Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1862-06-06
News Paragraphs.

/ The Syracuse Journal says the salt fields
are now producing 0,000 bushels per week,
| by boiling. to say nothing of what is pro-
ducod by solar evaporation.
One million nine hundred thousand rounds
| leck's army, from the arsenal at Columbus,
Ohio, on Sunday and Monday last. ..
| The New Orleans papers of the Sth COM
| plain bitterly that the butchers in that city
refuse Confederate notes in market. They
were contumacious on the subject Of exchang-
| ing good meat for entirely worthless shin
| plssteTs. .. IL. ,...... a.. ...... .
The Supreme Court of New York has Or
dered Edwin James, the celebrated English
barrister, who has recently became resident
Of New York, to appear and answer concern
ing the matters charged against him as dis
| qualifying him for practice at the New York
| bar. .-.,. .... .-.....
The Confederate authorities of Mississippi
| are issuing cotton notes, based upon cotton,
and then sending out rufians. like Morgan,
to burn the cotton, That is Mississippi hon.
esty and honor. .-..e.-.-. .
Solomon Sturges, of Chicago, banker of
great wealth, and long known for his eccen-
| ~ -
! jury impannelled to try the case before the
Circuit Court of Cook county. The COM
| plant was made by bis son. . -.
James Hampton of Bingham, Maine, has
| been terribly afflicted man. Within three
weeks he has buried his whole family, eight
in number, the victims Of that terrible scourge
diptheria. On one day, five little ones lay
dead together in the desoate hou2o. s
Bedford county, Tennessee, is indisputably
for the Union. At the election on Thursday
last, Z. H. Caldwell, Union candidate for
Chancellor, received 80 votes against 69 for
3. L. Ridley, Secessionist. J. P. Steele,
Union, Circuit Judge, mad 1876 votes; Fl. l.
Davidson, Secessionist, 1856. @
John c. Heenan is cutting quite swell in
England. He is with Howe's American Cir
Gus, at salary Of $500 per week. He gives
exhibitions in the ring Of the art Of selfdefense,
with Linsey, the Lancashire Sampson Mr..
Howe has recently purchased the Dutchess
of Kent's state carriage at cost Of five hum
dred guineas, to convey the renowned John
to and from his hotel to the circus. Four
chargers and two lyeried footmen are at
tached to the turnout.
Three men, names unknown, were recently
swept over Niagara Falls on a row boat
They were attempting to cross from the
Canada side to Goat Island. When they
discovered their danger they battled desper-
ately with the clements until it became evil
dent that there was no hope Of escape, they
ceased rowing and sit motionless in the boat
awaiting their fate.
All slaves in the Dutch West India Colo
MES will be set free on the first # July, 1868,
under the following conditions |: The COM
pensation Of three hundred guilders is to be
paid to the owner of each slave-whether
man, woman or chi.d-and the slaves nre to
remain under apprenticeship for term Of
three years, dnring which time they are obe
paid wages for their work, half of such wages
to accrue to the Government. The Dutch
Government will grant two millions of guild
ers per annum for compensation.
a young fend who had been expelled
from one Of the public schools of Cincinnati,
attempted to revenge himself on last Monday,
by burning the school house, shortly after the
exercises had commenced IN the aftecnoon.-
He set the fire in the basement, and the
flames had reached the ceiling when they
were discovered. A thousand children were
in the building at the time, and if the fire had
progressed little further, large number of
them would have been cut off from retreat.
The youthful miscreant had not been caught
at last accounts.