Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-10-07
WEEKLY JOURNAL.
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LOCAL DEPARTM EMF.
Agcnt. for tho "JournaI.n

| Moscow-G w. Humphreys;
| Atalissa-F. G. Waterman;
West Liberty-Asa Gregg
| Ononwa-S. G. Harvey
Grandview-W. 4. Massey;
Columbus City-A. Gamble;
Washiugton-Wm. Wilson.
ca Meetings are held nightly in variou
parts Of the county by both political parties, an
the voters are becoming quite generally enlightel
ed on political matters. The Democrats are squirn
ing awfuly in consequence of the recent develop
ments of pipe-laying and sculldugerry by tn
''Court House Clique" Let them howl!
OBITUARY.-We understand that n.
swank, Esq, formerly citizen of Atalissa, in thi
county. died last week at Rochester in Cedar coun
ty, in destitute circumstances, deserted by his wifi
and those who should have proved true to the last
He was not withou. sympathzing friends, however
who willingly testified by their attentions to him i:
his dying moments their appreciation Of his many
virtues OF mind and heart. Peace to his names
Who ARE VOTERS. Township Trustees
and others should remember that the new Constitu-
ton provides that voter must have resided in the
county sixty days next proceeding the election and
that Section 259 of the Code has been amended so
rs to read sixty days, instead of twenty days, in
the oath prescribed for a challenged person. Let
the polls be watched, and have every man arrested
who votes illegally.
FIRE.-We are informed by Mr.. Jenkins,
of Pleasant Prairie in the northeastern part of this
county, that the stable OF Mr.. G. Allbee, of that
neighborhood, was destroyed by fire last Sunday,
together with about forty tons of hay. The fire was
occasoned by the carelessness of boy about ten
years of age, who was playing around the hay with
matches. Mr.. Allbee's loss is felt more severely by
him because all the hay he had put up for winter
was destroyed.
CO AT the late IN Getting of the Presbytery
of Cedar in this city, DR.. C. o. Waters was licensed
to preach the gospel. He has also been recently
appointed by the Presbyterian Board of Publication
the Superintendent of Colporteurage for Iowa, Hi
nois, Wisconsin and Minnesota and has already en-
tered upon the duties of his appointment Tie
Doctor will be found an efficient laborer in his new
field of operations, and we commend him to the
and cooperation of Christians of all de-
nominations.
Iowa HONEY .-There was on exhibition at
our late County Fair the finest specimen of honey
we ever saw, but by oversight on our part no
mention was made of it in our account of the exhi
bltlon, and for some unknown to us it recev
ed no premium or favorable mention in the official
list of premiums. 1t was exhibited by Jacob Her
shey, Esq, of this vicinity. 1t was in glass cases,
in precisely the condition the bees had lett it, and
appeared about as tempting to the palate as any
thing on the ground. We wonder that more of our
farmers do not initiate Mr.. Hersheys example in
raising honey. This country is certainly we'll adapt
ed to the purpose, but from neglect or some such
cause very litt honey is produced Will not others
make the experiment?
The STATE FAlR.--J. II. Wallace, ESQ.,.
the efficient Secretary of the State Agricultural
Society, returned from Oskaloosa, Tuesday. We
earn from him that although the receipts of the
Fair were about s7uo less than last year, they were
enough to meet all expenses and leave several hun
bred dollars in the treasury. He says the exhi5i-
lion of horses at this Fair was as good as the last
cattle not so gcod-sheep and swine much better
household manufactures vastly superior, and in
most other departments better. He is of the opin
on that the Board of Directors, at their annual
meeting IN Desmoines next January, will fix upon
iowa City or Davenport for the holding of the FAN
If 1860. They have realized the mistake of locating
out of the way Of railroad communication.
Our INCREASING TRADE.-An immense
quantity of wheat is now being daily brought to
his market. Our buyers are shipping constantly
nj Tho ouaptitv in their IN
olenish like the oil in the widows cruise. On Sat
,rday last over 5000 bushels were shipped by rvoi
o ST. Louis, and every day several thousand bush
lis are sent to the same market. Wheat is brought
lere in wagons from Linn, Jones and Cedar coum-
les, notwithsta nding the competition of two lines
If railroad. The farmers of that region say they
IAN buy lumber and goods cheaper and get about
EN- cents more per bushel on their wheat here than
It the railroad stations in their immediate neigh
his market. Muscatne is receiving trad: from
.reater scope of country this Fall than for several
'ears before. This is an encouraging fact.
CATTLE STEALING IN LOUISA COUNTY
4yrest of tie 7hieces-We learn from Mr. W. H.
low, who was at Wapello on Thursday of last week,
hat five men had just been examined at that place
or cattle stealing and three Of them held to bail.
The names of those bound over are Bazel Estep,
John Carpenter and John Gaily. The bond o: the
irst- named was fixed at 81 500 and the two last at
Fl 900 each. John Morris and John kever, impli-
Gated in the same affair." discharged. 1t seems
that these men have been for some time engaged r
stealing cattle and herding them on prairie near
W apollo. On Tuesday night they started off with
a drove of eight head which they had stolen from
one man, but their movements having been watched
by a vigilance committee organized some time pre-
viously at Wapelo, they were surprised in ambush
and Estep arrested on the spot after the horse
he was riding had been shot down. The others
we're fred at, and Gay received severe wound in
the thigh but succeeded in escaping and conceal
ing himself in smoke house, where he was discov-
cred and arrested the next morning. Carpenter
was also arrested the following day at his own
house. These men all reside at Wapello, and have
long borne suspicious characters. A lot of apples
and other stolen articles were found in their pos
session.
ACQUITTED. trial of Jasper Hamp-
ton, Turner Hampton and Joseph Langley, at Rock
Island for the murder Of Charles s. Bean, opposite
this city, on the 9th of July last was terminated on
sunday morning, in a verdict of 'Not Guilty" We
nave not heard the particulars Of the trial but we
regard the verdict great outrage on justice
The facts of the case are simply these: The de-
PENDANTS had been notified not to trespass on Mr.
Beams premises by crossing them. They continued
to cross, and on the morning of the above date
Bean we mt out with gun and while approaching
the party was shot down in the presence of his wife
and another witness by Jasper Hampton, in com
pauy with the two other accused individuals. The
murder was premeditated and perpetrated in colo
blood at the instigaton of an unprncipled man who
was offended at the deceased for no other reason
than that he refused to countenance his rascality
By this verdict man in Illinois intrude on an,
mans premises and if interfered with by the pro
,,;o.or No, shoot hin, down and Rock island iur,