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

just completed is los, ,40l.
Concord, Mass, has exactly the same mum
Der Of Inhabitants that it had in 1850
The Worth monument, erected in Ne,
York, is at last completed.
The Syrian Relief Fund. in New York
; now amounts to $1S,544.S9
Diptheria is prevailing all over the coun
try,and causes many deaths. Ia
The yellow fever at Honduras has swep
OF the entire European population.
The population of Boston is 1T ,726, show
lngan increase eff 1854 in five years.
II The finest emeralds come from veins Of
clay slate in the valley of New Granada.
| There is a-movement in Mobile, Alabama
to erect monument to the late Gen. Walker
| Raleigh, North Carolina, has only abou,
three hundred more inhabitants than it had
ten years ago.
Mrs. Lydia Huntley Sigourney, the wei
known poetess, is now in the seyentieth
year of her age.
The Shawnees, in Missouri, were paid
100000 by the General Government, al
Westport, last week.
A race is pending between the steamers
Aida, and Daniel Drew, On the Hudson, fol
one thousand dollars.
The big bell of the Andrescoggin Mill, in
Lewiston, Me-, was heard ten miles off or
Saturday Of last week.
The Clay monument at Lexington, Ky.
is still unfinished, and there is no telling
when it will be completed.
Slavery is very near it's end in Delaware
Between 1850 and 1860, the slave population
decreased from 1920 to 1905.
Naturalizations for the next election have
closed at New York city, and a total Of
$500 citizens have been made
Mrs. Tibbetts, of Lewiston, Me-, with her
FIVE daughters, have all been carried off with
in six weeks, by the typhoid faver.
Mr.. Jesse L. Newell, of Norfolk, Va, acci-
dentally shot his own daughter, aged nine
years, with pistol, few days ago.
The cattle distemper in Massachusetts ap-
pears to have died out or been cured. Little
is heard, and nothing seen of it lately.
The business of the California Pony Ex-
press is said to be losing concern. With
out Government aid it must be stopped.
The London Commercial Record states
that the Great Eastern steamship is so shak-
en- up and weakened that she is unseaworthy
1t is understood that Gen. Joe Lane, sin ce
he has been "put out' in Oregon, has de-
termined to take up his abode in North
Carolina
Three negro slaves in Lunenburg, Va.
who attempted to poison whole family
have been sentenced to be hung on the 9th
instant
Pixies Peak business man has sent to
the States for supply of cats, expecting to
realize $40 each for them at the Denver
market.
The Rocky Mountain HearM published a
twelve column list of letters remaining in
the Denver City post office at the end of the
last quarter.
Philadelphia now owes debts to the amount
of $21, 100000, to which the people have de-
cided to add two millions more fer new pub
lie buildings.
Crowds of disafected "Saints' are on their
way from Salt Lake City to San Diego, Cal
Brigham Young is threatened with depop-
ulation of his empire,
A. B. Hutchinson, brother Of the we'll
known Hutchinson singers, died at the Lu-
natic Hospital, at South Boston, of chronic
insanity, on the 2Sth ult.
A new cotton mill is now going up at
Lewiston, in Maine, to cost 81, 100000, to
run $4,000 spindles, and employ 1000 men,
with million of capital
A frog was killed in Centre Groton, Mas
sachusetts, last week, while attempting to
swallow a chicken three weeks old the
frog measured l9 inches in length.
Senator Broderick's will, about which so
much dispute has existed and which at one
time was declared forgery, has at last been
admitted to probate in San Francisco.
The-last words of the Prince of Wales in
America, as he stood on the slip at Port
land, with his barge waiting, were, "I am
very cold-hurry." The Herald says SO.
An immense amount of fraudulent coin is
said to be in circulation throughout the
West. The coins are split and filed thin,
and filled with some of the base metals.
David Old, of Geneva, Wis, recently
threshed 500 bushels of wheat, the product
of only eight acres, thus obtaining the enor-
nous average of 624 bushels to the acre.
Adaughter of Mr.. John Hart, of Shelby
county, O., while engaged in boiling sugar,
had the misfortune to have her clothes catch
fire, burning her so badly that death ensued
The vote of Indiana at the late election
makes the voting population about one to
every five and half of the enumerated in
habitants, according to the recent census
returns.
Through tickets are now sold from Omaha
to Chicago at the low price of fifteen dollars,
by way of the M. & NJ. r. L. By this
route passengers can reach Chicago in y
days from Denver.
The Prince of Wales opened the ball at
New York with Mrs. Gov Morgan, and at
Boston with Mrs Gov Banks In early life
Mrs. Morgan was milliner, and Mrs. Banks
a factory girl.
The wife ex-senator Douglas was robbed
of GOLD watch worth $500, on board the
steamer J. G. Swan, at Memphis, on the
26th ult. 1t was taken from her stateroom
while she was asleep.
Sheridan Knowles, lost in the steamer
Arctic, was not the author but the Phila-
delphia agent of the American Bank Note
Company, charged with the performance of
work for the Emperor of Russia.
In Elizabethtown, KY, a few DAYS since.
Bill Hayden asked Jim Slater to treat him
the latter refused, and Hayden hit him in
the head with stone. The wounded man
died next day, and Hayden vamosed.
Hon. Geo. E. Badger, Secretary of the
Navy nnder Gen. Taylor, ofNorth Carolina,
in late Bell-Everett address, confessed that
his vote for the Kansas Nebraska bill was
the "worst vote he ever gave in his life''
The Government of Canada offers re-
ward of five hundred dollars for information
concerning John Sheridan Hogan, member
of the Provincial Legislature, who left home
in December last, and has not been heard
from since.
A policeman at Chicago has been dis
charged from service for neglecting to rem
der aid to some poor unfortunate whom he
knew to be in distress in an old tenement,
where he subsequently, died. Corporations