Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-02-15
News Paragraphs.


Congress from Connecticut, died at Wash
ington, Sunday night, of the appoplexy.
While drunk at St. Louis one night last
week, Diedrick Renkholdt made his bed in
the mud, in chilling ram, and was found
in the morning frozen stiff-dead.
Lightning struck a house at Bloomfield,
Conn, recently, broke 70 panes Of glass,
tore up clapboards, and made its departure
through we'll, which has since become dry.
The Right Rev. Bishop Rut,edge Of the
Diocese of Florida, has deposited with the
State Treasurer of that State Draft of $500
towards defraying the expenses of the Gov
ernmcnt.
DR.. Geo. Seymour, Of Litch6eld, died on
the 18th ult., from the effects Of the National
Hotel disease at Washington contracted
four yeas since. So says the Hartford
Times.
The whole amount Of money seized at
New Orleans was about 5000, 600. besides the
value of machinery and Mint. The Govern
ment dare not put stop to these barefaced
robberies for fear of ''firing the Southern
heart"
J. f. Williams. Treasurer of the Kansas
Relief Fund in the city of New York, an
nounces that the total receipts ap to the lst
inst. were $l6,50942 of which amount
S., 53l SO were received for the week ending
Feb. 1st.
The cost per pupil for public school edu-
cation, in different cities, is as follows: St.
Louis, 1874 Cincinnati, $!6,96; Boston,
SIS 81; New York, $l5.33; Buffalo, 1888;
Chicago, $l2.93 Baltimore, SlOS2; Phila-
delphia, 50.
John Mckinney, the ex State Treasurer
of Michigan, charged with defrauding the
State out of between $4,000 aud $50, 900,
was arrested last Monday, at Lansing, and
held in $685. 900 recognizances to appear for
examination.
The steamer Charter, from Vicksburgh to
New Orleans, with $500 bales Of cotton,
was burned to the waters edge on the 11ih
! inst, ten miles below Donaldsonvile. Five
lives are supposed to be lost. The fire
originated abaft the wheel-house
A skating match came off at Tiverton,
r. l., a few days since, between Mr.. E. N.
Bliss, of Taunton, and an Indian from Moose
head Lake. The Race was won by MIR. Bliss
The distance was five miles and the time two
minutes and 24A seconds per mile. The In
dian led for the first three miles,
Two persons in Marshall county, Ill., were
found OF the morning of the 9th, frozen to
death. When found they were in sled
with load of grain. The horses in straying
over the praries entered grove Of timber
and when found were still attached to a sled
Names and residences unknown.
A test vote was taken in the Mississippi
Convention on the 2Sth ult., upon the ques-
ton of forever excluding the on.slavehold-
ing States from any Union which might be
formed by the seeding States. 1t was upon
a motion by Judge Gholson, to prescribe the
new Union within slaveholding limits. The
vote was yeas %, nays 81.
Statistics of the Roman Catholic Church
from 1903, prove its steady progress in
in the United States. During the last year
the foundations of SO new churches were
commenced In 1908, there were only IS
priests, 80 churches, and 2 bishops in the
United States In 1850. there were 2235
priests, 40 bishops, and 1889 churches.
The wife of Hon Charles Cayerno, rep
resentative from Milwaukee in the Wiscon-
sin Legislature, attends him constantly in
the House and in the Committee room, be-
cause his eye-sight having been impaired by
accident, he needs some one to read and
write for him, He is on the important Com
mittees of the Judiciary and the Banks.
Anna Maria Dermac, q young, intelligent
and handsome German woman, was found
murdered under bridge, in St. Louis, on
the morning of the 7th inst. She was in the
habit of getting drunk, and is supposed to
have been murdered for her money, while
on spree, as it was known that she usually
carried considerable about her.
| Messrs. Moody and Hefren, the belliger-
ant Indiana legislators, who went to Ken
lucky to fight duel, net Monday morning,
near Newport, KY, and while awaiting the
arrival of the surgeon, friends interfered, the
challenge was withdrawn and the matter
amicably settled When the parties were
returning to Newport, they were arrested by
the sheriff of Campbell county.
The Chicago Journal says lake water,
With which the water works of that city are
supplied, is again becoming n nuisance,
owing to the presence of an indefinite num-
Der of animalcule, white in color, hideous ia
shape and possessed of legs, fms and feelers,
which they use in the most dexterous man
ner, dartipg about like little streaks of light
ming, much to the horror of the drinker.
isaac L. CGGVeuSy CditSu tWO-Eyou~ Dug
vens" for short, is quite as certainly played
out in Washington Territory as 10 Lane is in
Oregon or Gwin in California. These three
foul conspirators will find no longer a resting
place on the Pacific coast The Washing
ton legislature, to break up the Stevens
clique at Olympia, has adjourned to Van
couver the penitentiary is located at Port
Townsend, and the University at Seattle
The bills were passed under suspension of
the rules, and the Legislature abandoned
Olympia so quick that the ancient capital
nearly collapsed.
A party of men painted and disguised as
Indians, but supposed to be Mormons, at
tackled company of emigrants about fifty
miles north of Salt Lake City, during the
latter part of August last, and murdered |
seven Of them, the others escaping by join
ing another train ten miles distant. Among
those murdered was Mr. Stevenson, form
erly Resident of Lawrence, Kansas, and his
niece Miss Lizzie Stevenson, a yo4ug lady
sixteen or eighteen years of age. The lat
ter was outraged before her death. The
wife of Mr.. Stevenson was shot and left for
ieaa, bat afterwards recovered.
b6r Gov. Chase's motto, IL reference to
he pending difficulties that now surround
IS, is :-s;Inauguration First-Adjustment
.tterwards" This is briet summing up of !
he true policy of patriotism i