Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-10-28
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II. Is. Dodd, the escaped Indiana trail
tor, has been heard from. He is in Can
ada. -. -: :
A large Union fleet arrived off Char
lesion on the 10Th inst. The destination
was kept secret.
Government now allows $50 for a
wooden leg, to all the soldiers who have
suffered amputation. f#4
Yellow fever is prevailing at Charles
ton and Newbern-the deaths therefrom,
at the former point, averaging twenty
daily.
n man named Mosely was hung at
Nashville a few days since, for five muir
ders committed at five separate times.
Six hundred and twenty three invalid
rebel prisoners at Camp Douglas, Chi
cago, have just been exchanged. OF the
number 1893 are unable to write.
Charles Phelps, Acting Assistant Pro-
vost Marshal of Fulton county, ILL.,, was
shot and dangerously wounded while
notifying drafted men on the sth inst.
There are 26s,O79 Indians left in the
United States; $4,000 Creeks, 1880
Cherokees, 10000 Choctaws, Is, 600 Nav
ajoes, 1858 Sioux, and $500 Canaan
ches. Il ~. = a.s..s
There are over 1000 freed contrabands
at Alexandria, Va, and of them all on
ly about twenty are supported by the
government. All the rest take care of
themselves. scS.. s.a ~,
A New York newspaper carrier re-
anntIxy nnIartnnE tn fu n
miles in four hours on the Fashion course,
L. l., but was just seven seconds behind
time.
In New York $50 reward is offered for
those who are drafted, and run away
without reporting themselves. They
are deserters in the eye of the law and
may be caught and punished as such.
The county of Adams, Pa, whose peo-
pie sold water to our soldiers and would
not lend them shovels to dig graves for
the dead after the battle of Gettysburg,
has gone for the democrats by increased
majorities.
Kentucky continues to be overrun
with guerrilla bands. A freight train
on the Nashville Road was thrown of
the track and burned, on Saturday.
Forests raiders are said to have again
crossed to this side of the Tennessee
river.
In New York the other day a lady
broke her husbands knee-pan in lean
| ing over him to caress their child. A
| member OF the Bachelors Club at our
elbow says no woman will ever break
| the pan in his knee by leaning over him
to carcss "their' child, not any.
The terror of the desert of Sahara is
being removed by the application OF
science. In 1860 five wells have been
opened, bringing fishes to the surface
from depth of 500 feet. Vegetation is
springing up around the wells, and the
''desert will blossom like the rose"
| The leading shareholders of Mary
land have taken legal steps to cause the
throwing out of the votes cast for the
new Constitution of that State by Mary
land soldiers out of the State. If the
Court of Appeals shall declare these
votes illegal, the new Constitution
abolishing slavery, will be defeated.
The Supreme Court at Boston, Judg,
Chapman presiding, has given Mrs
Mary $. !iaskins a verdict of ST. SO;
against the Mutual Life Insurance Com
pany OF New York, who refused to pa,
her the Sc, $50 for which her husband
life was insured, on the ground that h,
took an overdose OF lauuanum.
A woman named Allen has beer
burned to death at Kondout, New York
by, as it is supposed, her sister and hus
band. All three We're very dissipated
the sister being the paramour of tn,
man Allen. The dying woman sal,
that they forced her to drink a larg
quantity OF liquor, and then. pouring
Kerosene on the bed in which she lay
set it on fire.
Solomon Sturges, the Chicago million
jaire, who died on the l4th at ChillicOthe
at one time, before steamers navigate,
the Mississippi, built and took fiat boat
to New Orleans, walking home, Il dis
lance of twenty-five hundred miles. II
: 1S49 he built the Wabash and Fri
Canal, from Terre Haute to the Ohio
advancing the money for the work
which was afterward reimbursed by til
State.
The st. Louis Republican, in speaking
Of the opening of a new street through
the cemetery, says collins have been eX
posed, and boys have amused themselve
with thrusting sticks into them, an
pulling out the bones and battering then
over the ground. In two instances, hu
. man skulls have been thus handle
about like foot balls, and long, auburn
ringlets, that, years ago, were the prid
of beauteous maidens, lie scattered abou
the cemetery.