Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-11-06
News Paragraph.

far as could see it did as we'll as any corn in the
neghborhood. 1 think the planter decided improve
ment IRA LEVEaICH.
News photographic.
The public debt of Boston is about ten mil.
lions.
The present population of London is $780,
OOO-or just two millions more than the city
of New York.
"A congress Of German dentists has de-
clared that sugar and tobacco are not iniu-
rious to the teeth.
The whole number of colored men carrying
muskets in the United States army is about
twenty five thousand.
Seven of the immense seige guns former.
ly planted on the rebel water batteries at
Vicksburg have arrived at st. Louis.
The Daniel Drew, a fast steamer on the
Hudson, is said to have recently achieved l6
miles in Sc minutes. This statement is almost
| incredible.
There was quite heavy shower of snails
few days since at Greenland, N. Y,
which had doubtless been taken up in wa.
ter spout.
1t is said that Grants new command will
be twice as large as that of Meade's, and
many times larger than that of any other
General.
Parson Brownlow issued the first number
of his new paper on the Goth ult. exactly two
years from the day upon which the Knox
vile Wing was suppressed.
Ex-Gov. Thomas, of Maryland, advises the
| Shareholders of his State to take the $500 for
each man and have him enlist. Their pecu-
liar institution is, he says, dead
Ex-Governor Sprague has bought the trot.
ting mare california Damsel' for eleven
| thousand dollars, as present, it is said, for
his betrothed, Miss Kate Chase.
One of the largest dry goods merchants of
New York says that the demand for extraya-
CANT Injuries in the way of costly and snowy
goods is greater now than for twenty years
past.
Memphis abounds with thieves, gamblers,
garroters, &C., and 1t is not considered safe
to be out after dark, unarmed. Hardly a
night passes without violence, robbery, or
murder in the streets of that city.
The famous free soil stronghold of Ohio,
called the Western Reserve, composed #
twelve counties, gave 81 ,lS4 majority for the
Union. The total vote for Brough was So
10Ia and for Vallandigham 1898.
The quota of New York under the late call
for 100000 troops, by the President is co.
37S. She is deficient under previous calls to
the amount of 1867, making the whole
number of volunteers to be raised before the
9th of January next, 1886
The famous trotting mare Flora Temple
died at Belfast, Maine, October the 9th. She
had trotted at Bangor few days previously,
and took a sudden cold, which brought on
an attack of the distemper, of which she died.
Her owner valued her at $4,000.
Cotton manufactures prosper most when
cotton is scarce and high. The mills and
prlnt-works at Manchester, New Hampshire,
sold last year 100000 yards of cloth,
clearing 81 100000 or 60 per cent. on the
capital.
An old lady and two children were burned
to death at Pittsburg, on Thursday night,
while in bed. The bed-clothes caught fire, in
some way, while they were asleep, and they
were suffocated and badly burned before the
fire was discovered by others.
Sometime since, little child of the widow
Green, living at Olena, near Oguawka, in H.
linois, was attacked by pet bear and man.
gled horribly, producing death in few hours.
The mother was also severely injured while
attempting to rescue the child. The bear
was shot.
A Mrs. Bond and her nephew, lad of 70
years, were found murdered at their home in
Clinton county, ILL.,, near Carlisle, on the Goth
ult. A young nian formerly in the employ
of the family is supposed to have committed
the bloody deed, for the sake of robbery. He
is still at large.
In Dcerfield, Warren county, Ohio, sew
eral Vallandigham tickets were deposited in
the boxes with explosive French matches
concealed in them The least pressure will
cause these to ignite. This is Butternut
:" freedom of the ballot" The township is
nine-tenths Republican. That was the reas-
on for attempting to burn up the ballots.
E. II. Durell, acting Mayor of New Orleans,
has issued a regulation requiring the bakers
of the city to sell 45 ounces of bread for 20
cents, % ounces for 10 cents, and IL ounces
for five cents. The violation of this require
ment will bring prompt punishment to those
who disregard it.
A domestic tragedy took place at a small
place called Beetown, IN Western Wisconsin,
near the river, last week. A citizen of De-
fiance county, Ohio, named Thomas E. Lloyd,
shot and killed Dr. II. L. Tawney. who was
living adulterously with Lloyd's faithless wife
at Beetown. Lloyd is in custody, awaiting
trial on charge of murder.
A firm of biscuit manufacturers in Car
Isle, England, by way of showing what
could be done by rapid work, recently had
field of wheat reaped, the grain tbrashed and
ground, and the -four made into biscuits
which were served hot on the breakfast table
vt o'clock, in exactly four hours from the
lime the sickle was put into the standing
grain.
The melancholy "Song of the Shirt" finds
daily exempliication in New York. The
sewing girls are attempting to better their
condition by striking, but it is the struggle of
The very weak against the very strong. One
poor creature who works at shirt-making says
he highest price given where she worked is
80 10 cents per dozen, ''and," said she, ''un-
ess simply haste them up, cannot make
more than four per day" Only fancy very
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