Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-12-21
News Paragraphs.

The Plttsburg (Pcnn.) Gazette has jul
completed its seventy third year.
y The immense Lindell Hotel at St. Loui
will cost 100000.
Gold in considerable quantities has bee
n found in Madison county, Missouri.
0 During the last two months over 400
: hogs have died in Peoria by the hog chol
/. era.
There are S64 convicts in the State Prisol
0 at Auburn, n Y. Is are classical scholars
t and 60 well educated.
;. According to the Paris correspondent O
7 the New York advertiser, France is abou
to abolish the passport system.
Mr.. Chestnut writes to the Charleston
Mercury that President Buchanan will veto
, any force bill which Congress may pass.
Gov. Dennison, of Ohio, has appointed P
T. Lowe, brother Of Judge Lowe, of Iowa
special examiner of the Ohio State Treasury
, 1t is now ascertained that no less thar
ninety-two lives were lost on the Lakes du
ring the late gale of Nov. Oath.
A little girl in Pulaski, in Tennessee was
} fatally poisoned few days since by eating
patent candy
The assessed value of the property of New
Orleans is $92, ,522, 135. There are 1875
slaves in the city, valued at sc, ,725 ,24O.
The five States that talk of seeding,
100000, while Pennsylvania polled 476,0OO.
Mr.. Rarey, the great horse tanner, has
returned from Europe. He reached New
York in the steamship Asia, On the 7th
inst.
Nearly one hundred thousand heads of
cabbage have been shipped from Chicago to
the South by railroad during the past sea-
son.
Bell and Everett received precisely the
same number of votes in Now Hampshire
that were thrown four years ago for Fill
more.
A party of young ladies of Andover, Mass,
recently walked from that place to Boston
in little more than six hours, distance
of % miles.
A young woman in Utica put needle in
her mouth, the other day, and swallowing it
she had to have her windpipe cut open to
get it out.
The law of South Carolina, requiring
people from the North to go before a magls-
trate and state their business, will, it is said,
soon be in force.
Hon. Alexander Harper, of GAINESVILLE, O.,
died, on Saturday Sth, in the 10Th year of
his age. He was in Congress three success
sive terms, some fifteen years ago.
The deaths in New York, last week, num-
bered 337-scventy- one less than during the
previous week, and seyenty-two less than
the corresponding week of last year.
The Vermont gold diggers at Plymouth
are DO longer a myth. The other day the
miners took out a nugget worth $3.50 and
the next day another worth $l075.
In New Bethel, Ala, young woman
| eloped with her fathers slave, and after
making him her paramour, actually sold him
in Mobile to pay her expenses to Cuba.
A Mrs Nesbit, Of Green township, Mer-
Ger county, Penn, was beaten to death, a
few days since, by a lunatc son, who had
been recently removed from the asylum.
The copyright of Webster's Dictionary
yields $4,000 year, and of his Elementary
Spelling Book 81, 600, 600 copies have be-
sold, the annual issue now being upwards of
| 100000,
The defalcatiea of the late State Treasurer
of Vermont, it is reported, will result in but
slight loss to the State, $50 900 having been
secured by the defaultng Treasurer to his
bondsmen
Longevity, Democracy and matrmony are
the strong points of Mr.. James Douglas,
Conventry, Ct. He is l04; has been married
over 70 years, and always voted the Dem
ocratic ticket.
Some two weeks since, a young man and
his sister, Clarence and Clara Mason, killed
themselves, near New Ulm Texas, because
they had discovered they had negro blood in
their veins.
John Portcr.Hh breakman on the Cleve-
land and Columbus railroad, when near
Crestlne, on the 18th inst, fell between
the cars when they were in motion, and
was crushed to death.
The T. S. mail is now carried twice a
week between Denver City and the Missouri
river by the Wastern Stage Company, who
make the trip between Denver and Omaha
in six days.
The Hopkinsvillc (ky) Press, of Decem-
Der Sd, says that at that time fifty of
the lunatics who escaped from the asylum
building, recently burned, were roaming
through the woods in that county.
The small -pox prevails to frightful ex-
olina. At last accounts the Legislature in
session there discussed the propriety Of ad-
journing to Charleston.
Two children of Mr.. Lewis Barber, of
Warner, N. H., were left alone in house
by their mother. When she returned the
house was on fire, and was burnt down.
Both of the children perished in the flames.
George Flanders, a former and we'll known
citizen of Dubuque, was one of the lost on
the steamer Lady Elgn. Mr.. Flanders, du-
ring his residence in Dubuque, was engaged
as agent of the Minnesota Packet Company,
The aggregate amount of Fowler's defalca.
ton, while postmaster of New York, is Of
iicially stated in the Post Master Generals
report at $l7O947 go; being $4,000 in
excess of the sum mentioned at the time of
the exposure.
The Rt. Rev. M. Commence was conse-
Grated as thesuccessor of Bishop O Como r,
in the Catholic bishopric of Pittsburg, on
Sunday, sth inst. St. Paul's Cathedral,
where the ceremonies took place, was crowd.
ed, at least 1000 persons being present.
1t is proposed to purchase home on free
territory for Mrs. Bewley, whose husband,
Rev. Anthony Bewley, was recently hung in
Texas, on suspicion of being an Abolitionist
All moneys collected for that purpose should
be forwarded to Rev. DIR. G. Elliott, st. Louis,
Mo-
Two girls at Canandaigua, N. Y, went up
to the College to firt with the students, and
while there one of them claims she was se.
duced under promise of marriage. She pros.
ecuted the student, but the judge discharged
him, telling the young woman it was her OWE
fault.
A funny philanthropic association, called
the "Zouave Oddities," has been formed a,
Bridgeton, NJ j. Its object is to saw and
split wood for destitute families the ensuing
! winter With woed-saw astride of horse
and axe in hand, they proceed to the prem
ises, and reduce the wood to stove size with
an alacrity unknown to those who labor fol