Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-01-01
News Paragraphs.

Onr blockadlng SquadrOnS have taken one
thousand prizes, yielding thirteen millions o.
dollars to the revenues Of the Government
set on fire by one Of the inmates. The build
ing was destroyed and six of the female in.
mates were burned to death.
The negro schools in New Orleans sustain
ed by the Government are seven in number
with 90 teachers and 100 scholars. The
little darkies prove admirable scholars.
| Robert NJ. Fish, Private Secretary to Gov
Ramsay, OF Minnesota, died very suddenly in
| Washington, on Wednesday night, while &C
companying Mrs. Ramsay to the theater.
Gen. Dumont, member of Congress from
Kentucky, is the father Of nineteen children
ten of whom came into the world in couples
He sits alongside of bachelor Thad. Stevens.
A man at Yellow Springs, Ohio, named
Hezekiah Monroe, who has wife and five
children, lately killed girl (sster of his wife
because she was going to marry another man,
and then attempted to cut his own throat
He is nov in Jail at Xen;a. 1t was pure
case of practical free love, run mad.
Gen. Buford, who died on the 9th inst, at
the house of Gen. Stoneman in Washington
was the son of the well known stock grower
in Ker lucky, and brother of Col. Buford, of
Rock Island, I'll. He was ~ years of aga,
and was made Major General for his dsting
uisaed services on the very day he died.
Mrs. Ruth Briden, widow lady, owner Of
farm at Ella. Lake county, ILL.,, was MUIR
dered on the 22d, while milking in the COW
yard. Her throat was cut with a razor, and
her head bore marks of heavy blows y man
named VIM. Bell, tenant on the farm, is sup.
posed to be the murderer. He is still at
large.
1t has recently come to the knowledge of
the Government that there are along the from
tiers of the Canadas upwards of 10000 de-
ser'ers, most of them in a suffering condition
and anxious to return and join their regiments
1t Is probable proclamation will shortly be
issued by the President, offering pardon 20
all who will return to their regiments within
30 days. .,t
The famous trotting mare, California Dam
sci. recently purchased by Senator Sprague,
of Rhode Island, for 81 900, as present for
his bride, has died from the bursting of a
blood vessel. She was let out of the stable in
the morning, in apparent good health, and
commenced frisking about, when the blood
suddenly flowed from her mouth, and she
soon died.
A reward of $500 has been offered for
the arrest and conviction of the bank robber
who killed young Converse, at the Maiden
Mass Bank, few weeks ago The muir
derer took away with him about SIS, 700, in
Guiding thirty 800 bills. Persons receiving
800 bills on that bank from strangers, would
co we'll to inquire into the character of the
person offering them.
Reverdy Johnson is the father of the United
States Senate, having first taken his seat
there as a Senator from Maryland in 1915 :;
but he has not occupied it continuously, while
Hon John P. Hale has been a Senator from
New Hampshire since l847. So in the House,
Mr.. Washburne, from Illinois, has represented
his district longer, continuously, than any
other representative but Thad. Stevens, of
Pennsylvania, was member some years be-
fore his term commenced
Turner &Mitchell's packing house, at Chi
cago, was burned on Wednesday of last week
The loss will reach from $40, 900 to $50, 900.
The building contained four tanks, holding at
the time six to eight thousand pounds of tai
low, besides which the carcases of 1856 cattle,
killed on the previous day and hung up to
cool, were consumed, with the hides and other
material which had accumulated for some
Gays. This immense amount Of fatty matter,
largely composed of carbon, furnished the
basis for a fire remarkable for intensity of
heat, and prolonged combustion.