Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-02-22

Rarey is now delivering his horse lectures
in Philadelphia.
A machine which makes 100, 900 slate pen.
| ellis a day, has been invented by a Hartford,
Conn., mechanic.
Gen. Tom Thumb is exhibiting OF diffe-
rent towns in Pennsylvania. Last week
he was at Harrisburg.
Mrs. Mobled, the wife of a respectable
man in Logansport, Ind, eloped last week,
with Frank McCarty, a horse doctor.
Mr.. P. Dexter Tiffany, a well-known and
wealthy citizen of st. Louis, committed sui
| cide by cutting his throat in his room in the
Planters Hotel, on the l4th inst. Cause
insanity.
Il sheriff S sale took place in Philadelphia,
q few days since, Of watches from the seized
| stock Of a lift enterprise concern, bring
ing only $50 per dozen-"gold watches!'
A limestone rock, the perfect picture in
| form of a baby elephant, was taken from the
earth near the eastern mouth Of the Hoosac
Tunnel, several days since, and has attracted
| considerable attention from the curious In
that vicinity.
Samuel w. Finney. who had been confined
in the Monroe [Nlich.) jail, on the charge of
poisoning his wife, committed suicide by
hanging himself, a few days since. He left
Il note affirming that he was in no way guilty
of the death of his wife.
Advices from Japan to Dec. 10Th, state
| that the return Of the Ambassadors from the
| United States had led to no favorable results.
1t was reported they had been imprisoned al
Yeddo, and will not be permitted to mingle
| with their countrymen.
w. D. Wescott, a merchant of New Or
leans, was found murdered in, his bed, at the
Hunter House, Palestine, Texas, on Jan
28th. A negro boy, who confessed to taking
his money his pistols, war arrested and sub
sequently taken from the jail and hung.
Thirty-seyen States and Territories con
tributed, On election day, 81, 969.39 to the
! Washington Monument Fund. The small.
est sum, thirty fire cents, came from Kansas
! New Hampshire comes next, and contribu
ted ninety-six cents. The heaviest contri.
button, $l,126.63, anne from California.
Floyd, as Secretary of War, had a salar.
of eight thousand dollars per annum. III
was poor when he entered offee He held tn
place about three years and six MONTHS
From his savings, he shipped by Adams
Express, to his home in Virginia, one hun
dred and twenty thousand dollars. This i
an extraordinary example of thrift ant
economy.
There are additional particulars of tn
burning of the steamer Charmer on tn
10th inst, eight miles below Donaldsonville
Mississippi. The work Of destruction OK
ceeded in rapidly and magniicence any
thing of the kind that has ever occurre
on The Mississippi. The only lives know
to be lost were DR.. Mil!eken and lady,
Of Miss. Mr.. Davy and lady, of Tenn. an
two or three black servant women. !
DR.. Thorn and a Mrs. White both had thei
legs broken, by jumping from the rear guar
down to the lower deck.
! It appears to be a settled fact that a fe
DAYS since the captain of British ship We
seized on board his vessel, at Savannah, b
a mob, dragged ashore, and then, amid q
E insults that could be offered, tarred al
, feathered He communicated the facts
l the British Consul at that port, who imm'
diately offered a reward Of $1,000 for tt
discovery of the perpetrators. In the mea
time the British Minister has taken up Il
i affair at Washington. Now let the sece
}. ~sionists look out for thunder. The Briti'
government never permits such abuses of
S subjects without demanding redress.