Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-03-22

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oammer and squeaked like q saw, ald thu
made very good phantom Carpenter.
News P;, ragrapils.
At the recent election for Postmaster i
Fremont. Ohio. Ms Mel,e,, u Democrat
female. bore IF the palm.
Judge Mclean is reported very ill an
es-President Buchanan is said to Re quit
i'll from the effects Of distress of mind.
The following States hold elections durin
the summer Virginia, in May; Tennessee
and North Carolina in August.
Henry Keigler, convicted ard sentence,
to be hanged for the murder Of Henry Bough
ton was executed at Albert Lee. Freebvro
county, Minnasot', on the 1st inst.
Three hard working miners took out Of ,
quartz vein on Feather river. CaliforDia
$4,000 worth Of ore in three days. On,
foreno,n's work amoanted to $4,000.
The Official census Of II inois has at las
been received The population is l,7ll.73s
nearly 10000 more 'han at first reported
The increase since 1850 was more than ont
hundred per cent
The property of Nicholas Longworth, o.
Cincinnati, is said to have been recently
'scertaiDed to he as follows: Real estat,
s2,0"O.hO, personal property $l,500,o0o =
'otsl $3, 500.nUO
N. p. Willis, it is said, gets hundred
doll.rs for every fragment of poem he
chooses to write for the New York Ledger
We can't hell, thinking his namby .pamby
verses are dear at any price.
A Texas paper gives list of seventeen
post Offices which have / cen discontinued
the Contractors having stopped, ter one
cause or another mainly, it is said, or
account Of ludian r"ids.
The State of Illinois has passed law t.,
cav SlS4.376 81 to old contra ctors on the
Him is and Michig Canal, being the loss
on exchange upon bonds sold in London
when the canal was built.
Frank Blair and Mr.. Bates have arranged
the st. L'uis Offices rs follows Postmaster
Peter Foy editor Of the Democrat; G ,liecs-
or, Henry Boerstien, editor O, the AnSeiger;
Sub Treasurer, =. 7. johnson.
he New Orleans Della says that party
Of gentlemen have bought h If Q million
acres Of land in Southern Florida, alb ut one
hundred miles south Of Tampa Bay, at two
cents an acre, where they intend to raise
tEoprical fruit.
Rufus Ho>mer, Esq, Of Lansing. Mich,
who has been appointed consul to Frankfort.
on the Main, Uas formerly eiitor and rro-
prietor Of the Detroit Adverf;ssr, and now
bears the same relation to the Lansing
Mirror. the Michigan State paper.
The Spiritual R.sisier for 1851 publishes
a list u 47i speakers and 345 test and
healing mrdiume. AN increase of l45. 00n
believers during the ye.r is claimed. and
the whole number in the u tied States and
Canada is estimated at l,S9UOu = but this
is only rough guess, no count having been
made.
Weston, the pedestrian who undertook to
walk from Boston to Washington in given
time, arrived FIVE hours too late for the in
auguration. alter all He ok the proper
-teIs to get there, but diln't take them
quite fast enough As he walkei on wager,
he prooab's lost solnetthing his temper, if
n no.hing more
President Jackson lived on his salary OF
So, 900 Il year, and saved at the end Of eigh.
years $4,000; Van Baren lived in the
White House for less than $50 600. and
Harrison, Taylor and Fl lmove saved none y
from their salaries. The Washington cit,
papers say that the annual bills of President
Buchan amounted TO 100000!
At Newark New jersey, Mr.. DobNs has
recovered $500 of dentist named Russell
for improper dentistry. Tn. Judge stated
as principle Of common law aad common
reason, that anv person claiming to practice
any particular trade or profession, j. respon
ole for fai ure to exercis, sufficient skill in
the prosecution Of his business.
Eugene Scribe, whose death was part Of
the news by the North Brito', was one o
the most fertile writers that ever lived. HI
was born in December, 1871. lie begao biz
dramatic career at the age Of twenty -one
and was tile author of hundred and fifty
vaudevilles, twenty-five comedies, bes de,
furnishing the words to forty grand opera,
and one hundred and three comic operas
lie also wrote several novels.
Humphrey Davis, fast young man o.
unexappled proAigacy, though of very
respectable connections. has been convicted
at St Louis Of the murder Of Clifford. an,
sentenced to fifteen years confinement in tn
Missouri State Prison. He married lovel,
and wealthy young lady come eight year
ago, squandcred her fortune, broke hr
.eart, and caused her death in poverty ant
misery.
A great oil discovery has occurred abou
three miles below r tusville, Pa. While SOM
men were engaged in drilling the gas tbrev
up the oil near,y 100 feet into the air, and i
eau hit fire at the engine and burned two o
the men badly. The light was seen for ses
eral miles around Over $4,000 worth of OF
was gathered from this we'll in thirty hours
and an immense quaint lost. The sum o
$30. 900 was offered for the we'll within hal
an hour after the miners ''strnck iie."
The present 20 -tmaster Of Charleston,
c., Mr. liuger - pronounced Uger) Wa
appointed to his place by President Monroe
in 1917. and has cons quently held the plac
for "A years. Mr.. Iluger Is now over z
yea:s oi age, Of Huguenot blood, Of com
mand!ng presence, and one Of the most hi ig
oEed gentlemen of Charleston. His imme
diate predecessor was Mr.. 3 lot. who VIZ
appointed IN 1897 by Washington - 40 t. .
Chsrlest has tad tut two postmaster
since the days Of Washington.
| Mr.. Lincoln's White House habits ars yer
regular and simple The servants of hi
predecessor ara sill retained. The Wash
ington correspondent of the Pniladelphi
Press says Ar Lincoln "rises ear y, an
be- irs tO receive confident al frien is at
clock, bears himself with dignity and cour
.sy, and attends to the duties of his oific
with great regularity. AS 5000 as the hurr
is over, TIE " hite House will be rsfit;ed an
re-arranged, according to precedent. Congrs,
having made the usual appropriations +.
this purpose.s '