Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-04-06
News Paragraphs.

N j. last Friday, for the murder of Georg'
Coulter. -
On Tuesday, March 9th, six inches o.
snow fell at Somers ct, Pa, and nearly two
inches at Frostburg, Md.
Stewards famous marble building or
Broadway, New York, is valued at $400,
900, and the tax on it last year amounted
o$7 ,l69, 64. .-.
Forrest, the tragedian, it is said, hai
expended more than one hundred thousand
dollars in the fruitless attempt to free him.
self from his wife. 5
The war with Morocco is estimated to
have cost Spain $25, ,000, 900 and $4,000
lives, for which she has conquered city not
worth the keeping. So declare her own
journals. ...
In several counties in Virginia the forest
trees are dying without any apparent cause.
This extraordinary blight is the common
topic among the citizens of the counties
in which it prevails.
A steel bell cast at Sheffield, England, for
San Francisco, has arrived at New York.
1t is nearly as large as the New York City
Hall bell, but weighs only 5000 pounds,
less than one third the latter.
James Aiken was hung for murder at
Kingston, Ala, on the 10th, and while the
body was hanging desperate fight occurred
in the crowd, in which one man was mortally
and others severely wounded.
An unfortunate beast named Levi Oliver,
was recently arrested in Cincinnati, for
offering gross insults to ladies on the streets.
His only excuse for his conduct was, that
he had an utter adherence Of all woman
kind.
The Executive Committee of the Ameri-
can Colonization Society have appropriated
$4,000 to aid such free colored persons as
have been expelled from Arkansas, or 9TH
ers in depressed circumstances, who may de-
sire to find home in Liberia.
The subject of q reunion of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, North and South, is
being extensively discussed in various
papers of the Church, the present year being
the centenary anniversary of Methodism in
the United States.
The papers say that John johnson, of
Lockport, Pa, had finger amputated close
to the lower joint, six months ago, and that
q new finger has grown from the old stump,
which is perfect with the exception of the
nail, and that is just beginning to sprout.
say this is an impossibility,
unless done by Il miracle.
Elisha English, the father of the member
of Congress who concocted "Lecompton
jun.," or sEnglsh bill," as it was called,
has been appointed q. S. Marshal for Ind
lana, in place of Mr.. Robinson, deceased.
This appointment is regarded as part pay
mert Of the amount due Mr.. English for
kI,o A 1p,i p;stc
the Lecompton struggle.
The expenditure Of Great Britain and
Ireland, general and local, this year, will
be $3.50, 100000; that of France, which
includes local as we'll as general outlay, is
1854, 800 900, or almost fourth less. The
population of France is estimated at thirty
six millions, so that the tax paid by every
man, woman and child in France is under
$40 year, while in England it exceeds SIS.
In year and half more St. Louis will
nave the largest and finest hotel in the
world, the Fifth Avenue" not excepted.
1t is to be called the "Lindell Hotel,' and
is now in course of erection by joint stock
The whole square between Sixth
and Seventh streets, with Washington
avenue on the south and Green street on the
north, will be covered by this mammoth
structure.
The tin boxes stuck up in the post offices
throughout the country, for the Washington
Monument, don't yield much. That at New
York city turns out an average of about
nine pence day. Patriotism doesn't run
in such unseen channels. Meantime, the
shaft of the monument is boarded over, and
the lucky officers of the organization find
the rec ipts to be happily equal to their
salaries.
In England the business of operating the
telegraph wires has been to a great extent
placed in the hands of young ladies, who
find it a very agreeable employment. The
inland department of the Electric Telegraph
Company, in London, now employs one
hundred young ladies, who receive and
transmit the messages from all parts of the
United Kingdom. The room is in charge of
a matron. The compensation ranges from
los. to 25s. (s2 so to s6,25) per week.
A party of FIVE persons attempted to cross
the Mississippi on the ice between La Cres-
cent and La Crosse, on the 18th ult., but
the ice being weak, when about half way
over they broke through and only by desper-
ate exertions were enabled to get on the ice.
They then tried dragging themselves along
face downwards, but before gaining the shore
were submerged four or FIVE times. Their
escape was almost miraculous. Their strug-
giles were watched with great anxiety from
the shore.
Zadock Pratt performed the journey from
San Francisco to ST. Louis (over 1900
miles) without stopping at any one time for
me re than half an hour, the whole occupy
ing 10 days, with $50 relays, Of four, five
and six horses or mules to the team, about
half being muIes. This is a wonderful feat
for man nearly seventy years of age.
There was conductor and driver, both
armed TO the teeth. In some places they
carried wat r sixteen miles and then dr. owe
forty miles without water.
The English 'sfancy" are letting as high
as seven to one on Sayers against Heenan,
in the great fight for the championship of
the world to come off in England on the
10Th of the present month. Heenan is sal d
to be getting admirably compact under his
training; at last accounts he had been
reduced to 1872 pounds, with the promise of
his assistant that he shall come down lbs.
more before the fight. 1t is understood that
the English authorities will not pui them
selves to any trouble to prevent the fight.
MIR Charles Tuey, of Lewis county, Mis-
souri,, was killed 10y the Indians on the Sd
uit, On Wes. Fork, about ten miles from
Jacksboro, Texas. He was engaged in chop.
ping poles, with two friends-Ceoley and
Fibson when the party was surprised by a
band of Indians. The whites made rush
to tree where their guns were stacked, and
Mr.. Tuey was just in the act of grasping
one of them when he received rife ball in
the shoulder from the Indians, which killed
him on the spot His companions escaped
The Johnstown (Pa.) Echo relates a
strange story of young woman who con-
ceaed her offspring in carpet bag, imme-
diately after its birth, where it was discover
ed ten weeks after, by gentleman with
whom she was living. The girl was arrested
and confessed the maternity of the child
and Acknowledged that she had put it in the
bag herself, and kept it there. She is said
to be simple-minded creature, and proba
bly, could not bear to part with the infant.
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