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Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-04-29

APRIL GOTH, 1858.
Dear Brother Farnsworth:-I send with
this letter in accordance with vote OF
| the church. Among those who leave, l
part with none with so much sorrow as
with yourself. For the sake of your first
wife, and for your own sake, you have been
to me much esteemed brother in the
church and l did not believe that mere
difference in opinion would so ALLEVIATE your
heart from me. have never intended to
do anything or say nything in reference to
you that was not right. may not always
have spoken the trath in the right spirit
may have made many mistakes. A Con-
gregational minister must bring about what
lie thinks to be right by securing, as to
church matters, a vote of the majority. He
can do this only by convincing the minds of
the majority and to do this he must talk
earnestly, and he will appear sometimes, to
those who differ from him, as too eager
Were Presbyterian minister | should be
obliged to convince only my two elders.
You think me tyrannical. Has it ever oc-
Cured to you that l can be so in church
matters only in appearance; for l can do
nothing without the vote of the myo"ity.-
do not and cannot govern Congreg1-
tional church. 1t is true | may IN heart be
arbitrary and in cord, but cannot be so
in act in Congregational church, and In
reference to church matters. L am not
conscious, however, of ever having it in my
heart to rule the church or anybody in it
have desired to work and to work heartily
for the right cause and to urge my church
to do so also.
My brother and father, feel assured that
you are in great darkness in this thing, and
trust the Lord will yet show you the truth.
My heart blesses you and prays for you and
your household, as you now, by your own
act, sever the tie which for twelve, and, as
suppose, for fourteen years, had bound us
together. Most truly yours,
r RORBINs
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A. 3. ROBBINS.
The above letters show on the face Of them
that all was not right in the Congregational
church. As am the candidate represen-
ted in these letters, l only wish to show that
the church has done an erroneous thing by
sending me these letters with the mark of
Cain stamped upon them. SO great was my
indignation that l returned the church let
ter at once consequently l S till remain a
member of the Congregational church and
20 real Congregationalist at heart, notwith-
standing am pleasantly associated with
another church by profession of faith. And
to prove that the church has done wrong in
this letter matter,I need only to refer to
DR.. Cheever's Church, On. Y.,) where the
er parte council rebuked the church severe
ly for giving singular or unusual letters
The above letter to me was a parallel case,
except they asked cnce for certificate and
got a letter to some evangelical church acith
q censure upon 1t; asked four times and
got n hnrn ILL., t~o irsts titles asked Tor
letter to some. evangelical church and fail
ed; the two next to the Presb yterian church.
The last time l succeeded in getting the
thing you see at the top of this article,
which IS an exact copy of the original which
l returned to the church Gts tyrannical
mother.) And now as desired to away
from the real church fcud, where the par
ties We're drawn out in battle array, to avoid
being shot in the head after the heart had
been crippled for years, think it hard in
deed that they should turn on me in flight
and shoot me in the breech.
| would by no means speak lightly of sa-
cred things, and especially of the Congrega
tional church Zone that tirst proposeD and
it was, in its purity, for many years the
idol Of my heart. do not intend to treas
ure up wrath on this matter. 1 only wish
that right may take the place of wrong, and
as the different matters may come up in due
season to show the darkness that we are all
enveloped in, that we shall as soon as we get
the beams out OF our eyes more clearly see
to pick the mote out OF our brothers eye.
This letter matter in all probability will
not stop in nut shell (where the pigmies
live) nor die in the year in which it was
born, but it will still live and settle on
grand basis that will be guide to wander
ing minds.
1 am glad indeed that precedence has
been given, by one Of the er parte council
who said, ''that we can go home now and
know how to give letters to orr applicants"
A. FARNswoRTH.
APPEARANCES. Mexico everybody is
supposed to be an ex-President who wears clean
shirt and keeps his face washed ;-and in this
vicinity, all that buy their Boots and Shoes at
KETcHAM's City Boot and Shoe Store, No. 176
Second street, show wisdom enough in that act
to make the supposition probable .that they have
filed that or some other high Office.
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APPEARANCES. Mexico everybody is
supposed to be an ex-President who wears a clean
shirt and keeps his face washed ;-and in this
vicinity, all that buy their Boots and Shoes at
KETcHAM's City Boot and Shoe Store, No. 176
Second street, show wisdom enough in that act
to make the supposition probable .that they have
filed that or some other high Office.
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- Z. ~. IA "a WiIlia. 4 Bu.,l |,

