Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-04-03

raj Society will meet at the Office Of j. IL. Wallace,
on Tuesday, April 9th, at , O'clock, p. NJ. 1mpor-
tant business will come before the meeting, and it
is very desirable there should he full attendance.
s. TUFTS. Pres't.
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| Mayors CoURr.-Murch 29th.-A man
named Frederick Whitman was arraigned on charge
of assault yesterday upon John Baeca, boy ten
or twelve years of age. The assault was made by
throwing stone weighing three Or four pounds at
| the boy, which hit him on the head, but his cap
having eased the blow ne has not seriously hurt
1t seems to have been altogether unprovoked. Whit
man was held to bail in the sum Of $500 to answer
the charge at the next term Of the District Court.
AN OBJECT OF CHARITY. Some seven.
| weeks since IN Irishman named Jehn Fitzgerald,
living beyond Mad creek, seriously injured by
ba.k falling in on him as he was working on Nc
keough's contract. He was in such condition that
! he could not be removed to the Poor House, and
therefore could not get any help from the county.
His Immediate ncighbors are his own countrymen,
who do not seem to feel very liberal towards him.,
but think the county, city or benevolent society
should de something for him. We are told that he
has been in great need Of the necessares Of life
lie has always been hard working and honest man.
We hope the benevolent society will attend to his
case.
MODEL OF CEDAR RIVER BRIDGE.-Capt.
A. Kennedy exhibited to us this morning model
of the proposed Cedar river bridge. 1t is q hand
some structure. This plan suggested by him for the
construction of this bridge will require five spans
three of I5O feet and the remainder of 100 feet
~ Tte. ;s oted at c29 000: Cant. Ken.
nedy's model may be at the store of j. t. Cor
don or c. Weed Il Co.-Daily 29th.
EGGs.-Our notice of the receipt of large
hen egg last week seems to have incted the hens to
try themselves, and they have made up in quantity
what they have lacked Of the gu lty Of the speci-
men referred to. The market is we'll supplied with
eggs at this time, and prices have declined to SIX
cents per dozen. One firm received during Friday
and Saturday Of last week 5000 dozen, or about
fifteen bushels of eggs! What cackling there
must have been over this huge pile:
A YoUSG HERo-A boy Of this city not
vet zen years of age accidentally cut one Of his
fingers of between the first and second joints, while
playing with straw cutter in a stable, the other
day. He did not heed it so much as to stop his
play and it was not till some Of his playmates came
in and urged him to go to the house that his mother
knew Of the accident. The wound vas dressed, but
the finger will of course be lost. This lad has as
much nerve as the Macedonian boy who would not
shake the coal Of fire from his while holding
the censor at offering.
R@ We receive regularly Hodges Jour-
nal of Finance and Bank Note Reporter. 1t is
published weekly at $3.50 per annum, semi month";
ly at 81, so and monthly at 81 90: Tyler Hodge,
publisher, New York. 1t is replete with informa-
tion Sary to business men. In addition to the
usual reports it gives the buying rates Of money at
Boston, Philadelphia, Cincinnati and Chicago, thus
making it equal to five ordinary detectors. The
Bank Note Safe Guide is sent to the subscribers OF
the Journal
New AUCTION HousE.-We have neglect
Cd to notice that Wm B. Keeler some weeks ago re-
commenced the auction and commission business IN
the old American Hotel building. He has all the
qualifications Of good auctioneer, not excepting
voice like cataract, Give him call. We observe
from handful posted in front of his eStab-
lishment that he is in the "recruiting" business
also, and will receive proposal to aid Uncle Sam In
whipping Brigham Young. kscl"r is hard to bat
on a "scll" of any kind.