Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-06-03
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GLEANING0.
Thomas Corwi1K United States Minis
ter to Mexico, arrived at New York on
Wednesday, from Havana the 2lst.
Anna Dickinson doesn't draw so well
since she has taken to abusing the. Presi-
dent. At Troy, the gentlemen who paid
her 500 to lecture lost $50 in che opera
ton.
The st. Louis Sanitary Fair, which
opened on the 18th, is likely to prove a
great success. 1t commenced with a
fund in hand of nearly two hundred
thousand dollars.
A terrible accident, caused by the ex-
plosion of fire damp, occurred in the
City, Pa, on the 23d ult., by which five
men were killed and thirteen wounded,
some of them seriously.
A large increase of passenger business
on the New York railroads is noticed
this spring. AS the usual summer trains
have been running all winter, it has be-
come necessary to add another through
train each way for the summer.
Bishop Morris, of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church, thus sums up his minis
terial labors for the last fifty years =
Sermons preached, 1900; miles travelled,
900; annual conferences presided at,
200; preachers ordained, 5000; preachers
appointed to their work, 10000.
In a letter John NJ. Bolts said: "Erom
the pOrtico Of my house / and my fam
lily have seen nine battles fought on my
own fields, and just before my own door,
between hostile troops, who but yestcr-
day, as it were, boosted Of common his
tory, a common nationality, and COM
mon destiny"
A row boat was capsized in Fox river,
at Elgin, ILL.,, on Sunday evening last,
by which four ladies and a child were
drowned namely, Mrs. Haley and
child, Miss Mary Logan, aged seven
teen, Miss Ryan, aged sixteen, and Miss
Flynn. Three persons were saved by
clinging to the boat till assistance ar
rived from the shore.
The Hammond oil we'll at Oil CITY,
Penn, flows over 600 barrels of oil daily.
This is the largest producing well in the
oil region. Its principal owner, Mr..
Hammond, has been laboring in the oil
district for years, with very indifferent
success, and now his perseverance is
crowned with handsome reward.
Captain Samuel Fiske, the Quinn
Brown correspondent Of the Spring
field Republican,, died at Fredericksburg,
of wounds received in the battle of the
Wilderness, Sunday before last. He
was an able and intelligent writer, a
brave officer, who left the pulpit for the
field, and at last gave his life for his
country,
1t is noticed as Il remarkable feature OF
trade just now that an active demand
exists in the East for sugar for the New
Orleans market. Before the rebellion
this would have been looked upon as
carrying Goals to New Castle :" but as
it is, the destruction of the sugar plan
tations in that region makes it buyer
instead of seller.
A correspondent from Nashville writes
that it is perfectly useless for people to
go there from the North, hoping to get
through to the army. Gen. Sherman
has given such strict orders and taken
such precautions to have them enforced
that persons not connected with the
army cannot get to the front The sicl,
and wounded are being well cared for.
Gen. Grants daughter-who is said to
be miniature picture of the Generals
observed with much interest by the Wis
itors TO the st. Louis Fair. She is to be
seen in the Children's Department,
dressed as motherly, specialized n at
ron, and personates Mother Goose's cold
woman who lived in a shoe, and had SO
many children she didn't know what to
do"
Admiral Lee has organized torpedo
and picket division for clearing the
banks of the James river of torpedoes,
The division consists of three gunboats,
seven armed boats and 100 men, and pre-
cedes the fleet in its advance up the
river. They have already securedeleven
internal machines, four Of which con-
tanned twelve hundred pounds, ana one
contained two thausnd pounds Of pow
der. They are all very scientific and
perfect affairs.