Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-04-05
News Paragraphs.


q to vote on the Confederate Constitution
q July.
6 The Pottawottamies in Kansas numb
200. They have lately been saved fro
starvation BY supplies received.
!, Tacoay, the celebrated trotter, who be
Flora Temple three times, has been sold
Q Mr.. Train, of Cincinnati, for $7,7OO.
What's in . name ? Tommy Trot is Il
name of the new Chief Clerk Of the Pc
Office Department. He is y Oonnecticutte
There is prospect now that every doll,
! OF the elght-million loan advertised for
Secretary Chase will be taken at fair rate
t John Hutchinson, who has been appoin
ed Secretary Of Dacotah Territory, is or
of the celebrated Hutchinson Family" {
singers.
j The Legislature of New York has expsl
ed member for taking q bribe of $780,
Such cheapening Of their business was no
to be tolerated.
The State debt Of Illinois 10 SO, ,346,9 OF
the annual interest Of which, it 10 stated, il
more than double the whole State indebted
ness Of Iowa.
Gen. Winfield Scott, it 10 said, is sngaget
in writing full and accurate history of hi
many campaigns. The second volume ha,
been completed.
A manufacturer at Hadley, Mass, ha,
| contracted to furnish 10000 wooden solei
Tor thick boots and shoes. They are made
Of buttsnWood.
There are about three thousand barrels o1
OIL day reserved ct Pittsburg from the nu-
meroas wells-the prices ranging from fifty
to seventy-fve cents per gallon.
Rev. Thomes Whittemore, one of the old
est snd most prominent of the Univerlist
ministers in this country, and editor of the
Trumpet, died ct Boston on last Friday.
A bill adding Washington's birthday to
the Let of legal holidays, and providing that
when these fall on Sunday the next Monday
may be observed instead, has become law
in New York State.
A New York merchant lately retired with
= fortune Of $lSo, 900, which he spent thirty
years in arnassins. During that time he
lost $3.50, 900 in bad debts, 20 that his losses
far exceed his ssinS.
A bad imitatcr Of Rsrey, named Mark
ham, died recently near Sikssville, Nd,
from injuries received while attempting to
put horse through the tanning process. The
vicious animal gave him fatal bite.
The official census Of the United States
hes just been completed, and it shows q
total Of thirty-one millions, four hundred and
twenty-nine thousand, eight hundred and
ninety-one (Sl, ,42s, ,S91.) OF these, 1851 ,SO1
are slaves.
A disease known az the "spotted fever"
prevails to considerable extent in Dauphin
and Lebanon counties, Pa. 1t has proved
fatal in number of instances, recently,
battling the skill of physicians and carrying
its victims of quite suddenly.
A child was recently born in Hemp8eld
township, Nestmoreland county, Pa, having
but one eye, and that situated in the center
of the forehead. There was no nose, nor
any appearance Of nasal bones. The re-
mainder of the body was we'll formed.
Rev. Joshua Taylor, one of the oldest
Methodist ministers in the country, died at
Portland, Maine, recently, in the Oath year
Of his age He began to preach in Portland
in 1904. For several years previous to bis
death he was confined to his room.
At Chelses, near Boston, there is an in
spectar OF milk, His annual report declares
that sixty-four analyses showed pure milk,
and thirty-two of sdulteration. Sugar, salt
and water were the substances used for
deceiying customers. Make note of it!
Mozart Hall, in New York, which has
been toe theater of many stormy scenes,
was destroyed by FIRE last week. 1t was
principally known by its political associa-
tons, having, in fact, given name to one
faction of the Democratic party in New York
State.
The service on the overland Butterfield
mail route is about to cease, in consequence
Of provisions in an act of Congress- So mails
for California from all parts of tho country
must 60 via Panama, until the new route via
Salt Lake and PlacervilIe goes into operation
on the lst of June.
On Sunday, l7th ult., for the first time,
the wires were connected through direct from
St. Paul to New York, and compliments
exchanged between the operators of the two
cities. The difference in time was found to
be one hour and fifteen minutes New York
being $40, st. Paal 1925.
The sounds of footsteps and voices are
said to haunt dwelling house in East Pow.
nal, Connecticut. The neighbors disbeliev.
ing the story, have remained over night at
the house, but found the statement SO true
they are alse anxious for an explanation of
the strange visitations.
At Omahs, Nebraska, on the Sd of March,
. man guilty of robbinga a woman of $l100 and
attempting to murder her, in her husbsnd's 8
absence, was taken from Jail and hung, by
vigilance committee. He acknowledged
being the leader of an organized band Of
freebooters extending all over the far West.
On Saturday night, 10Th ult., the wiad
took the spire of the Univeraalist church in
Ellsworth, Maine, carrying its base about
six feet from its former position, and placing
it precisely lengthwise Of the church, on the
ridge-pole. Last fsll the lightning struck
the same spire, splitting it nearly the entire
length.
The war-cry Of the Apache Indians woke
an only family living at Gila Bend, New
Mexrco, one night last month. An old
American, two sons (the Oldest now 15) and
. servant were all the force to repel 500 saw
ages. The family armed to die hard, but the
first shot, fred by the eldest boy, killed the
chief, and the rest instantly fed. The heroic
lad preserves the trappings of the ''brave,'
as spolls OF war.
VIM. Ansom, convicted of the murder ol
his wife by poison, and under sentence Of
death in the Hudson county, N. j., Jail, com
mittsd suicide on the night Of the Goth Of
March, in his cell, by tearing open an artery
in his arm with his teeth. He had repeated
ly sworn that he would never be executed
and watchmen were recently kept in his cell
but they left him alone on the night ir
question, after vigilant search for con
cealed weapons.
A ship recently landed 600 Coolies at Oallat
Peru, engaged to labor for eight years at th'
rate of five dollars per month. They ar
sold at auction for this term Of years at th'
rate Of from four hundred to four hundred
and fifty dollars. In many cases they ar
put under the direction of negroes as over
| seers, and are too often treated with grea
crueltv No attentinn ia Maid nv the author