Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-09-14
News Paragraphs.

q. william B. Ast0r, of New York eitv.
as said to be worth $25, 100000.
~ Judge Taney has been nominated for /
,e Presidency BY a Leonardtown, Marylar
= public meeting. ad .e
' Blondin, on the occasion of the visit
Vi the Prince of Wales to Niagara Falls, W
% cross his rope on stills four feet in hight.
I'll A woman in Baltimore committed suici
= last week, because her daughter had ma
u u rled poor, but honest young man.
4 Tho Minnesota papers report that Il
f cranberry crop of that State is almost
: total failure, owing to early frosts.
' The United States Convention of Uniye
salists will meet in Boston, On the thi,
: Tuesday in September. -.
. About $4,000 has been collected in Ne
l York for the Syrian sufferers, of which Wn
: +. Dodge and Edward j. Woolsey CAV
j ST, 900 each. 5 = .E #lE.'5@
: Ata late trial of FIRE engines, at Phila
telphia, one of Philadelphia make threw
horizontal stream 260 feet, which was /
feet further than was thrown by any othe
engine. aaf a
The census returns areso nearly complet
as to render it certain that St. Louis is tn
most populous city in the West-total pop
ulatiou about 16l 1000, q gain since 1910 O
LOG per cent. a ~7g !.
! A young girl, named Catharine Gordon
II years of age, committed suicide in New
York, recently, by taking arsenic, because
her eldest sister had refused to let her &C
out visiting on Sunday.
Mr.. Shaw, the rich old bachelor at st
Louis, against whom Efie Carstang brought
that famous breach of promise case, is
assessed at S570, 900 in real estate and $43,.
oo0 personal property. Efie is still living
at st. Louis.
The greatest oil we'll yet has just been
opened at Tedioute, Pa. When the oil was
tapped, at ll5 feet deep, it was thrown up
at least 20 feet above the top-about thirty
barrels in forty minutes. So says the Pitts
burgh Chronicle. u
D. W. Foster, Esq, formerly of Iowa City
bot late of Springfield, Mo-, committed sui
eide there on the 22d ult. Mr.. F. was
man of fine intellect and uprightness of
character, but unfortunately was addicted
to the bowl, and this proved his ruin.
It is understood that Hon. N. P. Banks,
Governor Of Massachusetts, will take up
his residence in Chicago sometime about
the first week in January next, when he will
enter upon his new post as Vice President
and Managing Director of the Illinois Cen
tral Railroad.
A man named Freeman Wilson deliber.
ately shot his wife in the head, killing her
instantly, week before last, in Macomb
county, Michigan, and dragged her dead
body to the house under his arm. Five chill
drQn 70 tim, Of poofho,1oo,
assigned as the cause of the deed.
A good many Wisconsin farmers, who
were unwise enough to mortgage their farms
to aid railroad companies, are cancellipe
their mortgages at from 30 to IS cents on
the dollar. This is better than to make
contest in the courts, although it comes
hard. -.E .-..-
James, son of VIM. T. Head, clerk of the
McDonough QD.) Circuit Court, lad of
thirteen, was killed week before last, by
falling from beam in the tower of the
court house in Macomb, a distance of 25
feet, breaking through the ceiling of the
court room and striking his head on one of
the benches.
The army of the Pope of Rome, now un-
der the command of Gen. Lamorciere,
numbers 10000 men. These troops the
French General drills and exercises inces-
sanity, preparatory to the expected active
service that will be required Of them when
Garibaldi extends his operations into the
States of the Church.
Very rich silver mines have been discoy-
cred in Chill, lately, which are said to equal
in richness the most celebrated mines of
that country. Down to the foot of the
Andes, where it was supposed no silver ore
existed, some of the richest deposits have
been discovered. The country is very much
excited in consequence of these nsw discov-
cries, which will probably lead to others of
still more value.
Thaddeus Hyatt, who has gone to Kansas
to explore as to the suffering likely to result
from the drought, writes from Atchison
"l find reports and evidences of what am
to expect soon in my sad journey through
the burnt-up district of this sadly afflicted
land. As far as can learn here, all are
leaving the sun stricken region who can
while those who remain are, in the main,
such as cannot get away"
A woman named Margaret Finnegan has
been arrested at Williamsburgh, N. Y,
charged with brutal treatment Of her child,
q girl Of eleven years. She punished the
child by burning it on the arm with hot
iron and, upon another occasion, she is
said to have placed rope around the child's
body and let her down into the cistern,
dragging her up and down three or four
times. The child's body bore frightful evil
dences Of the mothers cruelty.
Vigilance committees and patrols have
been organized in all the northern counties
Of Texas, and public meeting in Guada-
loupe county has resolved to s'hold all per
sons born north of Mason and Dixon's line,
whose antecedents are not known and whose
means of support are not visible, as enemies
to their peace, and advise them, if they have
a prudent regard fer their personal safety,
to give US a wide berth, as they will be
dealt with according to law which we have
established for our own protection"
The "Orange-men,' - an organized body Of
Protestant Irish, bearing intense hatred to-
wards the Catholics, resolved on the late
visit of the Prince of Wales to Kingston
Canada West, to turn out as Society and
take the lead in the public demonstration
Of course the Catholics were highly exas
perated. Such was the excitement that tht
Duke of New Castle, in whose excepting
the Prince visits Canada, wisely determined
not TO land at any town where party spiri
should be obtruded into the general festivi
ties. For this reason the royal party passe,
by Kingston and Belleville without landing
E PLUEiBUs UNUM.-Yancey, with all hi
tragedy, has keen perception OF humor, ar,
gives the following anecdote for the benefi
of the Douglssites, who have been colleagu
ing with the Bell men -
Il The hour is closing. only wish to sa
this: Let Us look where the true Demccra.
is-let Us look to where the old banner float
,, let US see who are the boilers, and wha
their object is, and see if there be nc
, anon them an animal that has ring O
! his tall and see if you can't see the COO
skin sticking out now. Some of those Doug
t las fellows have got the paint in their brusl
e es, and they are trying to paint the fellow
now. The Douglas leaders are willing to d
l;t Thov roInind ma of an apacdnto Tho,