Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-08-10

FL The Davenport Democrat wishes Z
know why We do not publish daily the receipts an
shipments of grain at this place. Simply becaus
the labor ID too great for the reoonpense. If "
undertook anything of the kind We should aim
have it full and truthful. We are not disposed
draw on our imagination for this purpose, Q
appears to be the habit with the Davenport report
ers. No wellinformed man places any reliance o.
their reports, knowing them to be manufactured t
order. For instance in the very issue of the Dem
ocrat making this request we find the receipts o
wheat for the previous day stated at 1897 bushels
while the Gazette makes them l7ls-a difference o
| over 1900 bushels 1t 10 also known to be thei
practice to include in the receipts and shipment
of Davenport the grain passing through on the cars
| not bushel of which is handled at that place o
course when such methods are resorted to in get
ting up reports they are no credit to the city Of
| the paper in which they are published.
We have ne fears but that if We should publish
the receipts and shipments Of Auscatne they would
compare favorsbly with the lsgitissats business o.
Davenport. But we are not disposed to get uI
reports by guess work. or to use any unfair means
in order to make it appear that our city is doing
more business than it really 10. We commend to
the serious consideration of our Davenport neigh.
bors the fable of the frog which pulled itself up to
such unnatural proportions that fatal accident
ensued.
TIE WIDE AwAKEs.-This Company, we
are informed, numbers on its roll from fifty to sixty
members. They will reach one hundred and fifty
in one month from now. Allthe uniforms originally
ordered by the Company have been disposed Of.
All persons whs feel an interest in the objects of
the Wide Awakss are invited to join. Their meet
ings are held open to all. We direct attention to
the card of the officers, with respect to new men,
bers. The next meeting for drill will be this Friday
night, At fremont Hall. 1t is important that
all who desire to join should do early as pos
sibls in order that the whole Company may receive
some knowledge Of the drill before they turn out
A Coon REPoRr FROM THE FARMERS. "A
wellinformed citizen Of this county, beyond Cedar
river, informs that four-6fths of the farmers Of
that region will be enabled by their crops Of the
present season 70 pay OF al their indebtedness,
and three ffths of them will have money to spare
to be laid out in improvements or otherwise in
vested. This il truly . good report from the
farmers, majority of whom were necessitsted by
the failure Of their crops two years ago to go in
debt .
ATALIssA AHrAD For q long time past
we have sent larger package of the Weekly Jour-
nal to West Liberty than to any other office by
mail, but recently Atalissa has caught up and
passed her spirited rival Our West Liberty pack
age now numbers ffty-sx papers, and the Atalissa
package seventy t,oo. This result is manly due to
onr friend Waterman, OF Atalissa. who promises to
run up our list to hundred at that post office.
A MUscAr1NER IN EUROPE. 90. Kranz
informs US that he has just received letter from
John Stengele, who in company with his wife is
now on q visit to his mother in Wirtemburg,
Germany. He left New York, June 10th, by the
steamship Vanderbilt, and arrived at Havrs in ten
days, going to Wirtemburg by way Of Paris and
having pleasant and prosperous journey. He
expects to return next Fall or Winter.
e. The Journal Office hands were agree.
ably reminded, one day this week, that the water
melon season is at hand by the appearance of Mr..
J. s. Wiggns with several of the best melons they
have been permitted TO feast this season. 1t
voted that Mr.. Virgins is the printers
friend, and he was invited to call again.
e Tie Republican, the new and spirited
Republican paper at Wapello, has absorbed the old
AatsAigencsr (neutrall which discontinued publca-
ton last week. The Republican is good paper,
and ought now to be we'll sustained, it being the
only newspaper at present in Louisa county.
TEACHERS CoNvENTloN.--We call the at
tention of teachers and others interested to the
,ot;,a IF Too chars, Convention tn he held in this
city, commencing on the Goth inst.