Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-05-20
GLEANINGs.

:. OhiO's deficiency to be drafted for Is
II 900 men.
At what season We're Adam and Eve
most unhappy in Eden? In the Fall.
Gen. Schofield's body-servant COM
mitted suicide at Knoxville, few days
since. E-
The Notifications of Richmond COM
prise three lines of works, with about
fifty forts.
Missouri has filled all her quotas under
the late calls for troops, and has sur
plus of ], 4S5 men. ~
Mare & Hertel, bankers at Chicago,
failed on the 18th. Cause-speculation
in highwines and fancy stocks.
The fashionable ladies of Paris have
adopted the style of wearing dress coats,
tails and ALL made of silk and satin.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad has
again suffered heavy losses by guerrillas.
The loss is estimated at about quarter
of a million dollars.
Why is a lawyer like crow? Be-
cause he.wishes his caws to be heard
(Since giving vent to the above, the au-
thor has become rdren mad.
Ingersoll, the Union candidate, has
been elected to Congress from Illinois by
| :. 900 majority, to fill the vacancy Occa-
stoned BY the death of Hon. Owen
Lovejoy.
| Under the mileage system for members
of Congress, Winter Davis, who lives
nearest the Capital, receives sa2 and
VIM. H. Wallace, of Idaho, receives
Sc, 1897 go.
jeff. Davis second son, a boy four
years of age, fell from the portico of his
fathers house on the 30th ult., fractur-
ing his hip and died in less than an
hour.
The iourneymen tailors of st. Louis,
after a strike of seven weeks, have re-
turned to work without having fully
accomplished the object for which they
struck.
Mrs Catherine Mccoy, found guilty of
murder of her child, by the Criminal
Court of st. Louis, has failed to get the
Judgment reversed in the Supreme
Court, and nothing remains for her eX-
cent the sentence and execution on the
scatf0ld. ..
Hon. w. +. ". Cobb, of Alabama,
tatives. has been charged with 'disloy-
alty to the Confederacy by a Capt.
Posey, and a committee Of five members
has been appointed to investigate the
charges.
The Pennsylvania Legislature adj
journed on Thursday, have passed all tht
important acts recommended by the
Governor. Both branches meet again
on the 23d of August, to count the votes
on the amendment to the CONSTRUCTOR
giving soldiers the right to vote.
The guerrilla n0rse-thief captured {
short time since at the bloody affair a
Hunnewell, Mo-, was executed at Ma
con. on the 9th, agreeable to the sentence
of a court martial approved by Genera
Fisk. The name under which the des
perado passed was Snider but his rea
name is supposed to have been Dean.
The leading bankers Of Chicago have
} agreed to make greenbacks or thei
equivalent the basis of all transactions
) on and after the 18th inst, when they
will receive on deposit at par, and pa!
) out at par, only legal-tender notes, thu
notes of the National Banks, and The
notes of such other banks "a redeem a
par in that city.
There are 20, 900 song birds of differen
kinds sold yearly in the city of New
York. Most of these are canaries. The
bird merchants go to Europe about The
) first Of August, and buy their stock o
canaries, finches, black-birds, anC
+ thrushes of the Germans, who raise
them for sale. They come back in Sep
} teinber and October.
The rebel General Kirby Smith, in hi.
official report of the Red river battles
publis he'd in the Southern papers, claim.
to have taken four thousand prisoners
two Thousand five hundred wounded
eight thousand stand Of arms, two thOus
and and odd mules, two hundred anC
fifty wagons, nine hundred barrels o
-four, and thirty-five pieces OF cannon.
Ezra Chappell, an aged citizen of New
London, Conn, distributed to the poor
of MS town during the past six months
900 loaves of bread. This good worl,
has been his custom during the winter
months of several years. He is de-
scribed as plain man of great wealth
| and possessed of a modest nature that
delights in doing good for the sake o
good. Would there We're more men like
| him.
| Ihe RuSSla0S nave ut last conquered
| the Circassians. On the first Of April a
great battle was fought, with large loss
! on each side; but the Circassians were
| finally defeated, and seeing no hope III
the future of being able TO successfully
carry on a contest they have so long and
so spiritedly maintained, they are max
ing arrangements to emigrate to Turk
! ish soil. The Turkish Government fav-
ors the idea, and has sent five steamers
to take off the refugees if the Russian
| Government will allow il.