Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-03-04

Gen. Rosecrans is busy systematizing the
military organization of Missouri, and is
about to make complete tour of the State
for that purpose.
The quota of New York under the last two
calls is ninety five thousand, and of Pennsyl-
vania sixty five thousand. Forty to forty.fve
thousand is expected to be drafted in each of
these States.
The receipts of the Northern Ohio Sanitary
Fair, now in progress at Cleveland. were, for
the first three days, in sales of tickets and
cash donations, upward of $4,000 1t is
thought the net rofits of the Fair will exceed
100000. & -. tss;
Vermont has credit of 9, O25 men over all
calls to the present time. This credit will
probably be increased by 500 men re-enlisted
from the State in the Department of the Gull,
and the total will, it is expected, be sufficient
to meet any probable call hereafter. F
A woman at Johnstown, N. Y, foretold the
time of her decease, made all her prepare tons
for that event, did days washing and bak-
ing, took her clothes and hung them away,
saying she should never need them again, and
next morning was found dead in her bed.
The circumference of the earth is 25, 900
miles. A railway train travelling necessarily
night and day, at the rate of % miles an hour,
would require six weeks to go round it. A
tunnel through the earth, IRON En- gland to
New Zealand, would be nearly 5000 miles
long. .s - .-sE
Here is sample of the way in which mem
bers of Congress are cut off in their flights
under the hour rule. On Saturday an orator
was getting along at the following rate
"For such man, and many such there are
in my district, 1 invoke" Here the
hammer fell. -..r
The General Conference of the M. E. Church
in the United States meets in Philadelphia the
first week in May, and continues its sessions
four to six weeks. This body meets only
every four years, which accounts for its length.
The question of the extension of the minis.
terial term from two to three years, change in
the Office of Presiding Elder, and the intro.
duction of Lay delegates, will be among the
most important matters discussed.
A terrible disease, known as the "spotted
fever" has appeared recently in the village of
New Lexington and vicinity, Highland coun.
ty, Ohio. Three children Of the village school
have died, aud the school has been temporar-
lily suspended in consequences. In the worst
cases, the disease is said to run its course
very rapidly, the victims seldom surviving
more than three days after the first attack.
The disease takes it name from the spotted
appearance Of the body. s 81 tt
= It has been frequently stated since the war
began that many sailors of the navy have
succeeded in making their fortunes by prizes.
Within the last six weeks the following enor-
nous sums have been paid over by lawyers
and paymasters to soldiers: One foretopman
got So, 1874; maintopman got 81, GA; two
able seaman belonging to the forecastle got
nearly $20, 600, one receiving %, 600 and the
other $11 900. Marines have received as
high as four thousand dollars, and landsman
have got as much.
Frederick F. Streeter, who murdered the
Coy family at Medina, Ohio, in July last, was
hung in that place on Friday, Goth ult.., Gov.
Brough having declined to commute his sen.
tence. The execution took place in an open
field, the crowd having broken down the in
closure around the gallows. Fifteen thousand
persons ars eaid to have been present. There
was no doubt of Streeter's guilt, but he per-
sisted in denying the charge on which he
suffered. He said: 1.-THE crime for which I
have got to die, am entirely innocent of.
May God forgive those who have fwronged
me-" He fell distance of eight feet, and his
neck was instantly broken. "a T. y9sqse-sl7L