Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-04-12
News Paragraphs.

There is an oil well in Pennsylvania 744
feet deep.
The small pox is committing fearful rava
ges in Philadelphia, and is on the increase.
There are six counties in the United
States, called Lincoln, of which five are In
the Southern States.
John Johnson, a negro has been convicted
at st Louis of running off slaves and SEN
fenced to five years Imprisonment in the
penitentiary
H. D: P. Bigelow, of the firm of Bigelow
& Knight, shoe dealers in Boston,is the per.
petrator of forgeries to the amount of $780,
900. He has left the country.
A sudden darkness, which lasted an hour
came over Northheet, near London, on Ash
Wednesday afternoon. Men lost their way
and cattle became frantic with fear.
The total population of New York State,
according to the official returns of the late
census, is 1887, 442; that of the city and
county Of New York, is 8l3,668 The last
number includes 1926 persons of color.
A mate of vessel was recently tried in
Boston, Mass on charge of heading up a
refractory sailor in a puncheon, and giving
him his rations through the bung-hole. The
defense was that the man was dangerous to
be at large.
The Chicago Tribune says that in that
city, last week, o negro woman and her four
children were concealed in aheap of manure
in the rear of barn on Buffalo street, when
the master of the mother was turning over
the hay in the loft, hoping to find them there.
A young man named Daniel Robbins, pro-
posed honorable marriage to a girl near
Little Rock, Ark, on the 18th ult., and her
father hearing of it, shot him dead in the
street. Charming state of society!
A physician at Philadelphia, on entering a
horse railroad car filled with passengers, sud
denly exclaimed, "Smal pcx in this carl
smell it," when all left the car but deeply
yelled woman who had the disease severely.
Messrs. Abbott, extensive distillers at Sid
ney, Shelby county, Ohio, have recently
failed; their liabilities are $1S4,O0O and
assets only $500. Many farmers in the sur
rounding country lose severely by having
trusted this firm for grain to be converted
into poison.
There are As 900 fugitive slaves in Canada,
it is estimated. They are represented
as being good farmers, and in the large towns
perform all the work required of white labor.
One fugitive slave owns property worth
100000. In Chatham on.the- Thames, of q
population of 5000, 1000 are colored.
The New York Tribune asks why no at
tempt is made in the South to arm the blacks
and organize them into military companies.
The question is very silly one. Why should
black companies and regiments be exposed
iu war when niggers are worth 81 500 apiece?
Journal.
A preacher named Bailey, who ministered
to the spiritual wants of the United Brethren
Of Rose Valley, Penn, absconded from the
bosom of his church, his home and his fam
ly, taking with him young girl of that
place. The sanctimonious seducer was pur-
Iued, arrested, and is low Gin limbo"
waiting the course of justice.
A young man named VIM. Hammel, resid.
ng near Pottsville, Penn, and who, for four
7ears past, has been 80 lame from rheuma-
ism as to render locomotion without the aid
f crutches impossible, rose on Thursday
asst, and to the great surprise of all who saw
lin, walked away from his house without
rutches. 1t was subsequently ascertained
hat he had suddenly become maniac, &
trough the severity of his sufferings the I
anne cause which had restored him to the
90 of his limbs. He was removed to the /
insane Asylum, at Harrisburg, by the order
Odd-Fellows, of which he was q member. q