Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-10-21
GLEANINGS.

were seriously injured.
| GLEANINGS.
A squash weighing one hundred and
fifty pounds is on exhibition in Auburn,
N. Y. ,
| The taxpayers in New York are to
pay million dollars this year for street
cleaning.
Royal George, SIS, 900 trotting horse,
owned by a Mr. Field, Of Buffalo, died
suddenly of heart disease last week.
The New York wholesale merchants,
purchases, offer their stocks at retail.
Two little girls, playing around pile
of burning straw, were burned to death
at South Bergen, n. Y, on Saturday.
| The rebels in Georgia are using -four
made of the, Chinese sugar cane seed,
and boast of it as an excellent substitute
for the ordinary flour.
! Miss Major Pauline Cushman is now in
| Philadelphia relating her startling add
| ventures as scout and spy in the Army
of the Cumberland.
Mr.. Libby, the owner of the famous
Libby Prison, at Richmond, was recent
|
don Railroad, and is now a prisoner in
our hands.
| The bridge across the Ohio river be-
| tween Cincinnati and Covington will
cost 81, 800, 200, and in length will exceed
the Niagara bridge about 400 feet. 1t
will be suspended 80 feet above high
water, enabling the largest steamer to
| pass under without difficulty.
a thick pamphlet has just been pub
lished to prove that Presidents Harrison
and Taylor were assassinated by poison
in the interest of the South, and that
the mysterious National Hotel epidemic
in 1857 was the result of similar at
tempton the life of Mr.. Buchanan.
Drafted men are not sworn into the
service, as the law places on them the
duty of soldiers without the obligation
of an oath, but it is administered to SUBJ
stitutes who voluntarily enter the SER
vice.
| Massachusetts soldiers in the field will
not be able to vote for President. The
amendment to the Constitution author
iZing soldiers to vote must be passed
upon by the next Legislature and the
people before it is adopted.
An old lady who peddied apples at
Memphis was Set upon by some rowdies
while on packet, a few nights since,
robbed of her stock in trade, and then
pushed into the river. An attempt to
rescue her from drowning was made, but
too late,
The order purporting to be issued by
| the Governor-General OF Canada, order
| ing all American refugees TO enroll
| themselves, is pronounced by the To-
rOnto Globe to be q ''clever hoax" 1t
had the effect of throwing hundreds OF
miserable stockholders into a fright from
which they have hardly yet recovered.
Abraham Lincoln and Andrew john
son are the sons of poor men, who won
their way to the very front by their own
honest labor. George B. Mcclellan and
George III. Pendleton are the sons of ar
istocratic gentlemen. The former was
educated at public expense. The latter
claims to be a Democrat, while all his
sympathies are with Southern aristO-
crats.--Dayton Journal.
Walter Savage Lander, who has oc-
cupied an enviable position as an author
for seventy years, died at Florence, Italy,
on the 18th ult., at the ripe age of 50
He was born in Warwickshire, England.
/ The most of his works were composed at
! Florence, where he has resided many
years. He has written much also for the
| newspaper press, and was noted for h is
old fashioned ideas of photography, to
which ne persistently adhered. 81
One of the railroads running into Buff
falO carried a large number of Mcclellan
delegates, one day last week, and on a
platform car was small cannon. At
| Tonawauda the cannon was fired towards
! the residence of f. +. Jeudon, in frontof
I which Mrs. JeudOn was standing with
her little boy III her arms, and the wad
of the cannon struck him in the head,
killing him instantly, and espattering
the mother with his brains and blood.
Appleton Oaksmith, arrested for being
Implicated in the African slave trade, es-
capped from jail in Boston year or more
since, and fled to Cuba. Our Govern
ment has no eXtradition treaty with
Spain, but in compensation for the de-
livery of Arguelles, the Spanish author
tiles agreed to surrender Oaksmith. "A
United States vessel arrived recently at
Havana to take him on board, but he
could not be found. AS it was announced
several weeks ago that his arrest was de-
termined on, his escape is not matter
of surprise. The matter seems to have
been greatly mismanaged.
i Another meteor has fallen at Hub
bardstown, Mass 1t was first discovered
on the 9th ult., and on examination
proved to be mass as large as hogs
head, of a gelatinous, light colored, semi
transparent substance. A specimen was
presented to the Natural History So
ciety of Worcester, Monday evening,
and although tightly corked in a bottle,
IL had diminished considerably in bulk,
and was partially dissolved. 1t was ola
light straw color, and had strong odor
of sulphuretted hydrogen, with a sui
phurous taste. A chemicalan analysis will
be made. t
gaay~ a Quaker gunboat is being fitted
up in the most superb style for the use of
Little Nap, on the occasion of his voy-
age up Salt river, on the Sth of next No
vember. Her keel has already been con-
structed ofGreen Mountain hickory, its
I sides of Maine lumber, its bolts and bars
of Pennsylvania iron, its bowsprit of
Ohio ash, and it's bottom is'coyered with
Indiana copper. She will be called af-
ter her illustrious commander, The
Little Nap. Pilot-one who knows the