Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-01-13
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! At Toronto, Canada, hay is selling a
$50, and straw at S "A per ton. .7..
In Falmouth, Mass, $4,000 bushels O.
onions were raised the past season.
~ A monument to j. Fennimor. Cooper is t.
be erected o. Cooperston, Ny, ;, at d cost o
$4,000. ..,.. y.
In Schenectady the ladies give parties
lasting through the evening, to which none
of the male sex are invited.
The Legislature of Georgia have passed .
law prohibiting manunission of slaves by
their masters after death.
1t is stated upon the best authority that in
the first ten months Of the past year, iron t.
the value of elO,7S5, ,684 was exported from
the United Kingdom. .- -
The New Y0rkers have way of observing
Sunday all their own. On Sunday last there
We're 5000 persons, includi g 1000 women,
skating on the Central Park.
New Orleans, just now, is very gay
Money plenty health never better; hotels
overaowing with visitors. Two operas and
several theatres are in full blast.
Jas. A. Grinstead of Lexington, has sold
a yearling colt, by the stallion Lexington,
ont of PIcayune, for the sum Of 50 500 to
the Hon. John S. Hunter, of Alabama.
The sale of 'sIlelper's Crisis" has reached
the number of 1000 copies, and the graf
uitous distribution of $4,000 more. 1t is
believed that it will reach the full circula
ton of half q million.
A resolution api ropriating $4,000 to the
erection OF a monument to The memory o.
Ool Thos. II. Benton, passed the Senate of
the Missouri Legis ature, by an unanimou,
vote, on tuesday, last. ..
The delegates to the Charleston Cenven
ton were appointed by the Mississippi
Democracy on the 10Th ult, and were
instructed to support Jefferson Davis for tile
Presidential nomination.
Longwood, on the island of St.. Helena,
where Napoleon died, now belongs to the
French. The present Emperor has recently
ordered 1913 900 to be expended in repairing
the house and tomb.
1t is said that the cost Of the coal oil
recently discovered in Pennsylvania will be
brought so low that it will be- used a. fuel
on ocean steam rs Its use would effect
great saving Of room for freight.
The king of Denmark has presented to the
New York Stat. Library copy of L psus'
work on Egyptian and Ethiopian Antiquities,
taken from the Royal Library at Copenha
gen. Hon. J. V. L. Prnyn, Chairman of the
Library Committee, has made an appropr-
ate acknowledgment.
Mr.. Thomas w. Parmlee, of West Bloom
field, Ontario county, N. Y, has bequeathe,'
real estate comprising i5O acres and valued
ut S., 900, to the Cnnnecticut School fund
His reason for doing this is, that the state
loaned him money when he Was poor, thus
giving him a start in lite.
Hon. NJ s. Wilkinson, the new U. S.
Senator from Minnesota, will be a promi-
nent man in Congress. He stands feet 6
inches in h!S stockings 1t is needless TO
state that Mr.. Wi kinson, who will stand
thus, head and saou ders above his fellow
Senators, is the ''tallest kind" Of Repub-
lican.
There is touch Of the fanatic in Cortinas,
the rufhan leader in Texas. In his address
to tho Mexican residents of Texas, he
declares that they have been robbed and
outraged by the Americans, and that lie has
been divineiy commissioned to deliver them.
He says he trusts in God to give him a
strong arm to fight or to offer himself as a
sacrifice for the hap ine+s of his brethren.