Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-04-27

A MAN ATTEMPTING TO BURN HIS owl
DwELLING.-We learn from the Davenport Gazett
that a Mr. Bailey, resident OF Wilton. in thi
county, was arrested on Saturday last, for settin,
fire to his own dwelling house, and placed under
$4,000 bail for his appearance to answer. lie is
young man, and has been engaged in the law ant
land business at Wilton. lie has u wife and two
children. When arrested he "owncd up" Il
| appears that his house insured in the Peori,
| Company for $500. lie attempted at four difieren,
| times to burn down his dwelling. but the fire was
| extinguished in each instance by the neighbors
Bailey appeared highly indignant at the efforts OF
somebody to "burn him OUT On the evening OF
the 2tth having removed his family to the country
he armed himself with a gun and hired an assistant
to stay with him to guarI the house, but while the
assistant was absent in the evening attending Nh
exhibition he again set fire to the house, and when
the neighbors appeared tegned to be in pursuit of
the ncendary and fired his gun after the supposed
Scoundrel. The neighbours succeeded in putting the
fire out this time also Bailey was arrested the
next day and acknowledged his guilt. Heretofore
he has borne good character and his relatives and
friends, who are very respectable people, feel
keenly his disgrace.
4 ~ The following is a copy of a hand
bill stuck up in various parts of the city in mvste-
rious manner last Monday night
THE HONEST DEMOCRAT.
ApvERrIsEMsNr- Friends and NeiqhJos :-Grute-
iul for the liberal encouragement received from you.
aud having Supplied our shops and tayerns with
new and ample stock OF choice wines, spirits and
malt liquors, respectfully Inform you that we
continue to make drunkards pauperS and beggars,
Tor the sober, industrious ana respectable commu- |
nifty to support. Our liquors NAV excite you to rob
berry and blood, and will certainly diminish your |
comforts, augment your expenses and shorten your |
ives. We confidently recommend them US sure to
multiply fatal accidents and distressing diseases
and likely 10 render these incurable. They will |
sgreeably deprive some of life, some Of reason,
many OF character. and all of peace will make
athers triendleSs wives widows, mothers cruel,
children orphans. and all poor. We will train the
'oung TO ignorance, dissipation, infdety, lewdnsss
md every vice, corrupt the ministers OF religion
,bStruc the gospel, dehle the church, and cause as
much temporal and eternal death us we can. We
viii accommodate the public it may be, at the cost
" our never dying souls We have families to sup.
port, the trade pays, aud the public encourage it.
We have charter from our minister and license
rom the magistrate. Our tr. iii: is lawful. Christ
ans countenance ii, and if we do not bring these
wis upon you, somebody else will. We know the
Slble says Thou shalt not KILL pronOuuces woe
INTO HIM THAI givcth his neghbor strong drink
md enj .lus lis not 10 put stumbling. block in a
'rother'S way. We also read that 10 drunkard shall
inter- the kingdom OF God, and We cannot EXPECT
he drunkard-maker, without repentance, to share
better fate. But we wish lazy living, and have
elibe atey resolved to gather the wages of nauity
nd iatten on the rum OF our species. We shall,
therefore,, carry on our trade with energy, and do
ur best TO diminish the wealth of the nation, i'm
air the health OF the people, and endanger the ,
afety OF the State. As our traffic flourish in pro
ortion to your ignorance and sensuulity, We will do
ur utmost to prevent your intellectual elevation,
loral purity social happiness and eternal welfare.
hould you doubt ability, we refer you to pawn
lops. the poor house the police office the hospi-
H. the jail and TIE gallows, where so many of our
lstomers have gone. The sight of them is enough
satisfy you that We do What we promise,
EIGHTY DoGGERlEs OF NUscATlNR. =
n. B. We teach the old and young to drink and o
large only for the material-a few lessons will be
Efficient. We have been successful with some of :,
II best citizens within the past year, and still the
ork goes on. 1
Woe unto him that giveth his neighbor strong n
ink that puttest the bottle to him, and makest
m drunken alSo.'-Ha6 H., Is. .
Po.TMAsTERs, ATTENTION - Here is a =
from an exchange, we wish every post ]
aster in this county to read carefully:
County postmasters should bear in mind, for =
cir advantage well that of the local press, y
at for every county paper delivered by them to l
bscribers they are entitled to retain of the post
ice funds lo3 per cent per year. 1t is for their
terest as well us that of the publishers, that the
unity papers be preferred, since there is no trou-
e in making collections or keeping accounts there.
, as on foreign papers, the commission on which
IL not average more than six to eight cents per
ar.