Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-03-18
L 0 G A L N EW s

We are indebted to Hon. Jas. Harlan
for volume 9th Of the Pacific Railroad Surveys
Also, to Hon G.. ". Jones for valuable public doc.
uments.
!! ARITuMETIoAL QUEsTIoN.-A subscriber
submits the following for the solution of our read
ers versed in mathematics:
"How can board 1e inches long and inches
wide be cut in two pieces as to make square
foot?"
PRo Bono PuBL1co. x Our downtown
friends, who somewhat remote from the Post
Ofhce, will find post Office box at Palmer 4 Dem
orsst's book store, into which they can drop
their letters with the assurance that they will be
| promptly mailed. Messrs. P. 4 D. also keep post
age stamps for sale. This arrangement, which is
altogether gratutous on their part il great pub
lie convenience.
ROGERS & HIGG1Ns.-By an advertisement
of these enterprising blacksmths, it will be seen
they determined to 'keep it before the people,"
that they doing the very best work in their line
They are also, in connection with other parties,
manufacturing wagons of the most substantial and
durable kind. Give them a call.
in his edition of the Sd inst charges us with doing
what he has done ever since we have been connect
ed witch this paper. We have but few words to say
about the matter and that is that the price for
printing election tickets has awas been fifty cents
Der hundred and our neighbor knew such to be the
fact, when he announced in his paper of the 2Sth
ult that they prepared to print them for thir
ty cents per hundred. In connection with Mr..
Eystra of the Faust office we issued handbils stating
that we wonld print them for twenty five cents
The assertion of our neighbor that we took this
course to let the people know We were hard up, is
simply not true. We never before cut in on prices
and only did in this instance because we had the
example set us by neighbor, who has grown
fat at the business.
We will, however, for the satisfaction of our
neighbour say that if he desires to enjoy monop-
oily of that kind of business we will promise not to
rat any more.
We might 90 on and enumcrate great many
instances where neighbor has cut in on prices
but will let them slide for the present, by merely
calling his attention the old adage, people who
live in glass houses should not throw stones"
We find the above in the aoeakly Enquirer"
aud copy it, false syntax and all, for the edifcation
of our readers and also for the purpose of saying,
by way of rejoinder, that when gave notice that
prepared to print election tickets for thirty
cents per hundred we had no design to 'tcut inn on
the established prices of our neighbors. We have
been for years printing tickets at these rates and
supposed they charged the same. Thirty cents per
hundred is fair living price when 500 or 200 are
ordered at time, though we beg leave to deny
having "srown fat at the business" In regard to
the developments which our neighbor intimates
that he is prepared to make concerning our "cut-
ting i'm on prices we will only say, "go on" by
all means. After he has 'gone on" to his hearts |
con en-, we will produce evidence to show that he
agreed to print election tickets for 25 cen per
hundred before ecs announced our terms!
EDITOR JOURNAL In your notice of
proceedings of City Council" March 18th, you
wrote as follows:
The Mayor reported the receipts and expenditures
of the city for 1885, and also the assets and liabi
ties of the city, which we published in due time
The reports Of some of the city officers not being
completed, the new Council will not be organized
this Saturday evening, as has been announced
There being no more business adjourned to
meet on next Monday evening.
When was the due time, or when will the due
lime arrive, that the taxpayers of the city can be
informed of the real state of the finances of the city,
For one l am gratiied to find that the old City
,wn appontees before they submit to close scrutiny
IN the part of the newly elected members but it is
certainly new idea to me that the refusal of former
to make reports enables the old Coun-
Gil to hold over. Keep back your reports, gentle
men, and the present Council can hold on till next
rear, Mac DUFF. !