Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-10-26

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News Paragraphs.
A pumpkin was exhibited in Paris lately
weighing 3l9 Tbs.
Tom Thumb has Joined the Little Giant
Club in Bridgeport, ct.
The number of deaths in Chicago during
September was 172.
Col. Fremonts California mine now pays
him about 81, 600 day.
NJ. Kossuth has arrived in Paris from
visit to Switzerland and Italy.
Ex>President Fillmore is to speak at
Memphis, Tenn, this month.
Tom Corwin is to make fifteen speeches in
Illinois previous to the election.
The Chicago Press says the Republican
majority in Illinois will be $1,000.
From the LIST Of May to the lst of October
there were thirty murders in New York
city.
A patent has been recently obtained for
an improved bier for lowering collins into the
grave.
Jacob Collamer was re elected U. S. SEN
ator from Vermont on the 10th inst. for six
years.
MIR. Forest, the celebrated actor, receives
from Mr.. Nixon, in New York, $3.50 per
night.
A Frsnchman, seven feet eight inches
high, is stopping at the St. Charles Hotel,
| New Orleans.
Spiritual manifestations are said to have
taken place With Indian mediums, in Proy-
idence, r. !.
Bodies of the Lady Elgin disaster continue
to float ashore. The actual number of the
lost is not yet ascertained.
Gen Cass, at present Secretary of State,
has been in high public positions since 1902,
period Of 50 years.
Mrs. Adah Isaacs Menken, wife of John
c. Heenan, has sued for divorce from the
celebrated prize fighter.
Blondin, having made fortune by risk
ing his neck, is now about to return to Ku-
rope to enjoy his money.
The largest steam whistle in the world is
on rolling mill in Toronto, Canada. 1t is
fourteen inches in diameter.
The Auburn, N. Y, prison, during the
fiscal year which has just closed, has earned
surplus of So, 600 over expenses.
Elder Kimball, one of the leading Mormon
saints, recently had born to him, in one
night, no less than fourteen children.
Charlestown, Va, (where old John Brown
and his associates were hanged, has now u
population of 1853, or SO less than in 1850
The population in St. Louis in 1850 was
about 10000; according to the late census
returns, the city contains population of
l60,570
Rudler the accomplish Of Walker, was
not allowed to escape by the Hondureans,
but was sentenced to four years impri.on-
ment at hard labor
The land Office at Forest City, Mimi, was
burned Oct 18th Many of the government
land plats were destroyed. The books of the
office were saved.
Andrew G. Curtin, Governor elect of
Pennsylvania, is six feet two inches high !;
Hannibal Hamlin is six feet three, and Abra-
ham Lincoln six feet four.
We hear butlittle of the cholera in Europe,
except in Spain. 1t seems to be gradually
fading out, or taking its place as u regular
disease, and deprived of much of its malg-
nifty.
Joseph Weeks, living near Cincinnati, was
bitten in the shoulder by his horse. the ami
NAL taking large piece Of flesh out The
man died with every evidence of having been
poisoned by the bite. :,
The Prince of Wales, at his own request
planted an English oak and an American elm
in the New York city Park. He also planted
a horse chestnut tree in front of Washing
toms tomb at Mt. Vernon.
Middleton Belt died at Mobile, Sent 9th
with 4 cancer of 20 years standing. More
than twelve years age he published extern
slvely statement that the cancer was cured
BY the application of cranberries.
Walker the fi!llbus er, could have saved
his life, had he claimed the protection of the
American flag, but he obstinately persisted
in the fiction that be was a citizen of Nicar.
auga, and died denying his country.
The Minnesota Southern Railroad was
sold at public auction at St Paul, on the 10th
inst, for 81 900 Gov. Ramsey bid it off
for the State The only opposition bid was
fre rents, which would indicate but little
competition.
John Swartz, German, was killed in
Cincinnati recently by the bursting of a
milestone. He set the machinery running at
a terrible rate stood looking on, when the
milestone burst, one of the iron hoops injur-
ing Swartz fatally.
A. T. Stuart, the dry goods millionaire, of
| New York, has purchased out the entire
square, between Ninth and Tenth and Broad
way and Fourth avenue, on which he has
commenced the erection of an entire block
| of palatal marble stores.
Work on the Artesian we'll at Columbus,
o., has been brought to close, the amount
So, 900 "a appropriated by the state Leg
islature having been all expended The well
has been ascertained by actual measurement
| to be two thousand, seven hundred and fifty
feet deep. Water had not been reached.
Portions of two meteoric stones, which
fell at different times, one in Mexico and
the other in Brazil, have recently been ana
| lyzed ut German laboratory. The struc-
ture of both was essentially the same, being
composed of more than one ha!f-iron, and
the rest being made up of nickel, cobalt and
phosphorus.
Benjamin f. Hatch, is suing for divorce
from Cora l.. V. Hatch, the trance medium,
before the Supreme Court in Providence, Il.
l. He alleges that spiritualism disordered
her mind, and charges Judge Edmonds and
Prot. Mapes with conspiring to ALLEVIATE her
affections from him for their own selfish
purposes and ends.
A PERTINENT INQuIRY.-H Hon. R. @.
Schenck made a Republican speech at Co.
umbus, Ohio, on the 2lst, in which he made
the following capital hit:
For his part he did not believe that the
Constitution carried slavery into the terri