Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-11-02
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The proceeds of the ST. Louis Fair in clea
! gain, amounted to 81, 900. g.5 tn,. "a
The mother of Hon John Hickman die,
i at tiWestchester, Pa, Oct. 24th. ,.. ..s.,-.,.,
' Potatoes are selling in Lawrence, Kansas
at from 81 to 81 ,25 per bushel. -
The sponge business at Key West ha
yielded $4,000 the past year.
-Four persons have been fined in Hartford
, VT, TOR hunting on Sunday. ID a.1a..s
I A radish, weighing eighteen pounds, hal
been exhibitedin Hartford, Conn. Err
), John Billing has been postmaster at Tren
ton, Oneida county, N. Y, since 1906.
John G. Heenan was fined 5000 in Buffalo
the other day for his fight with Morrissey
u The Jamaica people are discussing the
u policy of annexing that colony to the United
Statss. -!a.'ii 10 a5s- ag ....al Ha.
Gerrit Smith is said to be dividing prop
-erty to the value of 100000 among five
relatives. .,..
The population of England is about 27,,
600, 900, of whom 49, 900 are proprietors OF
the soil. 'I gg
Andrew Cannon, sixty years old, fell from
load OF hay, at Delhi, N. Y, recently, and
broke his neck. -. t....
: Reliable statistics show that 10000 out
of 100000 people in New York City 20 to
church on Sunday
+ The venerable Peter Cartwright is the
presiding elder of the Jacksonville district,
Illinois conference. -aa
For the week ending October 18th, more
than 81, 100000 of gold was received at st.
Joseph from Denver City
Over two thousand bushels of whortleber-
rles have been gathered and sold at Michi-.
gan City, Ia, this season.
A well dressed stranger attempted to jump
from one steamboat to another, at st. Louis
on the 23d, and was drowned.
Reuben G. Vincent killed his brother Oct.
18th, near Maysville. Ala, by shooting him
several times with a revolver.
There is now a continuous chain Of rail
roads from Bangor, Maine, to New Orleans,
composed of Is different roads.
Rev. L. Starr King writes that there is
no timber IN the whole State of California
hard enough to make an axzhandle.
According to the recent census, Rock Is
lane land county LII. contains population of21,
O|O, an increase in ten years of l4070.
Metal finger nails to protect the fingers
from soreness incident to corn-husking, are
among the last Inventions chronicled.
Secretary Thompson has deferred the
land sales in Minnesota, for one year. He
was memoralized to this effect by the people.
1t appears from statistics recently publish
ed that the consumption of coffee is increas-
ing much more rapidly than the production.
There are in New York City 14,3S7 mem
bers Of the Presbyterian, 1O,036 members of |
the Methodist, and 9,427 of the Baptist
Church.
Presley Buckmaster, recently an inmate
of the Ohio Penitentiary for ravishing his
has been returned there fer muir
dering his wife.
Ferdinand McCaskill, convicted of the
murder of George Young, at the Pensacola
Navy Yard, was executed on the 18th inst,
at Pensacola, Florida.
Gen. Harding, a wealthy gentleman, re-
siding near Nashville, Tenn, has park of
800 acres, in which are 800 deer 80 buffa.
lees, and herd of elk.
The first live hippopotsmus ever brought
to the United States arrived at New York
ast week. 1t is to be exhibited in Spalding
y Rogers museum at New Orleans.
An overseer, named Jean Beethier, killed
three ofh his employers slaves out of a feel
Baton Rouge, La, one day last week, and
then fled the State.
The reform party have elected their May
Dr. in Baltimore by q large majority, and a
arge portion Of the American party are
going over to the Republicans It's thought
hat Lincoln's vote will exceed that of Doug
as at Baltimore.
James Murtough inhumanly butchered a
little girl, eight years of age, and attempted
% murder two other females, at Erie, Pa, a
lew days ago, because they refused to give
1im liquor. The entire flesh and muscle of
he little girls neck was cut to the bone,
md she died instantly. Murtough is in
all
Conrad Baker stabbed DR.. Bachman, at
Rock Grove, near Freeport, ILL.,, Oct. 10th,
and was lodged in Jail. He committed su-
eide on the night Of the 18th by hanging
himself with one of the sheets. 1t is thought
nat Bachman will not recover. The affair
originated from the Doctor being caught in
fagrante dezicto with widow whom Baker
1ad been living with illicitly.
The hulk of the wrecked steamer Lady
Elgin still rides at her anchor opposite WI
aetka, on Lake Michigan, directly in the
rack of passing vessels, and another catas-
;rophe is feared unless there is an early
removal of the wreck. for which nobody
seems responsible. During gale last Sunday
week passing steamer saw two moro bod
lies floating but could not recover them
The bodies of VIM Garthe, of Kentucky, and
Ms daughter Amanda, have been recovered
and identified and reward of $4,000 is
now offered for the recovery of the bodies of
his wife and daughter Anna.