Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-10-23
News Paragraphs.

News E'nraSripns.
Denver papers say heavy snow fell in TIE
mountains on the night of the 25th of Sep
TENDER.
BY recent order of the War Department,
officers absent without leave are to be reduced
to the ranks.
The Provost Marshal of Cairo has had the
streets of that town Gle ned by set of gam
blers he captured a few days since.
A burglar literally soaped himself and es-
capped from the loombs n New York by
crawling throug b an aperture 81 by 30 inches
The French invaders of Mexico have
reached the Rio Grande. They now occupy
Matamo as,
The Ind ans in the northwest counties are
troubling tn Californians very seriously, and
they call loudly for more troops.
1t is estimated that the aggregate Weld of
the California gold mines, since the discovery
of gold in 1913, is twelve hundred aud sixty
millions of dollars.
Major General Wool has served in the reg
ular army for 81 years. and has had only
thirty days sbsence an example OF fidelity
well worth following
The rebel election for Governor, Sta'e off.
GERS and congressman, in Mississippi took
place on the 9Th inst. All the old State Off
| GERS were elected.
The recent expedition from Fort Monroe
p York river destroyed $50 boats ard
schooners that the rebels had bcen preparing
for a naval cxpedit on.
The Lindell Hotel, st Louis, the largest in
America, has be n opened. Ire price of
board to transient guests has teen fixed at
So per day, and for day boald $50 per month.
Odessa, Delaware. kept twenty one vessels
continually running to Philadelphia during
the peach season. Some OF the lar gest grow
e-s realized from $4,000 to $20, 900 for Their
| crop.
Advices from the east indicate that cotton
iabri's arc about to rake another upwa d leap.
| The cotton famine so mitch feared 1t would
appear is upon US. Cotton goods must con-
| tinue TO advance.
! A lady who drowned herself for love near
Pawtuckel recent y, was b rne to her grave
on bier carried exclusively by women, and
one hundred other women followed IN proc. S.
| sion.
! Michael Shookma1 died recently in Frank
| lin, Mo-, aged 1O4 years. He left % children,
tie eldest over cigh y and the you gest eight
years of age He vas a native Of iouIon
county, Va
Gen. Banks forces. which he commands il,
person, are a .an far adva eel into the Bay gu
Ieche region At last accounts they were at
V.rnilii nsviile, where there had been sharp
diminishing.
Bishops Purcell and Rosecrans, of the Cath
o. Charch, both attended the polls OF their
respective precincts in Cincinnati. at the late
81, ction and voted and labored fer the whole
Union ticket.
The Jap .nese, before the opening of the r
p'rts bad not had War for two hu dred
years. BIT as soon as Utilization IN .kes an
entrance among those barbarians, they have
war CROUCH on their hands.
The Russian Regular Army consists at
present OF 81 $50 officers AID Sj7,997 pri-
Yates, and the irregular army of 4,sl9 Off
GERS and 303 96l privates making altogether
1904 officers and ,lGl 1858 pr.vates.
Miss Kate Chase, daughter of Secretary
Chase, will he married on the 18th OF Novem-
Der. Several prominent citizens of Colum
bus, Ohio, have received invitations Cover
nor Sprague, of Rhode Island, is the happy
uiaD.
1t has been decided by the War Depart
ment t5at the item Of fare IN sleeping car is
a leg innate charge among the actual neces
sary expenses OF an officer, travelling in the
discharge Of his duty or under orders, If the
jour- ey be prosecuted by night.
In Chicago. the Government contractors
commenced buying horses at alb ut 800, but
now, we notice, they are paying $3.50. A
GOOD span of working horses cannot now be
had for anything less than $500, and carriage
and fancy horses are selling at s2O0@$ $500
each.
WIN. Shelley, aged SO years. died on the
22d ult. near Jamestown, Greene county, 0 :,
where he had resided SO years. H never Saw
steamboat, nor canal beat, nor railroad
nor a locomotive. nor rode in buggy in all
his life. HIS death WAS sudden,-without
sickness or suffering, the oil in the lamp vas
consumed.