Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-03-09
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There aro now hine Republican news
papers published in Missouri.
There are twenty banks now winding up
in Wisconsin.
The young man in Buffalo who had vitriol
thrown in his eyes BY young woman whom
he had Tilted, has become hopelessly b ind
The Dayton Empire is informed by fruit
growers in that part o: Ohio that the peach
crop has been entirely Destroyed.
Major Gaines, Paymaster of the U. S.
Army, died at Fort Smith, on the 18th ut. :,
from being thrown from buggy eight
weeks previously.
The project of forming new State ont of
petitions OF west Tennessee, southern Ken
lucky and northern Mississippi, has been
carried in the lie .nessec Legislature.
Richard Stanhore, who resides in the
vicinity of Urbsna, is probably the oldest
inhabi ant of Ohio. He was liz years Of
age on the lst inst. So says the Urbana
Citizen.
The banking capital of the United States
in New York city and State. The specie
held is SS9 900 200, of which $22,Oo5,OOO
is held by New York. .-..-
A three.y ears exemption bill-exempting
property from execution for that length of
tlme-de gned rs relief m asure to poor
settlers, has PASSED both hous of the Min
nesota Legislature. r. ...-. .aa..
A man diel in enc; matt recently from
the effect of wounds received while fighting
cats. One of the animals sl,rang fercely
upon his face and inflicted several very
serious wounds, which resulted fatally. H
The Kentucky State Senare has appropri-
atcu So 900 toward The erection of monu
ment at the capital of the State to the
IN m"ry Ct Daniel Boone, the pioneer and
first settler in Kentucky.
The supervisors of san Francisco offer TO
give u square of ground, wortn $3.50, 900,
may be removed to that city from Sacra-
much agituted throughout California
The Dayton co., Journal publish the
marriage Of Mr.. stephen s. Doggett to Mis-
Emma L. Harris, both of that ely. The
ceremony took place on Saturday, 18th ut,
at 0 o. c OK Am. In the same paper appears
tho notice of Mr.. Dogget's death On the
day of his nuptials, at half past IL o'cl, ok,
P. NJ. The deceased was in his 2lst year.
The Lynchburg Virgimian is now printed
by water power. A small water wheel,
using only an inch stresm of water, drives
the press, at almost any rate of speed
requi1 ed. the water is conveyed by small
pipe from the reservoir. and the whole
being inca ed in a wooden box SO as to
prove any splash, the waste water is
carried # in the sewer in the street.
Col. Forbes, the Enplishman whose dis
closures of the John Brnwn plot promised
so much and amounted to SO little, has gone
to England. The Democrats not having
valued his services any higher than the
Aboiitionists, he thought it best to 90 home
and look after the wife and children whose
he wrought up so pathe,ically in
his letters. ....osfar, r-t-..-. .s..,, I
!. Tie first convictio ever obtained in Ohio,
Under that pr"visio" Of the liquor law which
makes the seller If liquor liable for DANA
ges committed by an Intoxicated person,
was procured last week at Urbana. The
wife Of Reed Brush, an habi' ual drunkard,
verdict of $4,000 against the
um seller for The loss of her foot, which
her husband chopped ogofq in "a drunken
frenzy. The court sustained the verdict. geI