Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-05-11

abolished by the Legislature of that State
- An English paper says that "Gen. DR..
- Scott commands The United States Army.
9 One hundred and fifty divorces wei
), granted iD the courts of Kansas in 40 days
G. The New York Uemokrat has translate
=, Hon. Owen Lovejoy's late great speech int
u u German. .. ..s ...--.a
n. ,s l.. johnson, the Oldest type founder in I'll
y United States, died nt his residence i
= Philadelphia, last week. i,st@ i.." -'.'
III More than double the usual number o
t acres have been sown with wheat this yea
e in MinnesO,a, we see it stated. '',r.s cod
Since the onening of the Greenwood Gem
"a etery. New York. in 1912, 1888 bodie
. have been inferred in it.
The Cleveland Plaiadea!er says th.t
~ printer by the name of F. W. Furniss ha
lallen heir to 100000 in England. If .-Ll
The re-appearanoe, in August, of tn
famous comet of Charles V. has bee
, announced by German astronomer. t.S
u News by telegraph and pony express ar
i conveyed from London and Liverpool t,
e Sacramento in less than thirty days. t.
s A couple of pugilists were sent to tn
: penitentiary in New Jersey, last week, fol
!, having been engaged in prize fight. af
. Ericsson's caloric engines are becoming
, popular in Cuba, where they ar, used on
t many of the estates, in the mills for grind.
7 ing the sugar cane. a,g ..0 aE r.
5 A fire at New Orleans, on the oath ult
destroyed the Brooklyn Warehouses" Loss
estimated at 100000, principally on sugar
and salt, stored by different firms. ~.
Outdoor preaching is becoming very
fashionable in New York. Among those
who dispensed spiritual food to the million,
last Sunday, was DR.. Bethune. ag.a. t-z !
At q late bloodless duel in New Orleans
one Of the surgeons stated it to b. the ff-
teenth he had attended with such result, and
the other related nearly an equal experience.
The everlasting Burdell case is up again
in the New York courts. The heirs are now
quarreing among themselves as to the
division of the murdered dentists property.
The I.awrenceburgh Bank, Tenn, free
bank, has 'gone under" Its circulation is
said to. have been considerable - probably
$3.50, ,o0O-and very little, if any. will ever
be eredeemed.
During the recent session Of the Circuit
Court at Covington, KY, Judge Moore
decided that divorces granted in Indiana to
citizens of Kentucky are not god in that
State.
Mrs. Jane Gamble, a widow, of Eaton,
Ca, under the influence of religious mono
mania, starved herself, recently. She died
after having entirely abstained from food
for twenty days.
The irst journa! ever published in Morocco
has just made its appearance. 1t is printed
in Tetuan, in the Spanish language, and is
distributed gratu; tously. 1t bears the name
OF The Echo Of Tetuan.
Tie people Of Cape Cod are now busily
employed in cranberry planting. The largest
meadow devoted to the culture of the berry
is near Hyannia Port, and contains nearly
fifty acres.
An immense bed of marble has Just been |
discovered in Michigan, in tho county of
Presque Isle, comprising apparently solid
mass Of about 100 acres, AMI rivalling the
finest foreign marbles.
A Mrs. Kennedy advertises in a Charles.
ton Is. o. paper reward of 81 200 for the
apprehension of her husband, Stephen @. |
KenAedy, who not only stole her negroes,
but eloped with widow Calhoun.
Mrs. Burdell Cunningham and family |
were passengers by the last steamer from
New York 10 Aspinwal, en- route for Cali.
fornia. She was travelling incog., but was
recognized by parties who knew her well.
Quite number of counterfeit gold dollars
are in circulation They can readily be
detected by the absence of the word Liberty,
which is on the genuine, in small letters, on
the Indians head dress.
The newspaper express train on the
Hudson River Railroad recently ran seven
miles in six minutes, between Albany and
Castleton. This, says the Albany Journal,
is the fastest time ever made in this country,
being at the rate Of 70 miles an hour!
The editors and publisher of the Cleveland
Leader have been sued by VIM. Graves, for
So 900 damages for libel. They published
accounts of the distress Of Mr.. Graves
mother, charging him with starving her to
death
The Duchess of Leeds recently subscribed
Gl 900 in aid of the sspoor" old Pope. This
lady is an American, and cne of the grand
daughters OF Charles Carroll, of Carrollton,
one of the signers Of the Declaration of
independence.
Theodore Parker was to leave Rome for
Switzerland on the Goth u!t. He expects to
be OF home in September. He does not
speak very highly Of living in Rome. The
style of food is not such as to give vigor to
an exhausted constitution.
An Elmira, N. Y, paper says there is an
elderly lady residing IN that place who has
in her possession a piece of her own wedding
cake, which she has preserved for over forty
years 1t was wrapped up in the same
piece of paper that was put around it to
dream by on the night of her wedding.
A Chinese merchant in San Francisco
tersely gave an American friend his ideas on
the japanese embassy's reception in this
now-American want more treaty-by'n by
treaty be signed, Japanese like anybody
Just like Chinese-just like dam niger J"
Vesuvius appears disposed to ges up
another sensation. The goth aud 2lst OF
March tue mountain threw out fire and
burning stones, at the same time utteripg q
loud noise, as of thunder. AT the foot OF
the mountain three small cratsrs were
formed, with the earth open, and currents
of lava issuing forth.
Hezekiah Dubois, 1S years of age, confined
in the Albany peni. entiary, makes daily AZ
pairs of brogans! A person who saw him
at work upon the bench says he appeared to
blow the pegs from his mouth into the shoe,
and never made miss while he was looking
at him. Hezekiah should have leather
: medal.
i David A. Burr, VIII, has c-ntly returned
i. from Utah, refu'es the statement of MIR
> Hooper, the delegate from that Territory
tina. the Mormons have no coinage of thei
own, by exhibiting some Of their money
which the authorizes have forced into cir
> culatiun. 1t is 30 per cent. be!ew tn
e National standard. -. ..,.-.- .-..,.
! Th absurdity of regarding Heenan ant
le Savers as representative either Of Engian'
or Americ:, or Of >'Anglo-Saxon" valor
p!uck and endurance, or other phrases o
,e the VASCULAR vernacular, is apparent from
); the fact that the championa are both of Iris