Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-01-11
News Paragraphs.


News Paragraphs.
There were 90, 900 deaths in New York
city during 1860.
A large chestnut orchard has been plant.
ed near Windsor, Shelby county, Ill.
James Redpath sailed for Hayti last week
accompanied by fifiy-aix colored emigrants
Negroes in the upper part of Missouri
are now being daily sent South to be sold
Dispatches from the North are STYLED
foreign new" by the South Carolina papers
The number of bushels OF wheat received
at St. Louis during the year 1860 was
$685. 52.
| An infant child of j. H. Durham was
accidentally smothered in bed one day la.,
week at Shelbyville, Ill.
David Lewis Bradford, convicted Of the
murder Of j. l.. Wright, was hung ct Terrs
Haute, Ind, on Friday last.
Dan Sickles is said to be living with hi
wife as happily as though the Key tragedy
had never occurred.
The order for the removal of gums from
Pittsburg to the South has beon counter
manded, to the great satisfaction Of thu
Pittsburgers.
Il. G. Spalding, the glue man, pays thu
New York Tribune 1871 900 for one year,
advertising of one column daily, seml-week
ly and weekly. .,.......
l.. Roberts, postmaster ct Clinton Ill.
was killed by H. Summers, who cut hi
throat in o personal difficulty in the pos
office. on the 9Th inst.
On Christmas day, during seven hours,
more than fourteen thousand people atten
ded St. Stephens (Roman Catholic) Church
in New York.
In tho last Presidential election, nearly
two hundred votes were given in the sevesa
counties OF New York, for Frederick Doug
las, the negro.
Mayor Wood recommends that New Yorl
should secede and become free and indie
pendent CITY," If she wants to commi
commercial suicide, let her try it,
| julius A Pratt, Treasurer of Henry coun
ty, ILL.,, turns out defaulter to the amount
Of $l7,0 600. He used the States money in
/ private speculations and lost it.
y, The schoolmistresses whom Gov. Slade, o.
Vermont, sent out to Oregon, were to pay q
} he o. $500 if they married within the year
INST of the girls paid the fine.
b has been discovered that Secretary
FLOYD has allowed clsims to the amount Of
$ll9p00, which are believed to be aswindle.
The Claimant lives in Florida.
l On New Years day, the ukase of thu
Russian Gear took effect, emancipatins
10000, 00n ser(s, and making personal liber
ty universal throughout his dominions.
| Mr.. Colcek, collector of Charleston, is
sues papers aud clearances in the name O
South Carolina, which render every vesse
liable to seizure and coniscation.
The citizens Of Taunton, Mass, have start
ed subscription for the purchase Of ,
sword, to be presented to Major Anderson, tn,
hero of Fort Moultrie. A good idea.
The Richmond Enquirer has discontinued
its daily issue. by way of retrenchment il
view of the present monet. ~ difficulties
and will publish only the semi;weekly,
George Barrett, an old citizen of Lockport
| ILL.,, and one of the wealthiest men in The
West, died while sitting in his chair, on tn.
9th inst. He built the railroad from Chica
| 60 to Joliet.
| A paper is in circulation for signatures a
Richmond, Virginia, requesting John Minor
Bots te leave the state, his views, as ex
| pressed in recent letter, being considered
obnoxious.
| At dinnerat the Presidents, given to thu
Judges of the Supreme Court, Chief Justics
fancy remarked that he should administer
the oath OF Office to Mr.. Lincoln, If he ua.
obliged to go to Springfield to do it.
Rev. J. lngraham, author of tho "Prince
! of the House of David" and any quantity
of sensation pamphlet novels, died at bis
residence, in Mississippi, few days ago,
from an accidental discharge OF his guns
Mr., Lincoln received one out of every
forty seyen of TIE votes cast in Virginia,
Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky and Mis-
souri,. Mr.. Breckenridge received one OF
every thirty two of the votes cast in the
Free States
Isaac V. Fowler, late postmaster of New
York, is now a resident of the city of Mex
leo He left the island of Cuba some thres
months ago, where he had resided as an ex-
traaitionist and a fugitive from the laws of
the United States.
The Postmaster General has issued circu-
lar to all South Carolina postmasters, inquiring
whether they recognize the authority Of the
United States and intend todischarge their du.
ties under it. This will test the patriots, who
are now splurging go considerably If they
refuse, the mails must be cut off,
On the night of 4th inst, fire broke out
in the grocery and liquor store of Kent &
Carr, 4 lton, which was consumed, together
with eight adjoining buildings. Loss about
$4,000; insurance S25, COO A German,
said to be from Jerseyviilc, was burned to
death in the "Traveller's Home''
The failure of Edward Lambert & CO., the
great silk jobbers of New York, is said to
DO q very bad one. To one French import
ing frm they are indebted S42a,0O0. The
personsl expenses of the head Of this firm,
who has been living in quiet way in
Brooklyn, are stated to HAYS been Sl67, 600
in ten years. ...s-
A German physician at Tinkersville, near
Pittsburg, on Friday noon, fell over spool
thrown down by his child Rising in a
passion he struck the child in the face. A
quarrel ensued between him and his wife,
ghich was terminated by his shooting her
through the heart with onegun and blowing
MS own brains ont with another, Il
Burch, the Chicago banker, who was re-
,eutly defeate in suit for divorce fIom
lis wife, has consented, in order to prevent
'urther litigation and controversy, that the