Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-08-05

GLEANINGs.


fifty dollar greenback the other day.
Under existing laws white and colored
men may be accepted as substitutes for
each other.
In Detroit there is mandatory for
splitting peas; it divides the peas into
two sizes, and splits barrel in five min
utes. rsEr-F FrtFFE
The terms for the Richmond Erdnai-
mer are, Daily $50, Weekly SIS, printed
on dingy brown paper, half sheet, and
six column page. r-trr, .
The public debt on the Goth inst. was
one billion eight hundred and five mill
lion five hundred and sixty-four dollars
and ninety cents. TT
Dissipation is getting expensive. At
New York and Brooklyn brandy is ST.
glass, cobblers and mint juleps 2O@25c,
lager beer 10c, and cigars 1O@4Oc.
The aggregate number of emigrants
landed this year in New York, up to
July 18th, was 103,602, enough to found
new Western State!
Vulcanized rubber soles for boots and
shoes are now being made at New York,
at the rate of 200 day, by a company
of $500, 900 capital. They are much bet
ter and more durable than leather.
People who have gone to Idaho this
season write back very gloomy accounts
of the prospects. The gold mines so
far discovered are said to be confined to
single gulch and were all fully claimed
and held nine months since. -
Rev. John McClosky, D. D., the new
Archbishop of New York, will be inaug-
urated in st. Patrick's cathedral in that
city on Sunday, August 81, with all the
pomp and ceremonies prescribed by the
Romish Church.
DR.. Osgood's church in New York
has been, sold, and A. T. Stewart, who
seems disposed to lay his hands on
every church he can secure, has become
the purchaser. He offers it for rent by
the day or by the month.
The high price of paper has caused
the Bangor Daily Times to discontinue
at once all its yearly subscribers and de-
pend alone upon the sale of single papers
for remuneration.
Count Gurowski, of Poland, was lock-
ed up in station house at Washington
few days since, for attempting to dis
cipline the Washington Fire Depart
ment. He drew pistol on the firemen
to make them run faster. He was fined
five dollars.
The Rock Island Union mentions the
capture, in that county, of rattlesnake
which measured six feet and seven
inches, and had forty-six rattles-each
one indicatinga year-on his tail. He
must be one of the "oldest inhabitants"
of whom we read.
1t was found on the post-mortem ex-
animation of William Dronefield, of
JohnstoWn, Pa, who died recently of
disease OF the heart, that his entire
arterlal system was in a state of ossifi-
cation: the trachea and larynx were also
partly ossified. But few cases of the
kind are on record.
An alien representative recruit, is
entitled to all Government bounties. the
same as any other recruit. He cannot
be credited to any ward or township he
may elecct. He must be credited to the
ward or township where the man is en-
rolled for whom he is substitute.
There is new oil excitement in West
ern Pennsylvania. Gushing wells, send
ing out oleaginous streams, and many
"greenbacks" are the result. In Greene
and Fayette counties the excitement is
lntense-as great as it used to be about
Iltusville and Oil City. Several new
companies have been formed, and before
many weeks pass all the available terri
tory will be brought up.
While the enemy were in MARYLAND q
rebel officer was asked if he made no
distinction between the property of
Union people and that of the friends of
the Confederate cause? "Not at all,n
ne replied; 1--WE take from our Northern
friends and sympathizers even more
freely, because we feel that they would
specially desire to contribute to the good
cause of the South" Rather clinch-
er, that reply.
Ohio is said to contain 4 800, 900 sheep.
and this years wool product is said to
be about $4,000, 600 pounds. MICHIGAN
has about 4, 4,50O 900 sheep, and the Weld
OF wool this year is estimated at from
twelve to fifteen million pounds. At
present prices the wool crop of the coun-
try.is no inconsiderable item of our an
nual products. But it might be a much
greater one without much trouble and
largely to our profit.
A young married lady, travelling a
few days since from New York to SYRIA
cuse, and suffering from CONSUMPTION.
had been laid carefully on a pillow on
the cars by her husband, while her little
girl remained by her side. At Little
Falls she fell asleep, and the child COM
menced tanning her saying mamma is
sieeplng." A passenger, however, no.
ticed the peculiar whiteness of her l;ps.
cIN Of
ed that she was dead.
MI Moses Taylor, recently rendered
the appointment of Assistant Treasurer
or the United States at New York. has.
in letter written to the Department at
Washington, declined the position ten
dered him. 1t is understood that Mr..
Taylor declines to accept the office i'm
consequence of his business, which re-
quires so much of his time as to lead
him to believe he could not discharge
the duties of Assistant Treasurer with
| advantage to the Government.
The Commissioner of Internal Rev.
enue has decided that clerks and agents
! selling goods by sample, do not REQUIRE
! a license, if the firm for which they are
engaged has a dealers's license. Clerks
| travelling on foot or by wagon, and.sell-
! ing goods, must have a pedler's license.
l Clerks travelling by railroad, steamboat.
&C., and displaying and selling goods at
hotels, stores, or other places, must have
dealers license. Jewelry pedlers. or
pedlers selling dry goods by the original
piece or package, must pay fifty dollars
for their license.
1t is stated in Secretary Fessenden,s 70
appeal to the people. that the Treasury
not unfrequently receives a million =
day. AS tax on incomes, now raises 3
per cent. and bank tax and license fees
begin to come in, there is every pros
Pect that. as the Secretary says. one mill
hon per day in a short time will be the
rule rather than the exception. The