Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-08-19
GLEANINGs.

A train of cars at Bradford, VT, was
struck by lightning last week, and four
men killed.
On every receipt for money given or
taken now, a two-cent revenue stamp
must be affixed. w
In the Minnesota 9th regiment there
are about one hundred Chippewa In
dians-good Unionists and brave SOL
diers.
Astronomers predict that in November
of this year meteOric display of falling
stars, similar to that of November 1888,
will take place.
The quota of Indiana under the recent
call is 35, 1872 The State, under the eff
cient action of Gov. Morton, has an eX-
cess of over l., 900.
A single speculator in Philadelphia
has in store twenty-five thousand hogs
heads of sugar, which he is holding for
a rise! How much less than public
enemy is such man?
Mr.. Amos Sally, of Tobique, Me-, was
recently killed by bull. He went into
the pasture, when the animal attacked
him, throwing him three times into the
air, driving his horns into his body and
killing him instantly.
A portion of the walls of 5-story
house in process of erection in st. Louis,
fell, last Tuesday, I'd, killing one man
and badly injuring four others.
The public debt, on the 9th inst, is
announced at 81, 1888, $500 and the in
terest at about S75, 100000, $1,000, 900
being DaVabla in coin
The city fathers of Louisville have au-
thoriZed the Mayor to employ 400 labor
ers, to put the Notifications around the
city in immediate repair.
Gov. Yates has issued an order pro-
hibiting under strict and severe penal
ties all recruiting within Illinois to fill
the quotas of other States.
Platte county, Mo-, is represented as
almOstadesert many houses having been
burned, the inhabitants fled, and small
squads of guerrillas are marching round.
A French writer has calculated that a
life was lost in former days in every 2S5
persons who travelled by land or sea. On
the rail ways there is but one lost in u,
000,00
The Franklin Repository printing
office, in Chambersburg, was totally de-
strOyed by the rebels-all the presses,
books, type, subscription list and ac-
counts; nothing being saved.
John Grigg, Esq, of Philadelphia, SEN
ior partner of the book-publishing firm
of Grigg & Elliott, died very suddenly in
Philadelphia On the I'd ult,, aged II. He
leaves an estate of over 81 900, 900.
An Atlanta paper boasts that there are
now not less than a hundred officers in
active rebel service, with but one leg
apiece. The rebel military authorities
ought to get up hops for the poor fellows
every week.
The Herald Of Progress, Spiritualist
newspaper, and we think the most
widely circulated of the papers devoted
to Spiritualism, has been forced to sue
cumb to the high price of paper and is
dead.
The fare from San Francisco to New
York has been advanced to S400 by all
the routes. The Atlantic and Pacific
and the latter has coal enough to nearly
represent its capital stock.
Samuel S. Southland, agent of the Ad-
ans Express Company at Terre Haute,
Ind, committed suicide few days
since in his room by shooting himself
shrough the head with pistol. He left
a letter saying liquor had ruined him.
The Great Eastern, which cost 81 ,000,-
900 or S., ,000, ,000, has been sold for f25, 900,
or $125 200, which sum will not be su1fic-
lent to pay off preference creditors and
her expenses. Thus it seems that our
Monitors are not the only example of
failure inocean architecture.
The quota of Illinois under the late
call for 500, 900 men is 81, ,057. TheeXcess
over all former calls, is 1915, leaving
balance to be raised on the last call of
16, 1S2 men. The Governor recommends
volunteering and the representative sys-
tenn to fill the quota before the draft.
The city of Philadelphia, on the sth
inst, lacked 9,179 men of filing its
quota under the five hundred thousand
call. The city pays bounty of $400,
and each Ward $25, which with the
Government bounty makes S525 $625 and
$725 for one, two and three years
recruits.
The Sioux Indians in Missouri hold
ten white women as slaves and will not
consent to ransom them at any price.
The treatment these women received is
horrible in the extreme. A party of 600
Sioux lately attacked an emigrant train
and murdered thirteen of the emigrants,
when the rest surrendered.
An excitement in New Orleans has
been produced by an order to enroll the
militia for the purpose of draft. That
city, besides its large secession popula-
tion, contains at least 5000 skedaddlers
from the North, who have rushed there
to avoid a draft at home. We are graft
fled to see such towards caught in a net
of their own making. The mean at
tempt to evade military duty generally
recoils upon those who attempt it.
Three house-breakers were killed re-
Gently in Lancaster, o., while forcing
an entrance into the house of soldiers
wife, by wounded soldier whom the
lady's hospitality had received the eve
ming previous. One of the burglars was
recognized as the lady's brother-in-law.
She had just received $500 from her hus
band in the army, and it is supposed
that this was the temptation which
brought the men on their evil and dis
astrOus errand.
A terrible murder was committed on
July 2Sth, at the Southern Lunatic Asy
lum, near Dayton, O., by maniac
named Coleman, who was noted for his
dangerous character, and having before
attempted to kill the attendants. The
victim, named Runk, was one of the lat
ter, and while carving dinner for the in
mates, incautiously left large knife
near Coleman, who Immediately seized
it and stabbed Runk twice, cutting en-
tirely through two ribs and severing the
liver.
The new Internal Revenue Law taxes
all circulation of the Banks, including
certified checks and other obligations,