Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-01-20
NeWs Paragraphs.

The month of December, 1859, is regard
ed as one..of the coolest DEFENDERS on record.
Small pox was raging epidemically at last
accounts in Paris. A lovely countess has
died Of the disease. / IL
Gen. blanche, Who fought at the battle of
New Orleans, died in that city on the I'd
inst, aged IS years.
The Legislature of Georgia have passed a
law prohibiting manumission Of slaves by
their masters, after death.
Mr.. Longworth, of Cincinnati, has sent to
Mr.. Sherman, the Republican candidate for
Speaker, a present Of 200 bottles of his
famous Catawba wine.
Alfred Tennyson has been paid Flo line
for q poem, which is announced for the
January number If McMillan's Magazine. 1t
is entitled "Sea Dreams: An ldyl."
A son of Hon. Lewis '. Campbell, of Ohio,
aged about "a years, was run over at Ham
ilton, Ohio, on the 9Th, by heavy freight
train, and was instantly killed.
Most of the Washington city banks, hold
ing hypothecations of Post office scrip, for
advances, have agreed to carry them until a
Speaker il elected.
dmO0g SOth0 CuTlUSltlcS SOIb AloAA Auuio
to the Methodist Mission rooms in New York,
by DR.. Butler, is the veritable god worship
ped by Nena Sahb, the great rebel leader.
The Vernon Qnd) Banner, says that some
wag Of that place lately sent to Gov. Wise
tin sword and gun, as token of admira-
ton of his military talents.
Senator Mason appeared in his seat on
Wednesday, clad in Virginia homespun,
while Southern member of the other House
sported- Q suit of 'direct Importation" -
Micheal S. Cerre, Sheriff Of St. Louis
county, Mo-, died in st. Louis on Thursday.
Mr.. Cerre was member of one of the old
ly esteemed for his many excellent qualities.
The Ey-P Postmaster of Detroit has been
arrested, charged with embezzling some six
thousand dollars. He claims, however,
that the money rightfuily belongs to him.
This remains to DO seen.
The Morse telegraph patent expires in
1861, and will then be free to the public.
It will cause considerable extension of tele-
graph lines, and will give rise to good
deal of competition. ar'
In the village Of South Wilbraham, Mass /,
q spring. 1fUu WhlCu oCVcEoA "SAS
supplied with water, was cleaned out, lately,
and in the bottom were found hundred and
seventy-6ve frogs and half dozen snakes.
at WATERFOWL, New York, there is a
mandatory of chewing gum, where, within
the last six months, has been manufactured
and sold over twenty-five thousand boxes of
gum, each box containing two hundred sticks
or rolls. -r,se p sH-re35rs.-r. a+ ny
The December Criminal Court Of North.
ampton, Mass, adjourned, recently-not a
Jingle case appearing on the docket for trial.
A similar occurrence had not happened there
in % years. The people hope it may be
oftener experienced, s-A-AA~ As&-~sSsi.
Andrew Hunter, the district attorney who
tried old Brown and his associates, informs
George Sennott Of Boston, counsel for the
defence, that the trial Of Aaron D. Stevens
will occur at Charlestown some time this
month before the Virginia Circuit Court.1
!. The property belonging to the American
Express Company was sold at auction In
New York, on Saturday, for 5000, 900, and
was purchased for Henry Wells, John But.
terfeld, W. G. Fargo, Johnston Livingston,
Alexander Holland, and their associates or
ganized as the new American Express Com
pany, who will conduct the express BUSH
hess over the line heretofore occupied BY the
old company. :...,J ss1 o., er.tr .5 ,c