Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-01-15
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Brigham Young has just taken a new wifi
his 6lst lsa ,ltriudmpp al 10 -sa
Wild hogs are unusually abundantiin tn
| Minnesota forests. -u''t'''' '|- -- ''
The new Governer General of Cuba is try
ing to put stop to the slave trade.
The coal mines at Oannelton, Ind, yielt
10, 200 bushels per day, p'a.sI9 . 70 81.
Our annual crop Of whisky is estimated a
one hundred millions, Of gallons.
| Bears are unusually numerous in Michigan
this winter. They are rather thievisf too.
England has four wars on her hands - New
Zealand. India, China aud Japan. d. IN
Gov. Curtin, of Pa, is in New York. unde,
medical treatment for exhausted health ant
[,igor. 3 ia.5. -- -' -.' i-t
Bishop Clark got five hundred dollar
marriage fev at Providence, Rhode Island, or
Christmas. .......os,a. d. re. .f,ltg3-..,
Unmarried women are emigrating inlarge
numbers from England to Australia. Some
of them get pretty poor husbands.
A new cathedral is about to be erected ir
Havana, built wholly Of iron, ths estimated
cost Of which is 100000. .a.
A one-legged man at Boston has learned Ia
skate, and astonishes the natives with his
evolutions on one skate and crutch.
The notorious guerrilla chief, Quantrill, has
300 men back Of Lake Providence, on Bayou
Bartholomew. ....-.,-- .'..,
Senator Lemuel j. Bowden of East Virginia
died very suddenly, at Washington, on the %
inst. His disease was smallpox.
A "reliable gentleman" just from Rich,
mond, says jeff Davis will cut his throa
when the crisis of the rebellion comes.
Indisna has flied her quota, and Vermont
has done the same, with quite number Of
volunteers to spare. aa-s 7 af'9 .--t= 3
Mr.. Washburne, Of Ill.,, has given notice o.
his intention to introduce bill to remove the
seat of government from what he calls an inso
lated and barren country. ~ -,
During the year 1868 four hundred and
fifty two American vessels were lost at sea
In this are included those captured and burned
by rebel pirates The total value OF the pro
perty lost is SIC, ,53l 800. 70, 3 $50 $50 ..--
Madame Schnell, fortune-teller Of Louis
vile, and her two children, were lost on TIE
steamer Sunny Side. She had accumulated
SO, 900 by the practice Of her art, but failed
to read her own fate. -
"A room has been prepared in Philadelphis
for the Matching Of eggs by steam after the
custom Of the Chinese. The establishment
is of abut 600 hen power. O..
The greatest stock owner in the United
States is California farmer, who has some
10000 head of cattle He has lost 1000 head
lately on account of the scarcity of fodder.
The New York Herald publishes list Of
fires in the United States during 1862, involv-
ing a loss respectively of over $4,000. OF
these there were l60, with an aggregate loss
Of $ l4,060, ,O00. =, LIS lf Il 81, -s..
The total amount of gold brought to New
York from California during 1868 is esti-
mated ut I'll, ,9O5, ,47S-less than half the
amount brought last year. For the past nine
years the shipments have reached $297 ,o29, :
731. - A'"
Paris fsshions are sensible The newest
styles of winter walking shoes have uucom
monty thick soles, gigantic heels, and are
edged with fur, and are 40 noisy that one can
hardly tell the step Of lady on the sidewalk
from that of trooper. -.-
Streeter, the murderer Of the Mccoy family
at Medina Ohio, whose escape has been men
tien in our dispatches, was re-captured under
the hay in his bIother-in laws barn, at Rich
field, Summit county HIS captors secure
the reward Of $4,000 offered for his appre.
hension.
The weather at St. Paul has been faarfully
cold On Thursday. the 3lst. the thermome
er in iicated IA below on Friday. 81; on
Saturday, 81; on Sunday, 26.i Some ther
mometers, in exposed iocali ties, indicated as
low as 45 degrees, on Friday and Saturday
The weather was the coolest known for many
years. 80. ss.t- ...ta r... ,
Francis Hall & Co, after proprietorshir
of fifty years, retired from the New York Com
mercial Adoertiser on the 1st, and the paper
will be continued by an association as q dis
tinctively commercial paper. The Adoertise'
is the oldest daily paper in New York, and
was formerly edited by Noah Webster, au
thor of Webster's Dictionary.
Mr.. Austin Brown, of Quincy, Branch
county, Mich, on Wednesday of last week
while attempting to cross the railroad track
at the first crossing east of that village. in
front of train, caught the heel of his boo
between the rail and the plank crossway, and
before he could extricate himself the train
was upon him, crushing him to death in
stantly. ....
A Glasgow correspondent of the Bostor
Traveller writes that there are sixty three iror
sea going vessels now being built on thu
Clyde, between Greenoek and the city o
Glasgow. More than three-fourths Of thes,
| are propelors and the remainder side wheels
They are all, with the exception Of three, en-
tireiy constructed of iron--iron keels, iror
covering, iron compartments, iron ribs.
The late mutiny among the colored troop.
at Fort jackson, below New Orleans, was
caused by Lieut. Col. Benedict whipping ter
of the men for going beyond guard lines with
out permission. About one hundred then
revolted and committed some predations. :
They, however, returned to duty next day
The ringlaaders we're arrested and will prob
| ably be shot 1t IS said that Col. Benedc,
/! has been too severe, and he is being tried by
1 the same court that condemned the revolteC
! negroes. The culprits will be shot by mer
! of their own regiment. ,4 4. ..s,..-., -..-,
| An entire family of seven persons was
frozen to death near Centreville, Mich, dur
| ing the cold spell about the LIST. 1t il
supposed their house caught fire during thu
night, and in attempting to escape to othe1
shelter they perished. Their bodies wer'
found in snow drifts. at different intervals or
The road to Centrevlle. The mother haG
made the farthest progress, her lifeless re
mains being found erect in snow drift abou
mile and halt from the house. The bodie'
of the two smallest children were with her
the Youngest at the breast. The name Of tn
family was Krutzer-German.
i ~ The Richmond Examiner thus flip
narltlv and andacio,1 slv announceS the murde