Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-01-08

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Tbs estimated cost of the ship canal around,
Niagara Falls is 5000, 900. aS
Fanny Ksmble i delightng the Londoners
with her Sheksperian readings FL.
Itis rumored that Gen. fitzpatrick, the cei--
ebrsted cavalry officer, has become insane.
"A new comet has been discovered by Mar
settles astronomerIin the constellation crater.
The Osysgarmasshes Of New York, esver
so, 900 acres, and are to be drained at cost
of 5000, 900.
Rats are very plenty At Memphis. An
able-bodied man can ''bring down. about,
ninety = night. ro- WIS gaoas4
By order of Gen. Grant, the sale Of whisky,
either by wholesale or retail, has been pro.
hibited at Nashville, 47et.i # s1adl
There were 1O,620 Federal prisoners in
Richmond on the 18th ult. There were eleven
deaths among them on The same day.
7 A man sat down on the sidewalk in Quebec
= few days ago and froze to death, dozens of
people passing all the while. de
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The doctors are recommending whisky both
ss cure and preventative of dipthsria. The
remedy is immensely popular. ., ,,.3 .1
Elisha Klborn, of Winstead, Ct, seventy.
five years Of age, and toothless these twenty
years, is now cutting q new set Of teeth.
eye, the London operate manager, says
that in fourteen years of opera management
he has spent over three millions of dollars.
Mrs. Lincoln, Mrs. Douglas, Lord Lyons
and Secretary Welles, were in one shop in
Washington, the day before Christmas, buy
ing presents. .n.g.gr. n..tis go .saruT
An eagle, SO loaded down with ice that he
could NOT fly, was captured In Oranse last
week. He measured seven feet two inches
from tip to tip. -''f' $500
An amiable young woman is in prison in
London for getting her mothers life hand.
somely insured and then poisoning the old
lady with arsenic. fs'97l 'Aaf u t-i1s
It is calculated that at the present time
there are about 260, 900 English vessels on
the sea, and that they are manned by above
one million and halt seamen. ~ tac vag7s
A arrangements are nearly perfected for
building fine opera house in st Louis. which
is to hold $500 persons, and to be finished
in October next. .r .rae... l.s.s.
The Montreal Witnsss says that one house
in that city had on board the Chesapeake 11S
hogsheads of sugar, and another 100 casks of
wine. A Quebec firm lose 10 hogsheads Of
tobacco. al f-H ~ sfF 's.H 97''faaisT5
no. .
Gen. JosephJ. Reynolds, the hero of West
ern Virginia, has gone to New ORLEANS to take
command there. A supper was given him by
the citizens of Lafayette, Indiana, previous TO
his departure.
The total amount Of the claims presented
by citizens CT Minnesota for losses sustained
in the Sioux war is $2,6OO,O0O. The Gov
eminent Commissioners have allowed them
81 $4,000. The total number of per-
sons claiming relief was 2,94o. 'fo' = II
On the 9Th Of September, 1742, the first
play performed in America by q regular COM
pany Of comedians, was presented at Will
liamsburg, then the capital of Virginia. The
piece was the Merchant of Tensce, and the
afterpiece, Lethe, written by Garrick. n
The arrival of alien passengers at New FORK
from January 1st TO November 30th, 1868,
was 1859. OF these, S6,691 were from
Ireland, 39,s0l from Germany, and ls,S93
from England. Total arrivals in four years
and eleven months, 472, 1896. From Ireland,
224,e74, Germany, l5s,s4e, England, 81
235. fe.. a --1i rH! "a rF
The Washington Wooden Mills at Law.
renee, Mass, sold goods to the amount of
nearly four millions of dollars last year and
their profits were $s40, 900, fifty per cent. on
their capital. Their surplus now amounts to
$3.50, 900, and they propose to invest half Of
this by adding twenty, five sets Of machinery
more to their mills 49,