Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-04-01
WEEKLY JOURNAL.
LOCAL. DEPARIME EMF.

SALE OF Woop.-Mr. John II. Axe, Of
this city, has just made sale of 200 cords of wood,
at IS per cord, to the NJ. & NJ. Railroad Company.
Most of this wood is to be shipped to Davenport on
the cars.
The RUSH FOR THE GOLD REGIoNs.-A
gentleman lust arrived from st. Louis informs us
that the city is ovcrfowing with gold seekers. He
learned that the Hannibal and st. Joseph Railroad
was CARRYING daily an average of over 600 passen-
gers bound for the reputed Ell Dorado.
WASHINGTON HOUSE AT WAsHINGToN.-Mr.
w. E. Smith, formerly of this city, has taken the
Washington House, at Washington, Iowa, and is
determined to keep it in such style as to merit
liberal share of public patronage Travellers visit
ing Washington will do well to give him call.
New COUNTERFEIT. Newly altered notes
ON the GRANVILLE Bank of Illinois have made their
appearance. They are tens raised from twos, and
are easily detected the vignette being deer,
while that of the genuine is head OF Washington,
which occupies nearly the entire centre OF the BILL
EDITORIAL VIsIr.-Mr. A. X. Campbell,
one of the editors of the Jasper county Free Press,
called on us last evening on his way to st. Louis
and Cincinnati. He reports business rather dull in
the interior of Iowa, but farmers are preparing to
put in large crops this year and he anticipates good
times after harvest. So mote it be.
U, S. ExPREss.-Mr. Osgood, of Keokuk,
is running on the Keokuk and Rock Island packets
as an agent of this company. Packages will be
delivered by him promptly at any of the towns
along the river. He makes trips three times a
week. Mr.. Joy, resident agent in this city, will
receive packages for the river as well as railroad
Express.
fly In Muscatine there is man so
homely that his wife has board in the next street
to keep from faintng away every time she looks at
him.-CsGar Rapids Times.
IT'S said that this man is about to remove to &C.
dar Rapids, where he expects to be ''the handsom-
est man in all that town." Solook to your laurels,
Mr.. Times
PsLrRIEs.-The sloughs and ponds on the
opposite side of the river abound with muskra is
and as their skins sell for III cents apiece in this
market number of persons are making it pay
faying the ''varmints." One man brought over
400 skins one day this week. He caught the ami
mails in traps. Our friend, G. B. Miller, says he
has killed quite number CT muskrats by shooting
them from skf in the water. Some mink and
coon are also killed in the bottom over the river
Mink skins are worth $3.50 each, and coon skins
from 81 10 to $3.50.
IMPRovEMENT.-The old blacksmith shop
SO long used by Mr. Terry, on the corner of Third
and Walnut streets, has been torn down, and
Messrs. Ament McMurry have commenced erect
ing in its place an extensive shop of the same kind
to be used in connection with their wagon and pillow
mandatory. The dimensions of the new building
will be 40 by 60 feet, and it will contain seven
blacksmith's fires. Messrs A. & NJ. are making
some important changes in the interior arrange
ments of their mandatory. We wish them the
success in their business which their enterprise
merits
DISTRICT CoURr.-The April term of the
District Court for Muscatine county will commence
its session on Monday, 18th inst. The following is
list of the Grand and Petit Jurors the former of
whom serve for the entire year and the latter for
the April term ONLY: