Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-04-29
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), A Presbyterian 19ah Church II Ia Greenwich, R
l., has given the female members the right t.
vote9s ErRs no-t seeT9isy sdi srsTisr "a
The Union mon Of Western North Caro-.
lima have hung several rebel conscription
Eagenfsa si sIsfi is,I .Go.soB Ella h9mmi
faa Whitslfish are now being taken in large
\ quaBti.iea in Lake nErie. On Friday last one
vessel brought into SanMdnsky M tweNsy tons.
IL The woman who makes the best shirt for
the ST. Louis Sanitary Fair 10 to hare > prize
Of $500 10 silver ware !; also, $3.50 in silver
ware is offered for the second best. 90
| The novel called Cndio's Cave is selling 50
rapidly that it is difficult to supply orders.
IL has been dramatized, and is on the Eiiis of
some of the best theatres Of New ork,
The bill allowing soldiers absent il, the ileld
to vote, passed the New York Senate isAely.
Yeas. 20, nays none. ALI the Senators, ex-
cept, Nfven and Cozans voted 10 the afirma.
tive t"ls2@ u9D- -'h3 900 IL 7s.1'- ''ii't'
Hon. Thad. Stevens, OF Pennsylvania, who
has worn a wig for these twenty years, was
lately applied to in behalf Of the St. Louis
Sanitary Fair fora lock of his hair to put in
a Congressional wreath sa ae5v i1E
The Chicago Tribune says that Rev @. B.
Thomas, pastor of the First Unitarian Church
in that city, has fed, having been detected in
q crimiriaF intrigue with d married hdy Of
highly respectable connection. 2ai3 n
BY the explosion Of the boiler Of the gun
boat Chenango, in New York harbor, on Z ri.
day last, thirty-fye persons were injured, of
whom twenty-five have since died, and three
more are not expected to recover.
The President has signed the bill extending
the time for the acceptance by States Of the
grants Of land for agricultural colleges to two
years. West Virginia is now admitted to
share in the provisions of the BILL eiT ~
Several nights sgo the boarding house of
Mr.. McMann, At Tarport. Pa ), was burned.
and in j, perished Mrs. McMann, and three
children. Mr.. McMann and one child escaped,
but afterwards died from their injuries,
The Catholics of New York city number
about 100000. There are annually II, 900
baptisms, and from 5000 to 5000 children
make, each year, their first communion, The
city contains thirty Catholic churches at
tached, to which are sixty seven priests.
While funeral procession was passing over.
q bridge over the Allegheny river, at Port
Allegheny, Pa, recently, the structure gave
way, and the whole procession was precipi-
tated2intoF the liver. Several persons were
drowned: among them were four children.
Therebel envoy Mason has turned anchor.
its-shuts himself up-refuses to see COM
pany-is, 1t is said, inaccessible even to his
own friends. Slidell is more phlosophic.
Finding that secession is gone up, he devotes
himself to stock gambling, but studiously
eschews Confederate securities. z-~a.a'9
The Philadelphia folks are making des-
peIate effort to eclipse the New York Fair.
Eighty-one committees have been appointed,
and arrangements made to secure the pro-
ceeds of one days labor, salary, income or
revenue from each person in Philadelphia.
and throughout the State of fPennsylvania, snd
the States Of Delaware and New Jersey.
General Dix informs the New York, York
Legislature that MIR. Rawley D. Capp is held
in Fort Lafayette on a charge of perpetrating
the most Outrageous frauds upon recruits.
de is the king of bounty brokers, and the
transactions in which he is supposed to have
been concerned amount to swindle of moro
than $500, 1000. -.
The mammoth OF, '.Pride of Livingston"
lately on exhibition at the Sanitary Fair in
New York, weighs 1902 pounds, exceeding
by. 200 anything in the line of beef ever
before in New York. There was recently on
exhibition in the same city Berkshire hog
1856 pounds. Its skin has been
stuffed and placed in the doorway Of the
american Agrieslturasist Office on Park
HOW. rUtI rt ,ts24t5 1o. sr'sssgs r9nJ
There is considerable excitement in On
tario county, n. Y, over the recent discover
les of oil and gas springs. One gas spring
has been found which lights and warns the
owners house. One well has been sunk In
the vicinity 400 feet in depth. It is proposed
to sink il, 900 feet if oil Is not discovered be-
fore. At Mecca, Ohio, there is also great
oil excitement. Gil has been struck at
depth ofs725 feet, and farms in the vicinity
have advanced 100 per cent. within ten days.
John W. Dobbins, deserter from the U.
5. army, was hanged at Dayton on the 10Th
INST, for the murder, on the 14th Of Feb.
1853, of farmer named Lindsnmood, who
had wandered out of town with Dobbins, both
being intoxicated, when the latter killed him
and robbed him of his money. The doomed
man confessed the crime, but declared it was
He exhibited the most re.
voting indifference, and attempted to dance
while on the scaffold. He died with scarcely
q struggle. l'6 @f
Nor ExAcrLY.-We clip the following from
the Washington correspondent Of the N. Y.
Tribune: