Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-11-30
VOL. XH--NO. 90,
News paragrnn,,.

II 3as4: sFarasrnpIas. ra,.s
s.rfI ahs mobiles Of Russia still own 81 oooooo
Tresllent Buchanan has donated e1oo c..
'ne suffering people of Kansas IVA
/ dickens has produced thirty weight sue.
'essi'e WORKS In twenty FIVE years.
4 MI Hobbs, the celebrated lock nicko-
uas arrived IN Boston from Europe. isF - :
| be dogs killed in Philadelph;a dp,;,c
iast summer numbered 1859,
biondln danced polka on stills at ~, ex
holfon IN Philadelphia the other night.
| The average fneness of cold now otrs,;nu
| bar. ess- S' ~ 'A1e
1t has got into the papers that John NoI
rissey, the Prize iii. ter, won $8, 900 on LiA
coins election.
A breach-loading revolver to fire sixteea
times has been invented by Dr. Butler. Of
Marietta, Georgia. aa9 :.
/. W man and her five children were
found at Topeka, X. T., on the 14th ult..
lead from starvation, e. 7
The Galena d Chicago r, R. has de.
;lared a dividend of 5 per cent, payahIe in
New York january 1st.
The sum of ST was contributed at the
POLLS IN Hagerstown, Md, for the Ladies
Nou Vernon AS. citation. .. .t..
Slaves at the South have deprecated in
priee from TIVE ty to thirty ger cent. since
he secession cry was raised.
U the 5000 ople now resi- lents Of Dam
Ter City, K Il, less than eOo are females
ami less than 200 children.
Rarey, the horse-t4mer. has accommodated
10 less than $4,000 by his exhibitions and
schools in Europe d.. - - -
The United Presbytery of Michigan
las resolved t,lat it is wrong to solemGize
marriages on the Sabbath.
The vote Of Sicily on the GU st;on or
annexation to Sardinia stood 43,2o4 syr an
nexation, and only 667 against. n,E
A glutton at Oyster Point, Conn ate
oushel ef oysters, last week, as fast as al.
expert negro could open them.
A Mr.. Lieber, his wife, and six of their
children, recectly died in Lebanon Co., Pc
Of the typhoid fever. f'
North Elba, N. Y, where are the re,
mains OF John Brown, voted for Gerris
smith for President; Lincoln didn't get
out one or two.
Sehoenwold, vino was to haye been exc
'uted IN St Louis on the Doth inst, for
murder, has been respited by the Governor
or period of thirty days. = pa
At the last term Of the court at Haynes-
'llle, Alabama, one Randull Cheek was
ICED one thousand dollars for not feedjnr
lis negroes well.
a last youth who had faster mistress,
'ecentiy swlndled his employers, Boyd
Brothers q Co, a Baltimore dry goods house.
9ut Of $1,000 OF S. 900.
By the breaking of a large shaft in the
Mill of Messrs. Steere d Tinkham, at Buril!-
'ille, II. l., on the Goth inst, two workmen
9Sr their ives.
Jacob Miller, aged 81, living at Cassyille,
"a, has been successful hunter. He has
iiied 81 bears, from so to 60 wolves, and
ieer and smaller game beyond calculation.
A man refused $S 1000 in 1857 for lot in
chicago, borrowed $50, ,0J0 and with $4,000
+ his own money built on it the lot and
building are not worth the borrowed money
aow.
DR.. Livingstone, the Africana trveler. has
been heard of. lie was safe and well up to
ast May, and reported that the natives of
Afri:a evlnce less hostility to travellers than
formerly.
Two Germans, of Detroit, drank lager
bier on wager the other day. One drank.
aighty-four glasses and tae other ninety
i!lree and at the conclusion of the feat
Doth were sober.
The State Temperance Union Of Illinois
is to meet i'll Chicago December 9th Hon.
Neal Dow, of Maine, is to lecture or
Wednesday evening of that week, AID John
Cough on Thursday evening
1t is said that Mrs Lincoln will take witt.
her to the White House her sister, Mrs.
Miriam Edwards, of >prin6eld, I'll an edn-
Gated and accomplished lady, and good
looking neice about eighteen years old.
The great Southern Commercial Conyeu-
zion, wnic! adjourned at Vicksburg, Miss,
on the 18th of MAY, 1859, to meet at At
lanta, Ga on Monday, NOV. 18th, has finally
given up the ghost, Not delegate was in
attendance.
Two brakemen Of the New York Central
Railroad were killed last week while on the
top of the cars one by falling of, the other
by being knocked off also woman was
run over anu killed at Little Falls, and
man at Armenia
1t is reported that the Prince of
Wales said 20 a fair partner at the bali in
st Louis Miss, don't you think nv nous
raehes are becoming ?" To which Miss re.
piled swell sir they may be comiaq, but
they haven't yet arrived"
Mr. Homer D. Hotchkiss, n resident cf
Ashtabula, Ohio aged "a years, wa kinad
by the Kiowa Indians some $50 mules west
OF the Missouri river on the 23i of July last,
while engaged in laying out road from
Leavenworth to the gold regions
A Mrs. Morgan, of East Bridgeport, Conn,
died suddenly on a recent Sunday evenir. 4.
She was singing, and suddenly stopped au3
said How my heart beatsl' She aros from
her chair to 60 across the room, AMI fal.ine
upon the floor Immediately expired.
A young dog, alive and kicking, was
PICKED up at sea, on the 9th of September,
in lat. lO0 l5\ n, lon. 24o 23> by the
British ship Augusta jessie, which arrived
on the 18th ult, at Quee" stown from Cochin.
No other vessel wa. in sight at the time.
John Bennett, livery man, and Jacob
Bretheker, baker, Of Lyons, N Y, returning
IA few nights since in buggy, from Newark
undertook to drive part of the way on the
tow path of the canal, aud being upset IL
water both were drowned horse and all,
One Of the editors of the Atlas, at Platte
City, Mo-, says he has singing mouse, which
gives nightly Entertainments, by sort oc
| singing, war ling or whistlisg noise resem-
bling the -ong of a canary bird. The music
is very curious, and the mouse quite gentle
and tame.
| A Mr.. Hoover has returned to Indiana
from Texas, where he had resided for some
years, and owns 800 acres of land, and has
published letter stating that he WIS obliged
ohy to escape death at the hands of the
/ ''regula ors y His offence was that he allow
ed tie Rey. Mr.. Bcwley to preach in his
house. = '"7~ >".1 '3
! James Elder, residing near Chester, ILL.,