Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-08-31
VOL. XII-NO. 9.
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News Paragranhs.

News Paragraphs.
The number 81 deaths in New York for
the week endingsAng. 11thwaa B64r a. 6of
n whom were children.
!. q The project of raising the Atlantic cable
has been abandoned. The breakapes are 80
4 frequent that II viii not paw to 'fsaye the
pieces" .aoaAf =
=, The Syrian ositrages are not ended yet
Ine latest reports state that $4,000 Chris
slan women have been sold into slavery by
The corn crop in portions Of Indiana is is
suffering severely from want Of rain. Seri.
Gus injury has resulted to it already from
the Drought. .sEI agzfsz
So severe is the drought in, Texas that
water from the Mississippi river is selling,
in 1ndianola and Lavaca, for tscsnty. flo
cents per gallon !sfag a.slsyA 4az
/ Two bruiserss recently went out from
Louisville to fight, and two loaded steam.
boats followed. During the day, six men
were shot and one killed. S5s ~ faliOl I
An elderly English lady was burned to
death, in New Orleans, on the 14th inst.
before she could escape from her boarding
house, which was, on FIRE. qrE9zS q u
The house Of G. Spaunden, near Victoria,
Texas, was burned recently, in the absence
of the parents, and their three little children
aged 6, 4, and l-perishsd in the flames.
It isssaid that when Mr. {Doug.as was az
Rutland, VT, and just as he was entering
the hotel, q large Irish woman rushed up
and grabbed him in her arms and kissed
him Ssest#s 81 s' ID Sas.Rse G4
A letter from Galveston, Texas, says -
-. IT, = s;nas s-ssat sa. country !no rain in Gal
weston since April. Wos~- sailing at three
dollars per barrel, brought down tue 10 -: ~
ity." a5s-r.sas lo .e.g.sg ss5 ~ ( Q s9zT
There is nice steam canal packet plying
regularly between Columbus ard Chilli
cothe, Ohio. 1t accommodates from forty
to fifty passengers, and is an elegant little
craft. aat ri Tsaseal
The grasshoppers are scourging Washing
ton county, NY. Some farms and parts
of farms seem to be comparatively free from
them, while on others everything green is
cut off. -as- ID -, -. q E
Mr.. james s. Slaughter, of Atlanta, Ga,
the man whose name has become familiar
through the "Scarlet Letter" of Mr.. Yancey,
committed suicide, recently, by taking
laudanum. e# asas. --7 20 as--f s.-E
The number of deaths in Chicago during
the month of July was 288. OF these 2l4
were children under five years old, and l02
under one year old This is perfect
slaughter Of innocents. 'a1 @7+
The Rockford Qll.) Register says Mr..
Zimmerman, of Ogle county, ILL.,, threshed
from four measured acres 200 bushels and
40 pounds of wheat, or orGtty bushels and
ten pounds to the acre!
At Blairstowh, N. j., young man
named Hulme killed himself because the
principal of a arding school found love
letter addressed by him to one Of the female
I upils and read it aloud to the school.
Mrs. Gurney, the English lady who ran
away with her footman, is said to be at one
of the fashionable watering places in this
country, under an assumed name. She is
reported to be worth So, 800, 900 in her own
right. s -, .. -..-.... .r.7. g.
Heenan, the pugilist, has been presented
by his friends in New York with $4,000
and massive gold ring. He was called on
for a speech, and after stammering out a
few "thank you's," got down like bashful
school boy. rr.s
Another cattle disease has sprung up in
the vicinity of Newark, N. j. The COWS are
taken with swelling of the feet, and become
very lame. After time the Inflammation
produces postulous discharges. This is as
far as the disease has at present progressed.
Blondin walked rope at Chilli cothe, on
the 9th inst, at height of loo feet. He
stood still to be photographed, and then
performed gymnasticfeats for three-quarters
of an hour, in presence of rs 900 people.
In the evening he trundled a wheel. barrow
over the rope, enveloped in fireworks, when
his clothes caught fire, and before he could
extinguish it his back was terribly burned.
A public meeting of the people of Linn
county, Kansas, where Doy and Waffle were
shot, receatly, adopted u statement of the
facts justlfying their execution as notorious
horse thieves, stealing horses and anything
else they could lay their hands on, and
making themselves the scou,ge of the coun-
try. An tempt has beea made to make
them Free State martyrs, but the facts do
not permit any such use of them. Jack
Hard, one Of the kidnappers of free negroes,
in Kansas, was shot in Kansas City, by one
Ct his own sort. -s5