Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1862-12-19
News Paragraphs.

Among the freight at Buffalo, last week.
awaiting shipment westward, was one of
1000 barrels Of apples.
Commander Worien, whose services in
the Monitor have been SO highly appreciated
by his country, will sail from New York next
week as COMMANDED of the Ericsson battery
Montauk, better ship than the Monitor.
The business Of counterfeting the rebel
State treasury notes, lately detected at Rich
mond, was traced to some negroes who were
engaged to sweep out the Treasury Depart
ment. One stole the blanks, while the other
filled up and signed them.
The Charleston Mercury publishes table
in which it comedies the death, on the battle
field, in hospitals, &C., of one hundred
thousand men since the war commenced.
Farmers are not generally aware of the
fact that they are required to report to the
Assessor monthly, the number Of cattle,
hogs, sheep and calves slaughtered by them
and pay the tax thereon. s-
Preparations for doing lar GO business
in the Wisconsin pine woods this winter are
neatly complete. Supplies, teams, camp
eqnipage, &c, &C., have been pouring into
the woods an the Eau Claire and Chippewa
for considerable length of time.
The Boston Journal is selling its old print.
ed newspapers, clippings, scraps, and
all, for 81 cents pound. There is TIE great
est competition among dealers in newspaper
stock, and waste paper, cotton rags, &c,
bring very high prices.
During the last month the following was
the amount and kind of coinage at the Uni
ted Statet mint: Gold ll,730 pieces. value
Z oil
S4l l5S 81; copper, 1920, 900 pieces, value,
$4,000, Total number Of pieces coined.
4,l5l, ,345, valued at $3H,9s2 40.
The number of congressman and ex Con.
gressmea who have been AID are now mill
tary officers is ninety -fou. very large ma
iority of whom have served, or are now
serving in the rebel army.
Three sons of Mr.. Smeigh, of York county
Pa, wore buried alive a fews days ago, while
diggg ng out rabbit. The roots of an up
turned tree fell upon them, and the three
lads were dead when discovered by their
father.
Commodore Vanderbilt has pair of ponies
for which he says he would refuse $4,000!
He has a standing offer of $4,000 to any
man who Will match his team for beauty and
speed. New York is a great place for fast
nays.
Farm lands in the several counties of New
York have been lately assessed at from 81 to
1920 per acre, Hamilton having the first
named assessment, and Kings the second.
The average value throughout the State is
about S33 per acre, New York county not
included.
The reported division and disagreement
amongst the rebels in Georgia and Louisiana
seem to be well founded. --.
Gen. Frank P. Blair is to have command
of a Brigade under Gen McClernand in the
expedition to open the Mississippi River.
One thousand vessels are wrecked on the
coast of England every year on an average,
and about 800 persons annually lose their
lives from these accidents.
They mean to raise tall students out in
Wisconsin. An exchange paper says: ats
board of education has resolved to erect q
building large enough to accommodate 500
students three stories high"
The Supreme Court of New York have de.
cided that "lager bier" does not come within
the meaning of beer, which is forbidden to be
sold at the concert rooms. Most persons can't
see such nice distinction as this.
4 sad accident occurred on the Terre Haute
and St Louis railroad on Monday. A bridge
over White Lick broke down while heavy
freight train was crossing. Seventeen cars
went down, piled on top of each other. Two
men were killed.
MIR. G. Stratton, of Little Valley, New
York, recently sent to Europe five of his
herd of Elk, ordered through New York
house. He is about extending his business of
raising Elk, on account of foreign demand.