Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-10-12
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highly commended by those who heard it. IN
p ~ About S O'Clock Thursday morning,
the first floor of the building on Walnut street
occupied BY p. w. Ditsct 4 Co.as o warehouse
gave way, prscipitatins $500 bushels of oats into
the cellar. The damage is estimated at about $780,
~. We stated yesterday that the bolt Of
cotton flannel stolen from c. B. Williams store
was red. It was whits, with blue selyage. We are
thus particular. the goods are Of peculiar kind
and may be discovered in possession of the dishon
est individual who took them.
The JOURNAL ON GRAxxER.-Little Johnnie
undertakes to twt us on our grammer. Well, il that
amt rich when in the last two issues of the Jour
mel there is not three ''sticks" of grammatical
original matter in body.-Rspisw. 9gG
There are only three grammatical errors in the
above, according to our knowledge Of grammar.
A CANNON for the inhabitants Of Illinois
City has been cast at the foundry Of ]. Klein.
fielder Co., of this city, and will be used by the
delegation from this place while attending the
Douglas demonstration at Iowa City next Tuesday
1t was fired off on Water street yesterday, and
made . report resembling small earthquake.
Kleinfelder 4 Go. have shown themselves superior
workmen in getting up this "institution."
SAD ScENE.-We are teld that Q few nights
since two little boys, about six and eight years Of
age, were furnished with liquor by some person,
and became SO intoxicated that they laid in the
street all night The individual who is so utterly
devoid of principle and needless of consequences
as to give liquor to boys Of tender age is unfit to
live in a respectable community and would be
materially benefited by ride out Of town on q
sharp.cornered rail. --.-..s- ..--... va
T The Review charges US with ''sneak-
ing around the corners and insinuating that il is
only campaign paper" We have never intro
duced that paper or its editor topic of CONVEX
sation on the streets, but when asked whether We
did not think it was intended to be kept mp only
till the election have answered in the Affirmative
That was our opinion when it first started and is
yet, and we now declare it publicly. The Rsesev
man can make such use of it as he sees proper. 1t
appears little odd, however, that if we are such
notorious liar as he charges US to be in another
paragraph that he should attach any importance to
our opinion. 81 'a4 o.
E The friends of Reuben G. Latta in
this and Louisa counties have received the melan.
choly intelligence of his death by accident while
mining in his claim at Alpha, Nevada county. CAL,
on the 14th of August. He was at work in ground
sluice, when an embankment above gave way,
letting an avalanche of water and loose earth on
him, washing him down upon his face and COM
pletely burying him. He drew but breath after
being rescued His body was taken to the residence
Of his brother, R. W. Latta, at Napa City, where
the funeral was attended by large concourse Of
citizens. The deceased was about "a years of age.
lie left this country for California in 1851. His
aged father, James Latta, still resides at Grand
view, Louisa county. a.. ......... a, ...s. -,
PILFER1NG. - We have heard recently Of
numerous instances of petty stealing. Some of our
merchants complain that their empty boxes are
carried off from their very doors, and not unfre-
quently light articles of goods displayed in front of
their establishments are also purloined. One day
this week boy employed by merchant to saw his
wood was to secrete portion of it in several
convenient places. During part of the night a
watch was kept over the wood bat by morning
nearly all of it had been carried off. The boy was
threatened with arrest but denied having carried
of the wood His excuse for hiding it was in no
wise satisfactory, the being as he said that
if he did not saw q certain quantity each day his
father would whip him.
1t is the determination of several persons who
have been suffering by these pilferers till forbear-
ance has ceased to be virtue to enforce the pen
atty of the law against them. They had best take
warning, as their movements are watched.
p9The two large and elegant Touring
mills in this city are now doing an extensive BUSH
ness in the manufacture of -four. Benefits runs
day and night, making 1900 barrels of -four
per week, and Ogilvie's runs about fifteen
hours a day, making nearly 700 barrels per week
The only drawback at present is the lack of flour
barrels. We noticed shipment of 2l0 barrels re-
ceived by the steamer Kate Cassell from Daven-
port yesterday This is the second lot received
from that place. Mr.. Bennett is also receiving
slaves and heading. manufactured at Ottawa Mich :,
which can be put up with very little trouble. One
man can put up twenty. five barrels per day with
the matersals prepared in this manner, and they
are superior quality of barrel. They cost about
40 cents, the present price of -four barrels in this
market. fs -
Owing to the lack of barrels much of the -four
shipped from this place is put up in sacks an in
convenient and unsafe mode of shipping Steam.
boa.men have recently advanced the freight on
sack -four from 25 to IS cents per hundred to St.
Louis.
Wells & Coe. owners Of the extensive factory on
Muscatine Island, are doing all in their power to
supply this extraordinary deEaud for barrels, but
cannot find enough coopers. They have now in
their employ 25 or 80 men and could give work to
as many more if they could be had. So
To PRoD cE BUYERs.-The Journal is the
only daily paper in Iowa that gives regular reports
from the New York, Chicago and st. Louis markets,
as we'll as the local market - Nuecatine Journal,
We like liar, but the genius from whose brain
the above emanated suits us too well. He ought to
have entered himself at the State Fair. as there
was premium of $40 and diploma offered for the
played copy of the paper containing the above he
would have been awarded the premium. = Dozen.
port Democrat. -.-- e.
The issue of the paper from which the above
ungentlemanly and discourteous com.
ments are taken gives in its commercial column
only the Davenport and New York markets,
whereas the JOURNAL Of the same date contained
not only the local market report, but reports from
New York, Chicago and st. Louis, the two former !
by teleg aph - thus proving our assertion to be |
true so far as the Democrat is concerned. The |
Burlington Ra'cktye and the two Dubuque dailes
are the only papers in the State besides the JouR
NAL receiving regular marke. reports by telegraph
from Chicago. These papers, however, neglect to |
give the st. Louis market except occasionally
hence the JOURNAL is the only paper in the State
giving all these reports regularly. S
Our readers will observe how ready our Demo-
cratic contemporaries are to handy the eplthet lar
when they have no facts with which to controvert
cur statements. We do not need the use of such /
'trong language, when, in the words Of another,
chow plain tale will put them down p
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