Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-01-29

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Oysters are selling in Richmond at SIG
gallon, and milk at the same price.
On the night of the 18th inst, five persons
were burned to death in dwelling in Buff
falo, New York.
James Perrine, an old and well known
merchant Of Dayton, O., died on the 22d.
after brief illness. .....-. ..a.-
The message of TIE Governor of Ohio esti-
mates the total loss by the Morgan raid in
that State at $4,000.
The Peru and Indianapolis Railroad was
sold short time ago to Robert L. Cutting of
New York for one hundred thousand dollars.
A little girl named Marie Elsner, only seven
years OF age, said to be q remarkable singer
and pianist, is announced to give a concert at
Galesburg, III.
. Four thousand volumes have been added
during the last eight months to the Astor
Library, which now contains over sixty.fve
thousand volumes.
Mrs. Bowers, Philadelphia actress, lost
her theatrical wardrobe, worth fifteen thous-
and dollars, by an accident to the ferry at
Havre.de Grace, few days ago.
Ground has been broken in st. Paul for the
erection of theatre ninety feet front by one
hundred and thirty seven in depth. and capa-
BILE of seating about 1900 persons.
A still in an oil factory at Lawrenceville,
Pa, exploded on the 18th, throwing lot of
burning oil over two men, James Breden and
j. Wirod, who were burr ed to death.
We learn from the Rock Island Union that
thirteen prisoners were buried on the island
on the 10th inst, and on the same day $50
arrived there from rebellion. On the Goth.
14e left for the gunboat service.
The Touring mill of Marley & Leas, at Ko-
komo, Ind, was totally destroyed by an ex-
plosion of the boiler, on the 18th inst. VIM.
Leas, engineer, and Mr.. Waddle, miller, were
killed and two other men injured-one fatally.
A remarkable meteor was seen few nights
since at Parsboro, Nova Scotia. 1t lighted
up the sky for great distance. was accom-
panied by heavy report like the discharge
of cannon, and emitted strong smell OF
birthstone.
A hundred years ago only six planets were
known to exist. At the present time the
total number discovered is eighty-six. The
number of asteroids is seventy.eight, and
scarcely year passes without new ones being
added to the list.
The first railway train ran out of Chicago
Is years ago. Now there are 80 trains leav-
ing that city daily. The total number of
cars on these trains is ], 432 freight, and 1863
passenger. The daily out trains, if placed in
one line, would reach rs miles and IL rods.
President Lincoln has sent . letter of
thanks to the widow Of Rev. Joseph Stockton
of Pittsburg, Pa, q lady of eighty.five years
of age, for knitting great number of stockings
for the soldiers, and also thanking the young
ladies of that city for feeding the large num-
Der of troops passing through.
Goodwin Smith, the eminent British schol-
ar and statesman, is now showing up in the
London papers the barbarous way with which
the English conduct tho war in New Zealand.
They hunt the natives with blood hounds,
and soldiers IN one instance robbed grave
yard, set up New Zealander's skull on a
pole, and then peltcd it with stones.
Felix Gill, an Irishman, butchered his wife
in horrible manner in Philadelphia, on
W Wednesday night of last week. He had re-
Gently bequeathed to him $50, 900 by rela-
tive in the old country. Soon, from steady
and industrious workingman, he became a
drunken loafer. On Wednesday night he
went home drunk, accused his wife of stealing
his money, on denying which he beat her
with club over the head and body, until she
was dead. He is now in Jail, rejecting upon
the fact that his good fortune has proved his
greatest enemy.
Cases of barratry are very rare. One has,
however, recently come up in Massachusetts,.
George Jones, or, as he claims to be by alleged
grant of the German Empire, Count Joannes,"
is on trial in Boston as a common barrator,'
or stirrer up of suits and strife. He has sued
a dozen..or more persons, at different times, for
libel I'M .ridiculing his pretenslons to title.
He was defeated IN all the suits, and had be-
come so troublesome that he was brought to
trial as above stated.
The English papers contain an account of
the execution of Alice Hewitt, at Chester, for
the murder of her mother. She induced a
neighbor to personate her mother, and by this
means obtained an insurance upon her life
She then killed her mother by the admins.
tering of poison. Some three or four thou
sand persons were present at the execution
She fell upon her knees and prayed that her
infant child might be spared similar fate 3;
and that her death might be warning to
others.