Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-29
VOL. XVI---NO 2.
GLEANIN0S.
The most numerous name in the Bos-
ton directory is Smith, as it appears 554
times; and there are 4O8 Browns.

ton directory is Smith, as itappears 554
times; and there are 4OS Browns.
| During last week 1857 emigrants
gate since January 1st of 103, ,692, against
76, APO in 1858. TT IN #
Miles Chesley, Jr., well-to-do farm
er in New Durham, N. H., was re-
Gently gored to death by fierce bull he
was attempting to yoke. -
D. w. Voorhees,, the Vallandigham of
Indiana, was renominated for Congress
by Copperhead convention at Green
castle.
Ogden and Howard, the murderers of
ZOdoc Damrell, were hung at Bridgeton,
n. j., on the Goth. Both confessed
their guilt.
The amount of gold in the banks and
sub-treasury at New York, July 1st, was
S3l ,057 $50, against S42,641 ,065 at the
date last year.
Twenty new regiments are to be raised
in Ohio. A regiment is apportioned to
each Congressional district. The State
must raise about So 900 men under the
| late call. ~ '.-
| The IRON payements are being re-
| moved from the streets of New York,
where the experiment was tried, and
will be replaced with the Belgian pave
| ment.
The Blockly Aims House at Philadel-
phia, fell to the ground on the GOTH by
which eighteen insane women were
killed and twenty wounded. Sixteen
bodies were taken from the ruins.
A little daughter of Mr.. Maxwell, of
Cape Elizabeth, Mass, was guillotined
| recently, by the window falling on her
neck and nearly severing her head from
her shoulders.
Gen. Sherman is sending rebels-men,
| women and children-North by scores
Some three hundred have already
reached Louisville. What will be done
with them, we are not definitely in
formed.
New Jersey promises the biggest peach
crop. One man has $1,000 trees, and
Will send quarter of a million baskets
to market. Wouldn't he invite us to 90
down and spend some Saturday after
noon with him?
A "blt' OF native copper weighing
six tons and worth $1,000, was brought
to Cleveland the other day from Lake
superior. 1t had been chisled out of an
immense mass from the Cliff Mines.
Ex-senator James f. Simmons, of
Rhode Island, died at Johnson, in that
State, on the 14th inst, aged sixty-nine.
He was member of the United States
Senate from 1871 to 1S47, again from 1857
to 1868.
Job Stafford, of Canajoharie, N. Y,
deputy marshal of the Northern District
of N. Y, was shot through the head by
deserter whom he was endeavoring to
arrest, some days since. He died in a
short time.
1t is so dry along the New York Cen
tral Railroad that grass, grain, stumps.
trees and even the soil takes fire from
the locomotives. 1t is next to impossible
to eXtinguish the fire when it is kindled
in the muck land.
The Chicago, Milwaukee, and Pitts
burg publishers have advanced the price
OF their daily papers to twenty-five cents
per week. The New York publishers.
we understand, contemplate an advance.
about the 1st of August, to thirty cents
per week.
Privates Ransom S. Gordon and Dam
iel Geary, 72d New York volunteers.
were hung on the 18th inst, by order of
Gen. Meade, in the Army of the Poto-
mae, for committing rape upon Mrs.
Mary E. Stiles, of Prince George county.
Va.
Jacob Strawn, of Morgan county. IlIi-
nois, has given ten thousand dollars to
the Christian Commission, and other
citizens of the county eleven thousand
more, within the last ten days, the re-
suit of Chaplain McCabe's indefatigable
labOrs
VIM. Pike, of Galesburg, ILL.,, was shot
and killed on the 18th inst, by (as is
supposed Mrs. DR.. Ferris, who is under
arrest. The cause is thought to be some
derogatory reports concerning her,
which she charges the deceased with
having put in circulation,
a submarine boat propelled by COM
pressed air has been built at Rochelle
France. 1t is intended to pierce an enc
my'S vessel under water leave a COM
bustible shell on her side, and then to
discharge it by means of electricity as
the boat retires to safe distance.
There are now forty-fve rebel field
officers kept under fire in Charleston
harbor in retaliation for the same num-
Der OF Union officers exposed in the first
instance to ours. They range from Ma
jor General down to Majors. We won
der if the rebels think that sort of play
will win?
A few days since notorious e,errilla
named Edward Edwards, who resided
near Dalton, Ga, and has participated
in several bridge-burning exploits. and
has taken the life of more than one loval
man, was publicly hanged at Dalton. in
in the presence of a large number of Cit
iZen rebels.
Mrs. Hough, who was recently arrest
ed at st. Louis for having in her posses
sion piece of the skull of one of our
soldiers killed at Wilson's Creek. has
been ordered South. Mrs. HAYNES. an
other rebel, has been released on bond
not to reside south or west of New York
during the war. '+
The steamer Yellow Stone arrived at
st. Joseph on Monday, from a point
about two hundred miles below Fort
Benton. She brought down $4,000 buff
| falO robes for ChOuteau & Co., and LOT
! for the American Fur COMPANY.
Twenty-siX Idaho miners also came
down on her, having over two hundred
| thousand dollars in gold dust.
The Jews rather take the lead in
Prussia. They have there 9S5 syna-
gogues. The proportion is one for 255
persons of the Jewish population. The
proportion of Protestant churches to the
Protestant population in the same king
dom is one for | 1902 persons, and of the
Roman Catholics one for ,249 persons.
The Detroit Tribune says quite a num-
Der OF rebel emissaries are now recruit-
ing in Canada. Toronto seems TO he
their headquarters. At Windsor Maior
st. Lawrence, chief in the business. Oh
tanned over fifty recruits in few davs.
chiefly from among rebel soldiers Who