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

\ The smallpox has entirely disappeare
from Columbia, s. y.
Hon. Joseph Ridgway, a former Congress
man from Ohio, died at Columbus, Januar
3lst
The Washington monument was com
menced thirteen years ago, and is still unfln
ished.
Gen. Dix, Secretary Of the Treasury, ]
living at the White House by direct an
special invitation of the President
Comfort Bennett, who began life as da.
laborer, in Chemung county, N. Y, is nov
in his eightieth year and worth 81 100000
| At Montreal Canada, they have had I
| snow-shoe walking match, the winner walking
five miles in a trihe short Of ty-iive minutes
In New York City, there are 235 churches
capable of seating 253,193 persons. Th'
total value of church property is $ll,slS, 400
The boy murderer Dow, who is only le
years of age, has been sentenced in Middle
sex county, New Jersey, to bo executed on
tho 4th of April.
The English authorities have lately an.
nexed five hundred square miles in the
Himalaya region, including the highest peak
Of that-famous mountain range.
Wood is selling at from IS to 81 in
Chicago, with a prospect of still higher
prices, owing to the probable shortness of
the supply before Lake navigation opens.
Alfred Buchanan, the murderer of Mrs
Shancks, in New York, has been pronounced
insane by the jury impanne!ed to. try the case.
He is TO be sent to the State Lunatic Asylum.
Lieut.. North, lately Of the U. S. Navy, has
accepted the Office OF Admiral of the Navy
of South Carolina, which Navy consists of
the revenue cutter stolen from the United
States.
Mr.. Parrott, the delegatein Congress from
Kansas, who had valuable slave bequeathed
to him by his grandmother in Maryland,
emancipated him the other day, and sent
him as freeman to Ohio.
Larz Anderson, brother Of the Major,
who is now in Columbus. Ohio, says that the
Fort will not be surrendered, and that the
suspicion of collusion with Pickens is q
most shocking injustice to Maj. Anderson.
AT the skating pond in Hyde Park, Lon
don, novel and brilliant sight was wit
messed when $4,000 persons assembled at
night, large proportion bearing torches,
md at a concerted signal quantity Of fire.
works were set off
The citizens of Cincinnati, Cleveland,
Buffalo, Rochester and other cities, on Mr..
Lincoln's proposed route to Washington,
ire making arrangements to give the Presi |
lent elect a suitable reception. His progress
will be marked by imposing ovations.
A family has been broken up at OsWego, N
7. 1t is the old story. The wife was Sc
luced by friend of the family; the
husband surprised them in the act that
lishonored him; the guilty man escaped
he guilty woman was sent back to her
riends the children were placed in an
Asylum, and the husband fed the scene of
lis disgrace. Sad world
A singular and fatal accident occurred or |
he Connecticut River Railroad, recently -
The train was passing around the sweeping !
,urve above the Holyoke damon one side !
he river and on the other a ledge of rocks |
at about Q o clock, when further progress !
vas stopped, and it was run back to get |
,nder headway. The train went back |
urthcr than usual, and on coming up again |
With great speed the ice lifted the wheels !
rom the track and the locomotive was dash |
ID with tremendous force against the rocks |
Mr. Luther Dickinson, the forward engineer, |
evidently jumped to save himself, but was |
caught between the locomotive and the ledge |
IND instantly killed.