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

A MAN ATTEMPTING TO BURN HIS owl
DwELLNG.-We learn from the Davenport Gazett
that a Mr. Bailey, resident of Wilton. in thi
county, was arrested on Saturday last. for settn,
} fro to his own dwelling house, and placed unde
g, 900 bail for his appearance to answer. lie is
young man, and has been engaged in the law unt
land business at Wilton. lie has wife and two
children. When arrested he owned up"
appears that his house was insured in the Peori,
Company for $500. lie attempted at four diferen
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 Goth, having removed his family to the country
he armed himself with gun and hired an assistant
to stay with him to guarI the house, but while the
assistant was absent in the evening attending Nm
exhibition he again set fire to the house. and when
the neghbors appeared feigned to be in pursuit OF
the ncendiary and fired his gun after the supposed
| scoundrel The neighbors 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
keeny his disgrace.
y ~ The following is a copy of a hand
bill stuck up in various parts of the city in nv ste.
rious manner last Monday night:
THE HONEST DEMOCRAT,
ADVERTISEMENT Friends and AeiyhIors:-Grate-
full Tor the liberal encouragement received from Won
aud having Supplied our shops and taverns with a
new ana ample stock OF choice wines, spirits and
malt liquors, we respectfully Inform you that we
continue TO MAKE drunkards, paupers and bcggars,
Tor the sober, industrious ana respectable commu-
nlly to support. Our liquors NAV excite YOU to rob-
berry and blood, and will certainly diminish your |
comforts, augment your expenses and shorten your
lives. We confidently recommend them Us sure to |
multiply fatal accidents and distressing diseases
and likely TO render these incurable. They will |
agreeably deprive some of life, some of reason
many OF character. and all of peace will make
fathers triendess, wives widows, mothers cruel,
children orphans, and ali poor. We will train the
young TO ignorance dissipation iniidelity ewdnsss
and every vice, corrupt the ministers OF religion,
obStruct the gospel detle the church, aud cause as
much temporal and eternal death as We can. We
will accommodate the public, it may be, at the cost
OF our never dying souls. We have families to sup.
port. the trade pays, and the public encourage it.
We have charler from our minister and license
from the magistrate. Our tr. iii: is lawful. Christ
ians countenance it, and if we do not bring these
evils upon you, somebody else will. We know the
Bible says Thou shalt no, KILL pronounces woe
unto HIM that gveth his neighbor strong drink,
anu e!D |luS us not 10 pun StUnDHny. block IN
brothers way. We also read that drunkard shall
enter the kingdom OF God, and We cannot expect
he drunkardmaker, without repentance, to share
. better fate. But we wish lazy living and have
iebeI ately resolved to gather the wages Of inquy
md tatten 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
atety OF the state. As our traffic flourish in pro
ortlon to your ignorance and sensuality We will do
ur utmost to prevent your intellectual elevation,
nora purity. social happiness and eternal welfare
hould you doubt our ability, refer you to pawn
hops, the poor house. the police office the hospi.
al, the jail and t.e gallows, where many of our
uStomers have gone The ght of them is enough /
satisfy you that We do WluL we promise.
EIGHTY DoGGERlEs OF MUsCArlNR &
n. b. We teach the old and young to drink and o
barge only for the materal-a few lessons will be
efficient. We have been successful with some Of :,
ur best citizens within the past year, and still the
ork goes
Woe unto him that giveth his neighbor strong n
rink that puttest the bottle to him, and makest .
i'm drunken alSo.'-Ha6. H., Is.
Po,TMAsrERs, ATTENTION - Here is a 4,
aragraph, from an exchange, we wish every post 7
'aster in this county to read carefully:
County postmas:ers should bear in mind, for
ler advantage as well as that of the local press,
lat for every county paper delivered by them to l
disorders they entitled to retain of the post
lice funds 10y per cent per year 1t is for their 0
terest as well as that of the publishers, that the
,unty papers be preferred, since there is no trou-
e in making collections or keeping accounts there.
), as on foreign papers, the commission which
ill not average more than six to eight cents per
ear.