Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-11-16
News Paragraphs.
The arrests in St. Louis last month wert

| President Buchanan refuses to accept any
pay for his contributions TO the Ledger.
Gen. Clark who died in San Francisco ,on
the 18th ult, had been in the army forty eight +
years.
1t is said that Col. Rudler, the fillibnster,
is loaded with chains and imprisoned in q
mine in Honduras, $50 feet under ground.
Samuel Mclean was burned to death, with |
his wife and grandchild, atCape Negro, Hal
ifax, N. 5, few days ago. ee i
In East Flamboro, G. w., man named 4
James Black deliberately set down on a pile Of |
burning brush and roasted himself to death.
1t is estimated that during the recent
Presidential canvass, between six and seven
millions of political documents were sent out
from Washington.
1t is stated that the Chinese rebels have
lately destroyed several Roman Catholic
chapels, on the ground that it was an ido!a-
trous worship.
i Upwards of SO..coored residents of Penn
sylvania have applied to the colonization So
lciety of that State, as emigrants to Liberia,
and have been accepted
The murderer, Ezra Brainard, convicted
Of killing his mother, was hung at Three
Rivers, Canada, on the 18th ult He made
an impenitent end.
The first railroad in Turkey, thirty miles
in length, will shortly be opened from Smyr-
ma to Turbal 1t is built by company of
Englshmen.
Bierly, convicted of forging election re-
turns in Philadelphia has been sentenced
: to two and a half years imprisonment and
r three hundred dollars fine,
One Of the California Pony Express riders
Q lately rode two hundred and twenty-five
miles In twenty-four hours. Forty miles is
the usual distance for one rider.
a company has been formed for
r the purpose of pearl fishing in the Gulf of
}. California. At the lower end of The bay
6 pearls of great value are found in the shall
low beds.
:, They have mountain in Oregon which
v the settlers believe to DE a mass of silver
$ and worth at a low calcuistion $l,O56 500
(, 100000 Claims arc one hundred feet front,
and run to the top of the mountain.
Famine is threatels.l in New Foundland in
- consequence of the almost total failure of the
~ fishery AMI the potatoc crop. The Legisla-
y, ture Is to convene on the Sd PROF.. to devise
Z means to arrest the threatened calamity
Ralph Farnham is not the Oldest Revou-
nonary veteran remaining. Nathan Dean.
OF Georgia, who was soldier in ITO and
fought through the war, is still alive in his
one hundred and tenth year. go
III small alligator about two feet long was
}; caught in the Passaic river, at Acquackan-
y Ouk, New Jersey, last week. 1t is supposed
Q to have been brought there in load OF
y reeds from the South recently landed in
e that vicinity.
H. In Scion, n. H., the putrid sore throat is
Id fatally prevalent and in Lewiston, Me-,
ST the typhoid fever has assumed the form of
I'd an epidemic, and RACES with great fearfulness.
Id The year 1860 will be noted for the severity
IN of various diseases
ia Archbishop Dixon has LETT Ireland for
n. Rome. The only circumstance that renders
IN this fact worth recording is that it was this
10 prelate who said to Louis Napoleon, "Rob.
Id Der, take your hand from the throat af the
It. Vicar Of Christ
~ A squirrel hunt took place in Lacons, N
ii. last week, the parties being under the
command of Capt. A. L. Morrison andC W.
Darrell. The latter won-the game of his
ne party counting 2l,S75; that of Morrison
in party 1880, difference, $685..
& Count Cayour, the Sard MAN minister OF
=, State, has assured the Israeltish Alliance
u that his government will do everything in
H. its power to restore young Mortara, who is
IN still held in Catholic convent, to his par
Of ents.
n. The tenmile race over the Cincinnati
II Trotting Park, on Saturday between Capt
Mcgowan and Gypsy Queen, was won by the
horse in the unprecedented time of 2S115
y 1t is expected that there will be another con
sr test between them in a few days.
,g Rev. Horace Bushnell, the widely known
clergyman of Hartford, c., has been for
some time threatened with CONSUMPTION -
81 He tried the climate of Cuba and California
at without relief. For the last year he has be en-
in breathing the air of Minnesota aud is now
T. reported cnred.
g 4 young man employed in the -four mill
- at Seneca Hill, near Oswego, N Y, was
ID caught between two immense COG wheels,
3. one day last week, and drawn through, be,
: ing killed of course indeed his mashed BODY
! bad to be picked out of the machinery a shape
w. ess ami crumbled mass
)" The excitement in relation to the newly
u discovered silver mines in Oregon, on the
Is head waters Of the Molaiia, continues una
,e bated. The amount of silver said to be
. there, is almost fabulous. D. P. Thomp-
SOD, Esq who has been there and returned
'e to Oregon City, thinks there is much more
'e there than in the Santana mines.
is While Blondn was performing Oh stills at
is Troy, n, u, last week. he attempted to turn
: summersault, but the crotch that sustained
:. the rope suddenly gave way, and he fell
II among the seats aud people below lie
d was considerably hur; i.y the fall, and one of
1t his arms appears to be partially paralyzed
y by contact with the hard substance Of the
back of u seat
The w>men ct the town of Canton, Ohio
= vexed at the drunkenness that has prevailed
/ there, made descent last week upon q rum
shop and spilled all the liquors upon the
, ground. They then walked across the street
and notified the keeper of another groggery
that he Lad ten days wherein to yclinquish
the business. under penalty of similar
. treatment.
), &. W. Mckay, son Of Donald Mckay, a
prominent shipbuilder OF Boston, has been
; arrested tor q highway robbery, Jointly with
, Two hard characters the victim being a
money broker named o. H. Downing, and
the sum 900. One Of the accom- plces.
: under the pretense Of desiring to borrow the
sum, iured Downing into the outskirts of the
city, where Mckay and the other associate
rushed upon him and robbed him.
throughout Missouri. the total failure of
the Gees to swarm during the summer Just
past, attracts considerable attention, and ex-
cites some considerable speculation In some
localities, farmers who hayea hundred stands
and who watch closely the movements of the
bees, report that although the little insects
have worked all through the summer with
; their accustomed industry, and have multi
piled largely, not single swarm has been
observed.
A German woman died of hydrophobia,
in the Becky aims house, Philadel phia, a