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Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-02-10
Proceedings of the City Council.

Proceedings OF the City Council.
COUNCIL CHAMBER, Feb 4.
Council met pursuant to adjournment; Mayor and
members all present
MIR. Hershe presented petition of wslton and
Neidig & Son for abatement fakes. Received and
referred to Messrs. Hill and Brewster. Mr.. Hill
presented petition of Mrs. Quinn for abatement Of
| taxes. Referred to Messrs. Hill and Williams.
Mr.. Funk presented petition of the German
Protestant Evangelical Church asking city to grade
the street and alley adjoining the church property
Referred to Messrs Brewster and Hill.
Committee on c. uershey's application for abate
ment of assessment of 1859 reported in favor of an
abatement of $500 Adopted, and said abatement
ordered to be made.
Bill OF L Goldsberry, sl4, witness fee in case OF
Freeland as. City, presented, and ordered to be
paid provided the re hearing applied for before the
-uprcme Court has been refused On motion,
Richman Bro were allowed Ss5 ON account for
legal services, and Henry O'Connor $3.50 on a sim
liar account. Bill Of c. o. Waters, l,S5, for sun.
dries, rejected.
The Mayor presented the bonds and coupons of the
city issued to the Muscatine and Galesburgh Rail-
road Company, handed to him by Green & Stone
On motion, Messrs. Hill, Williams and Hershe
were appointed committee to examine said bonds
and coupons, and also those in possession of the
city, and to report to Council the number and
amount in each sett Committee forthwith exam
ined, and reported as follows:
Bonds ret'd BY G s., 275 Nominal val $175, oa0
in hand of City 20 do do $4,000
The committee further found that all the coupons
issued with soid bonds are still thereto attacheo
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ca The lecture of Henry O'Oohnor, ct
Wesley Chapel, on Wednesday evening. was we'll
attended, and the subject. Daniel O'Connell, Was
treated in Henry's usually able and perspicuous
style.-Daosnport Dem.
The NoRTHHRN LINE Arronqe-
snents for 1904 friend who il fully posted in
the plans Of this Company gives " the following
particulars of their arrangements for the ensuing
season Of navigation The Northern Line Of steam
er. running between ST. Louis and St. Paul have
formed aiout stock company Of all the boats which
constituted the Northern Line" last season and
the two boats now being built-ths "Hawksyo,' BY
Capt. G. Gray, and the "Sucksr State" by
Capt. 7. B. Rhodes. The officers of the Company
arc. Capt Ward, President; Capt, Griffith, Secrs
tary, and seven Directors. The Minnesota Packet
Company will withdraw the Express Line boats and
put 6yss Of their best bosts in the northern line.
These. Vih seven Of the Northern Line boats, will
constitute the daily line The remaining five Of the
Northern Line boats will run when freights are
plenty and they are needed to carry the surplus.
The Minnesota Packet Company do not put their
boats in joint stock, bat will be governed by the
Northern Lines rules and regulations. r..
OAK GROVE LYoEUM. The lecture of J.
Carskaddan, Esq, before this yceum on Saturday
evening last, was we'll attended. The character OF
this discourse, ION 'Revolutions. the public have
already been made familiar with. Mr.. Carskaddau
spoke in his usual COOL deliberate and impressive
manner and with evident effect upon his hearers.
The lecturer seems to have hit upon the true and
demonstrative philosophy Of those popular commo-
tons which occasionally rock the strongest founda.
lions of political power and suggests the proper
means for avoiding or controlling them. We were
gratiied to see quite number of ladies and gentle
men from the city present
Moses Ingalls,. Esq, will lecture at Oak Grove on
next Saturday evening - subject, "The Selfmade
Man" good, practical discourse may be
expected
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-02-10

