Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-04-20
New, Paragraphs.

1t is again said that the Great Eastern
will sail for New York about the LIST OF July.
We hope so, but have doubts.
Miss Helen Pike, a young lady of IL
years, while dancing at q ball in Tabsrg. n.
Y, on the evening Of the 23d ult., suddenly
fell dead on the floor.
A great Catho 10 revival is nc in progress:
at Lafayette, Ind. Father Daman, a cele-
brated Jesuit priest breaches three times q
day, to crowded auditoiies, embracing per.
sons of all sects.
The coffin containing the body IF = man
named Wertz, burr about . months since,
was opened las, ws.k, in Albany, N. Y, aud
the body was found face downwards, with
the fingers grappled in the hair.
The court house at Richland Centre, K cli
land county, Wis.,, WINS entirely destroyed
by fire en- the 10th. Most # the books and
records belonging to the county were saved.
Loss about s., 200 insurance 81 200. .
W. L Starke, ono Of the largest cotton
br okers Of New Orleans, has startled the
community with his failure cash Liabilities
stated at $400, 200. This is the largest
failure Of the kind that has occurred in New
Orleans these many years.
Negro Sam, who lat ly died.on the plan :
tation of Mr.. Biilingly, in Jones county,
Ga, is believed to have been over $40 years
old. 1t is certain that be lived about 100
years in this country, and he said he was
As years old when captured in Africa.
The New York News says that scarlet
fever is prevailing to an alarming extent in
that city and vicinity. 1t remarks that it il
a disease of the skin and mucous membrane,
: aud that when it locates or concentrates
upon the mucous membranes Of the throat
or lungs, putrescent liberation soon sue.
ceeds, which is gsserally fatal. To prevent
this concentration or location is the object
of treatment.
The great sand bar case at Chicago
involving the title to valuable accretions OF
the Lake shore north Of the pier, estimated
at half a million dollars, has resulted aftol
fourth trial in verdict for VIM. Jones
the defendant. 1t goes up again, however
to the Supreme Court. The defcndan
, represents joint sock company, that con
. templates extensive improvements in tha
sectio1
f We have already chronicled the arrival a
! New York of o freight Car, through from 81
Louis. 1t is called the 'Compromise Gaug
: Carr" it being so constructed that tn
wheels may be adjusted t., the differen
, gauges of railroad tracks The car is to b
e run through to Boston If it proves entirel..
r successful, the plan will probably be yer.
generally adopted, and prove highly advan
Q tageous to commerce.
They have queer storms down East. A
r Syracuse, N. Y, they have had a black sno'
! storm, the black snow Masking spot wher
ever it fell, like ink. At Portville, Cattara
+. gus cou ,ty, snow balls fell as large as heas
. eggs; they were soft, and fattened whe
they struck, SO that no damage was done
n The black snow storm above referred to wa
noticed at Vernon and Utica at the latte
}. place playing the mischief with whit
goods on the clothes lines.
: The Chicago Press and Tribune gives a
account of the raising of q solid block
u four story buildings in that city, comprisir
u thirteen first class stores and large doub
marble structure, by the lifting force OF 81
q thousand screws. The whole block W
raised feet inches, in FIVE days, witho
'. disturbing the internal order of the buildin
or breaking single pane of glass. III
d estimated weight of the block was $500
tons, and the expense of the job SIT 100
q Six hundred men we're employed to work Il
p screws, each man having charge Of from
to 10. The novel performance excited
r great deal of interest.