ID ~ IA 11oll nd Willian i. BuSIl.
sHkk11a new O. Als IN the once Of tho Clerk
q The QAGtxlol Qasx4 ~ Lee County, Iowa, a
Keoknks ths petition of Miller, Mayhem Co.,
V1njmfng u i. ~. Duell 1sdsment 81 three hun
19o4Aollase q . pr0nasseey noSs executed BY him
q JAmM =. Brace and BY him sndorysd to plain
11S also, the foreclosure Of mortsass on certain
fsal estate In Ksokuk, Lss county given Is secure
thepefm4nt a said Aots. Said petition rapscscnts
ahat William :. Buell. has IN interest Ia said
property and prays for = judgment and the fore.
tnstion u the inssfesf II both the defendants in
The premises, and for general relief.
Unless you appear and answer said petition on OF
before the second day Of the June term (1S59) OF
said Ootrt, Judgment will be rendered sganst you.
RANKIN, MILLER 4 ENsTER,
May 4, lS5e-d Plaintids' AM'ys.
To Guy Wells, Hugh W sample, samuel X. Curtis,
Frank q. Q. TmstSd, Edward Kilbounc, II. II.
Ford, D. w. Ford, James Holsey, A. 4. Deming,
John w ClsghoFn, =. n Harrison, Elihu Gum,
David B. Gum, Oscar \. Davis, Noah Greeley:
VINHERkis now on hle In the ONCE OF the Clerk Of
L the District Court Of Lee County, Iowa, IT Kso-
kuk, the petition Of Hannah n. Taggert, Execu-
trix Of the estate OF Robert Tsggrat dscsased and
Emma 7. Taggert and Alice q. Tasgart, minor
children, by Hannah M. Taggast their guardian,
fifth Of certain lands in Lea county, lows, and the
specific performance OF contract with Robert Tag
CART Of Dccembce 18th, 1850. Said petition prays
for decree, partition Of the lands described In
the petition, and for general relief.
Unless you appear and answer said petition on or
before he second day Of the Jane term tl859l Of
said Court Judgment Will b wondered against you.
RANKIN, MILLER y ENS1ER,
May II, 1S6od1m Plaintiff Att'ys.
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Fever and Ague,

from which mankind suffer over q large part Of
the globe, is the consequences Of diseased action
in the SYSTEM induced by the poisonous miasm OF
vegetable decay. This exhalaton is evolved by
the action of solar heat on wet SOIL and rises with
the watery vapor from it. While the sun IL below
the horizon this vapor fingers the earth's sur
face, and the virus is taken with II through the
lungs into the blood There II acts as an irritating
poison the internal viscera and cxcrctng organs
of the body. The liver becomes torpid and fails to
sccrete not only this virus but also the bile from
the blood. Both the virus and the bile accumulate
in the circulation and produce violent consttu-
tional disorder. The spleen. the kidneys, and the
stomach sympathize with the liver, and become
dsordered also. Finally, the instinct OF our or
ganism as il in an attempt to expel the noxious
Infusion concentrates the whole blood Of the body
mi TIE internal excrctories to force them TO cast
out The blood leaves the surface. and rushes to
the central organs with congestive violence. This
is the Chill But in this effort il fails. Then the
FRrgR follows, in which the blood leaves the cen
trail organs and rushes to the surface, as if IN
another effort expe the irritating poison through
that other great excretory - the skin. In this
also ii falls and the system abandons the attempt
exhausted, and waits for the recovery Of strength
to repeat the hopeless effort another day. These
are the fits or paroxysms of FEVER AND AaUE.
Sael constitutional disorder will of course under
mine the health if it is not removed.
We have labored to find, and have found, an
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Legal Neslcs.
Legal notice.
To John A. McKenny, Geo. b. Wilson, +. Nc
Kenny, r. w. CLARK, Turpin Daughters, and Mil


To John A. McKenny, Geo. B. Wilson, r. I Nc
Kenny, r. w. clark, Turpin Daughters, and Nil
ton Jamison:
You and each Of you are hereby notified that
L thsreis now on file in the Office Of the Clerk II
the District Court Of Lee County, lows, At
= petition Of John Lafon Ginning OF John A. Nc
Kenny and George b. Wilson tho sam Of six hun
dred and sixty six S. 100 dollars, With interes. on
the same from December l3 1885, until paid, q the
rate of ten per cent. per snnum, - money duc On
promissory note executed 70 Stsnnus Hamltou
and by them assigned 10 plaintiff. Said petition
also claims Of all Of you the foreclosure Of .
mortgage executed by said John A. MeKenny and
Geo. B. Wilson 10 John Stannss and John Hamil-
ton to secure said note, and BY said 6tannus and
HAmilto assigned to your petitioner. Said mort
gage conveys the following real estate, TO Wit /:
The rear twenty feet Of lots and In block thir.
ty-six In the city Of keokuk, beng twenty feet
fronting Fifth street of the rear end Of lot
en- and extending the same width across lots seven
and eight Of said block, being - by 100 feet
Said petition prsys judgment sgainst said John A.
McKenny and Geo. b. Wilson for the amount Of
said note interest and COSTS and claims against Ill
OF you the foreclosure Of said mortgage and the
sale Of said real sate 10 safety the amount due.
Now unless You appear and answer said petition
before the second day Of the next term Of said
District Court, commencing ct keokak the fourth
Monday in June, 1859, judgment and decree will
be rendered sgainst you In accordance with the
prayer Of said petition and said real estate will be
sold, and all interest of all defendants cut Cd and
forever barred and extinguished.
McCRARY BRUCE,
Mas ., ls5o-d Atty's for pltf.
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n Office,