A CH1LD's FAITH.-At the time of a
great drought in England, several pi-
Gus farmers agreed to hold special
meeting to pray for the much needed
rain. When the appointed time came,
the minister was surprised to see one
of his Sabbath scholars bringing .
huge old family umbrella, and asked
why she did so on such lovely morn
ing. The child gazed at him with evil
dent surprise at the inquiry, and replied
"Why sir, thought as we were going
to pray God for ram, I'd be sure to
want the umbrella While they were
praying, the wind rose and the sky be-
came clouded, which was soon followed
by heavy thunder storm, by which
those who came unprepared to the
meeting were drenched. while Mary
and the minister were sheltered by the
umbrella her faith had led her to bring.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-02-10

s@H ydrophobia in dogs very fire.
quently occurs in winter from excessive
thirst. All persons who keep these
animals should see that they are sup
piled with water, for eating snow and
ice only increases the thirst.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-02-10

LIES HAPpIEsT PER1oD.-Kings-
ley gives his evidence on this disputed
point. He thus declares
"There is no pleasure that I have
ever experienced like a child's mid
summer holiday. The time, I mean,
when two or three of us used to 60
away up the brook, and take our din
ners, and come home at night, tired,
dirty, happy, scratched beyond recog.
milton, with q great nosegay, three
little trout, and one shoe, the other one
having been used for a boat, till it had
gone down with all hands out of sound
lngs. How poor our Derby days, our
Greenwich dinners, our evening part
les, where there are plenty of nice girls,
after that! Depend upon it, a man
never experiences such pleasure or
griefatfer. fourteen as he does be fore,
unless in some cases in his first love
making, when the sensation is new to
him.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-02-10

Chatauque Lake, in the State
CT New York, is said to be the highest
body of water ever navigated by steam.
It lies seven hundred feet above the
level of Lake Erie.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-02-10

GIN LINN N: WHI KY. DR.. Hiram
Cox, the official Inspector Of Whisky,
says an article he saw sold at tavern,
for whisky, was Analysed by him, and
be found it had II per cent. alcoholic
spirits by weight, when it should have
had 40 per cent, to be proof, and the
difference in per centage made up by
sulphurlc ACID, red pepper. politary,
caus,ic, otassa and orucine, one of
the salts Of nuceis vomica, commonly
called nux vomica. One pint Of such
liquor would kill the strongest man.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-02-10

yHE SpLENDoR OF DAMASCUS. -Da.
mascus is the oldest city in the world.
Tyre and Sidon have crumbled on the
shore Baalbec is ruin; Palmyra and
Babylon have disappeared from the
Tigris and Euphrates Damascus re-
mains what it was before the days of
Abraham center of trade and travel,
an island of verdure in a desert, q
"predestined capital" with martial and
sacred associations extending through
mole than thirty centuries. 1t was
near Damascus, that Saul, of Tarsus,
saw the slight from heaven above the
brightness Of the sum- the street which
Is called Straight, in which it is said
che prayeth," still runs throug b the
city. The caravan comes and goes as
it did a thousand years ago there are
the shuik, the ass and the water wheel;
the merchant Of the Euphrates and Of
the Mediterranean still occupy these
"with the multitude Of their waters. -
The city which Mahomet surveyed
from neighboring hight, and was
afraid to enter, because it is given to
have but one Paradise, and for his part
he was resolved not to have it in the
world, is to this day, what Julian call
ed "the eye of the Eas t." as it was in
the time Of Isaiah, 'tthe head of Syria. D
From Damascus came the damson, ou1
blue plum, and the delicious apricot OF
Portugal, called Damasco, damask, oul
beautiful fabric of cotton and silk, with
vines and flowers raised upon q smooth
bright ground ;;ithe damask rose, intro
duced into England in the time Of Hen
ry VIII /; the Damascus blade, SO fam
GUS the world ovel for its keen edge
and wonderful elasticity, the secret Of
whose manufacture was lost when Tam
erlane carried off the arts into Persia,
and that beautiful art Of inlaying wood
and steel with silver and gold, kind
of Mosaic - engraving and sculpture
united - called Damascening, with
which boxes and bureaus, and swords
are ornamented. 1t is still called city
of flowers and bright waters; the
streams from Lebanon, the "rlvers of
Damascus" "the rivers of gold," still
murmur and sparkle in the wilderness
Of Syrian gardens. u 4~2sL4 II
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-02-10

n6rThat man will one day find it
but poor gain who ATS upon truth with
the loss ef charity.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-02-10

