Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-04-22
WEEKLY JOURNAL.
LOCAL. DEPAItTM EMF.

of in fremont Hall next Tuesday evening.
TIE PAssoyER.-Thc Jewish Passovei
commenced Monday, the 18th inst, and lasts eight
DAYS During this time they eat nothing but un
lcavcncd bread. The first two and last two days
are observed as holidays by the lsraelites
SWEET PorAro PLANTs.-Jamcs Cattcll
who resides two miles from Muscatinc, on The
Iowa City road, will be prepared to supply sweet
potato plants to all who may call on him this
spring.
TIE CRY DIRECTORY. - The Muscatlne
City Directory for ls59 will be issued about the
18th Of next month. 1t is now in the hands of the
printers at Cincinnati. c. S. Williams, publisher,
and IL. I. Bennett, compiler.
PlKs's PEAKERs. quite number OF
covered wagons bound for the tabled land OF gold
passed through our streets this forenoon, as IN TACT
every day for some weeks past. The tide OF emf
Grafton seems to be increasing rather than dimin-
ishins. Most of those passing this way hail from
Northern Illinois DAILY, lSth.
tg A peaked wagon, drawn by tour
woke of slim looking oxen, passed through our
streets TO- day duly labelled "For Pixies Peel" -
Asa contemporary remarks we fear 1t Will look
..peaked-cr' vet before it gets bac&.-Ddily, 18th
eFThere were more Pixies Peakers pass
ing through the city yesterday than any day since
the dclusiou began. Some of them, who were from
Northern Illinois, laid in portion of their supplies
here. The grocery store of Garrettson Wiley,
under our office suffered quite run IN this way,
and the purchasers expressed themselves highly
pleased with their bargans.--Daily 2oM.
THE DISTRICT CoURr.-Judge Dillon ar
rived by the $50 train this forenoon, and with his
accustomed promptitude had the Court organized
and ready for business before dinner time. Inc
docket numbers over 500 cases, Is OF when are
criminal. 1t is doubtful whether the Court will be
able to dispose of all of them IN the two weeks
ssssion.-Daily, 18th.
F,RE,-A tenant house on the farm OF
VIM, FuIts, Esq, near Moscow. in this county,
was DESTROYED by fire Thursday night OF last
week. l4th inst 1t was occupied BY two families,
who barely escaped with their lives. The hre was
accidental, and took place about 10 O'Clock. All
the furniture &C., in the house was consumed, which
loss is severely felt by the occupants, whose names
we did not learn but who are represented to be IN
destitute circumstances
CATTLE. STEALING. We have heard of
several instances lately of cattle in this vicinity
being missed by their owners. farmer living
few miles from this city found one morning an OK,
which he had used the previous day dead and
already skinned Another man found his COW and
calf both dead and their hides taken of. Others
have been missed and no remains afterwards dis
covered. Efforts are being made to discover the
perpetrators of this nefarious business and it is
hoped they will be successful.
NEW ARTICLE OF EXPoRr.-Mr. Adams, of
this city, is now loading barge at the levee with
about 90, 900 brick for the st. Louis market. This
indicates thatthere is but little demand for building
material here, or else an extraordinary demand in
st. Louis. 1t must be confessed that building
operations do not promise to be very brisk here
during the early part of the season. If the crops
prove favorable and business generally revives,
however, there are many who will improve the fall
season for the erection of new buildings in city
CHARGED WITH STEALING HoG.-Fred.
Miller and Edward Stringent, butchers, whose stall
is at Pappoose bridge, on Second street, were
arraigucd before Justice Washburn yesterday, on
charge of stealing fine Suffolk hog belonging to
Dr. James Weed, of this vicinity. The evidence
was altogether circumstantial. The hog was missed
on Friday last from the field in which it was
fined with others. From marks of blood and other
indications, it was evident that the animal had
been killed and taken away. A wagon track was
plainly visible from an obscure place in the bushes
where it appeared the hog had been slaughtered
Two men, one of whom was identified as Miller,
were observed with wagon in that locality on
Friday afternoon, and they were afterwards seen
taking out of their wagon in the city what appeared
TO be the carcass of an animal, but which was COW
cred from sight. These facts are exceedingly sus-
pcious to say the least but the witnesses failed
to identify Stringent he was discharged. Miller,
however, was fined $25 and costs, but he took an
appeaL-Daily, Goth.
MUslo.-A gifted poet has truly said
'There are some heart-entwining hours in life,
With sweet seraphic inspiration rife,
When mcllowing thoughts like music on the ear,
Melt through the soul, and revel in tear,
And in our opinion one of those happy moods of
sentimentalsm cannot more readily be invoked
than when one is awakened from delicious slum-
Der by the soft and persuasive sound of music from
dormitory Such was our good fortune at the
''witching tme' of last night. The sweet strains
of the "vine- Cottage" "a song just pub
lished,) and other delightful melodies with which
the "Angle Band favored US, are seldom excelled
on this terrestrial sphere. This band has our
thanks and well-wishes for its prosperity. We are
at loss for words to express our thoughts fully,
and can only exclam in the language of the enrap-
tured muse
''Music Oh how faint, how weak!
Language fades before thy spell;
Why should feeling even speak
When thou canst breathe her soul so well?"
Daily, 18th.
CTA citizen of Davenport, writing to
the Gazette from St. Joseph, Mo-, thus refers to
Muscatine. 1t is refreshing to find resident of
the bridge City" speaking of this place in any
manner approaching its merits:
Leaving Davenport on the morning of the Sth
inst, went to Muscatine by railroad. found the
would of your city in its usual condition,
busting and busy. The show of farmers from the
country, in the streets, very fair, and sufficient
to indicate good amount of local trade; and the
appearances on the levees and railroad stopping
place there is no station house in Muscatine) were
proofthat the extension ofthe NJ. 4 NJ. r. r. Branch
to Washington is of the greatest advantage to the
town. After calling upon our friends of the Faust
Printing House, who are accomplished typos, and
doing justice to the "good things" of mine host of
the Ogilvie House, we took the steamer Metropoli-
tan for Hannibal.
MR. EDrroR.-I send below problem
proposed, some time since, by Professor Greenleaf
to the school boys of New England. Perhaps the
old "Pionee1" can throw some light upon it,
Suppose box, the interior dimensions of which
are each one foot What is the greatest number Of
Shoto iuch n wi
tain? WREyH.
MARRIED.,
ON the 18th inst, by Rev. Up. Eckles, Rev. p
c. HErzLER, of this city, and Miss SARAH FUNK, of
Muscatine county, Iowa.
DIED,