Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-02-26
News Paragraphs.

Philadelphia has sent off its fourth negro
regiment.
A loyal paper is about to be started at
Murfreesboro, Tenn.
Ninety>three negroes were sold at Charles
ton few days since for $245,27o.
King, the pugilist, refuses to fight in Can.
ada, and says he has retired from the prize
ring. tes
The French navy has established an effec.
tive blockade for the Mexican ports on the
Pacific coast.
The friends of Gov. Andrew johnson in
Washington strongly advocate his nomination
for Vice President.
Fitz John Porter, once a Major General.
passed through Atchison, Kansas, on the 4th
inst, going to Colorado.
The beautiful court house at Mobile, cost
ing 5000, 900, was destroyed by fire, save the
lower story. on the 30th ult.
The Richmond Enquirer has q column of
personal advertisements, which it requests the
New York Herald to print, and send bill.
The Congressional Committee OF Conference
on the whisky tax question have agreed to
report against taxing the "stock on hand"
A diver at St. Louis, the other day, after
remaining in the water twenty minutes, was
drawn up and found to be dead from suffoca-
ton.
A statue to Father Matthew is soon to be
inaugurated at Cork, in presence of the Lord
Lieutenant Of Ireland and other high dgni-
taries of the Green Isle.
1t is reported that as tho new fractional
currency becomes defaced counterfeits are
making their appearance with some fire.
quency.
Two rebel prisoners escaped from the bar
racks in Cincinnati, on the 18th inst. by dig
ging tunnel, twelve feet in length, from the
cellar of the prison.
The Paducah Railroad, in Kentucky, has
been repaired, and trains are running regu.
larly between Union City, on the Mississippi,
and Paducah, on the Ohio.
Queen Victoria has planted an oak in the
tgrounds of Frogmore House, to commemorate
the birth of the young prince lately added to
the English royal family.
The fashions tell US that bonnets lust now
are transformed into very pretty things. The
floral decorations in the face are reduced to
moderate Size, and the sugar SCOOP is net so
evident.
The Terre Haute (Ind.) Democrat learns
that female child, born some ten days since
near that city, has neither arms nor legs, and
that it is stout and healthy and has every
prospect of living.
The bill to pension John L. Burns, the
s'hero of Gettysburg" who fought during the
July battles ION his own account" has been
reported favorably in the Senate. 1t grants
pension of eight dollars month.
The act passed by the New York Legisla-
ture for submitting the question of soldiers
voting to the people at a special election to be
held on the second Tuesday of March, has
been signed by the Governor to become law
1t is one of the most singular condolences
of the war, that COL Streight, for whom John
Morgan was held as hostage should have
escaped from prison at Richmond in precisely
the same manner as Morgan got away from
Columbus.
Provost Marshal General Fry has officially
replied to inquiries on the subject of credits,
that the several districts are to be credited
with all men enlisted from the 7th of July,
1863, to March 9th, 1854 with all drafted
men who have responded in person; with all
substitutes furnished by drafted men and
with all drafted men who have paid the $500
Communication fee.
A sad accident occurred at Huntington,
Ind on the evening of the 10th, resulting in
the death Of young lady named Killander.
1t appears that when going into the cellar.
her clothes came in contact with a coal.oil
can. overseeing it, and spilling the oil upon
her clothes, whereupon she remarked, 'If
we can burn oil from the carpet, l can burn
it off my Clothes" and suiting the action to
the word, applied the blaze of a candle to her
dress, which instantly ignited. 1t being i'm
possible to extinguish the flames, she was
burned to crisp.