Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-12-07

December, Z, 1s6o-Sw.
VRNIsoN. - We saw the carcass of noble
looking deer brought to market one day this week
1t retsiled ut sal0c per pound.
~ The Davenport papers have again
discontinued taking telegraphic dispatches. The
JOURNAL is now the only paper printed on the line
OF the NJ l. NJ. L. X. that keeps its readers posted
in the news by telegraph.
Bic DAYS TnREsHNG.-J A. Covell and
A F. Strickland threshed in twelve hours, recently
in Wilton township with one of Cases threshers,
l,0O2 bushels o. wheat cleaning 1t ready for mar
ket
CO Mr.. Skinkle has recovered the horses
taken OFF by kench, the panorama man, and sod
in Burlington. Tie purchaser, suspecting some
thing wrong gave kench his note, not negotiable,
which he sold tor five dollars and cleared out.
a SPLENDID WAGON. - We were shown
yesterday an elegant spring wagon just completed
for Bowman h Lotand by d. Myers Co, OF this
city As work of Muscatine mechanics il is
credit to the city.
ACCIDENT. Hon Nj. Price, of Seventy
Six township, was thrown from his wagon, We'd
nesday, by of the wheels suddenly break ny
through the ice on pool of water over which he
was crossing. We did not learn the extent OF his
injury but understand that it severe, owing to
the fact that he is a very heavy man.
a Coon Nova - rhJ owners of the ferry
were engaged yesterday in cutting channel
through the shore-ice this side, in order to get
their boat out to run again. They will have
worse job 20 open channel on the other side. but
we hope they may succeed and have their boat in
motion in a few days.
The Rel crEp ILLINOIS BANKS. A con-
Illinois banks are still in circulation here. We
learn from the Chicago Tribune that most buyers
in that city have paid so cents, but it hears of
house which paid So. Very few sales are made,
as holders prefer to wait for a further rise.
New Posr OFFICE. We have neglected
sooner to notice that post office has been estab
lished in Pike township, Muscatne county, called
Pike" of which Philip Cone has been appointed
postmaster. The location of the office is short
distance South of the office formerly kept in that
township. ~g |
BRING ON YOUR NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
We are now putting up all advertisements in our
paper in better type than heretofore used (see new
advertisements to-day) and wish all our patrons
who want their advertisements renewed to hand !
the in as soon as possible also, new adyer.
tisenents of all kinds solicited, as we have room
for few more.
T Henry Altman, Esq, has returned to
Davenport from his trip TO Kansas, to that the
Davenport donations reached their destination. He
reports that there is great want and restitution
among the people in Kansas, aud that provisions
are arriving hardly fast enough to supply the press
ing want. The Davenport supplies were the only |
ones received from Iowa up to the time he left.
a USEFUL INVENTION Croker, mer-
chant tailor has just received full supply of Dr. |
Cutters chest-expanding suspender and shoulder !
brace, for gentlemen and boys, ard the shoulder |
brace and skirt supporter for ladies and school
girls. These articles are the invention of one of !
the best Psychologists of the day, and are acknow-
edged by medical men and persons who have worn
them to be the most perfect article of the kind yet
invented. They are made of fine and durable ,
material.
was told by a complaining neighbor, few days
since, that Lincoln had caused the recent fall in
the price of grain. of he did, replied the farm
er, she must have killed my calf. too; for on the
day of election it took SICK aud whenever we got !
news of Republican majortes it got worse, till at
last when news came that Pennsylvania and New |
York had gone Republican, it kicked the bucket!'
1t seems as plausible that Lincoln is as respon
sible for the death of that calf as he is for the
fall in wheat.
JUDGE WILLIAMS HAIRBRE DTH Escape
The remarkable equestrian feat recently performed
by Judge Williams, former feliow-citizen, in
his flight from Kansas is the subject of no little
merrment all over the Union We opine it will be
long time before the Judge will hear the last of
it, The St Louis Democrat says:
Read the dispatches his morning What news
Let the military expedition return in all haste,
taking good care. however, mot to arrive here
earlier than midnight. 1t was an outrage on the
gallant sodery of ct. Louis to take them out on
such bogus business
FEEDING STOCK - We mentioned some
weeks ago that Aessrs Gregg & Messmore, of
West Liberty, in this county, were feeding 800
head of h.g s. r. Miller, of the same place, is
man 500 head of stock hogs and also number OF
cattle &C. Evans and Isaac Wright are each
feeding fifty head of cattle. There is also an i'm.
mense quantity of grain in that neighborhoed but
holders generally express the determination OF
keeping their produce till they can get better
money for it than Illinois and Wisconsin depreca-
ted bills.
Cos" The price of -four continues at SIS per
barrel in this market, with wheat at 60 cents per
bushel 1t strikes that this is too great dis
crepancy. A friend informs us that few days ago
he bought ten bushels of wheat, as an experiment,
and had it ground into -four for his own
Wheat was then selling at 7Oa75c per bushel. He
paid, however, at the rate Of 72i cents, the ten
bushels costing him s7.25. The grinding at the
Young America Mill, at ten cents per bushel, cost
one dollar. The wheat made 407 lbs. of good flour,
worth slo,174, and Ga lbs. of shorts and 100 lbs
OF bran, worth 81, s0-total product sl1,97l, leav
ing profit OF $s.72i, reckoning the -four and offal
at present prices.
Nor WANTED saw a statement in q
Cincinnati dispatch, recently, that produce buyers
were buying up illinois and Wisconsin deprecated
currency for the purpose of using it in purchasing
produce in Illinois and Iowa. Now these gentle
men may find the speculation bad one. Our
farmers have about come to the conclusion to have
nothing more to do with this kind of money. They
know that merchants cannot afford to pay . per
cent premium on Eastern exchange with this kind
of currency without putting hgher profit on
their goods than if they sold for good money, and
that they (she farmers) are the losers by it. We
have talked with number of them the past week,
and they all tell that they are about out of debt
have large surplus of grain, &C.. but will not sell
unless they can get Iowa State Bank paper, specie
or its equivalent. In this they are right We can
never get rid Of deprecated currency until the
farmers refuse to take it for produce.