Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-01-29
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News Paragraphs.
-Four comets and three planets were discov.
. cred last year. - ,s.
Judge Taney is up on his pins again,
bright as q lark. ..l ss s,at
Two trains now run daily between Nash.
vile and Chattanooga.
!, The rebel navy numbers 5o7 officers and
s74 men. The latter are certainly well officer
ed. -.-i-.--' q -..- ...,......--...5,
The people Of st. Louis design celebrating
the 18th Of February next. 1t will be the
handredth anniversary Of the founding Of the
city. rf-,2-a
! A line Of packets is advertised to commence
running between Liverpool, England, and
Cleveland, Detroit and Chicago, on the lst of
April next. .r-o2g nc rs. f24 7i3.sIE
The New York Senate has passed unani.
mously the Assembly's resolutions, proposing
! change in the constitution, SO as to allow
soldiers to vote. 90. ....,,-sr ~.
Six thousand coffee plants are growing
near Sacramento. They stand the California
winter well. The State gives 81 900 for the
first 100 pounds of coffee raised in California.
John Morgan is advertising for men to
make up another guerrilla force, expecting
ere long to be in the saddle. The Southern pa.
pers are eloquent on his wrongs, and breathe
nothing but revenge. ~ 49, t-,. ,...fe-
On the 18th inst. the sam of four thous-
and four hundred dollars in gold and silver
was found buried on the premises of an old
German resident of Indianapolis, who had
died day or two previous. 94l 'f.| 1a-
Stephen @. Foster, the well-known song
writer, author of "Old Folks at Home.''
"Gentle Annie, "Oh, Susanna, :" 'Old Uncle
Ned" etc, died in New York City, on the
18th. He was native Of Pittsburg. tx
The Jews arc leaving the Confederacy as
fast as they can be furnished papers by the
quasi Government, taking all the gold they can
procure: One Of thsm lately paid three thou.
sand dollars in Confederate money for 800
in gold. -..- :. -,..,'.ll
The total number of deaths in New York
city during the past year was 25 ,196; which
is greater than the mortality of any previous
year, except 1854, and an increase of 9. .972
over the martality Of 1852. The number in
1854 was 26, 952. p Z : ~ sssaa ID l.a
On the 18th ult., Van Horn wss hanged at
Central City, Colorado, for the murder of a
man by the name of Squires, the husband Of
woman with whom he had eloped from john
son county, Kansas. This is the first legal
execution that ever took place in that Terri
tory. .e
The young man, Lovejey, who, in company
with two young girls, was stuck fast in
snow-bank near Morrison, ILL.,, on the terri
BILE night of December 31st, and who had
both his hands and feet badly frozen, had
both hands and both feet amputated last
Monday, and is doing we'll. - .. .-..-t
Brigham Young has hitherto prevented
the prosecution of mining in Utah, fearing
that large number of emigrauts, who are
not Saints would come into the territory
But Brigader General Conner, commanding
our forces there, has issued an order promis-
ing protection to miners. 1t is thought that
the mountains of Utah abound in mineral
wealth.
General Grant and staff arrived at Louis
vile. from Knoxville, on the 11th inst, and
left for Nashville the next morning. He was
six days on his way from Knoxville to Lex.
lngton, travelling the entire distance on horse
back. Gen. Grant is on tour of observation
and took his roundabout trip to acquaint
himself with the condition of things in that
Department. 't
The Will of Elias Boudinot, of New Jersey,
made number of years ago, but just sent
to the Recorder of Deeds office, in Philadelphia,
contains the following curious item II give
to the President and Managers Of the New
Jersey Bible Society 5000, to belaid out in the
purchase of spectacles, to be given by them to
poor old people, it being in vain to give a
Bible to those who cannot obtain the means
IF reading it,"
A large cemetery is being laid out at Chat
:anooga, to be known as the "Chattanooga
United States Cemetery in which will be
buried all the dead of the Union army now
scattered about near the various battlefelds
II that vicinity. The whole ground has been
appropriately laid out in sections each section
will contain one thousand graves and every
grave will be numbered and the name of its
occupant registered for the information Of
rlends; the whole to be under the charge Of
ulcers detailed for that purpose.
The proprietors Of the Peoples Bank, at
hudson, Mich, skeiaddled on the 21st inst,
having victimized the banking fraternity to
N amount variously estimated at from S75.-
100 100000. Their moGus operandi was
o draw drafts upon the Continental Bank of
lew York, for 81 900, and send them west
or exchange for greenbacks at the current
ate of exchange. These small sums did not
xcite any suspicion, and the exchange was
RELY made. Bankers in Detroit, Chicago,
!oledo and other places were victimized to
he tune of about 81 900 each.