Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-03-02

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, n A horse thief named John Guthrie wa
hung by the people of Linn county, Mo
. last week. 'y = s@a I'D '#a. -.- ',i q
The Cuban government is getting up
regiment OF Zouaves at Havana, for Il
defense of the Island. 5aa1
Thaokery, according to a rumor aAoat
London, contemplates o continuation
Macaulay's History Of England. 90 '.---
1T has been decided that women are 81
titled to vote at the election of schot
trustees, in Upper Canada, tif taxed. 5eoza
:Capt. Harrison, who was drowned 4
southampton, England, crossed the Atlanti
safely one hundred and eighty times. ,,.,
"A girl named Lee, bat IA years of, acc
deliberately shot herself dead, at Hamilton
@. w., because young man whom she love
had removed to Detroit. ria,p fm3l
The wife of Elisha Holmes, of Hslmdel
N. Y, scratched one of her thumbs with
pin, recently, and died with the lockiay
from it in less than forty-eight hours.
In drove Of cattle fattened at W oodbury
Conn.,, and destined for the New York mar
ket, are some enormously fat ones - twt
yoke weighing upwards Of 10000 pounds.
Richard Realf, late "Secret ary of State'
of John Browns Provisional Government,
is lecturing in Cleveland, on ssPoets and
Poetry"
The Peak Family of ell-Ringers are en-
route for Pixies Peak, where they intend to
spend the Summer. The poet says sssweets
to the sweet" and we say Peaks to the
Peak.
The commissioners to locate the new State
penitentiary of Ohio, for which million Of
dollars has been appropriated, have decided
in favor Of Milford Centre, village of 700
inhabitants, some 20 miles west of Columbus.
The Legislature of Missouri, at its present
session, granted charter to the Platte CITY
and Desmoines Railroad, to commence at
some point in Platte county, Mo-, and run
in direct line to the capital of Iowa.
The Governor General of eastern Siberia
has reported that the Kirghizes of Siberia,
sympathizing with the designs of the Czar
Of Russia, fer the abolition of serfdom,
have unanimously expressed determination
to emancipate their slaves.
'Spalding's Prepared Glue conserv-
ative preparation. The enterg, .ng propri-
etors have forwarded bottle o I to each
of the members of Congress, Will letter
praying them to stick together. A very good
advertising dodge.
The Siamese twins are still living in
Surrey county, North Carolina. At late
revival the wife Of Chang VIA baptized.
Chang and Eng seemed to be much concern
ed for themselves, and requested an inter est
in the prayers Of the minister.
The undertakers who have charge of t'.e
New York Bay Cemetery, few mile from
Jersey City, are found to have been in the
habit, this winter, of stealing the good cof-
fins from the vaults and burying the bodies
in cheap pine boxes. The collins are then
taken back to the warerooms to be sold
again. The charge seems to be well sub.
stantiatsd. -l
Travis, the man of eleven wives, is now
in custody in ,Janesville, Wis. The editor
of paper there saw the amorous individu-
al, and, instead of the handsome, gentle-
manly rascal thath expected to see, he says
he beheld a half-witted, insignificant spoony,
whom he should suppose would have great
difficulty in persuading even one woman to
marry him.
Stephens and Hazlett the last victims of
the John Brown raid, are kept in the closest
confinement at Charlestown, Va, where
they will be hanged on the 10th of March.
Stephens says he feels more cheerful and
resigned than he ever expected to be, and
the other day that the conscious
ness Of suffering in a good cause is sufficient
Hazlett is very low in spirits,
and declares be would infinitely prefer the
wilds Of Kansas to his present position.