Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-03-29
News Paragraphs.

There are now NO cadets ct West Poir
from the seeded States.
The sugar crop Of Louisiana for 1860
valued at about 42s,O00,000.
The French distillsrs are making brand
out Of coal. So the papers say.
Tho excavations at Pompsii have been II
commenced with some success
Steam tugs ere now used on the Gran
Trunk Canal in England.
The ordinance of secession in Texas wa
"a lied by majority Of 10000 70 $4,000.
Hon. Q. O. Clay, ex-senator from Ala
bama, has gone to Minnesota for his hs.lth
The candidates for U. s. Senator in Ohio
besides john Sherman, are Gov. Dsnniso,
and Mr.. Horton.
Mr.. Wigfall, Senator from Texas, remain
at Baltimore, and 10 enlistine, or trying Il
enlist, the Plug Ugliss to 80 South.
Mr. Woodin, q London actor, in tho cours,
|ot two hours performance, successfully
reprssents . hundred different characters.
DR.. Judd, Of Cordova, ILL.,, has been ap
pointed mail agent on the Chicago and Rock
Island Z: T., in the place Of W. B. Diokmsn
Salary $500.
Peter M. Keith died in New York, Eng.
land, on the 4th alt, from habit, long in.
dalsed, Of eating orris root, of which he wa
most unnatursily fond.
Forty clerks arc now engaged in reading
and Cling applications in the various dspsrt
ments At Washington. Nineteen of these
are in the Post Office Department
George +. Wright, q portrait PAINTER, Of
hsr ford, Corn has been employed BY the
State Of Illinois to paint the portrait Of
President Lincoln for its cspsol. The appro-
pfistion for the work is &2,50O.
Solomon @. Bstss, An employee, of the
Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Rail-
road Company, was crushed 20 death, II
Chicago on che Goth inst, BY being caught
between two cars he was coupling.
Tae total population Of Miaso ari, according
10 the Official rejurne Of the laet census, is
!, 1887, Including .O55 1869 whites Ill.,
9o5 slaves, and 2,0s3 free colored. The
population Of st. Louis county is 1sl ,535.
The hornsstsad law which passed both
of the Michigan Legislature donates
10 the sctusl settler eighty acres, instead of
forsy, 40 ,nder the old law. 1t also throws
around the State new safeguards against i'm.
oosition and spoliahon.
Pr. baby no sporting man in the country
n" De A. good thing Cut of th, late Prss-
iential election as Senator Bright, of lndi-
sna. The Hsshin ton Correspondent of the
Phi sdelph!a Pr.ss says be NON from fifteen
% twenty thousand dollars by betting
lsainst Dousles.
snow-sho races are a favorite winter
Imuseme nt of the Canadians. Recently the
tudcnts of the AcGiil University, at Nont-
cal, made the following time: one mile in
minuteS 20 seconds, half mile 3:3, and
wO miles In 14:i5.
In Paris frewood is very scarce, and sold
MY tor domestic purposes. and generally
U small sticks, or what would be called. in
America. brush. 1t is used very sparingly,
Is the price is fifty cents per hundred, or
'aif a cent g POUND.
An ice machine (Harrison's invention) is
t work in London, producing, with sem
,orse steam engine, eight thousand pounds
# lee in twenty-f four hours, ct total cost
4 t2,5O Per ton, which is ssid to be so per
ens. cheaper than imported ice.
TIE DUKE of Sutherland, one of the rich-
at MOBILES in Great Britain or Europe, died
n the 29th cf February, at the advanced
r OF seventy Ave. He was liberal in
olitics, but is better known a. the hus-
and of the Dutchses of Sutherland than as
he Duke.
Louieisna has . fancy block of marble at
he " Arlington monument, to enter into the
n or cf fhAk hAr be- MI <ho
ollowing inscription on is side: "Presented
y tho state Of Louisiana ever faithful to
he Consultation and Union" A beautifu'
nd appropriate grnye-stons that will make
The imports at New York this year are
ess than half the amoan! of those for tho
corresponding period lat year Since the
st of January, the falling off has been over
ipe mil,ion of dollars; and after the Let of
Ipril, when the enhanced tariff goes into
feet, the decrease 10 txpec!ed to be still
areer.
During the past three months four hun
red ana seventy persons bavs been killed
I'D wounded BY the 1Asiens in Texas. If
he loss was 20 great, Notwithstanding tae
resence Of asAfly ene-talf the military
orce Of the United States, what 0ill it BE
rontier of Tcsas unprotected.
Two little boys, aged respectively thrce
ears And one yssr, sons Of John P. Lenx,
we're burned to death by tAs distraction of
he family residence, corner OF Divieion
tracts ara Clay barne avenue, Chicago, on
he 2oth inst. Their sharred remsins were
ound in . cleset, whore they lad erept for
helter from the furious flames.
At Ottawa, @. W., on the 11th inst, .
;oung msrri d lady, the wife of Vermont
umber dealer, while in one of the mills o.
hat place. wss instantly killed Her dress
:augbt in a portion Of the revolving ma
:binery, running at lightning speed, and
'he was Drawn through in au instant, giving
out single screech Her body was crushed
% pummice. She had been married but
Xix weeks.
One Of the leading clerks in Bovey l.
Co.'s dry goods store, 90 Summer street,
Boston, has been detected IN embezzling
his employers' funds, amour nting in Ill to
shout $4,000, taken in small sums for sev-
oral years. He bad been living fast and ex-
citing suspicion he was charged with the
crime and confessed. On account of his
family hs goes unpusisb-d. His name is
Edward F. Ward. lie fed for parts un-
known.
BY recent statement in the Chicago
Tribune it is shown that Chicago is the
center Of the greatest "a. load system in the
wo.li. There are now running eleven trunk
lines and twenty one branches, consisting of
1875 miles. Thirty two lines of railroad
tributary to one city There are complete
and in the process of c Instruction eleven
trunk and twen:y-nine branch and extension
lines, which will reach out AIS miles, and
bring in immense wealth to the Queen City
of tie Lakes.
They have had bad fright in New Or
leans. TIE Captain of Northern vessel
hois:ed what appeared to be the "Stars and
stripes" Close observation discovered that
the stripe next below the "Union" was red
instead Of white. 1t was at once decided
that it was "Black Republican fag," and
that the red stripe meant blood. A mob as
sembled and threatened tar and feathers,
but were told by the Captain TO go to thun-
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