Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-03-30

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A man named Boatright was recently
married in Cooper county, No., to mis- tenth
wife. s.-
New potatoes have already appeared in
the Cincinnati markets, raised on the oppo.
site shore of Kentucky.
Two squares, consisting of thirty houses,
were destroyed at Houston, Texas, On the
18th inst. Loss 1926 900.
The papers are saying there is great
demand for good cider in New York, aud
that it sells at from SIS to Sc per barrel.
Barnum is alive once more, free from his
clock acceptances and other creditors, and
ready to astonish the world with some new
humbug. Vs.,
The first rail ever laid in Kansas was put
down on the St. Joseph and Marysville Road,
on the afternoon of the 26th inst. in pres
ence of many citizens of St. Joseph.
The Mormons now number 12O, 900 persons,
including good, bad and Indifferent. The
number in Utah is put down at 81, 900. OF
these, 5,617 men have $500 wives.
The citizens Of Greytown, who lost their
property by the famous bombarbment of that
place, are pressing their claims on the
attention of Congress for damages.
The report that A. 4. Stewart, the New
York dry goods merchant, is insane, is con-
tradicted as also is the report that Gideon
j. Tucker had been indicted for bribery in
New York.
A San Francisco paper says washerwo.
men in that city and neighborhood can
make three dollars per day, and that among
school teachers females are paid as much
as males.
In Philadelphia they have butcher, the
papers say, who, besides being very good
looking, is one of the best dressed and gen
teel dandies of the city, displaying, even in
his regular business, tho most polished man
ners. -.1a g.ar
The oil excitement has extended from
Pennsylvania into Virginia. Two thousand
counties have been bought snd leased, and
oil wells have been opened that yield 30
barrels per day.
last week furnished the martial strains for
It is estimated that they walked FIVE miles,
which time the Major never ceased playing.
Tho appropriations made at the present
session Of the Legislature of Virginia amount
to more than ST, 100000, fact which
proves that there is no poetry in putting
down Instructions, and calling out troops
aud raising excitements to astonish the
nation.
The Republicans of Hartford, Connecticut
are erecting scamp tent' one hundred by
seventy, ten feet wider than the Fremont
camp of '56, and capable of seating $500
persons, with standing room for about a
thousand more. There will be two galleries
exclusively for the ladies, sufficiently COM
modious to seat about four hundred. d,
While the steam packet I.ecompton was
on her way down from Red river to New
Orleans, last week, DR.. Joseph Hunter, one
of the passengers, deliberately shot George
Saunder, the free colored barber of the boat
The latter had replied to question as to
who owned another colored boy, that he did
not know, and the white man shot him forit
A solar spot of rare interest from its
changes, passed over the suns disc between
the 23d of February and the 7th of March
On the 29th of Feb. it was nearly round
with penumbra like the brush of comets
tail. On the LIST and I'd of March it was O
spiral penumbra, of more than q whirl and
half, with the black spot at the head
Afterwards penumbra oval, returning into
itself with one or two dark spots.
Mrs. Ann Pressler. who recently sold ouI
a dry goods store at Chicago and was or
her way to New York to purchase another
stock, was robbed of $1,000 in gold, al
Michigan City, from her carpet bag. She
preferred taking the gold to buying exchange
and her economy in one respect has proved
her loss in another. The carpet bag was found
about ten rods from the depot, cut open and
the money taken cut. $4,000 was in 500
pieces, the rest in $5's and $l0's. There is
no clue to the robbers.
1t is said that in the Gulf Of St. Lawrence,
along whose shores solid ice forms every
where, the water does otfreeze over oyster
beds, except in very severe weather. Even
then the ice does not become of the same
consistency or solidity as in those places
where oyster beds are not found. 1t is owing
to this popularity that the inhabitants Of
the Gulf coast are enabled to discover the
exact position Of the oyster when the ice
first makes, those spots being the last to
freeze over.
A: man named Willis Graves, living in
Cleveland, Ohio, has been detected in the
barharous crime of attempting to starve his
mother to death. She was left for days to-
gether in her bed, too weak to rise or help
herself, and had nothing to eat but dry
crust once a day. When her son was remon-
strated with for his unnatural conduct, he
sneeringly asked, What is the use of taking
bread from the living and giving it to one
three quarters dead?" The neighbors have
taken h from bis house and made her COM
Portable.
John Ross, Chief of the Cherokees, and
Benge kre;s and the Peg delegates, are at
Washington, trying to sell to the United
States their neutral lands, embracing Nc Gee
county, Kansas total of 100000 acv es -
in order TO raise means to carry on their
government. The Administration opposes
the purchase, although this land was forced
on them in lieu of 100000, to which they
were entitled under the treaty. bilh will
be introduced into Congress providing for a
separate land Office for the sale of this land
the fund to be held in trust fer the Indians.
TIE Rock ISLAND BRIDGE CAsE.-James
Ward vs., the Mississippi and Missouri r.