Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-07-20
News Paragraphs.


E The German population in this country
Is estimated at 100000.
During last month o. slaves were mama
mittsd in Talbot county, Nd.
A partridge nest has been found IN
Virginia with 70 eggs in it. Did one hsn
Law them all or not? ~
The admission to the Great Eastern 10
now 30 cents for adults and rs cents for
children. Too high yet
The Legislature of Connecticut has
repealed the law prohibiting circuses to
exhibit in the State. .s.esy
The friends Of Mr.. Breckenridge have
persuaded him to postpone his intended visit
to California till some future period.
Two brothers, named William and Thomas
Lowe, aged about sixteen and thirteen years,
were drowned at East Cleveland, Ohio, on
the Fourth.
While . number of politicians were
engaged in raising Breckenridge pole, in
Scriven county, Georgia, it fell and killed
three men.
Up to the 18th of June, sixty steam
quartz grinding mills had arrived at the
Pixies Peak gold region, and many more
were on the way. 4...,g An. ~
A patriotic insane man, named Berry,
hung himself in Dakota county, MINI, q
week or ten days ago, by tying an American
flag about his neck. a..f a. s..-.
A rascally .Chinaman was induced by
some mad wags, in New York, lately, to
palm himself off for Japanese, which he
did with complete success.
Wisconsin has reduced the legal rate of
interest from IL to 10 per cent. and allows
two years for the redemption of lands which
have been sold out on mortgages.
Two men, named Rooney and Mooney,
hands on board sloop at New York, got
into fight on the Fourth, and during the
struggle they both fell overheard and were
drowned. aE @
In some parts of Ireland, particularly in
Erris, there is much distress, many having
lost their means of sustenance from the
failure of the hay crop and the prevalence
of disease.
The Berean war in Kentucky is ended
tho fire. eaters have abandoned the attempt
to drive off Oassius NJ. Clay, and several Of
the wandering Bereans have returned to
their homes.
The Tennessee delegations split into two
pieces at Baltimore, aud now each of the
pieces has issued an address to the Tennessee
Democracy. There's no peace between the
pieces-and no prospect of any.
II. At Akron, Ohio, on the Fourth, young
man named O'Neil was shockingly and
fatally burned, by accidentally falling into
the flames of q bonfire. As he emerged
from the burning heap on his hands and
knees, he begged the bystanders to knocl
him on the head and put him out Of misery
I He died after several hours Of Intense
agony. a-......r .srf..i... e-.. . r
A correspondent OF the N. Y. Tribune
gives an account of terrible food in Aus.
tralia which desolated large Part of thai
country, sweeping into the sea whole fami
lies, with their houses, crops, stock, &c
The damage done cannot b estimated, MOI
the number Of lives lost be determined. III,
water came rushing down upon the plains
like a vast pyramid, and the shoal Havel
: river rose one hundred feet in a few hours
The Prince of Wales, who is coming t.
this country during the present month, Is I
, graceess young scamp OF eighteen or nine
teen years. He has thus far achieved nothin
except the seduction of young lady. This
is all the account of him that has yet COM
across the water. He is sent of on accoun
of this affair, as has been said and probably
correctly. Yet our people are preparing t.
20 crazy over him! American mothers ant
!. American fathers will be very proud to d.
honor to this royal scamp. So goes tn
world