Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-09-07
News ParagraDils.

Senator Seward will address the people
at Chicago, on Tuesday, October I'd.
Bissell, the alleged bridge conspirator,
has at last been bailed in the sum of $4,000.
The number of deaths this summer from
sun stroke in the United States is estimated
to be no less than 400.
A man, named Martin, rowed himself
recently in wherry from Boston to New
York, making FIVE miles an hour during the
journey.
OF the three Washburne brothers, who
have been in Congress together, from Maine,
Wisconsin and Illinois, but one &c. B.
Washburne, of Illinois-will be candidate
for reelection.
There was Q snow storm in portions of
Yorkshire, England, on the 3lst of july,
leaving snow two inches deep on the fields.
They have had q tough summer Of it this
year in England.
A young lady of Richmond, Va, met
with singular accident last week. While
playing on the piano, she struck one of the
keys with such violence as to break her
right forefnger near the first joint.
John H. Hyde, of New York, while
descending the stair case at the Burnett
House, in Cincinnati, on the 9th uIt., fell
over the bslustrade, head foremost, to the
tiled floor below, killing him instantly.
A drover named Lathrop, or Latham, from
Hannibal, Mo-, with drove of cattle for
New York, was knocked down and killed by
the cars on the Rochester track, near Mag
ara Falls, on the evening Of the 2lst ult
There appears to be no doubt but Great
Britain will need large quantity of grain
from US this fall the British harvests are
about month later than usual, and it is
doubtful whether the finest possible weather
can bring them up to an average.
1t is in contemplation to fit out several
Lake ships at Chicago, freighted with wheat,
for Europe, early this season. By this
means the vessels can be usefully engaged
during the winter in crossing the Atlantic.
The enterprise will doubtless be proftables
Samuel Brust was executed at st, Louis
on Friday last, for the murder of Schmidt.
last March. He spoke some twenty minutes
from the scaffold, and freely confessed his
guilt, saying he rejoiced at last that he had
the end of his earthly career. Till
within few days previous be had asserted
innocence
The drought in Kansas up to last accounts
aad not been broken by seasonable rains. It
lad prevailed almost steadily for seven
nonthsl The wheat, corn and potato crops
'bout Lawrence have entirely failed. and
many of the people are leaving the Kansas
ALLEY on account of the scarcity of eatables.
It Leavenworth City, and all along the
dissouri, rains have been more abundant.
The ensus-takers find some old people in
In Coventry, James Douglas,
04 years of age; in Chaplin, Salinda Dean,
05 years in Bristol, widow Thompson,
o., who is as active as middle~aged wo-
nan; widow Oliver Frail, of Bloomfield, in
or Tooth year. In Mansfield, with pop
lation Of 1000, there are 200 persons over
0 years of age.
At Patterson, N. j., recently, q young
ian named Teneck died of consumption. IL
stated that during the six months previous
. had grown fourteen inches in hight. bv
,tual measurement. He went to the Roc.
- Locomotive Works, as IN apprentice.
lrly in the year, when he lacked somethino
five feet. At the time Of his deoease. he
ensured over six feet.
In July last there was remarkable NOR.
lily among the fish in Winnebapo Lake.
'isconsin. At Menasha, innumerable par
,les resembling bits of green grass, moss
weed, had collected on the surface, and
here the water became agitsted foam as
soapsods was made, emitting very dis
ssseable odor. In two or three weeks.
nall fish, tadpoles, lizards and crabs rose
the surface, in perpendicular position.
.sang for life, and rolling over on their
oes, lied. Afterwards the larger fish began
dle: At the outlet Of the lake tho shore
I nall auile was lined with them, and IL
estamsteo that over thousand wagon
sds might nae been gathered up.