Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-15
iiGLEANINGs.

A locomotive on the Chicago, Alton q
st. Louis Railroad exploded at Bloom
! ington, the other day, severely injuring
fireman. reEsg
Gen. Fremont and wife arrived in
Boston July Sd. 1t is understood that
they will pass the summer at Nahant.
Gen. Banks has ordered that all the
sick and wounded in his department
shall be sent North as speedily as possi-
ble.
A gardener near New Haven, Conn,
exhibited head of the brown Dutch
lettuce, the other day, that weighed six
pounds. ril rs .z
| Gen. George P. Morris, the poet, and
co-editor with N. p. Willis of the Hona@
Journal, died in New York OH the 9Th,
aged 81 years.
| John d. Burrell, of Caesars Creek,
Green county, O., who settled in that
region in 1904, died on the, 29th, at the
age of 81 years.
| The U. s. Armory at FSpringfeld,
Mass, has on hand 265,O00 guns-a
larger number than was ever there be-
fore at one time.
| Chief Justice Hornblower, of New
Jersey, died few days ago. In 1856 he
decided that Congress had no right to
! pass fugitive slave law.
| The funeral obsequies of the late la.
mented Chandler, killed at Kenesaw al
the head of his brave 8Sth Illinois, took
place at Chicago on the 7th.
The recent fires in the woods in the
Northern counties of Wisconsin de-
stroyed $3.50, 900 worth ofproperty. Sew.
eral small villages were consumed.
| Within the past week nearly 10000
convalescents have been sent to the
front from hospitals in Washington
About 5000 still remain in hospital.
Speaker Colfax has just had new
street named after him in Washington
He is now serving his fifth Congress
sional term, and has been nominated fol
the sixth.
The Provost Marshals at Pittsbure
have received orders to receive black
substitutes, when offered by white men
under the same regulations as appertaiI
to white substitutes.
| A. j. Goodrich, respectable an(
wealthy merchant at Newbern, N. H.
drowned himself one day last week
He was disappointed in love and was A
years old.
Millions of locusts are making thei
appearance in Wisconsin. Many per
sons have been so severely bitten by then
that they are not expected to live, Thei
last appearance was in 1S49.
i Western farmers are applying petro
leum successfully in the destruction 0
caterpillars. The effect is instantaneous
The oil is applied to thetrunk of the tre
and introduced into the nests.
Forged bonds of the rebel loan ha,
been forwarded from New York, it i
said, and sold in London to the amour
of one hundred thousand dollars. The,
were resold to Holland at an advance.
1t is so dry that large fires raging il
the woods in various parts of the Stat
OF Maine are doing much damage. II
some towns the citizens have great diff
Guilty in keeping the fire from thei
buildings.
i The New York Observer has advance,
i it's terms to three dollars per annum an,
l
Increased expenses are assigned as th
cause Of this advance. A very reason
able reason.
A fire engine has been sent from
Philadelphia to City Point for the pur
pose of forcing water from the jaime
River to the hospitals located near tha
place. In some instances the water ha
to be forced a mile.
A grasshOpper is on exhibition a
Portland the body ofwhich is more thai
seven inches long. The Portland I'D
yertiser thinks that these must be som
of the old Testament insects, in which j
is said the 'grasshoppers become bur
den.'
Isaac Daniels, soldier of the Revolu
tiOn and of the war of 1912, died on tn
29th ult., in New York city, at the ag
of 1O9 years and some months. His dis
ease was simply old age. He was tn
father of nine children, seven of whom
are still living.
/ We have continued sickening detail
of guerrilla atrocities in Missouri. Thes
bandltti are very numerous and trouble
some both in central and southern Mis-
souri,. Gen. RosecranZ is, however, or
ganizing forces to put thorough stop
page on theipnlepredations.
A municipal election was held at Mem
phis on the 30th ult, at which Park, the
Copperhead Mayor was reelected. Gen
Washburne next day suspended the
functions of the municipal government
He had informed Park of his intention
to do so if he persisted in being candi
date.
The bill taxing incomes as finall,
passed stood 5 per cent on incomes be
tween $500 and $4,000, y per cent on al
over So, 900, and 10 per cent on all ovel
$20,000. In addition to this, a specia
war tax of 5 per cent on all incomes il
to be assessed and collected for the veal
ending October 1, 1868.
Gen. Harker, of Sherman's command
who was recently mortally wounded
was born in New Jersey in 1887, anC
graduated at West Point in 1858. He
was an able and brave officer, and hi:
death was the result of his fearless dar
ing in rushing up to charge the rebe
works At the head of his command.
A Richmond paper states that in the
] battle of the 10th cannon ball struck
/ Breckinridge's horse in the breast and
passed out back of the stirrup leather
going between Breckinridge's legs, OF
! course. The fall disabled him for day
. or two. He is said to be much grieved
i at the loss of his horse, and to have shed
! his first tear over him since the war be-
gan.
Hon. Josiah Quincy died at his resi-
dence in Bainbridge, Mass, on the 1st
inst. He was at the time of his death
ninety-two years and six months of age.
Mr.. Quincy was born at Boston on the
fourth day of February, 1772, nearly
four years and half before the Declare
tion of Independence. AS lawyer. an
orator, a judge and writer, he was
justly distinguished. He succeeded in
everything he undertook, and died re-
spected and honored by all, -