Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-05-25

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j The fremont House ct Chicago i 10
raised to level with the street grade, cor
four feet. Pretty big lit, that : !.
The venerable Phiueas Alies, senior edit
Of the Pittsfeld Sun, died last week. B
Was 81 years old. and the oldest editee
the country, probably. he sstabliahsd Y
Sun in 1900, more than SO years ego.
| A Nj. Bentley has been indicted
Alabama for striking q stranger with Z
axe He says he didn't know but what u
stranger was robber. He didn't know, an
SO he "axed'' him! -,
A Kentucky drover, worth 115, 900 an
with 100 head Of cattle then on his handa
was picked mp in Syracuse, N. T., rsoessly
rabidly insane, from broodinGa over q
unsuccessful love affair. ...;s Ia 80 4
There is strong probability Of the CON
pletion Of broad gusge railroad from Ney
York to st. LOUIS. Work is 70 be resume,
in Ohio, to supply the break bstwesn th'
Ohio and Mississippi and the New York ant
Erie. roads. -s+ie La 1r
Rev. Mr.. Bulge, . Baptist clergyman
who has been undergoing strict examina
tion on the charge Of murdsring his wife By
poison, at Utica, was discharged from
custody, on the 9th inst, there not being q
particle Of testimony against him.
A wooden statue Of the Goddess Of Justice
was placed on top Of the clpols Of the City
Hall, New York, on the Sd inst. A writer
suggests that it would be more appropriate
to surmount that notorious building with q
statue Of the Goddess Of Thieves
All the great strikes among the Msssa.
chusetts shoemakers have terminated as such
usually do in the dissolutioa Of
ths Strikers Unions, and in the distress of
scores of workmen out of work and utterly
unable to procure any. - t,,s - -.
At the Washoe silver mines It requires
three poun 10 Of silver to get one pound OF
aour. Wheat against the field any where. lf
gold and silver are the precious metals,
wheat and maize are tho yet moro precious
grains, says some one.
One chap who was at the Wsshce silver
mines writes to California paper that
vince he started he has not seen . man who
vas worth less than from $4,000 to $780,
700, though al are keen at borrowing .
lollar to pay for their breakfast.
Three men were killed and another
injured by the explosion of ..
boiler in steam saw mill half mile north
# Bethel. Ind, on the l2th inst. Their
names were VIM. Clevenger, (owner Of the
Mill } Benjamin Brown and Howard Hslmes.
Kansas is not likely to be admitted to the
Union as State at the present session of
Congress. The Senate would not agree to
ome of the main features in the bill passed
~ the House, and it 10 not at all urobable
hat the House will concur with the Senate's
lmendments.
Sudden deaths by violence are so common
n New York. that q writer in one of the
,apers Of that city suggests the propriety of
III persons having their clothes marked with
heir names and residence, so as to prevent,
q case of death, the coroners from sending
heir bodies to Potter's Field.
Robert J. Walker has now obtained oil
lis papers relating to Kansas, and is pre-.
Jared to close his testimony before the
Jovode Committee Among them is said to
,e the original of his inaugural address.
nth interlinings made by the Presidents
to the people.
The Philadelphia papers announce the
|ecease of Hon. Thos. Sergeant, on the 5th
nst. He was a son of Hon. j Jonathan Sergeant,
nd brother of tho celebrated John Ser
cant. The deceased had been Attorney
3eneral of the State, and subsequently,
Iudge of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania,
rom which position, owing to physical
lebility, he retired in l845.
"A fight is talked of between Heenan and
for from 81, 900 to $20, 700 q side.
f'the pugilists should ever encounter each
'ther pugilistically again, they will do it
nth will Hsenan feeling aggrieved at
dorrissey's treatment of him in his fight
nth Sayers, besides the i'll will which has
xisted between them on account Of their
ormer difficulties.
Several years since, man named John
Jain killed Richard Singleton for the
of his daughter Mary, in Cincin-
'ati. The daughter has since become an
Ibandoned character, and recently was
married to negro, named Winston, over
o years of age, q keeper Of an eating and
Thinking house of very low character. She
8 about twenty years Of age. e,s;.
Two terrible accidents happened at .
ridge that is being built at Clarksville,
Tenn, on the 18th. A platform that was
as a temporary bridge for the
vorkmen fell with . tremendous crash,
the bodies of several Irish work
men and drowning three others. 1t is
'eported that subsequently another portion
# the brid1e fell, killing 6 Irish workmen.
RAILROAD TROUBLES IN MINNEsoTA.-The
asst Legislature OF Minnesota passed an act