Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-06-24

California sends SIC, 900 in gold to the
Christian Commission. d.
A Portland lady lately issued cards for
a supper party, with "no butter' print
ed upon them. " ---- 40.
The Ohio troops gobbled up by Nor
gan down in Kentucky were hundred
day militia men. as..I
The total strength of the rebel army
now opposing Gen. Sherman's advance
in Georgia, is estimated at from 1000
to IS, 900 men.
The graduating class at West Point
this year, entered with 96 members, and
"weeding out"
Two millions worth of diamonds were
imported into the United States the last
year. So says foreign writer who has
been reading on the subject.
The famous diamond called "The Star
of the South" has arrived at Bombay.
The value Of this diamond is said to be
seven and half millions of francs.
Gen. McClernand is reported to be
convalescent and rapidly recovering
from sickness, which it was thought
for while would prove fatal.
Three Union soldiers-an Irishman,
an Englishman, and a Jerseyman by
nativity-were recently shot, at Mem
phis, for the crimes of rape and robbery.
A man at Pottsylvania, Pa, who had
"a Philadelphia quack extract a corn
from one of his toes, died after submit
ting to the amputation Of his foot and
then of his leg.
The cheapest and best lightning rod"
is flat strip of copper, fastened flat to
the building without insulation. The
electric fluid, in seeking an equilibrium,
will always follow the best conductor.
There has been an immense falling off
in the amount OF meat consumed in
New York. People have concluded not
to invest all that they make merely in
beef, and so have quit buying. Sensible.
A new planet has been discovered be-
tween Mercury and Venus, whose annu-
al revolution is about 95 days. 1t was
first discovered in its transit across the
suns disc, and has hitherto been sup
posed an ordinary spot on the suns sur
face. ....4.
An extensive cOnflagration occurred
at Lill Il Diversey's brewery III Chicago,
on the 10th. Loss, nearly $150,000; in
sured $4,000. This was one of the
most extensive breweries in the United
States.
Among the 'sights" at the depart
ment of arms and trophies in the Phila-
delphia fair is foe sinaile of the "Swamp
Angel" just cast at Pittsburgh, and its
ball of 900 pounds weight. The gun is
twenty feet long, and above five feet in
diameter at the breach.
A Mrs. Mary Miller, of New York,
who has been residing for several weeks
past at Fishkill Landing, committed q
bloody deed on the 18th, by cutting the
throats of her two children (girls, aged
respectively seven and two years. and
then cutting her own.
The Davenport Brothers'-the Cor
dian knot boys, who, with the aid OF
familiar spirits, laugh at cordage-pub.
lish card in the New York papers,
saying that the Davenport Sisters, who
have recently appeared in public in the
same line of business, are not their sis
ters.
Another "crisis'' is apprehended in
Canada, and another ministerial change
the tenth within two years. The pub
lie securities of Canada, which five
years ago were 16 per cent. premium,
to-day are only worth ninety, and
things in the province are in bad way
generally.
Immense numbers of lamprey eel are
caught in the Thames river, about Nor
wich, Conn, The Auror0 says nobody
there will eat them any more than they
would eat snakes; but parties from
Westfield, Mass, have hired the monop-
oily of catching them, at the Greenville
dam, and take them out by thousands
every night. They are sold between
Hartford and Springfield. They weigh
from one to two pounds, and live by
suction, clinging to the timbers of old
dams, rocks, &c. Some folks think
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