Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-11-04
)I.. XVI---NO. i6.
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E1EANESGS.


The New York insurance companies .
propose to raise their rates.
Miners in idaho get So per day. Shoe
ing span Of horses costs $12.
Fifty pears ON q stem eight inches in
length were exhibited at fair in San
Francisco
The United States has more coal, and
asks more for it than any other country
on the globe. gao -1- =. =
Europe has population of 326, 500, 900,
and in the aggregate standing army Of
4 4,G94 900.
There are now about 115, 900 miles of
railway in the world. These have con-
sumed 100000 tons of iron.
A woman leaped out of four-story
window in Rochester the other day,
landing" on a stone pavement. Strange
to say she was not fatally injured.
The rebels in Missouri gobble up every
man they come. across, and ask if he be-
longs to the Federal army. If he says
yes, they hold him as a prisoner of war,
and if he says no he is conscripted.
Drinking shops and saloons were
closed at Washington, Oh Sunday, and
stable-keepers forbidden to let carriages.
The same regulations viii be extended
to all places where soldiers are stationed.
1t is estimated that during the past
eight months, 10000 ref gees have ar
rived at Memphis, 900 of whom have.
been sent to Cairo. Ofthose received at
Memphis, 1900 averaged the age of four
teen, and :, 400 under.
An engine ran off the railroad bridge
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distance of thirty feet into the river,
dangerously iniuring the engineer and
fireman. Ii is a wonder they were not
killed. The accident was caused by the
draw not being closed.
| Sunset Cox was beaten few days ago
at Richmond, Ind, bya gang of butcher
boys who We're hunting for rebel Off
Ger, in whose company Cox was under
stood to be travelling. He was rescued
by some Union men, after receiving 3
pretty sound drubbing.
Three boys were found near Atchison,
Kansas, recently, smothered to death in
a bin of wheat. They were sleeping for
the night in a partially empty bin, when
the boards of a full bin adjoining gave
way, letting the grain in upon them and
smothering them to death instantly.
a man named John Dolen was hung
at Virginia City, Montana Territory, a
few weeks ago for the theft of $780, He
was followed to Salt Lake, where he was
arrested and brought to Virginia City,
tried and found guilty, and was executed
within twenty-four hours after.
Schenectady boasts a novelty in jour
nalism. 1t has daily paper with two
editors, one Republican and the other
Democrat, who each have a page of
every days paper. The second page is
for Mcclellan and the third for Lincoln,
and spirited controversies are constantly
going on within the limits OF single
sheet. h.-
The codfishery has proved failure
this season. The shore voyages are
over resulting in the smallest catch on
record, and news from Labrador shows
that the catch there is far below the av-
erage. The herring fishery at Labrador
is also complete failure, the catch being
very inconsiderable. The exports look
arger this year than last, but the greater
part has been old fish.
A late letter from Atlanta says that all
The machine shops, steam manufacto-
ries engines and appliances, materials,
supplies, mechanics and prisoners of
war in Georgia have been removed to
south Carolina. It is believed in high
military circles that the rebels propose
10 abandon all the seeded States except
Virginia, North. Carolina and South
Carolina, as they hope, by so massing
their strength to be able to repel the
large armies arrayed against them.
e~Ezss -
iessei Soldiers EEurralsinS for Mcclellan.
A correspondent of the Cincinnati
"onanaercial, describing the recent at
tempt of the rebels to capture Resaca,
says:
I" At one time the rebels had driven our sxir-
mish line within eight hundred yards of the
prt, and captured q sharp ridge right in the
own. One rebel sharpshooter wounded three
D our men in the riflc-pits at the foot of the
.0pe OF the fort, and it was dangerous to move
about the three or four buildings which compos-
ed the town, for fear one might be called for
Just below US q skirmish was going on when
the rebels sung out, 'Hurrah for Mcclellan =
Are there any Mcclellan men over there If
there is let him stand up and we won't shoot at
aim. This fact can be attested to by many
your correspondent heard the conversation"
Ge4p eolomon's Judgment turned the
point of q California orators plea for a
continued Union through a continued
war. He likened the North and South
to the two women who claimed the child
before Solomon, when the wise ruler,
unable to decide which was the mother.
ordered that the child should be cut in
two, and One-half given to each claim
ant. The false mother consented: but
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