Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-11-13
News Paragraphs.

The quota of New York city under the
new call for troops is 18, 12l men.
DR.. Winship is encouraged. He can lift
1900 pounds, and says he shall fetch up 5000
pretty soon.
The English and French papers worry a
good deal over the treatment we are accord
ing the Russian feet.
The Grand Jury of the United States Court
at Cincinnati have found bills If indictment
against all the parties to the alleged conspi.
iacy in Ohio
Trains will run through from New York
to Washington by the 10th of November, and
passengers will not have to swear any more
at changing cars.
Hrs. General Osterhaus died at st Louis
last week. Her husband is absent in the
field, leading division of General Sherman's
army. She Leaves five children.
The dry goods dealers at Philadelphia are
employing large numbers of female clerks
Gentlemen viii get to enjoy going shop
ping" under such circumstances.
The ladies of Indiana propose to hold a
grand fair, after the manner of the F, ir at
Chicago, for the benefit of soldiers families
The first week in December is the time, and
Indianapolis is the place.
John X. Stetler, Philadelp1ian, is under
court martial at Washington, charged with
deirauding the Govern nent in coffee con-
tracts. The sample of his coffee ana wed
was found to be chiefly roasted Indian
corn.
An advance Of a hundred per cent. on COM
mutation for quarters and fuel for officers on
du y at Washington is ordere by the Secre-
tary of War These advances are compelled
by the exorbitqnt increase of expenses in
living. An increase of salaries is also urged.
To prove that Jorge Christy, the founder
OF ChfiSty's Ministries, was not sane when he
wiiled his property to his wife, his skull has
been removed from the grave and carried into
court, and his backbone has been photo
graphed.
Advertisements of Government sales of
rebel property in the city of New Orle MS oc-
cupy seven closely printed columns Of the
Era or the Dist ut. This shows an intention
on tn part of the Govsrnms to carry out
effectively the Confscaticn law.
A New York letter writer SAYS thai the st.
Nicholas Hotel clears one hu dred tn VI sand
d,il'rSa year; the Metropo:itan, eighteen
hundred per week; the New York, fifteen
hundred per WEEK. the La Fargo, twelve
hundred, and the Astor, nine hundred.
A report has been circulating that Gen
Buel has been appointed chief of Gen Grants
Staff. The Dayton Journal says t has suf-
ficient authority for announcing thet he has
not been and will not be He is at Indian
apolis.
A serious ARRAY occurred last Saturday,
near Lebanon, Ind, between Mr. John lien
bricks and a solder. Hendricks dew re-
volver and fired, npping the soldiers ear,
whereupon the latter dealt few surh heavy
blows upon Hendricks head tina. he died soon
afterward.
The English Register Generals recent re.
port shows tina. nearly one in eleven deaths
in London occur in work-h ,uses, and that
every sixth IerSon dies eli her pauper or a
criminal. London now covers 100 square
miles. The population. which increases 900
a week, is now 100000.
The soldiers Of the 231 Ohio have re-en- |
listed in body. The veterans number four
hundred men, and two hundred recruits re-
ceived in Western Virginia-refugees from
the South-have also enlisted for three NOR,
years or the war, making total of six hun
dred men in one regiment. The major por-
ton of the 18th Ohio infa,try have signif3d !
their intention to do likewise.
A fatal ARRAY occurred in Piercetown, !
kosc1sko county, Ind, on the % ult A |
man named Clark, boss on the railroad, while
intoxicated, tried to break in the front door
of liquor shop kept by Baessler, when a
Mr. James Richie rushed up behind and
struck him so hard blow with a billet of
wood that he died the next day.
A young girl at Brooklyn, New York, was
Sc zed with the idea that, like Joan of Arc,
she was born to lead her country's armies
She enlisted as drummer boy ia Michigan
regiment, hoping to rank up to the chief COM
mand. She was shot at Chcamauga and tel
egraphed to her father, IL expected to deliy-
er my country, but the fates would not have
it so am contented to die. Pray, papa,
forgive me-"
A shooting affair occurred in LAFAYETTE.
Ind, last Thursday night, between Levi, W.
Pagan, United State. detective, and John
". Mn'lany, coal merchant, both of Danville.
Ill. The trouble grew out of the arrest of a
deserter, both claiming the custody of the
runaway. A number of shots were fred on
both sides, but 10 on, was hurt, and in the
melee the deserter escaped, /