Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-10-12
News ParagraDhs.

:. ,s..a4 News Paragraphs.
In the Company of "Abe's Boys" at Co
nersville, Indiana, are fifty old Democrats, o
now for Lincoln.
Out Of 267 oil wells in Pennsylvania, on,
"a continue to yield, and several of the,
have dwindled materially. -
I President Buchanandeclin es to he nres
ent at the ball to be given in New Yorl
in honor of the Prince Of Wales.
| An 1rishman named James Fortune. CON
mitted suicide in Cincinnati recently by Gu
tin this throat with piece of looking glass
Desmateau, who murdered little gi,
eight years Of age, after violating her, a
Chlcopee, Mass two years ago, has jus
been sentenced to be hung
The estimate of the Presidential vote q
Massachusetts, by the Boston Traveller is =
Lincoln 10000; Douglas 10000: Bell 25
OC0; Breckinridge 10000. '@5-
The Hon. Mr.. Yancey will not come North
SO the Washington correspondent of tn
New York World telegrapfs. The reaso,
Is supposed to be that his views are no
adapted to Northern meridian.
The supper and ball in New York. i,
honor of the Prince of Wales, will cost r
is said $4,000. A fine lady in Fifth Ay
enue has ordered dress, to be worn at tn
ball, which will cost three thousand dollars
Thomas Francis, Penobscot Indian, en-
gagged to run five miles in % minutes on tn
agricultural race course at Lewiston, Maine
He accomplished the desperate feat in
twenty-eight minutes and three seconds.
Gen. Leslie Combs, the newly elected
clerk of the Court of Appeals of Kentucky
was sworn in on the 18th ult. On the same
day he appointed R. R. Boiling, the Dougla.
candidate for the same office, his deputy.
The Neapolitan Minister at Washington
has taken formal leave of our Go7ernme ent
since Naples has fallen into the hands OF
Garibaldi. As there is no kingdom Of Ma.
Piles, so there can be no longer Neapolitan
minister.
Mr.. Joseph Moore, of Somerville, Mass,
died very suddenly few days ago. A posi-
nortem examination revealed the fact that
he died in consequence of tumor on the
brain caused by sun stroke thirteen years
ago. He was % years Of age.
Blondin offered to carry the Prince of
Wales over the tight rope ut Niagara, on his
back. The New York newspaper letter
writer's say that the Prince would have &C.
cepted the invitation if it had not been for
the Duke of Newcastle.
Walker, the Fillibuster, after all the con
Trajectory reports to the contrary, is probably
dead Ten shots were fred at him, during
which he fell and he was afterwards buried
by foreigners. Fragments of his expedition
reached New Orleans on the British war.
steamer Gladiator.
Don Juan Bello, minister from Chill TO
this country, died on Sunday at New York.
Though but thirty five, he had filled the po.
sition Of professor of law and literature in
the University of Santiago, and been Secre-
tary of the Chill legation in Paris, before
coming to this country as minister.
An endowment fund of twenty thousand
dollars having been raised for the University
of the Pacific, San Jose, California, the
three professors in charge sloped with it
for the Sandwich Islands, Wonder how the
people QUE there like to have their faculties
running in that direction.
The Captain-Genera Of Cuba has approved
a plan for introducing 500 natives of Polyn-
esia into that island as ]aborers. It is
thought they will assimilate and a.nalgamate
better with the negroes than the Asiatics do.
The Cubans seem to be trying extensive
in the mixture of human breeds.
George Hersey has been indicted by the
Grand Jury for Norfolk, Mass, for the muir.
der of the Tirrel girls, of Weymouth--whom
he is supposed to have first seduced- which
caused so much excitement few months
since Hersey was arrested and discharged
ut the time, but subsequent events have led
to his indictment.
A terrible tornado which passed over the
town Of Ava, Herkimer county, N. Y,
recently, made a complete wreck of the
dwelling house of a man named Reed, killing
three of the children, and even smashing fiat
the bedstead upon which two of the children
slept. Mr.. Reed and wife with an infant
in arms) alone survived.
Jeffrard, President of the negro Republic
of Hayti, sent an agent to Mobile, not long
since, for the purpose of obtaining emigr ants
from among the free colored population Of
that city. As free negroes are not permit
ted to enter the State of Alabama, the sher-
if of the city notified the agent that his
absence was imperatiyely demanded. The
Haytian departed.
The allied French and English forces of
China seem to be on tho point of making
a vigorous attack upon the forts at the mouth
of the Peiho, at once to redeem the ground
lost there a year ago, and to force open the
door for peace negotiations at Pekin. In
the meantime, it is reported, that the Chi
nese intend to make determined and form
idable resistance. A bloody war is inevita-
BILE.
The Richmond Dispatch notices con-
spiracy among the slaves of wealthy plant
er, named Hairston, of Halifax county,
Virginia, to murder their overseer. Six
of the slaves induced the overseer to 90 into
the woods, when they pointed to a pit, told
him it was his grave and that he had fifteen
minutes TO make his peace with God or to
land in he'll The overseer quick as thought
drew his revolver, shot four Of the slaves
dead on the spot, wounded fifth in the abb
domen, and the 9th escaped.
Big stories arc told of the crops in Mime.
sofa. The Shakopee Demo ocrat acknowledges
the receipt of stool (or cluster) Of rye, Of
forty stalks, grown from one seed and con-
tanning in all some 1920 grains by count !;
this being but fair specimen of the field,
and it calls on "Brother Stevens of the Glen
coe Register" to beat that if he can. Brother
Stephens takes down his slate and reckons
up, that if bushel of this seed were sown
to the acre, then the yield at this rate
must have been 1920 bushels. The Demo-
crat man hasn't been heard from since.
A few days since, On Mrs. Curry's planta-
tiop, Wilkinson county, Miss, steam engine
had been erected. Mrs. Curry and some
ladies with her were anxious to see the en-.
CINE in motion, and a negro was ordered to
fire up and put on steam. The steam made
the engine revolve very slowly more steam
was ordered on, when the motion of the en-
CINE was furious and appalling. The over
seer called to the negro to shut off steam,
but he had lost his senses by fright and
Aod fooether with the ladies' Mr. FIov6