s
70 Bamusl Dunlap, Thomas Dunlap, Edward G.
PYLE, israel Tennis, william Timberman, L. B.
MAltby, q. III. Cox, and w. 8. Walker:
NOUs are hereby notified that on or before tho
- 18th day Of January, A. d. 1859, petition in
Chauccry Of Amos II Brown VIII be placed ON Gle
in the Clerks Once Of the District Court Of Lee
County, lows, 1t the City Of Keokuk, claiming
against you the foreclosure OF a mortgage Of date
lst July 1857, given by the said samuel Dunlap
on Lots number one, two three and six In Block
one hundred and forty-two, and Lots number sew
ty-two, of the City Of Keokuk aforesaid, with con-
dition. TO be void on the payment or four promis-
sorry notes all of date lst January, 1857 given by
said samuel Dunlap and each endorsed by said
Thomas Dunlap, coming due and payable to the
said plaintiff a. follows:
One note due one year from date, amount $3.50
One note due two years from date, amount $50
One rote due three years from date, amount $50
One note due four years frsm date, amount 76O
All bearing 10 per cent. interest. And also the
following, viz;
One ns,e Of date Feb. l, 1857, due / year from
date, $3.50.
One note Of date Feb. !, 1857, due years from
date, 500.
One note Of date Feb. !, 1857, due years from
date, $40.
One note Of date Feb. !, 1857, due years from
date, 477o.
Several Of which notes are past due and ali Of
OF them remain unpaid and unless you appear in
said suit on or before the second day Of the special
term (comme ncing on the fourth Monday of june,
1852 of said Court and fie your answer to said
against you BY confession,
CURTIS, GILMORE / CURTIS,
Attorneys for Plaintiff.
March ~, 1859 DIV
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Legai Noeaco.

To Xii Clnts, Elisa ]. cluts. A. H. Brown, Thos.
Cross, Henry Cluts and Jacob Bushsy,
NOU are hereby notified that there IL now on die
i in the Office Of the Clerk OF the District Cour,
of Lss County, Iowa, IT Ksokuk, petition of
james Burrows, James Reynolds and Frederick
Zugg. claiming Of said Eli Chats the sum Of fifteen
hundred and 6se 45-l00 dollars with interest,"
Said petition alleges that said Burrows, Reynolds
and Zugg became security for said Eli Cus and one
w. W. Walker, by endorsing two notes made by
Cluts Walker, which notes they allsge that the y
have been compelled pay and cancel TO their dam
age in the sum aforesaid Said petition also claims
against oil Of you the foreclosure of mortgage
executed by said defendants, Eli Cluis and Elisa
Clus,to said plaintiffs 70 them against any
damage from endorsing said notes as Aforesaid
Said mortgage bears date November IL, 1887, Il
duly recorded, and conveys the following real e.
tate, &c wits Seventy Eve feet of Of the rear ends
Of lots and in block liz 10 heokuk, Lee coun-
ty, Iowa.
Now unless you appear and answer said petition
| on or before the second day Of the special June
term Of said District Court, commencing on the
fourth Monday In June, 1889, judgment and decree
will be rendered against you according to tho prayer
Of said petition, and Said real estate will be sold
satisfy said debt and the interest of all defendants
cut of and extinguished. N
McCRARY 4 BRUCE,
Mayo, lSb9-d PLAINTIFF Att'ys.
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Mayo. 1859:
Lcgat Notice.


