Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-01-30
News Paragraphs.

Lehigh coal is now selling in Philadelphia
at six dollars per ton-a decline of one dollar.
A deed was executed at Hartford, few
days since, on which the revenue stamps cost
$50.
Gel Murphy has been placed under arrest,
and is now in Memphis, for allowing Holly
Springs to be retaken in an inglorious manner.
Gen. Banks has been quite i'll, since his ar
rival at New Orleans. He still suffers from
the injuries received at Cedar Mountain.
During the past year 24,77S German emf
grants arrived at the port of New York
The number in 1851 was 1884.
Gen. H. H. Sibley, of Minnesota, has been
appointed Major General, and will command
the Northwestern department.
Grant Trorburn, the well known Horticul-
turist, died at New Haven Conn.,, on the 21st
inst, at the age of ninety years.
Toronto paper states that gold has been
discovered on the Saskatchewan, in Canada,
east Of the Rocky Mountain.
John B. Cough is lccturing in Cincinnati
to crowded houses The proceeds of his lec-
lures are divided between eight benevolent
societies
A dispatch dated at Memphis on the 10th,
SAYS heavy snow storm had prevailed for
the last twenty fours. More had fallen than
had been seen there for twenty years.
| Kentucky had seventeen regiments on the
! Rebel and fourteen on the Uni side at the
ba tie of Murfreesboro. This is "nsutrality"
as near as may be.
Ali the bodies of the Sioux Indians who were
recently executed at Mankato, Mimi. have
been resurrected by the doctors for scientific
purposes.
The number Of deaths in Chicago, during
the year 1862, is officially reported at 2.576.
In 1861, the number was, 2,089; in 1860,
2.056, and in 1859, 1862.
John F. Usher, the new Secretary of tie
Interior, was born in Western New York,
practiced law in Indiana, has been Attorney
General of that State, was a Henry Clay
Wing, and is 48 years of age.
| A man in New York went to bed drunk
the other night rolled out and broke his neck;
his wife found him dead in the morning
Moral: Shun the flowing bowl-or else take
the back side of the bed.
The St Louis Union urges the sale of the
railroads Of Missouri to defray the liabilities
of the State, incurl ed for their construction
The amount of the Indebtedness is about
$4,000.
Rev. Arthur O. Coke, formerly of Baltimore
and distinguished Episcopal. Clergyman, has
been appointed Rector of Cavalry Church
New York city, in place of Rev. DIR. Hawks
dismissed for secessionism. The fat salary
of Sc, 900 per annum is paid by this parish
Mrs. Mary w. Foster died at Mt. Holly N
j., on the 18th December last, aged 100 years
and months. She had 100 living descen
dants, down to the fifth generation. She had
. brother killed in the battle of Bunker Hill
and she knit socks for the soldiers of l77f
and 1862. la
Charles R. Buckalew, the newly elected
q. 8. Senator from Pennsylvania, has been {
member of the State Senate from Columbis
county. He is man of tolerable ability, bu
his Democracy is said to be of the Valandig
ham stripe. He was bitter Lecomptonitt
during Buchanan's administration.
We see it stated in Eastern papers, tha
since sugar has risen in price, plaster of Pari
is freely used in the manufacture of confec
: tionary. If the statement is true, parent
: had better be careful in their purchases o
: the stuff. It would take but small auan
tity of such material to kill child.