Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-12-07
News PARAGRAPHS.

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Wheeling, Va, has 81 slaves, in popula
ton of 14,S14. ree
Nearly 100000 tumblers of ale arc drank
annually in London
Milk sickness is prevailing to an alarmin.
extent in Pike county, Ind. 49,.
| There are twenty alleged murderers con
fined in the Tombs, New York
| Henry X. Strong, prominent citizen Of
Philadelphia, died suddenly on the 2lst ult
! Mississippi returns population of 1888,
6l5, being an increase Of 1915 in ten
years. ..zl ...y,.. -sqt.,,,.o'., e......
A lap dog, of the King Charles species
was sold at auction in London: not long ago
for $4,000.
| Bell and Everett received less votes in the
New England States than Lincoln did in five
slave States. - 49,. ......-
The dwellings in Philadelphia average
one to every six Inhabitants; in New York
one to every twelve. ..-,,.f- +.
The Water Gas Company, of Philadelphia,
offer to supply the Philadelphia City Works
with gas at rs cents per thousand feet.
There are now but eighty-nine survivors
of the army of the Revolution whose names
were placed upon the rolls for pension.
The vote in Missouri at the late Presiden-
tial election is larger than that cast by any
other slave State. n,l .r-arn. I'd. l..
Tim O'Brien, Cincinnati policeman, was
killed by falling from the steps of the Court
House, eighteen feet, to the pavement.
In Cincinnati a conductor on astreet rail
way was fined 50 for putting negro off the
cars who would not get up and give lady
q seat
By the bursting of camphene lamp in
house, at San Francisco, a whole family
were burnt to-death, and the house and fur
niture destroyed.
The provinces in Italy which still remain
under the temporal power of the Pope con
tain cnly 326,604 inhabitants. What fall
ing off is there! ."m "
The earnings of the Auburn On. w
Prison for October, were $l3, 3,3lO. .33- 81 $780,
80 more than the expenditures. This Pris-
on now pays steady revenue into the State
Treasury. r'H
Some idea of the commerce of London
may be formed from the fact that two hun
dred and forty-eight vessels "a total of
m ore than $4,000 tons } arrived there on
Monday, Nov. 9th. I'D H,.E e.-
Mrs. Reed of Paris, G. W., got up in her
sleep one night last week and walked into
a cistern, the top of which was open, where
she was found drowned tho next morning.
Clarissa Fowler, an unmarried woman 60
years old, committed suicide in Kinsman,
Trumbu county. Ohio, on the 2Sth ult-
She hung herself from the top of her cup
board with piece of cotton cloth.
The National Council of the Choctaw In
dams have passed a resolution to purchase
35, 900 bushels of corn, for the relief of such
of their people as are suffering by reason of
the severe drought of last summer.
Elizabeth Orr, venerable old lady living
with an adopted son in Rochester, N. Y,
was left alone in the house few hours, the 9TH
er evening, and setting her clothes on fire by
accident was burned to death before help
arrived.
A poor woman named Taylor was found
dead in miserable shanty in GAINESVILLE,
Wis. When discovered her body was
frozen stiff, and around the stove in the room
where the body lay, three children wer
found 10 a naked, starving condition.
President Buchanan listened, on recent
Sunday, to pow werful discourse upon the
Union, exceedingly severe upon all kinds
of disunionists, aad was heard to exclaim as
he cane down the aisle, after the services
were finished, ut was splendid discourse
The body of man was found under a
sidewalk at Chicago last week. No one
could tell anything about how it got there.
No marks of violence were perceptible, and
the presumption was that the man got under
there to sleep, and while there he perished of
cold and want.
VIM, II. Newcum, a wealthy gentleman
residing near Nashville, Tenn, was recent
/. swindled out of $4,000 in st. Louis by
sharper calling himself w. L. Johnson
The sharper represented himself to be i'm
me easely weathy-exhibited splendid blocks
of buildings which he said belonged to him
and so worked upon the credulity Of New
cum that he succeeded in borrowing $4,000
from him. At last accounts the police were
endeavorng to find the whereabouts Of the
swindler.
A young widow woman, whose maiden
name was Catherine Hall, supposed to have
been resident of New Albany, was run
over by the South bound mail train at Green
castle junction, on the Louisv lie, New
Albany & Chicago Railroad, few days
since She ran out of the junction house
after the train had started, and endeavored
to get upon the front platform of the rear
coach. The poor woman was thrown down
and the wheels passed over the left leg and
right thigh, She died in few moments.