Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-12-14

Shook got Into dispute at game OF cards,
at Keokuk, on Thursday last, when the lat
ter drew knife aud stabbed Harris In the
|jngular vein, causing his death almost imms
diately. Shook has fed, and no means have
teeL taken to secure the murderer.
FlRs The dwelling house of MI. E. L.
shircl:G Postmaster at Scion, Johnson coun.
~, was entirely destroyed by fire on the eve
ming of Thanksgiving day the 29th ult, to-
gether with its contents. Loss about one
thousand Il liars. The fire is supposed to
have originated from an ash pan, which was
placed by Mr.. Shircliff's little girl near the
smoke house on the premises.
/ News Paragraphs.
Pennsylvania has population Of 2, 9l3,041,
being an increase of COL $3.50 in ten years.
The population of illinois is l,7l7,4s6,
being an increase of s72, $50 in ten years
The number of deaths in New York during
five weeks ending Dec. lst was l,S39-an
average of more than fifty two each day.
A child, belonging to family named
Murphy, persisted BY the burning Of q
residence at Adrian, Mich, last week.
! A Republican paper, called the National
Republican, has been issued at Washington.
MIR. CoQmbs, late of Ohio, is the editor
John Bell, of Tennessee, has authorized q
denial Of the statement that he had been
rendered place in Mr.. Lincoln's Cabinet
Samuel Thornbury Yves arrested in Knox
! 1os< tla sc
Mike Gormley, at Hillsboro, O., in October,
1858.
George Raymond and his wife committed
suicide near Denver City, Kansas Territory,
recently, from disappointment in their ex-
pectations of the West
On the 18th ult., two fve-story buildings
were destroyed by fire in Warren street.
New York, involving q loss Of 100000
One Of of the fremen was killed
The Prince of Wales has resumed his col
iegiate studies at Oxford, after spending only
about week ut home after his return from
his American tour.
Montgomery county, Ala, contains Il, 1903
| freeman and % 1852 slaves, the number of the
latter being almost double that of the tree
| men.
The hog cholera has become an epidemic
on the Wabash river; and has also appeared
in Macoupin county, Ill. One packing
house at Lafayette, Ind, has lost 400 head
by the disease. -.
The Depot buildings of the Illinois Gen.
trail Railroad at Duniieth we're wholly de-
stroyed by fire on the night of the 10th inst
=, by igniting from stove in the water tank.
Loss Sc, 0U0 or $1,000.
Daniel D. Perry, youth of eighty years
was married in Fall RIVER, Mass, on Thanks
giving day, to Esther Simmons. sixty-nine
years old. Each of them had previously
been married twice.
| The oil wells of Pennsylvania which
have served as the foundations of 80 many
castles in the air, are beginning, in fash
| language, TO dry up,' SO that what at first
| turned out the merest bubbles
On y thirty one keepers of drinking sa-
looms in New York city disregarded warning
of the police and kept their places open last
Sunday, ard they we're all taken into custo-
| dy. The Sunday liquor law is now IN a fair
way to be strictly observed in New York
The Palmetto, now so popular in South
Carolina, has been much neglected in Charles
| ton in recenE years. 1t is stated in et1er
| from that city that but single tree of the
kind was 10 be found in the place on the day
of te Presidential election. Another has
been set OUT during the present excitement
! The wild ducks for which the Potomac
and Chesapeake bay are famous, are very
abundant this year. Canvass backs are sold
at $l.50 pair, black ducks $lGO pair,
and redheaded ducks Is cents pair Ter
rapins the delight of gourmands, are sold at
| from four to fifteen dollars dozen, according
! to size.
Hon. E. D. Baker, the new Republican
Senator from Oregon, was present, wit,
magnificent set Of silver plate, by the mer-
chants of San Francisco, jus, previous to his
| departure for Washington. The ornaments
of the service are very rich, and are emblem
attic of railroad and train of cars The set
| cost $4,000.
A fnancia! operator, named Thorpe, was
| arrested in the western part of Morgan
county, ILL.,, a few days since and
| taken to Rock Island for examination. His
business ostensbly was loaning money on
real estate, representing himself rs immense
ly rich. lie failed to victimize any person,
although he made several attempts.
The small pox is making fearful havoc
| among the poorer classes in Philadelphia
Entire tamil CO have been swept Of, and the
utmost destitution prevails in certain local.
ties. tits difficult to obtan medical assistance
for the sick. The Board of Health is prop
erly censure! for neglecting to suppress the
disease when it first broke out
The divorce trial Of Beardsley %. Boards
ley, in Brooklyn, N. Y, (being case where
the wife had ciandestinely married second
husband while living with the first, beth
husbands being ignorant of each others. ex-
istence,) has been dismissed by the Cont
IN the ground that both parties have been
guilty of adultery since marriage.
The people Of Cincinnati were dissatisfied
with the result of the census of that CITY
as taken by the United States Marshal, and
the Common Council he'd the work done
over st the expense of the city The return
lation Of Ill .293. which is about ten thor g.
and more than returned by the United States
Marshal.
Sarah Schanks, a respectable widow lady,
about AZ years of age, who kept small fan
cy store at No. % East 18th street, New
York was found lying on the floor of her
back parlor with her throat cut from ear to
ear and quite Dead on the morning of the 7th
inst. Subsequently,, a young man giving
bis name a Alfred Buchanan was arrested, !
and has confessed to the murder, for the /
purpose of robbery.
Captain Montgomery, now figuring in the
Kansas raid, is about 40 years of age, slight
ly built, and of much coolness and courage
lis Kentuckian, and was q resident in
Missouri, and q pro-slavery man until the
opening of Kansas for settlement. There
the wrongs inflicted upon him drove him to
arms in self-defence, and he soon became
leader among the free State men. In 1859,
be led party to Fort Scott, and released
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