Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-12-07
News PARAGRAPHS.

Mr.. Lincoln is SAID to be in receipt OF
half bushel of letters per day.
The State of Pennsylvania borrowed
$l00, 900 on the 10th ult., at $92.9 cents to
the 500.
w. p. Davis, a dissipated fellow, killed
his father, p. P. Davis, in Howard county,
Ind, on the 2lst ult
Late reports from the Pixies Peak gold
regions, state that the quartz mills now runs
ming are invariably doing well.
The South Carolina cockade is blue that |
of Georgia is orange. The two colors mixed |
make an expressive green.
Barnum has found q new wonder half |
man and half woman, with a deep and pow
orful tenor and a sweet and delicate soprano
voice.
Senator Douglas and his wife arrived
at Memphis on Saturday Oath inst, in excel
lent health. He was on his way to Wash
ington.
Charlotte Cushman, during her eight
weeks engagement in New York, realized
$lO,00O-the most successful she ever per-
formed.
A Baptist clergyman, "Rev' Henry Nor
rison, left Patterson, Cal suddenly some
three weeks ago, after seducing seven young
women in the neighborhood.
In Gonzales county, Texas, on the 18th
ult., Col. Is. }. Ruyman shot dead one of his
overssers for whipping beautiful nulatto
girl, who was the planters mistress.
William Cullen Bryant and John Green
leaf Whittier, two Of our most eminent poets,
are members of the Electoral College, and
will vote for Mr.. Lincoln.
foreign letter writer declares St. Peters
burgh the most corrupt city on the face of
the earth, and that RIGHTEOUSNESS is prac-
ticed to most alarming extent.
Chas. Afford, aged l6, of Allegheny Co., N.
Y. has been astonishing the people of Iron
ton by rope walking feats but little inferior
to those of Blondin.
In Philadelphia, q few days since, mar
riet womao, with conf 'rtabie home, Gov
mtted suicide because of remorse at having
pawned all her jewelry, to buy lottery tickets
In Paris, says correspondent, no young
man without a mistress is regarded as be-
longing to the refined or cultivated class
indeed, to be virtuoas there is to be vulgar
in the extreme.
An at empt was made to burn the Alaba.
ma State Capitol, at Montgomery, on the
morning of the 9th u!t., by firing the doors
of the Sd story A negro servant discovered
the fire and extinguished it.
There is q colored man in Champaign
county, o., who is la or lis years old He
is yet an active man, and has recently COM
menced preaching. He is member of the
Bartit church.
The salt we'll at Saginaw City, Michigan,
has reached the depth of $40 feet. A heavy
current Of about 200 salt water reaches to
the top W tn great force. 1t is thought that
copper vein has been discovered at the
bottom of the shaft.
When Garibald left his army, he issued
a farewell proclamation concluding by telling
his compa, ions in arms that an army of a
million will be wanted to follow him again
to fresh conflict, which is likely to break
out in Italy by March next.
Bishop Simpson, at the last Ohio Confer
ence, laid that the Conference was getting too
fill Unmarried preachers. He said to the
young men: Though you may be sur,
rounded by angels, don't fear lest the an.
gels shall have left the earth by the end OF
our years.
The wife of Daniel Mapes, at Evansville,
Wis, was found in her house on Saturday,
the 1st inst, burned to death Her husband
has been arrested and committed for trial
the Coroner's inquest having resulted in a
strong suspicion that he was implicated in
!. her death.
little boy, over three years ofage, son of
, w. :. Wilkinson, CLERK of Whiteside coun
f ty, ILL.,, and brother of Senator Wilkinson, of
Minnesota, was burned to death several
days since, his clothes taking fire while
playing at the stove while left temporarily
alone in room.
f During the exhibition of Dan. Rices show
at Memphis, ON the nj ght of the 10Th ult.,
, it was proposed to show that the hide of tn e
, rhinoceros was ball proof. Capt, Travis, the
r celebrated pistol shot, then fred bullet at
the animal, viii fell fiat ened to the hocr,
, not breaking the skin, nor even causing the
, animal to Will ce when struc..
, A few days ego Mrs. Collins, an old lady
residing in Brooklyn, N. Y, while emptying
: a pail of water from third-story window,
lost her balance and fell TO the ground,
, receiving it is said, fatal injuries. Her hus-
{ band was killed about three ycars ago by a
fall from the same windsw, while emptying
a pail of water from it.
Jackson Thorpe, we'll known in Cincin-
natl, died in that city on the 25th ult He
, Was remarkable for his great corpulency,
and was probably at the period of his death
one of the feshlest men In the United States
lie attained at one tine daring his life the
great weight OF four hundred and ten poua ds,
and he has not in three years past weighed
less than three hundred pounds.
A lady who lives near Lockport, Ill.,, lost
her husband, TWO sons and brother, bv til e
Lady Elgin disaster. Five years ago she
lost three children by the cholera. Fifteen
months ago she lost a daughter. Out of
seven children she has one, and only one
child left. In penury and poverty and
pinching want she lives destitute of clothing,
almost alth checrless shelter rand heart
full of gsef,
Elton Stone, the we'll known equestrian, is
now on his brothers farm in Kansas tram
ing lot of buffaloes to the ring, intending
to ride an act of horsemanship upon one of
them. He hes ten cf them in hand, whicn
he designs driving tandem before music
wagon in procession. 1t is probable that he
will so far accomplish his purpose that he
will join some company next spring. A tan
dem team of bufaloe. in procession, driven
by Que person, will indeed be a curiosity.
i There are $4,000 tax payers in St. Louis
county arc sity. The city property is val
ued at 49,, 500, 600, ard that outside the city
at $l5,O0O,0Oo. 1t will thus be seen that
the city pays over fve-sixths Of the county
revenue. Tine largest taxpayers in the city
are Peter Iildell and James H. Lucas. MIR.
Lindell a few days ago paid taxes on his
property to the amount of $4,000. The
largest tax payers among the dry goods mer-
'hants are Messrs. Fomeroy & Benton, who
are assessed for some $350,009
The first African railroad was inaugurated
on the 25th Of June last 1t is called the Ma
tai railway and connects the colony, Durham,
| with Cane Town The whole enterprisa has