Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1862-12-05

The Legislatures of fourteen of the 10y a
States will meet in January.
Martin Ryan, of Webster, N. Y, for cast
ing an illegal vote. was fined $10C and costs
Gen. Butler is organizing a reg iment 0
Union refugees from Texas, in New Orleans
Some of the shinplasters circulating i,
Western New York, are made payable a
Utica next July, in strawberries, "if tn,
crop don't fail"
| The Springfield Republican complains o
the currency they have, there-espec;ally o.
the little envelopes filled with pumpkin
seeds!
A fire occurred in Brooklyn, N. Y, OF
Wednesday night of last week, and a mar
named James McGunnigle, and twenty horses
were burned to death. tfF
! Fourteen young woman of Brentwood, New
Hampshire, went to the house of an aged far.
mer, who has sent three sons to tho war, and
husked one hundred bushels of corn for him
Nine thousand Italian priests have jus,
presented petition to the Pope, in which
they entreat Of him, in the name of religion
to abandon the temporal power.
Annie Martin, female of i'll repute. was
buried to death in St. Louis on Tuesday Of
last week, her clothes having been maliciously
set fire to by Alice Woodruff and Maggie VII.
son, who ere arrested.
Secretary Chase will recommend uniform
national currency ard tax upon bank notes
that will force them out of existence. Eas-
tern banks are forming combination to op-
pose the measure.
President Lincoln has teen presented by a
leading representative of the Hebrews of the
West with an elegant painting of the Ameri.
can flag, having upon its stripes an inscrip-
ton in Hebrew, fiom the book of Joshua,
chapter first, verses four to nine, inclusive.
VIM. Mcneil, farmer residing near La.
con, Illinois, was shot and instantly killed
while asleep in his bed, on Friday night of
last week. The wife Of the murdered man
has been arrested on suspicion of being guilty
of the foul deed. ..
A touching proof of the depth of woman's
love was witnessed at Canterbury, Conn.,, at
the funeral of Charles Lewis who was killed
at Antietam. A Miss Hyde, to whom he was
engaged, upon hearing of his death, was taken
sick, died in few days, and was buried at
The same time as her lover. . f.
A railroad and telegraph line has been
constructed from Smyrna to Ephesus, and |
he opening was celebrated with banquetine |
md speeches on the part of the English pro-
orietors, and midday prayers and solemn
ceremonies on the part of the astonished
Turks.
Mr. Oakley, heproprietor of the Salisbury
'aper Mills in Orange county, N. Y, is man
featuring strong brown paper from the
lbre Of the cat-tail or 1yph0. He is also
experimenting upon white paper, and hopes
Q succeed in obtaining valuable fibre from
be reed.
From mathematical calculations, based on
ne statistics showing that the army of the
'otomac has now "a 900 draught animals
rules and horses--in it, employ. we find
nat its baggage train, placed in line Is closely
possible, would reach sixty-one and half
1t is reported that enough has been devel- .
PED IN the Mcdowell case, to indicate the b
,quittal ct that officer of all the charges that a
ave been made against him. It is said, fur
Ter, that facts will be brought to light that
ust have damaging effect upon the stand il
g of other officials. 3 !
The army of Gen. Grant is now marchinc o
into the heart Of the State of n
ISIS. The distances on the line Of his ro.,t. !.
e IS follows; From Lagrange, Tennes.ss :
Holly Springs, % miles; to Waterford t.
miles; to Wyatt, 10 miles; to Oxford TX
lies; to Cofeeville, 20 miles to Oren.d.
miles. Grenada Is about 100 miles north' Il
sst Of vicksbuFg, and about rs miles vest Il,
the Mississippi river, in . parallel line d