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

search OF work at better prices than they could
obtain here have recently returned and report that
they were unable to run away from the hard times
Memphis has been the rendezvous for hundreds Of
laborers, mechanics and professional men from the
North, and it is now reported to be overrun with
them, seeking in vain for something to do. The
times are said to be harder in St. Louis this spring
than last. So it goes. There is little 70 be gained
by going from place to.place in search of better
times"
RoBBERY.-A young man named Dunn,
who has been stopping for several weeks in this
city, endeavcring to raise class in penn,anship,
suddenly disappeared, the other day, from the
Muscatine Hotel, where he boarded, leaving his
bill unsettled aad carrying off some so5 worth OF
clothing and other property, belonging to fellow
boarder with whom he had become intimate.
Dunn claimed to be in partnership with Mr..
Shaw, the pnonographst, which is false. Mr.
Shaw, who is a man of entirely different calibre,
never had any thing to do with him.
PRosPEcT OF CRors IN CENTRAL IowA.-A
hasty trip through portions of Muscatne, Louisa,
Washington and Cedar counties has given us an
idea appropriations making for the next crop. The
prospect for large yield of wheat, corn and oats
never was better. The breadth of wheat sown is
unusually large. The number of acres put in
wheat by each farmer varies from so to $780, though
some have 200. Much ground has been prepared
for corn and potatoes, and in some localities consid
cradle corn is already planted. We saw one farmer
who had Is acres planted, and would plant 50 acres
more in few days.
There is yet in the country large quantity of
nj Wh osf al
into pork by next fall. We have never seen as
many young hogs and cattle in the country as at
this time, and are glad that our farmers are turn
ing their attention to the raising of stock 1t
"pays."
A MEAN MAN.-Editors frequently have
occasion, when travelling, to acknowledge kind
attentions from strangers, and it is always with
pleasure that they bear testimony to the courtesy
and afabiity of those with whom they come in con-
tact. When, however, they meet with man totally
wanting in civility and so much of barbarian as
to abuse stranger and heap curses upon his head
without provocation, it is their duty to hold him up
to the scorn and contempt Of the public and to the
adherence of his neighbors. Such man we (the
Senior proprietary found in Louisa county on Tues
day of this week. We were travelling a road from
Fredonia to Ononwa which had been fenced up
day or two previously, though unknown to us, and
when we came to the fence. (being in great haste
to reach the at Onenwa,) we laid down couple
of rails for the horse to cross over the field an
old cornheld, not plowed this season - when the
owner came running at US, and with club and
horrid oaths threatened to do personal violence
All expostulation with him in vain he insisted
that VIC should turn back, using language too
coarse and vulgar to appear in print. Not wishing
to have any difficulty with him, we turned back
though by crossing his fe Id We would not have in
iured it in the least and would have saved nearly
mile of travel. The name of this fellow is B. F
Xiser. He resides three or four miles west Of
Ononwa. Let all decent men avoid him as they
would the nameless animal whose very presence
infects the air.
GW The Davenport papers have both
taken up the challenge made to any other port
on the Upper Mississippi to show larger quantity
Of wheat received and shipped since last harvest
than Muscatine, our figures being 800, COO bushels
In their issues of the 25th they purport to give the
amount of wheat bought in that place since last
August, and by process of figuring peculiar to
themselves make it out much larger than the
amount purchased in Muscatine. Each paper
declares its statement is correct-that it was com
piled from the weekly exhibits and can be proven
by the scale clerks, &c.-yet there is rife of
tsso hundred thousand bushels difference in the two
statements, the Gazstte's being 6ao,5oo and thu
Democratic 1854 bushels Including -four w
submit to candid public whether any system c
computation that will admit Of such difference il
at all reliable.
Furthermore Both papers acknowledge w. w.
their statements were compiled am the week.
exhibits OF receipt. and shipments as published i
....lr own issues. 1t is we'll known fact rever "
disputed that it has been the custom Of the repor
ers in that aspiring city to include in such recep
and shipments the produce passing through on tt
railroad. In this manner all the grain shippe
from this place, we'll as from other points on tt
Nd R. R., is included in the business Of Da
export! This is the way they figure up their gra
operations. Come, gentlemen, that won't do! II
again, and see if you can't at least agree in yo'
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