Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-11-09

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The population of Ohio in 1850 was $780,
329 in 1850 2, 555, ls7 increase 575, 1858.
There are nearly six times as many jour-
nails in the United States as in Great Britain.
There was frost in Houston, Texas, on
the 18th ult., heavier than ever was seen be-
fore the middle of November.
Philadelphia has the credit of supporting
the only regular Infidel organization in
America. It is called the Sunday Institute"
Mr.. Tappan, an elderly gentleman, fell
down in Milk street, Boston, on the Goth ult.,
by treading on hoop skirt and broke his
arm.
Hog cholera is prevailing in some parts
of Indiana. Forty five hogs died in Holla-
birds distillery At Lafayette, in two days
last week.
The work of finding bodies of the dead Of the
Lady Elgin disaster still continues. Fifteen
were found last week, making total of
about 230.
Out of one hundred and thirteen deaths
reported to have taken place in st. Louis,
week before last, twenty are attributed to
diptheria.
The Prince of Wales does not conduct his
partner to seat after dance, but bows to
is supposed to lie royal dignity.
New Hampshire people seem to be long
livers. Since the last census, 81 persons
have died centenarians lived beyond 10;
died at lis and lived l16 years.
A young man named Peleg G. Thomas
late freight agent of the New York Central
Railroad, at Herkimer, is a defaulter to the
amount Of 81, 800, and has been arrested.
Frances H., ex-King of Naples, command
ed in person at the battle of Volturno. He
dressed in plain clothes, and was continually
seen under fire, exhibiting great and unex-
pected bravery. .-
Peter Ball, merchant, of Lafayette, Ind,
was instantly killed on the LIST inst, while
attempting to get on the train at Francis
vile. He slipped and fell between the cars,
which passed over him.
A printer named Geo. N. Stafford was "a
tally stabbed, at New Haven, c., on the lst
by q student named Belden, who, with two
companions engaged in the ARRAY, is under
arrest.
Albert Clark, respectable citizen of Her
nando county, Florida, was brutally MUIR
dered by one of his negroes on the 9Th inst
The culprit was executed on the 18th inst
Letters from Quebec say great excite
ment has just sprung up in that city in con-
sequence of the discovery of valuable gold
diggings on the Chandler river, near at
hand.
VIM. R. May, of Pomfret, Connect cut
picked forty bushels of apples from one tree,
and having made calculation of the num-
Der of apples in 5ushel found that the
tree bore 10000.
The late earthquake in Canada was
sufficiently powerful to knock down stoves
and even dishes from the shelves of some
of the houses, The noise made by it was
like that OF distant thunder.
The walls for the Asylum for Inebriates,
at Binghampton, New York, are about half
completed, and the work is proceeding rap
idly, There are nearly 1000 applicants for
admission, mainly of the better classes.
A brute of q husband in New Orleans,
John Callaghan, was whipping his wife, few
days ago, when Stephen Van Weiley inter-
fered Callaghan turned upon him with q
large knife, but was stabbed in the breast
by Van Weiley and died.
Two individuals from Alabama recently
fought bayonet duel in New Orleans. Al.
ter few passes one thrust his weapon into
the left shoulder of the other, and lifted him
from the ground as farmer lifts fork full
of hay. This put an end to the affair
In the eighty nine days that interviewed
between the Prince Of Wales landing at
st. Johns and his departure from Portland,
he travelled 5,l34 miles, going as far west as
St. Louis, south to Richmond, and north to
Ottawa.
Mrs Sickles, the wife of the Hon. Daniel
icG1 ho ~
tirement since tho reconciliation between
her husband and herself, a few days ago
presented Mr.. Sickles with pledge of that
reconciliation.
Mayor Wood asks the New York Common
Council for 81, 402 to pay for a part of, the
Prince of Wales' reception, but as the
Aldermen and Councilmen we're pretty fatty
snubbed and wholly ignored in the honors,
they show little disposition to pay the bills.
Three lads, brothers, named Schwartzer,
residing in Cincinnati, went out on the Ohio
river not long since in skiff, and nothing
was heard of them fer several days, till the
bodies of two were found at the foot of Main
street. The lads were the only support of an
aged mother.
The Fort Scott Democrat of Oct. ~, con-
firms the report of the burning of "a dwell
lings on the Cherokee neutral lands, by or
der of the Indian agent, Cowan. Much
indignation is felt in Southern Kansas at the
severity of the measures taken by the au-
thorities.
A woman died at Aurora, Indiana, re-
Gently, after living six days with her neck
broken at the fifth cervical vertebra. The
head alone retained its vitality during this
time, and tho body being paralyzed she did
not suffer greatly, complaining only of feel
ing as if broad iron band was compressed
tightly around her chest.
A narrow iron girder bridge, over the
canal at Manchester, England, recently fell
with $50 girls upon it, who were looking at
some public show. Swapping the stone
from the piers on each side. the bridge fell
without turning over, the center only break
ing after it had reached the bottom Only
one life was lost.
Herbert Ingram's funeral in Eng land was
attended by eighteen thousand PERSONS
Mr.. Ingram, it will be remembered, was the
proprietor OF the London Illustrated News,
and was one Of the victims Of the Lady El-
gin disaster. His remains were carried to
England, and the funeral service took place
at Boston, where he had resided.
During the Douglas demonstration at
Memphis, Colonel Mosely, of Huntsville, was
robbed of 81 300 an Arkansas gentleman
Of So, 900 !; another of 81 900 two others Of
$500 each ; another of $40; another of $40;
and another of eight. None of the money
was recovered. They must have sharp
police in Memphis,
According to the late census, the popula-
lion of Charleston, South Carolina, is 4s, S4e.
Of this Number %, 427 are whites, an increase
If 3,3l5 during the last ten years. Of the
blacks, 1906 are slaves, decrease of 1874.
The Courier says the decrease of the slaves
is to be ascribsd to the high prices they now
many of them having been sold to
70 out of the city.
During the rejoicings in Canada in honor
If the Prince of Wales, five men were killed