Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-04-20
News Paragraphs.


The Morse Telegraph Patent has been
renewed for seven years. s..j -li4" 80
Three men were recently sent to Jail j,
Goderich, Canada, for refusing to pay taxes
A man named Thos. CLARK, being drunk
laid down to sleep on the track of the rail.
road, near Pittsburg, Pa, and a trai pass
ing there soon after tore him to pieces
A Republican association has been organ
lied IN Baltimore, Of which Edward Smith
Esq, is President, and J. M. Grant, Secre
tary, with large number of members.
After the jury in the Carstang Shaw cas-,
had returned their verdict for the defendant
Mr.. Shaw, he entertained his friends and
hoisted red flag, signifying freedom, above
his dwelling. - Co. ,.r' 7i,.
A man named Henderson recently beat a
negro to death at Prairie Mount, Miss, H,
gave him ITO blows! Henderson is said te
be New Yorker, and was formerly ATTACKED
to Van Amburg's Circus b. oaIltm ..ag
According to the New Orleans papers
there is at present great rush of emf grafton
to Texas, northern men and foreigners goine
there in great numbers, and exciting thl
fears of the slaveholderssA Poor fellows
Upwards of hundred wells for oil hay,
been bored along Oil creek and the Allegha
ny river, in Pennsylvania. The oil is found
to be abundant in stratum of blush shalt
or slate, of from 100 to $50 feet in thick
ness. . .' 1917.
D. M. Cook, of Mansfield, o., who hal
been for some six months engaged in con.
structing flying machine, which he posi-.
IuoIu hn L
abandoned it. He had built house espe.
cially to carry on his work in. :.
Government, land sales ara to take place
in Michiganin July and August, OF alternate
sections, und,r the Railroad act of 1856, the
minimum price of which is $3.50 per acre,
together with the lands heretofore unoffered.
embracing an area of 1,680,0OO acres.
Chas. Bussey, young man employed in
some iron works at York, Pa, was recently
engaged in pouring molten spelter into
molding boxes containing wet sand, when
the metal exploded and, quantity flying in
his face, destroyed both his eyes.
The Office and safe of the Adams Express
Company, at Vincennes, Ind, was brok en-
into on Tuesday last, and robbed of about
50 900, Supposed to be in Indiana cvrrsncy.
A reward of 81 900 is offered for Tie arrest
of the thief and recovery of the money.
Government has raised the e- oort duty
on saltpetre from British India from its
present rate Of about 6s per ton to e6 per
ton "A measure expected to produce an
addition to the revenue of more than E15O.-
300. The total export of saltpetre last wear
from Calcutta alone was %, 1903 tons.
The remains of Stevens and Hazlitt
whose real name was Harrison) lie at
Eaglewood, side by side, between the graves
If James G. Birney, Abolition candidate for
President of the United States, and Arnold
5uffum, President of the first American
society.
The Attorney General, concurring with
he Secretary of the Navy in justifying the
capture of the Mexican steamers, has given
IN opinion to that OBJECT. They are libeled
It New Orleans as prizes, and the question
will be judicially determined whether they
we're pirates or became prizes through an
Illeged act of war in firing into the Indian.
'ls.
On Saturday mig ght week, about 12a
'elock, the dwelling Of VIM. Killfoile, on
he east side of Fourth street, Troy, N. Y,
ays the Arena, slipped from its foundation
Int fell down bank in the rear, while the
amily were asleep, and, remarkable as it
nay appear, not one of them was injured.
There were seven inmates in the house at
he time-Killfoile, his wife, and children
Anne Bilansky, hung at St. Paul on the
Sd ult., for poisoning her hust and about
'ear ago, said few days before her execu-
ion, that old Gabriel would shortly blow
lis trumpet for her, and she hoped, when
e did, he would knock Ramsey county Jail
.gher than a kite; but when the day
rrived, and Gabriel was about to blow, the |
lasphemer yielded and prayed the "Lord
esus Christ to receive her sonl.'
During the burning of the dwelling of Mr..
humphrey Owen, Goshen township, o., the
errible scene was witnessed, where the sup
orts of the floor had been eaten away by
he fire, of the chamber floor coming down
lmost entire, and with the bed containing
Is treasures, five little sleepers, who through
he blaze and the smoke were distinctly
isible, huddled together as they had lain
own at night, weary, to dream of new
ay that would never come. The horror of
uch sight, to the agonized parents, can
re better imagined than described.
A lad Of sixteen, named jerome Price,
illed himself near Kendalville, Noble
ounty, Ind, last week, by carelessIy hand
ing his gun while hunting He had laid it
lown on log with the breach on the ground,
While he was resting. AID when he took it
p he caught the !nuzzle with his hand and
ragged it toward him, striking the lock
gainst the log, and discharging the load
nto his breast. He died in few moments.
This mode of lf-murder is nearly as Ger.
ain as lifting the hammer of gun with the
oot while blowing into the muzzle to see if
t is loaded.
Marin has published protest against the
md the Gen. Miramon. He signs himself
N Admiral in the Mexican Navy, and says
hat neither the Saratoga, Indianola, nor
Naye showed their flags when he approached
hem. The two latter he knew belonged to
|uarez, and he attempted to escape, sup
'osing that they were towing armed boats
0 attack him. He claims that he did not
ire until two guns had been discharged on
lin, and that as soon as he recognized the
nationality Of the Saratoga he ordered the
iring to cease, but that the attack on him
vas, nevertheless, continued. The steamers,
le says, he had purchased at Havana, under
riders Of the Mexican Government.
The Vicksburg Sun says that a negro man
belonging to Mr.. Woodfolk, of Deer Creek,
Hiss in fit of passion plunged knife
nto the heart of fellow slave "a woman
Who worked on the same plantation. He
hen fed to the woods, but was captured by
he dogs which were Immediately put on his
rack, and, after a desperate resistance,
'roughs back. A council of the neighboriug
planters, before whom he was tried, decided
o burn him at the stake, which was done in
lie presence of all the negroes on that and
everal of the adjoining plantations, all of
vhom seemed terrified out of their wits on
'iewing SO awful a scene. The spirit of the
loomed man was unsubdued. He died curs-
ng bis judges-his last words being that he
would s'take vengeance on them when they
net each other in hi"
The Clarion, Pa, Bonner says that the
louse of Mr. VIM. Rhoads took fire during
lis absence on the night of the 18th ult.,