Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-06-17
lGIEANrNGs.
The Sanitary Commission spent $780,

The Sanitary Commission spent $780,
600 in May for the Army of the Potomac.
Strawberries are becoming quite
plenty in New York, and are sold at
from seven to eight cents per basket, or
tumbler full. ,---->. ---,g.7
/ Gen. Grant was born in Clermont
county, Ohio, April, 13, 1922, and was,
consequently, AZ years old on the 18th
of last April, nsaegs - e asi.''. -. =
The taxes average SIS head to every
man, woman and child, in New York.
Fifty years ago the taxes only cost each
individual fifty cents per annum.
Judge John A. Bryan, formerly Aud
itor of the State of Ohio, and Assistant
Postmater General under Tyler, died at
Menasha, Wis, short time since.
Henry Tracy, aged IS, citizen of
Hancock county, Tennessee, and large
weighed 6l0 pounds, died April 18th.
Jewels to the value of $4,000 were late
ly sold in England for the benefit of the
Polish revolution. They belonged to
Polish ladies, who sacrificed them for
the public cause. - 1A- ~ 81
Beef in Philadelphia, on Saturday.
was soto 40 cents, chickens 25 to 80 cents,
and butter 90 cents. A good many peo-
pie went without meat for their Sundays
dinner, who never did so before.
An official adjustment of the quotas
and credits of Indiana shows that in
all 110,923 men have been called for from
the State and 1922 ,41O been furnished.
being excess of II, 387 to be counted on
the next call. .......-. .
Thr track of the Atlantic & Great
Western Railway is laid below Enon, o.
The Dayton Journal expresses the firm
belief that it will be at Dayton by the
Goth of June. =
Three hundred OK teams and thirty
mule teams are on their way from Salt
Lake City to meet the Mormon emigra-
ton, and to help forward the pilgrims
who arc too poor to pay their own
expenses.
The rebel Cen Lawrence NJ. Keitt, an
eX-South Carolina Congressman, was
killed a few days ago in one of the bat
ties before Richmond. Gen. Dales, an
other rebel, was also killed about the
same time.
Mr.. Darnei of Danyille, Ind, came i,
/ to his death lately from erysipelas, caused
|
himself by saturating a thread with the
virus, and drawing through his arm
with q needle.
| An association was OrganiZedin Prince
I ton, Ill on the 1st inst, to erect a suit
able monument to the memory of the
late Hon. Owen Lovejoy. The sum of
So 600 has been subscribed. 1t is de-
signed to raise not less than $4,000
!
! An enterprising but ignorant South
| American has sent to an Albany loco
motive shop for one hundred "cow
catchers." He expects to use them in
taking wild cattle on the plains of Para
quay, in place of the lasso.
I The Siamese Twins are still living in
North Carolina. One has nine and the
other has eight children. One of the
latter is in the rebel army, but the others
are either girls or boys too young to
| fight.
| No army has suffered more severely
than that of the Danes in the war in the
| duchies. 1t did not exceed 35 900 men at
| the commencement of tl1e struggle, and
the struggle, and the losses are officially
reported at l6,473 men, including 800
officers.
Guerrilla movements IN southwest
Missouri are SO othreatening as to induce
the belief that Shelbyls raid will be (
attempted by that route. They have cap
tured two Government wagon trains
within a few days, and are reported in
considerable force in the rear of Cape
Girardeau. h
A loan case has just been decided in
St. Louis by which John Magwire has
recovered after q quarter of a century of
litigation, land in the northern part of
the city worth $500,O00, together with
the rents and profits which are to be
assessed upon the tenants and will be
very heavy. a-e,
Spain and Peru are at war, the former
power having seized the Chincha Is
lands. This act of Spain has excited
intense Indignation throughout all the
republics of South America. Public
meetings have been held and pledges of
men and money make to the Peruvians.
1t is thought the latter will have an
army of 100000 men in the field in a
short time. "
A frightfuI accident, the result Of care
lessness, occurred near Sunbury, Pa, q
few nights since. A party Of young
folks, five men and three women, had
been attending q circus and attempted
to go home in hand car when they
were overtaken by the express train,
crushing the hand car and killing the
women. The men were caught on the
cow catcher and suffered only slight in
juries.
Over thousand contrabands arrived
in Washington on Monday from White
House, and We're sent to Col. Greene's
Freedmen's Colony. All the men able
t.,, in
masters Department. The colony is in
a most thriving condition, having three
thousand acres under a high state of eu!.
tivation, and crops of wheat and rye that
promise a harvest valued at ten thou
sand dollars.
The great Wizard gun lately construct
ed at Trenton, n. j., was burst a few
days since, by a charge of eighty pounds
ofquick burning powder and an elevated
shot of 900 lbs weight, being more than
three times the service charge. Though
of only fifteen inches caliber, the gun,
from its peculiar pattern, was extremely
bulky, being thirteen feet in length,
over six feet in exterior diameter and
weighing more than 4.600 lbs.
BY an accident on the Chicago and
Milwaukee r. r., at Kenosha, Wis, on
the 9Th, an engineer and fireman were
killed and several persons severely in
jured. The engine, tender and baggage
car were thrown off a bridge 25 feet high,
but fortunately the passenger ears re-
mained on the track, else the loss Of life
might have been very great. The con-
duct of the unfortunate engineer, James
Durf, of Milwaukee, is spoken of as
heroic in the extreme. gD ms 10 l
A family of three persons was muir
dered near FIT. Wayne Ind, on the night
of the 3lst ult., and the bodies OF two
father and SOM consumed by the burn =,
ing Of the dwelling. The mother was
found ina fence corner near the house,
dead, having been shot through the.
haad The name of the family was