Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-05-20
GLEANINGS,


who every night cuts Off his own head
for the amusement of his audience.
Advices from Brownsville to the 14th
state that Maj. Gen. Heron had entirely
recovered from his recent severe illness.
The Post Office Department an
nually uses 900 worth of wrapping
paper, $4,000 worth of Irvine, 500, 900
for new mail bags and $40, 900 for new
locks and keys.
Over 81 100000 of claims for damages
by the riot in New York last year have
been paid, and $500, 900 more will be re-
quired to settle them all.
East India advices, of February 18th,
state that the cholera was raging there
fearfully, 800 having died in village
near Bombay in a single week.
The General Conference of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church, now in session at
Philadelphia, contains two hundred and
fOrty-five members Among the number
are ten editors.
The draft in various parts of Ohio was
conducted without any disorder, and is
now all over. In Kentucky it is now
progressing.
The new tariff bill which is being
drawn up by the Committe of Ways
and Means increases the duties, on an
average, nearly so per bent.
At the burning of the Palace Garden
in Cincinnati, a few days since, quite
collection of curiosities was destroyed. A
sea lion was burned up, also a fine live
eagle, cage of live animals and birds,
a trick pony and a collection of wax fig
ures.
On the Goth ult., at White Creek, VT,
Jabez Knapp, at the tender age of SO,
was married to Thankful Williams, who
was only 81. The census shows that
Vermont is almost stationary in popula-
ton. If this style of marriages prevails
to any extent there can be no surprise at
the fact told by the census.
The strange obstacle of man of color
on the floor of the Senate, received with
distinguished consideration by the most
eminent men of that body, was present.
ed on Tuesday last, in the Haytian Min
lister, Col. Romaine.
That Gen. Sherman is operating in a
rough country may be inferred from
those places bearing the suggestive
names of Rocky Face Ridge, Snake
Creek Gap, Tunnel Hill and Buzzard
ROOst. But the veterans of Lookout
Mountain and Missionary Ridge will
find way to smoke out the snakes and
astonish the buZzards.
Gen. Washburne has issued an impor-
tant order to prevent the smuggling
which has been carried on SO extensive
ly from Memphis. After the LIST instant
the army lines are to be closed around
the city, and no one allowed to go out or
in by land, except by special permit,
The Richmond Wig of May 4th says:
'"There now remains in our hands twelve
thousand two hundred and siXty-eight
Yankee prisoners, distributed as follows:
At Danville l ,1O0 in the State of Geor-
gia, 9,306; at Libby prison in this city,
1911" ..I
Brig. Gen. Thomas G. Stevenson who
commanded the first division of the 9Th
Army Corps in the recent battles in the
Wilderness and at Spottsylvania, and
who was killed, was son of the Hon. J.
Thomas Stevenson, of Boston, and was
formerly Colonel of the Sth Massachu-
sets regiment.
The change in the currency basis at
Chicago took effect on Monday What
is now considered current par funds con-
sists of the following: Treasury Notes,
National Bank Notes, Notes of the State
Bank of Iowa, and of the Bank of the
State of Indiana, and all of the issues of
Illinois Banks, which are redeemed in
Chicago at par in Treasury notes.
In the town of Olean, n. Y, last week,
a man named Henry Barnerlm deliber-
ately killed his wife, and little son three
years and a half old, as they lay in bed.
He took an axe into his bedroom in the
night, and in the morning chopped the
woman to pieces. Barneum made no
attempt to escape, and freely admits the
murder. He says he was impelled to it
by the fear of hard times, and thought
his wife and child would be saved from
suffering if he killed them at once. He
made feeble attempt to kill himself.