Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-05-18

News Paragraphs.
N.polsaa III. entered upon tho SD year
'f his ago on the Goth ult.
Two Americans have opened hotel upon
The American plan at Hakodadi, Japan.
The greatest terror to the Democratic
'eoves" at Washington 10 the Oove-ode
Committee.
Helper is getting up q new book, to be
Issued in May, and intended for q Repub.
lican campaign document. ~ .
The famous little "Rubioon' is now the
boundary between the King Of Sardinia and
the Pope. Who will cross the Rubicon?
George Griffin, distinguished lawyer Of
New York, died on the 9Th, at the advanced
age of SO years, having been q practising
lawyer for half century. .
Tho Bsrmudian, of the I'd inst, says
nearly $4,000 barrels of potatoes have been
shipped from that Island this spring, mostly
to the United States.
A gentleman of Tennessee in Cincinnati,
recently, bought piece of horse flesh for
which he paid the considerable sum of
thirteen hundred and fifty dollars.
Horrible as it may seem, it is true Martin
Farquar Upper has just issued book of
verse entitled "Three Hundred Sonnets.' -
Three hundred sonnets by Topper!
Rev. Mr.. Worth, who was convicted of
selling Helpers book in North Carolina, and
sentenced to Jail, has been released on bail
Of IS 5000, and is now in New York.
It has been decided by the courts that the
first stroke of the clock is the record of the
hour. The mere labor of the remaining
remuneration runs into the succeeding hour.
:. A steam engine, weighing only three.
quarters of an ounce, is being exhibited in
Yorkshire, in full motion. 1t is intended fol
the great exhibition, and has been made by
an ingenious workman in Ssddleworth.
Two of the many bar room brawls about
the recent Eight have ended in murder one
at Albany and another at New Orleans. II
is almost needless to say that the Sayers mar
was killed in each instance.
Tho Boston Journal states that during the
sessions of the late Democratic convent on
at Charleston, that establishment paid over
tsDeloe hundred dollar. for special dispatches
sent by telegraph.
Rev. Horace Hall Reid, rector of the
Protestant Episcopal Church at WATERFOWL.
o., was recently Killed at hotel in Geneva
Switzerland, by falling over the balustrade
from the second story, upon stone floor.
1t is related that the Japanese thought the
ladies whom they saw at the Sandwich
Islands, wearing crinoline, actually filled The
immense skirts. They roared on finding ou'
their mistake. Mrs. and Miss Japan DOM
indulge in orinoline.
The State of Michigan, with population
of about 600, 200 and taxable property t.
the extent of 100000, 900, hos only foul
banking institutions, with combined
capacity of only $786,000; circulation
1921 900 loans, S958,000.
Mr.. Wheelwright, the American projecto,
of railroad across the Andes, is prosecuting
his plan. The Argentine Confederation voted
him $4,000 to defray the expenses of the
preliminary surveys, and league of land or
each side of the road VIXEN completed.
There is living in Noblesville, Ind, a
gentleman named Moreau, 81 years of age
who is nephew of Marshal Moreau, who
was killed at the battle of Leipsic, in 1913
He has been member of the fraternity oil
Ancient, Free and Accepted Masons 5s years
About month ago, the wife of Mr.. Jesse
Harbor, of Concord township, Champaign
county, O., presented him with his thirty.
first child! Mr.. Harbor is now in his 73d
year, and the present is his third wife. His
children are mostly all living and doing we'll.
The Rev. MIR. Southwell chaplain in the
English army, was out fox hunting, near
Montreal, when the mare he was riding
stumbled while leaping a fence, and went
completely over, bringing her rider under
and crushing him so that he died in a few
he urs.
Rev. Mr.. Avery died at Oxford, N Y,
lately, at the age of 81 he saw the burning
of New London by the British, under the
traitor Arnold; was pupil of Nathan
nerhassett, near whom he lived; and voted
ut every election for President.
Elizabeth Cuwick, the wife of laboring
man living at Albrignton, near SniHnal,
England, gave birth to four fine children,
three of whom, boy and two girls, were
alive. The woman was confined with twins
Just eleven months AMI one week previously,
making in the aggregate six children in less
than twelve months.
A company in Philadelphia proposes to
supply that city with water gas, at an annual
saving of $200, 900 as conpared with gas
made from coal. Mr.. Henry 9. Carey, the
Protectionist, is President Of the Company
Unless the estimates Of cost, &c. are un.
aceountably erroneous, the new Illuminating
agent is ono Of great importance.
The Bennington Banner says that John
Sherman, in Pownal, Vt, had corn to him,
on the day be completed his 18th year, son,
and he called his name Lsvi; and on the
same day were born unto him q grands on
aud great grandson, the parents at the time
residing in three different States. All three
II the boys are living now.
The Japanese Embassy are described as
mostly young men, from thirty to forty
FEARS Of age, urteous and refined in man.
,eTs, gentlemen OF taats and culture,
accustomed to good society, and good
hings of all sorts, exceedingly fond OF and
,allant to the ladies, and immensely sound
IN the champaign gu stion. They are
moreover, in the kuife and fork |
Tay, and epicure can in their tastes.
A person in Virginia has invented a new
,e'hod of applying steam to the propulsion
t canal boa s The principal feature of the
,yention il, that the power is applied to.
wo alternate parallel rods, operating hori.
ontally within pen submerged chambers
he length of the stroke will be abou. 20
set, and the engine is to be constructed so
. to apply the power direct from the steam
yinjers, dispensing with crank and fly
heel. The wat r displaced does not flow to
lie sides of the calal, aud therefore the
ASKING Of The banks is avoided.
In the Bark of England, no fewer than
xty folio volumes Of ledgers are daily s
led with writing in keeping the accounts
o produce these sky volumes, the paper
wing been previously manufactured else
here, eight men, three steam presses and
70 hand presses, are kept going continually
thin the bank. In Che eopperplate print.
g department, twenty eight thousa and bank Y
ties are thrown of daily; and SO accu.
tely is the number indicated by machinery,
Of IN D,r1o;p n einnla noto w;thos,f