Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-12-23
GLEANINGN.

;" "a "s' o' - GLEANINGS. $ - t-a ''.
The Richmond Sentine, calls General
Sherman the "great YankeeI G Colossds. J"
Mice ignitetl some matches and burn
ed drug store in South Boston, Friday.
Apothecaries shouldn't keep mice and
matches together. ID n;} 1aI
The courts have decided that . rail-
road company has no right to enforce
the provisp placed on many tickets,
good for this day only" .ala,i d.
/, iAlexandre Dumas, the distinguished
French mulatto, is expected in New
York in the course of a few days. He
brings with him a. Secretary and two
translatOrs. "e -us .t'
9 Among Gen. Buffers good things at
Norfolk, outside of his military opera
tions, is the establishment Of q Savings
Bank for freedmen, which has received
S24, 900 already. H.. & .. .s
In 1860 Baltimore voted 1888 for Lin
coin, II, GOA for Bell, Il, 500 for Breckin-
ridge, and 1903 for Douglas. In 1864
she gave for Lincoln IA, 739 and 9, SOP for
Mcclellan, a Lincoln gain of 1856. -.s
The largest telescope in this country
has been purchased for $1S, 1877 by the
University at Chicago, which has con-
structed an observatory 90 feet high at
q cost of $25, 900. Chicago does nothing
by halves. s..
It is reported that Stephen +. Mall
lOry, eX-United States Senator and head
man of Jeff, Davis Bureau of Piracy, or
Tin rebel parlance} "Navy Department" I"
has absconded from the Confederacy
and is in Paris. 't
Sarah Vandegritf died at Trenton, N.
j., on the 30th ultimo, aged 95 years.
She was one of the band OF maidens that
sang an ode of welcome when Washing
ton passed through Trenton in 1889, on
his way TO New York. ..sua
r. A lady who visited the "cOntraband
camp" at Norfolk recently was aston
ished to find the name Of every boy ba-
by in the camp to be uniformly" Abra-
ham," In one group We're no less than
nine children, ,all honored with the same
appellation. . "e 50.
A dentist wishes the press to correct
the statement, made on Horace Wal
poles authority, that alum is preser-
vative of the teeth. He says it is, on
the contrary, one of the most destruc-
tive agents with which the teeth can
come in contact. i.'' ass t.
Rev. DIR. Haynes, of New York, is
going to England to beg money for the
freedmen Of the United States. The
English Quakers bave already sent q
large amount of goods and $50, 600 in
gold to the Freedmen's Relief Associa-
ton in New i ork. ., --n--, ..--
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opened in Philadelphia for the purpose
of giving men who have been disabled
by loss of limb, or other severe injury in
the military service, an opportunity OF
education for some practical pursuit.
Telegraph operating, Bookkeeping, etc.
will be taught.
Gen. Henry NJ. Naglee, who served
with distinguished success at Fair Oaks,
Chickahominy, Bottom Bridge, and
White Oak Swamp during the memor-
able "Seven Days" on the Peninsula,
and in the Carolinas, sailed, day or
two ago, for San Francisco, his home.
He leaves the Atlantic coast with the
well-wishes of a host of devoted friends.
The military authorities at New York
are strictly enforcing the registration
law. There seems to be need enough
for it, as there are many relatives OF
rebel officers and soldiers now in the
city-the wives of Generals 6. w.
Smith and Mansfield B. Lovel among
Others. There are also three sisters of
the rebel Gen. Cheatham, of Kentucky
Mr.. Elliott, an eminent statician of
Washington, estimates the rate of NOR
tality in the present war at anly ~ per
cent. per annum, while the rate of NOR
tality in Wellington's Spanish cam
paigns (1811-'14) was 162 per cent. and
that in the Crimea in 1876, even not
counting those who died On the battle
field, averaged % per cent. Mr.. Elliott's g
statistics of mortality in the U. s. army
are for fourteen months ending August,
1862, showing an annual rate of some
what over seven (7.2) in every 100 men,
of which two (2.0) were from killed in
action, and five (5.2) from diseases and
accidents. The rate of mortality of Off
GERS from disease, as in other wars, has
been less than that of the men, but fro m
wounds received in action much greater.
DD~ The battle of Honey Hill, S. c.,
fought on the 30th ult., by force of
$500 men under Gen. J. P. Hatch, re-
suited in severe reverse to the nation
al troops. Landing at Boyd's Point on
Wednesday, the 30th, the troops marched
inland about two miles toward Honey
Hill, near Grahamsville, little village
on the Charleston and Savannah Rail-