing difficulty
between the murderer and his victim. The
murderer has not yet been arrested.
On recent Sunday morning, great
excitement was caused in the Baptist church
at Pittstown, Rensselaer, county, N. Y, by
q man walking in the midst of the congre-
CATION stark naked. He was led out as soon
as possible, and decided to be insane on the
ubject of dress.
The cattle distemper is still prevailing in
Massachusetts. This malignant disorder,
which sometime since attacked the herds of
MIR. Chenery AID his neighbors, at North
Brookield, has appeared in Spencer, and
much alarm is felt in the adjoining towns
lest 1t attack tnem IN turn.
The people of St. Louis are agitating the
subject OF paving the streets Of that city
with iron. 1t is estimated that what is
: termed the corrugated iron pavement will
cost only $3.50 per square yard, and will
last fifty years, and the iron be worth hall
price at the end of that time for remelting'
Cleopatra's Needle, the stupendous Egypt
ian Shalt, which was presented to the
British government, lies in ditch, where il
fell near Alexandria. The travelling cock
neys are removing it as fast as possible, by
each one chipping IF his share and carrying
it eff to '.old Hingiand'' as relic. So tade
away the evidences of human pride and
grandeur.
A runaway negro, at Montgomery, Ala, q
few days since, made gallant resistance tc
his pursuers, wounding one of them badly
by pistol shot, and refusing to b, taker
alive, was shot dead, at loss of 81 300 to
the afflicted patriarch to whom his s'iabol
OF service was due" 1t is good to see thu
brave old motto, "Liberty or Death p
revived and illustrated, even by negro.
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'No IMPROPERLY" - The Democratic
journals discover mo improperly" in the
course of the Administration with reference tc
the printing patronage. The payment o.
$4,000 year to the organ grinder at Wash
ington, $4,000 to the Pennsyloanian, and
the disbursement of few hundred thousand
dollars for the support of party papers and
the corruption Of the franchise at State
elections, are defended as legitimate party
l,,cn w cho11 70 he
same conscientious prints defending arson
and horse-stealing.
az The great Editorial Excursion to
Washington, over the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad, has been postponed till May. The
special train will leave Wheeling, May 4th,
instead of April 18th, as at first proposed.
The Mt Vernon Steamboat Company will
also tender free trips to all persons holding
invitation tickets, who wish to visit the Tomb
of Washington. The Cincinnati Enquirer
says the B. g. O. R. r. Co. have already the
names of fifteen hundred papers upon their
invitation list, and assures the editors of the
West and South West that none of them will
be overlooked. The affair promises to be one
of the grandest ever gotten up IN the country.
| MORE PRINTING lNvEsTIGATIoN.-TheS Senate
Investigating Committee have been engaged,
for two days, examining into the charges
preferred against the President and Judge
Black, by Pettibone, who is bookbinder in
hofo {ho
mittee, that certain alterations had been made
by Judge Black in document which came
from the President. The Administration
make pll sorts of threats of prosecuting
Pettibone for perjury, but that is CANNON.
w The game of "Disunion' having failed
to brighten the North, Southern men begin to