Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-08-31
LOCAL NEW s .

LOCAL VS..
COOP PRIcss.-Mr. v. Chambers, Of this
county, sold on Saturday last, thorough bred
Durham yearling calf for ono hundred and fifty
dollars and LEICESTER pig for forty dollars.
blooded stock pays at these prices.
GRAPHS. We have received from D. O.
Cloud, Esq, sample Of Isabella grapes raised by
him this season, which unusually nice. He also
raised lot of Catawbas, and thinks grapes are a.
certain q crop in Iowa as corn, if properly cult
waited
W 1t appears that Joseph Coppic, and
not Barclay, was concerned in the late raid on
Missouri. The statement of the Enquirer that the
party was welcomed with great rejolcings by the
people of Springdale is base Islander on the law
abiding inhabitants of that place. e..
TIE CENsUs.-Mr. Turner, who is now
compiling the census returns of the county, would
be obliged to any whom he may have missed to
report themselves at his residence, corner of Sixth
| and Walnut streets. He thinks he has found all,
but some may have been overlooked, and if so,
they will please report themselves.
The TEAcHERa' CONVENTION, which closed
its session Saturday, was by far the most inter-
| esting and best attended Of any ever held
| in this county; These convocations of teachers,
| for the interchange of ideas and for mutual
in structioR, cannot but result in general good.
| We hope to SEQ them held moro frequently in
| future.
az We have inadvertently neglected to
notice sooner that at the meeting of the Wide
Awakes, last Monday evening, they appointed Jos.
A. Green, Esq member of the Committee of
Arrangements for the coming Republican Camp
| Meeting. 1t will be remembered that the Wide
Awakes did not appoint their member of the COM
mittee at the Convention last Saturday, but agreed
to do so at their first meeting.
"a The "rousing meeting" at Wilton
last Saturday was fzzle. We learn that the num-
Der in attendance was about 100, and did not ex-
coed at most 200. Not more than twenty persons
| from other points came to the meeting. II. Clay
Dean, the great unwashed. was present in all his
| glory and spoke ovec three hours. He laid it on
rather milder than usual, the worst epthet he used
being puppy" applied to the editor Of this paper.
LOOKING UP. Real estate of all kinds,
which has been dull and almost sale for sewers al
years, is feeling the influence of better times. We
have heard of several sales recently at figures
almost as good as those prevalent during flush
times. corner lot on Third and Spruce
streets sold last week for 5000. This call fair
price, though not more than such property is
worth at point SO promising as Muscatne.
ca In the past few days q number of
-four and grain buyers have visited this market
from Missouri and other Southern States, who are
looking this way for supplies in view of the general
drought and failure of crops in that region. The
prospect now is that all the shipments from this
point will the coming fall be needed down South.
Our shipp rs have already stopped sending wheat
to Chicago, and offer more for the St. Louis mar
ket than boats can take at present. Day before
yesterday evening the Metropolitan took down 1900
sacks of grain and 200 sacks of hour, and last night
the Ad. Hine took 1000 more sacks of grain, be-
sides lot of -four, onions, &c.-Daily, 24th.
DETAINED LErrERs.-The following letters
detained at the Post Office in this city for want
of prepayment:
James W. Erwin, Washington, Iowa.
j. M. Hedund, Esq., Iowa City, Iowa. -
Miss Laura H. Blackboard, Sharpsburgh, Wash
| ington CO., Md
The following for want of proper direction:
Dr. c. G Renhold, Northumberland CO., Penna
Thomas Bentley. ST., Allemakee county, Iowa.
Miss Lurie W. Marsh, care OF G. w. Marsh, Mo.
Miss Sue A. Lanton, ue Quoin, Perry county,
Iowa.
QUE COUNTY FAIR.-The Directors of the
Muscatine County Agricultural Society, at their
meeting last Saturday, fixed upon Tuesday and
Wednesday, the 18th and 10Th days of September,
for holding the Fair this year. The Fair Grounds
on the Island were selected as the location, for
which the Society is to pay $50. A. Green, ESQ.,,
the owner of the grounds, generously offered to
donate to the Society all the premiums he may take
at the Fair. V. Chambers. President OF the
Society, made the same kind of an OFFER Both
were accepted, and the Society," not being in very
fourishing pecuniary condition just at this time
will not object to other propositions of this nature
Excellent grounds having been secured and all
the necessary preparations made it is anticipated
that the forthcoming Fair will be equal in al
respects to any preceding one of the Society.
COOP. AT last our fellow contemporary,
the Muscatine journal, has mustered up spunnk
enough to take the Chicago market reports. The
citizens Of Muscatine may thank us for bringing
this about. We have got to stir the fellow up some
more, we find, in order to get him to publish the
receipts He will do 1t if we can only get his dan
der up.-Dd0 Dem.
If you mean, Mr.. Democrat, to "get our dander
up to such pitch that we shall try to excel you
in tloapsna, yon arc mistaken. We can't do that
with dauder' up or down. We think it d greater
evidence of enterprise TO furnish Chicago market
reports Of the evening previous than to sit in our
office and guess at the receipts Of wheat try to
find the quantity by taking the tour of all the beer
shops in town, The .lour,aa! is the only paper in
Iowa, except, perhaps, those Of Dubuque, giving
the Chicago market reports regularly by telegraph
REPUBLICAN TOWNSHIP CONVENTION
Convention of Republicans of Bloomington town.
ship to choose delegates for the County Convention
on the lst OF September assembled at the Court
House at o'clock last Saturday. Hugh;J. Camp
bell, Esq, was elected Chairman and Geo. W. Van
Horne Secretary. The following gentlemen were
elected delegates:
Henry Rocco VIM Monkey
kncaid VIM Dill
John Heller . re Walter
Carskaddan II @ Jennison
John hechler I'LL Little
John Hayes John o Wilson
James jackson 7 Carr
George Foss Hampden Pinkham
John Mahin w 5 Richie
W u Brent John Dougherty
Edward Stewart John Potter
Il Il Garnes George Conner
Geo satterlee Eek Jones
Ere lerck lsppe u Stewart
IhSmas Harhach Henry W Perkins
J Heller Zahn ."