Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-12-02
GLEANINGS,

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Professor Benjamin Silliman, ST., tht
eminent chemist of Yale College, dice
on Thursday of last week, at the age o
eighty-five.
Richmond papers state wood in that
fseityis.now 500 per cord, and -four 5000
per barrel. They say the poor must
freeze or starve this winter.
The planters in the lower counties OF
Maryland have. agreed to pay their
former slaves annual wages, ranging
from sixty to one hundred dollars.
The official returns of the October
maiOrities are as follows: Home vote,
$3.50; soldiers vote, 2S, 200 total ma
jority, 81 ,035.
Madison Square Presbyterian Church at
New York, married a New York banker
the other day, and had $50. 200 worth of
bridal presents.
The last new State is called Nevada, ~
from the old Spanish nomenclature. that
word signifying Snowy from the
word "nieve," which means snow in the
Castilian language.
Accounts on file in the Department at
Washington show the singular fact that
since the rebellion began forty tito'sso,sd
more Southern aCAites than OiJtrks hare
Tcceiced assistance from the (f0GGy4anleilf
One Of the Middletown (Ct.) clergy
men, al Il recent torchlight display, eX-
hihiteo transparency over his door
with 4 quotation from Genesis -, j: =
The angel of the Lord called unto
Abraham out OF Heaven second time.'
When Frederick Douglass delivered
his recent address in Baltimore, he met
with his sister, :; freed Mary land slave,
whom lie had not seen since he made his
escape from his master, thirty Years ago
SIX thieves from Indiana, three named
Horton, one named Fry, another named
Forest, and 4 sixth. whose name is not
given, were shot by order of the military
authorities ut Henderson, Ky, on sun
day.
Eighteen millions OF new cents and
SIN miitlons OF TWO cent pieces have
oech coined within the last TWO months.
W hat III the world becomes Of them ali:
W uUh see one of them once y month
hereaway.
The tire that consumet: the Atlantic (
Great Western depot at Clevelands
caught from spark from Il locomotive,
which ignited the root OF 4 sleeping car
ana thence spread to the part of the de-
pot ROOF extending over the platform.
Detailed accounts of the recent cyclone
1t Calcutta estimate the loss OF life at
2J3 instead of $4,000. as at first reported.
VI 2Uo vessels III the harbor there at the
time, only five or sin escaped. MANY of
the vessels sunk with their crews on
board. 3,r
The rebel X-Congressman and ex-
General Roger \. Pryor. Of Virginia,
has been captured near Petersburg. and
is now iii prison at Washington. He
was some time ago degraded to the
ranks, and is private in the rebel
army.
General McCiellan's resignation rem
ders General Halleck the senior major
general OF the regular army. 1t is a sig
niticant fact, that the late Presidential
canvass has been the means of tiepriving
the army OF its two ranking major gem
erals, Mcclellan and Fremont
The Grand Jury of the United States
District Court, at Cincinnati, have found
an Indictment against John NIcElyee,
editor Of the Hamilton Free ?6icgraph.
for treason. The charge IS based upon
three separate editorial articles publish
Ell III McElyee's paper. He gave bail in
the sum OF $1,000, Alexander Long ell
tering into recognizance in his behalf
The John Cinnamon at San Francisco
recently dedicated an $50, 600 temple
The priests, who conduct what they call
worship, shout, screech, yell groan, spin
around amid the racket OF gongs, drums
and fiddles, and smoke opium until they
are quite drunk, when others relieve
them. The fnger-nails Of the chief
priest are longer than his fingers, and
are twisted up like an augur.
The New Haven Journal relates that
boy Ill chat city threw stone, Sattsr-
day, which hit an Old man and smashed
his spectacses, and then went up, ac-
knowiedged the deed, and begged the
old mans pardon. An appreciative gen
tlenan walking past, witnessed the
transaction and donated the amount ne
cessaEy to replace the specs, Yen1arkii,;s
at the same tin" that 1T was worth a
dollar TO near q boy tell the TRUTH
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