Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-01-18
News Paragraphs.


An enorn GUS cow, weighing alive 1850
lbs, was slaughtered at Boston last week.
Mississippi" according to the Choctaw
vernacular, means 1.-THE river beyond any
age"
The Congregational church of Rev. Mr..
Phillips, at WATERFOWL, Mass, was destroyed
by fire on the l4th inst. 1t cost $4,000.
A shock of an earthquake, and snow six
inches deep, visited Knoxville, Tenu., on the
Sd inst, for the first time in twenty years.
The Kansas Legislature organized on the
9TH at Lecompton, elected }npblican officers,
and adjourned to Lawrence.
The rumored assembling of hostile Indi-
ans on the northern frontier Of Texas, proves
like most accounts of its sort, to have been o
false alarm.
The total number of post Offices in the
United States is 29, 498 and the revenue of
that Department for the last year was 49,
l51S,097.40.
In Philadelphia there are swindlers who
watch the obituary columns of the newspa-
pers, and gain livelihood by presenting
| fraudulent claims to survivors.
Geo. Osborne, an Englishman, and Pat
rick Eagan, an Irishman, were hanged in
New Orleans on Friday, the 9Th inst, for the
murder Of their wives.
Gen. Scott is the largest man in the Amer
lean army. He is six feet six inches high
and weighs two hundred and sixty pounds.
He is seventy-four years DID,
G. j. McMurray, one of the editors of the
Clayton (Ala.) Banner and a young lawyer
OF PROMISE was shot dead by Augustus Du
Rose, near Eufani, on the 2lst ult
Charlotte Cushman realized Sc, 900 by her
four weeks engagement at the Boston theatre.
She is said to be worth 100000 and is not
quite 45 years Of age. A hopeful old maid.
1t is said that the editor of the Charleston
Mercury, who writes its fierce disunion art
icles, is one Gordon, native of Massachu-
sets, who has been in the South but two or
three years.
The Secession cockades which are worn
at the South are generally of Yankee manu-
facture. 1t is thus the Secessionists prove
their dependence on the North, even when
asserting their independence.
| The secession excitement is having bad
effect even in those Southern States which
are not drawn into it. The Louisville (Ky.)
Journal says there is an unusual amount Of
restitution and suffering in that city.
! A man by the name or Stacy Jennings was
murdered in Newark, ILL.,, on the 7th inst,
by Norwegian named Lewis Oleson, at q
| Dutch GROCERY kept Oy one Harris. Oleson
is under arrest.
The Tribune Almanac for 1861 states the
popular vote for President as follows Lin
coin 1876 Douglas 1865, 976, Breckin.
ridge S47,953, Bell 59O,6sl. Lincoln over
Douglas 49l 1874.
Charles Gordon, alias Robertson, the
wounded New Orleans burglar, in whose
: room seventeen thousand dollars worth of
stolen property was found, recently escaped
: from the Charity Hospital.
t The fugitive slave, Anderson, whose
attempted reclamation from Canada under
the extradition treaty caused SO much notice,
has escaped from custody. A large meeting
in relation to the matter was held at Hamil-
, ton, G. W., Wednesday.
There are life insurance policies held ct
3 the South in Northern companies, to the
amount of twelve million dollars. In all
these policies, there is condition tina,
v;tiates them if the Insured engage in treason
! or rebellion against the United States.
l.. Mrs. Lincoln went to New York last
Mr.. Lincoln is expected to start for Washing
8 Pittsburgh Fort Wayne and Chicago Rail
{ road have rendered a special train.
A beautiful young girl, betrothed to tn.
r gallant young fireman, Barrier, recently kill.
ed in San Francisco, begged so see his re
Z mains before burial in the death chamber
? she swallowed poison, but being observed
t her life was saved.
oil The advices from Pixies Peak are up t.
I the Sth instant Several murders and rows
had occurred. Henry Roland was shot by
man named Davis, at Russell Gulch, OF
the 5th. A MIR. Croman, of Michigan, wal
: accidentally killed.
t The annual renting of pews in Henry
!, Ward Beecher's church took place last week
Last year the revenue from this source was
$50 ,306.25; this year, $780, 21 so. Out O
this sum the pastor is paid salary of 81 ,00(
: per annum, and a large Sunday-school
several mission schools, &c, are supported
Mr.. Psschal dreamed on the 30th of Oct
that his dead sister came to him in Pontotot
county, Miss, and told him that she would
I come for him in one month. On Nov 30tl
/ he died, and the neighbors who were present
assert that, at the moment, a whirlwind near
ly carried off the roof of the house.
At the grand circus in Paris, the Lancer
: quadriles are danced by horses. A set is
formed Of eight horses, bearing four viuan-
t dieres, Qadies,) also in uniform, to match--
, The complete dance is given in all its turns
and convolution with the utmost precision
There is no hating or half way execution
every movement is complete.
Al.
commissions the other day by the discovery
That Mr. Seamon, married man, had
, eloped with the wife of another man name d
Ebinger and repaired to parts unknown
, Mrs. Ebinger took with her over thousand
dollars of her husbands money, the greater
J share of which was in specie.
A locomotive exploded at Loves Station,
on the Mississippi and Tennessee Railroad,
on the 18th inst, instantly killing the engi-
neer, Mr.. Dougherty, and fireman named
Downs. The scene is represented as having
been terrible to witness. The locomotive
was shivered to pieces, while Dougherty and
Downs, together with fragments Of Car,
were thrown great distance.
Ezra Read, an old pioneer of Ohio died
on the goth ult., aged so years. He first
settled in Marietta in 1902, and subsequent
" resided awhile in Cincinnati, from whence
he removed to beautiful farm in Champaign
county, 0, where he resided some forty
years, whence he sent forth a family of stall.
wart sons, who won distinction at the bar,
on the bench in the army and navy and in
the medical and literary professions.
An American who calls himself DR.. S. V.
Bly,, is astounding the Parisians by his pow
er Of reading any letter or other writing en-
closed in any number of sealed envelopes
The Doctor, On receiving packet contain
ing the writing he is to read, is seized with
| a convulsive shudder, turns up the whites of
his eyes, becomes cataleptically rigid, and
reads the hidden writing to the SPECIFICATION
| of the most incredulous, He bids fair TO
| succeed to the throne left vacant by Mr..