Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-02-08

News Paragraphs.
The Missouri Democrat predicts that four
years hence, Missouri will become an anti-
slavery State,
Mrs. Margaret Graham died in Fayette
county, KY, on the 18th Of December, ut
the age OF LOT years and IL months.
American sew;ng.machines, contained in
richly ornsmented cases, have been among
the most fashionable of the New Years gifts
in Paris this season.
An address to tho Queen of England for a |
separate Irish Parliament, and the right of |
selfgovernment, has already received over !
10000 signatures in Ireland.
The richest man in St. Louis is James H. |
Lucas, banker, worth, it is said, %, 000, 900.
Peter Lindelrs estate is put down at 81, 00O,-
900, and that Of Benoist, banker, at 81 $780,,
600.
The cost Of military operations in South
Carolina at this tine are almost 200 q
day. The question that naturally suggests
itself, how long can she stand that sort of
thing?
Travel has fallen off at the South SO
largely that but one train is dispatched daily
south from Washington. The usual large
number OF Northerners will not be seen at
the South this winter.
A boy who was playing on the top of q
tour-s.cry building in St. Louis on Saturday,
accidentally fell down through the hatchway,
distance OF sixty feet, striking his head on
the hard feor below, dashing him to pieces,
and causing instant death.
Bowlby, the London Times correspondent,
killed BY the Chinese near Pekin, had
$1,oou year and leave to draw for any
amount to meet his extra expenses He was
~ years old, chum of Tom Taylor al
school, and connected with the Times since
1913, serving FIRST in Hungary. He leaves
widow and Eve children.
The New York Herald says that the tota
colored population of that city is 10,SSl.-
VI thus number $50 are blacks, and 5000
mulattoes. In 1850 the total negro popula
ton was ls,Si5 Decrease in ten year
2,sS4 The mulsttoes remain about thu
same as IN 1850, the decrease being slmos
wholly among the blacks.
On the 10th inst. the barn of James Hor
ner, of Warwick, Bucks county, Pa, wa
struck by lightning during q thunder storm
and two valuable cows killed. There were
eleven COWS in the stable, but only the two
injured. 1t is rather uncommon to hear o.
such damage by lightning in mid-winter
and the ground covered with snow, az OF
this occasion.
The Missouri State Convention will b,
held on the 2Sth of February next and tn,
election for delegates on the 18th of tn
same month. Should the Convention pas
an ordinane of secession, it is to be submit
ted to vote Of the people, and their decis
ION shall be final This is virtually the enc
OF secession in that State, as the people viii
vote 1t down by an overwhelming majority
The wife of B. B. Vanderbilt, ESQ.,, o
cincinnati, has fallen heir to an immens
Cuban estate valued at not less than 500
oOO. The lady inherited the fortune fron
arsiativc who lately deceased in the islam
OF cuba, aud among other stipulations in tn
VIII OF the decedent the legatee is require
70 reside upon the island. Mr.. Vandegri
--!s winding up his affairs in Cincinnati pre-
Paratory to removing with his family t.
Cuba.
The city inspector of New York reports il
the last year 4 ,24l marriages, -, asa births
and q, ITO deaths; the record of marriage
being incomplete because the Catholi
priests will not hand them in. Of tn
deaths IL, 1876, or much more than half, wer
among children under five years. and thos
mostly among the poorer classes, The in
spector estimates that of five children anon
the poorer classes, three die at under tw
years OF age Speaking of swill milk,
says the evil continues without the slightes
abatement or any prospect of diminution
unless the adoption of measures of the mos
stringent character is resorted to.