Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-11-06
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Chesapeake Canal, NJ O. ,g-s sseSsss sss
The British fleetat japan has destroyed
town and 'hree steamers belonging to one o
the Daimio,.> 81 g, ss. ss.e- ..rg
Charles Burial, of Hoboken, New Jersey
lately died and left $250,0d0 10 the various
benevolent institutions Of Nca York city.
The New York banks now hold % millions
specie, which is ten millions less then las
July. Mr, Chase's pile has increased NOR,
than as much.
People fresh from Paris say the display o
fine equipa ,cs on the New York Centra
Park is gre lter than That on the Bois de Bou
logne. Y -se& as s-16
Mrs Crane, wifeof the Auditor of the Stat
of the B.. & O. Railroad, near Wheeling, or
Saturday, and instantly Killed.
Reports accumulate to the effect that there
IS gisat destitution and suffering among thu
rebel soldiers and poor people. They are
getting sheet of clothing and provisions.
John Minor Bolts, an account of whose
arrest for about the fifth time, by the rebe
authorities, we recently copied from The
Richmond papers, has been again paroled.
Hoa- John Savage, Chief Justice of the
Supreme Court of New York from 1923 te
1897, died on Monday Of last week at his
residence in Utica, at the advanced age O.
eighty four. --@
The man Jeffries, who recently failed in
Boston for 100000, having assets amounting
to a watch, seal-ring, and horse and car.
riage. has been committed to Jail on charge
of swinalin :,
1t is stated bya Philadelphia Sunday paper
that the New York hotel keepers are grow
ing immensely rich. A number of the lead.
ing houses are clearing for their proprietors
100000 a year.
A man named Weed, working on the banks
ofthc Susquehanna, lately, fell off a tree and
was caught by the head between the fork Of
two branches, where; being unable to help
himself, he hung until he was dead.
Two rats were packed in box of clothing
at New Orleans recently, and the box for
waTded to Massachusetts, On it's arrival il
was found the stronger rat had eaten its com.
rade and then himself died of starvation.
Advices received at the office Of the Pro-
vost Marshal-General at Washington indicate
that volunteering is going on more actively
than had been anticipated, in various parts Of
the country.
Two saloon keepers at Cincinnati, Ohio
sold liquor on election day, and had to pay
$50 fine and be "sent up" for twenty days
no wonder Vallandigham didn't get more
votes if the whisky shops were closed. ~~
Anew paper mill, capable of manufacturing
two thousand pounds Of paper per day, is
being erected at indianapolis. The high
price of paper has induced the erection Of
many new mills during the last year.
II is said that while the net receipts Of
John B. Coughs lectures in England were
$4,000, he brought home enly 81 ,6oO-the
balance having been given to charitable ob.
jects. he is now supporting seventeen young
men at college
Among the contributions to the North
Western Sanitary Fair is the original docu
ment of the Presidents Emancipation Proc
lamation-a donation from President Lincoln
himself, Mr.. 3. w. Phillips, of Chicago, has
bid one thousand dollars for 1t.
Gen. Mjlioy has been acquitted lie receiv.
ed orders not to evacuate Winchester until
directly told to do so, and the dispatch en-
bodying this last command failed to reach
him, the rebels having cut the telegraph
wires. --- =. :.
OF The opulence and prosperity of New
York City, the crowded theatres afford OBJ.
vous proofs. At Wallsck's, last Friday
evening, placards were early posted stating
that standing room only could be promised
to urchasers of tick cts, z4ra....s.-ss
The company that is constructing new
line of telegraph between New York and the
West is progressing rapidly. Most of their
line is alresdy put up as far west as Chicago,
and is being extended northward to Milwaukee,
and westward to Dubuque. m z 5ss.s
They make paper of straw up at Niagara.
About 800 reams of straw paper are man.
ufactured daily at Niagara Falls, for the New
York Tribune. The company are building a
large storehouse for straw, just below the
bridge, in the ''midst of the waters"
M. Brice, 4" the giant of the Vosges Noun
tains, is visiting Edinburgh. He is 8 feet
high, feet g round the chest, wears ring
presented to him by the Emperor, and which
IS three times as large as ordinary rings, aad
sleeps on bed feet 6 inches long. 81
The pirates Alabama, Georgia and Tusca-
loosa were ut last accounts still at the Cape
of Good Hope. The United States steamer
Vanderbilt had arrived in that vicinity, and
was repairing The pirate Captain Semmes
expressed confidence in his ability to eluds
her.
The hay crop of Ohio is said to be short
One of the results of the failure of this crop
is said to be that large numbers of. their
sheep will be sent into Illinois and Iowa for
the winter. From two counties alone more
than five thousand have already been tor.
warded to their winter quarters"
Joshua Schofeld, an old and highly es.
teemed resident of Vernon, Ind., committed
suicide few days since by hanging. He
was proprietor Of the extensive wooden mills
at Vernon, and was one of the wealthiest
men in that section of indiana. No cause il
assigned for the rash act. a4
New York is going to give the Russians a
grand ball, with $15 tickets, at the Academy
Of Music, and proposes to get them as tight
as was Japanese Tommy and the Prince o.
Wales on similar occasions after which the
distinguished visitors will be turned over to
the tender mercy of Boston and other cities
Reuben Stout, private in company K, Goth
Indiana volunteers, was executed on Friday,
23d, at the depot of the prisoners of war on
Johnson's Island, Lake Erie, for desertion
and murder. He made the statement that
he was led to desert by the Knights Of the
Golden Circle. one ofwhom he became while
a paroled prisoner. zsa = 4ss zsz ..se.s,s
A correspondent in " est Virginia mentions
the arrival at Gauley9 Bridge, under flag Of
truce, of l60 women and Children. who were
nermitad to leave the Cnnfederacy They