Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-02-24
. EREE LECTURES.


arrangements for a course Of lectures which shall
be FREE to the public. desire to announce that the
eleventh of the course will be delivered by
SUEL Eos TER, ESQ,
in FREMONT HALL, on MONDAY EVENING NEXT, the
9th inst, at "A o'clock.
SUBJsor The World Ue Lire an -
Practical Education; Practical Lite.'
fSy- Unger's Brass Band will be in attendance.
s4Ss- No boys admitted unless with their parents.
Muscatine, Feb %, 1860.
DIsrRlor CouRr--The District Court.
Judge Dillon presiding has been in session since
Monday, and will continue most of next week A
dozen more cases have been decided by trial,
and greater number by default. The Court was
occupied all of yesterday with the case of tho Con
gregatioual Church vs.. Azel Farnsworth, for the
collection of note given by the defendant for $2eo,
but which he refuses to pay on the ground that it
was diverted to the building Of new house of
worship instead of repairing the old one. This
case was in court at the last term, but the jury
failed to agree. 1t has already cost the county
more than the amount of the note.
ANNIVERSARY MEETING OF TIE LIGHT
GuAsps--The fifth anniversary meeting of the
Muscatine Light Guards held at their armory
last evening. Four rounds were fred in honor of
the glorious 22d (Washiugton's birthday after
which the Slection.ot officers took place, viz:
Captain-B Beach.
1 lst Lieut.. B.Teller.
20 Charles Edw Kent
Cd 50 John Reed.
Orderly Serg't-Geo. d. Magoon.
I'd Serg't-A John.
Sd" IS. Estle.
4th VIM. Calder.
LIST Corporal - Norvis.
81 - j. knott
Sd g VIM. Jackson. r
4th S. G. Dunn.
On motion the following resolution was unani
mously adopted:
Resolpsd, Tha: the thanks of this Company be
returned to Capt j. II. Wallace, for his services
Captain.
The Company, Notwithstanding many discourage
n,euts and considerable Indebtedness is new in
prosperous condition. We are glad to learn that a
number of its friends outside of the organization
have been lending it helping hand and encourag-
ing the members to make the organization of
the best OF the kind in the State.
OAK GROVE LYCEUM. = We attended a
meeting of this association last Saturday evening
and were agreeaby surprised to find much in
teres manifested in literary matters by the people
of that neighborhood. The school-roon, was crowd.
ed Revolutionary spirit was manifested by some
of the progressive, young America" members,
and during the evening new constitution was in
troduced aud adopted (not however, without strong
oppositiou) ard new officers were elected. The
President is H. Y Iddings, Esq, and the Secretary
John Zeigler, jr. - both we'll qualified for their
'h. / in, n Nou oh
and promises to be source OF instruction and prof
table entertainment to the neighborhood. The
members talk of giving exhibition to raise the
necessary means to procure a library. We hope
tn may succeed.
The lecture before the Lyceum at the next meet
ing, on Saturday evening. will be delivered by
Thomas Beham Esq.
@ The Sunbeam "a spirited temperance
paper published at Keokuk by J. w. Delaplain,
price 81 per year-has the following paragraph in
its last issue:
MUscArINE County A letter from J. P. Myers,
of Forest Mound, says the Lodge of good Templars
in that place is welding great influence Many
who, not long ago. were habltual visitors OF the
rumholes in the vicinity, are now members OF the
Lodge, holding high stations; in consequence OF
which, many who formerly opposed the organiza-
ton with much bitterness, now its fast friends
The Lodge in the city of Muscatine, also is one of
the largest in the State-perhaps the largest-and
at last accounts was doing well.
~ We learn that two gentlemen, while
attempting to cross Mud Greek, near Wilton, with
horse and buggy. yesterday morning, were swept
away by the force of the current and one of them
was drowned. The creek was much swollen by the
rain and gorgad with floating ice, which rendered
crossing more than usually dangerous.
The Rock ISLAND BRIDGE.-On Thursday
last, in the Common Council Of St. Louis, on mo-
ton, the bill appropriating $4,000 to aid the
Chamber of Commerce in efecting by legal process
the removal of the Rock Island bridge, was recon-
sidered and passed over the Mayors veto.
BE ON YOUR GUARD! "A number of sus-
picious characters are about the city and several
sly attempts at burglary have been made recently.
We advise our citizens to be on their guard for
these chaps,