Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-03-11
News Paragraphs.

Michigan has filled its quota and has a
surplus of over 700 men.
Idaho is pronounced " E-dah- no." with the
accent on the second syllable.
The city of La Sale is about to build a
free bridge across the Illinois river at that
place.
Seamon Simons, who was to have been
hung at Bath next month for murder, hung
himself In Jail few days since.
The Louisville Journal learns that the
cold weather during the holidays ruined the
wheat crop in that neighborhood.
In New Foundland there is not a snake, toad,
frog or reptile of any sort; nor any squirrels,
porcupines, mink or mice.
The clothes which Colonel Ellsworth wore
when he was shot at Alexandra, are on ex-
hibition at the Albany Sanitary Fair.
Two Ocean Steamships, the Belvidere and
Northerner, arrived at Memphis, on the morn
ing Of the Oath ult. They were reported to
be on the way further up the river.
On the lst inst, the frst-class hotels in
New York increased their prices to three
dollars and fifty cents per day. The increaed
cost of food and labor is assigned as the reason
for this rise.
Argentine mermaid, brought from Japan," "
is one of the features of the cabinet of curiosi-
ties at the Brooklyn Fair. But it is said to
be not half so attractive as the sirens who
.urround the tables.
A Danbury (Conn Irishman had some-
what varied experience last week. He was
married on Tuesday, went to Jail on Wednes-
day, but got out, and on Thursday vas run
over by wagon and instantly killed.
The Secretary of War has given formal au-
thority to the Baptist American Home Mission
ary Society to take possession of every aban-
doned Baptist meeting house in the insurrec-
tionary districts. .
The reports Of the Indiana wheat crop are
far from encouraging. The stalk is killed,
generally, not 'frozen out" and killed clear
down to the roots SO that there is no pros
pect of its sprcuting again.
Gen. Lee has repudiated the party who
committed the robbery on the Baltimore &
Ohio Railroad about ten days ago-says they
are disgrace to the Confederate army, and
calls for their determination.
A mosquito hotilla, which has been pre-.
pairing for some weeks at New York, is about
to sail for New Orleans, where it will be d.
vided into several fleets, to ope ate in such
rivers and lagoons as are impassab'e to larger
vessels.
At dancing match at Chicago recently, a
buxom Dutch girl danced nine hours con-
stantly when her partner acknowledged him.
self fairly beaten and very tired. The dam.
sci then took six glasses of lager and quietly
went to breakfast.
A correspondent of the Cincinnati Conn.,
nssrcial states that the army of the Oumber-
land is very much in want of onions and po-
tatees. The soldiers, he says, cannot procure
the former at less than 25c a pound, and
even the hospitals are without sufficient sup
plies. Onions are a necessity as a prevents
tive of scrofulous diseases.
A French Protestant Church at Detroit, in
which Father Chinquy had been lecturing
against Catholicism for several days, was
sacked by mob of Catholics. on Saturday
afternoon, who demolished the windows, and
otherwise damaged the building considerably.
Further demonstrations were checked by the
police.
Fourteen Quaker. conscripts, who escaped
from Guilford county, N. c., arrived in New
York last week, and were furnished with
money to take them to Indiana, where they
have friends. They had contrived to keep
out of the army until the last call, when they
chose fight to obeying premptory order to
enter the ranks. They say that nine-tenths
of the population of Guilford, and adjoining
counties are for the Union. L
The report of the Commissioners of Public
Charities and correction of New York City,
for 1868, has Just been published. 1t says
there are 1900 grog shops in the City.
1O, ,753 persons have been sent to Blackwell's
Island, of whom 1898 were males and s,425
were females. Of this number 700 have been
"sent up" for the one hundredth time and
5,775 for the first time. The aggregate num-
Der of times committed is 139, ,0o7, or.twelve
times for each person.
VIM. Greenwood, sentenced to be hung at
Toronto on Tuesday last for the murder OF
two women. committed suicide in his cell on
Monday night, by hanging himself to the bars
of the window with long towel. In order
to strangle himself he was compelled to lie
down, and seems even to have clutched the
bed with his hands and have pulled with all
his might, SO as to produce death. Green.
wood was 26 years of age. and a most despe-
ate villain, as the crime of which he has con
vicled and the manner of his self-inaicted
death, showed.