To James l.. Estes and Amanda Estes his wife, Ed
ward j. Wick rrrhsn, A. h. pes4iae, John l.
Antrim, Charles Mason, Love, Bryan, Adams 4
Co., IN. Wright, Arthur Walcott, aud W iIliam
Leighton
VOu are hereby notified that there Is now on file
l. in the Office OF the Clerk of the District Court
Of Lee County, Iowa, at Keoknk, petition OF John
Olive claiming OF the said James l. Estes the sum
Of one thousand dollars money due on q pr. mis-
sorry also claiming against all Of you the
closure Of mortgage executed by the said james
l.. Estes ard Amanda Estes his wife, dated Ocio-
Der =, 1881, and conveying the following real es-
tate, in which the other defendants have or claim
TO have some interest, to wit West I Of south
east of section 3, township IS, range s; the essi
Of southwest Of section 3, township 65, range
81 south west Of section 10, township 65, range 81.
the southeast Of section Is, township &C. range
west also lots land =, blnck 50 keokuk ;also,
half Of lot adjoining lot 8, block 70, Keok uk--
all in the County Of Lee and State OF Iowa. Now
unless you appear and answer said ape,ition on or
before tbs NOR ming OF the second day Of the special
term Of said District Court, commencing on the 4th
Monday In june, 1852, judgment and decree will
be rendered against you according to tho prayer Of
said petition, and said real estate will be sold 10 sat
sfy said debt and all the interest Of ali the defen-
dants therein will be ont o6 and forever sxtngfh-
/ I'd and barred.
MoCRARY BRUCE,
May 7, lS60-d Att'ys for Plt'Hs.
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May7, lsN.d
Trussee,s sale.


DUBLIC NOTICE il hereby given that on Eatur.
i day the l2h day Of June next, will sell II
public sale in front Of the banking house Of VIM
Thompson Co, In the city Of Ksokuk, Lee county,
lows, the following real estate wit the eastery
half Of lot nine {9), block one hundred and nix
ll06l Ut said city, rs feet front Main-st., and
lao feet deep.
The above sale 10 made BY virtue Of Deed of
Trust from Thomas Bruce to IN for the purpose
Of securing the payment Of promissory note made
by James + Bruce to 0rinnsll Jenkins for the sum
Of $2,33l.A, and said Deed Of Trust provides that
the property may b. redeemed from the sale to BE-
made by me by paying the above debt and ten per
cent. interest, ct any time within one year after
sale. The sale will be for cash. and deed will be
made to the purchaser.
JOHN w. RANKIN, Trustee.
MAY .. 1854
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Notice.
TTyO PATRICK MADDEN: Srn-You are her

MO1ICEs
TIyO PATRICK MADDEN sIn-You are hereby
notified that there il on ale In the ofIce 81 the
Clerk Of Ma District Court Of Lee Couaty. Iowa,
At Keokuk. petition OF Amos ii. Brown claiming
: decree Of said Court sgsinss yoa for the sum Of
$sblS6 and ton Per cent. per amman interest," thsrs
on fTon Ostoesr -, 1854, % nsrseags hy yos To
Mid Drswn gives, - aaEs Ost6Asf u, 1ooo On the
ffoct snds ey aftv feet 1eep q lots IL ard ~ In
block - = The city " Keokuk Lee county, Iowa,
- sseuss shs payment of the p1ssAass neeSy q
said realty, yiss 1l1S, In fnas squal annuel An
stalmens, with interest from said date at TIE rate
Of ten per cent. Per ennun, payable annually,
default In payment q any Of said inssallnents
Or intsrest 10 make rid whoas amount due and
payabls); sid petition shsxging sash delank, ana
claiming also the foreeiesurs and sale q A!d
unostgsged pfsmses and ~ sxtia gsishnsat u al
equity Of redemption sndee sAil aosteaes asd fce
general relief. You are therefore notiAsd thst an
lees you appear and auswsr - satd petition % the
second day Of the 6eptsnbsE tern (to eonnsnee
on the frst Monday 81 September, 1859 j Of aid
Court, adecres viii b taken against yon thereof
pro coafssso.
CURTIS, GILMORE : CURTIS,
Solicitors for Petitionsr.
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Legal n Otlce.

To John w. Moore ct. al. defendants
VoU are hereby respectively notified that there
i il now on file in the Clerks Office of the Dis.
trict Court, Lee county, Iowa, at Keokuk, a petit
tion OF d. w. kilbourne, claiming q decree and
judgment against John w. Moore for Two hundred
seventy -one and 40-l00 dollars, with 10 per cent
interest, rs balance of purchase money lot ten
bl ock eight, in Kilbourne's addition, to the city
Of Keokuk, Lee county, lows, and the fore
closure Of mortgage on said lot, given by said
Moore to said Kilbo1rne praying tor the sale of
said lot, the extinguishment Of all equity of re-
dempton, and for general relief, Ne against II de-
PENDANTS.
Now you arc hereby notified to answer said petit.
ton the second day Of the next special term OF
raid Court to be held at Keokuk the 4th Wednes-
day Of June next, 1859, or decree and judgment
will be had therein against you by default accord
ing 30 law. II. SCOTT HOWELL,
may16d Sol. for Petitioner