Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-01-04
News Paragraphs.


Four crops of apples were gathered from
tree at Hellis, Me.
A family of wild cats was killed at Yves
CRANKY, Ct, last week.
Forty-seven couples are petitioning thu
courts of Providence, II. l., for divorce.
Lord Palmerston, now aged seventy-six
is the real though secret dictator of Eng
land
Three negroes, convicted Of capital crimes
were hung at Georgetown, Delaware, OF
the 18th ult.
Garibaldi's income, Us a farmer, is abou
$500 year--not enough to find an Ameri
can in rum and tobacco.
A maniac murdered his mother, Mrs Mes
bit, in fit of frenzy, in Green Township
Penn, one day last week.
The number of inquests in Chicago du
ring 1860 was 34S, including III victims o
the Lady Elgin disaster.
Adam Hageman has been sent to the peni
Tertiary ten years for killing Heinrich Cas-
tor with club, in Chicago.
A little boy, in Vermont, who swallowed
cent last summer, is dying slowly by copper
poison His legs have become useless.
After an exile of % years, John Berry
one Of the Canadian rebellion men of 1873
hasarrived at Syracuse to hunt up his family
The government OF Honduras has pardon
ed Col. Rudler, who was engaged uniel
Walker in the recent foray on tbs city o
Truxillo.
A wedding in "high life" took place ir
Philadelphia last week. A romantic couple
were married in the steeple of independence
Hall.
1t is four thousand miles from Cape Race
to San Francisco, and news has Travelled
this distance in the almost miraculous short
time Of nine days. t.g ~
The Government owns three forts in
Charleston harbor = Fort Moultrle, Fort
Sumpter and Castle Pinckney. The FIRST is
on Sullivan's Island.
The whole cost Of the pleuro- pneumonia
affair to Massachusetts is $50, 600, of which
sum S33, 600 were paid for dead cattle, and
$4,000 to living Legislators.
A scarcityof corn, amounting to starvation
is predicted for some parts of Alabama in
less than two months. The people will
have neither cash, corn nor credit
Europe contains at present. Including the
dispossessed Italian Princes, A. sovereigns,
of whom the eldest, the King of Wurtem-
burg. is nearly 70 years of age; the young
est, Prince Henri XXI, of Reus Greiz, is H.
Augustus Schell, of New York, was spoken
of as the successor to Mr.. Cobb, in the Treas
ury Department Hearing this, an official
wit doubted it, for" said he, "there is moth.
ing to shell, the corn is gone and the Cobb,
too,
Mr. Colborne, the missing Schene ctady
IN. ~ editor and defaulting County Treas
urer, has turned up in Pennsylvania lie
bad been laboring under temporary attack
Of insanity, induced by his troubles, and is
now quito sick.
From the lst of July to the 1st of Septem-
Der 81 persons were found drowned in The
river at ST.. Louis. The Republican thinks
double the number were found during the
season. In most instances the name, resi-
lence, &C., could not be ascertained.
John McLane, Scotchman, living at
Alton, ILL.,, was found in bis house, last week,
nsensible from large draught of laudanum,
With the dead body Of his wife, frozen hard,
It his side. It is supposed he murdered her
md then attempted suicide. His recovery
8 doubtful. &
Two fires took place in Milwaukee, on the |
9th ult, the first causing the loss of the
AXE Michigan Mills, valued at $35, 900, and
he second the destruction Of the Cress
;lock, with the Mayors Office, &C., the loss
eing nearly 100000. Charles M. Dermot.
fireman, was buried in the ruins, and four
Their persons are reported missing.
a poor man who lost his arm BY the
explosion of cannon at Bloomington, Ill,
lst Fourth of July, happened at Springfield
few days ago, and his condition was made
nown to Mr.. Lincoln, who asked: "Who
ID you vote for ?" "Well," replied the
IAN, Ito tell the truth, / didn't vote for you,
voted for John Bell' Honest Old Abe
i'd that was right, and at once gave the
an 500 bill, and then collected $40 ad-
tional from the bystanders. |
The settlers on the frontiers of Texas I
. again suffering the horrors of Indian I
srfsre. Men, women. and children are
antoDly butchered, and their mutilatsd d
rpses, reeking with blood, are left to be-
nae food for Wild animals in the forests s
d prairies. 1t does not seem that the IA
,xan authoritiea have TINS far been able to
mister to the relief of the terror stricken c
rder settlers and the horfid warfare con- is
luss with unsbassd fsroeity. s~a'- e'siu