WThis world cannot explain its
own difficulties without the assistance
Of another.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-02-10

MEAsLEs.-This disease prevails ex-
tensively in cities during the winter
season, and will usually cure itself, if
only protected against adverse infuen-
ces. The older persons are, the less
likely they are to recover perfectly from
this allment, for it very often leaves
some lifelong malady behind it. The
most hopeless forms Of consumptive
diseases are often the result Of ill-con-
Quoted or badly managed measles. In
nine cases out of ten, not particle Of
any medicine is needed.
Our first advice is, and under all cir
cumstapces, send at once for an expe-
rienced physician. Meanwhile keep the
patient in cool, dry, and well-aired
room, with moderate covering, in a
position where there will be no expos
ure to drafts Of air. The Thermometer
should range at about sixty-fve deg.
where the bed stands. which should be
moderately hard, of shucks, straw, or
curled HAIR. Crafty the instinct for
cold water and lemonade. 1t is safest
to keep the bed for several days after
tina rash has begun to die away. The
diet should be light, and of an open
ing, cooling character.
The main object Of this article is to
warn persons that the greatest danger
is after the disappearance of the meas
les. We would advise that for three
weeks after the patient is we'll enough
to leave his bed, he should not 60 out
Of the h"use, nor sit or stand for a
single minute near an open window or
door, nor wash any part Of Their person
in cold water or warm, but to wipe the
face and hands with a warm, damp
cloth. For good part of this tin e
the appetite should not be fully grati6-
ed /; the patient should eat slowly Of
light nutritious food. In one case, a
little girl, almost entirely we'll of the
measles, got to playing with its hands
in cold water /; 1t gradually dwindled
away and died. All exercise should be
moderate in order to prevent cooling of:
too quick y afterward, and to save the
danger Of exposure to drafts of air,
which, by chilling the surface, causes
chronic diarrhe0 if it fal on the bow
els DEAFNESS for life if it falls on the
ear /; or ancurable consumption if it
falls on the lungs-Hups Journal or
Health.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-02-10

DOES 1T EVER RAINY Egypt Sir
Archibald Alison, in his history Of Eu-
rope, writes as follows:
1T never rains in Egypt; centuries
may elapse without more than shower
Of drizzling mist moistering the surface
of the soil. 1t is said that it has not
rained in Egypt for 100 years"
A correspondent of the London
Times writes from Alexandria, Oct.
81, 1859, as follows: "Englishmen
express their astonishment at the heavy
rains we have lately experienced, hav-
ing come with the erroneous impression
that it never rains IN Egypt" Upon
this, it is asked whether the rain which
is referred to by the above correspond
ent is the first which has appeared in
Egypt for 100 years.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-02-10

How DO THEY ALL D E?-An Eng
lish journalist says: Is there anybody
above an idiot, who has not, at some
time or other, thought, with strange
internal thrill, while contemplating a
crowd, "How will all these people dle?''
The thought comes when the Queen is
opening Parliament amidst the most
gorgeous assemblage that this country
can show. 1t comes in the midst Of the
village fair, when the drums aud trum
pets and the shouts Of the showmen,
and the great laughs Of the rustics, are
loudestsn It comes when, in war time,
the troops march forth through throng-
ed streets, and climb into the trans
ports on the crowded sea. 1t comes
when, in time of peace, the first sod of
q great railway is turned, or the first
stone laid of building which will be q
benefit TO- Successive generations fol-
thousand years. We know how some
thing very like it occurred to the poet
Gray and to Mrs. Hemans, at evening
prayer in girls school +; and few OF
US can have been present at any cele-
bration in any one of our public schools
without being visited by that specula-
tion-"In seventy, or, say eighty.
years from this day, every individual
Of this great crowd will be dead " One
would like to know how each one will
die; by accident on land, some Of them,
no doubt; by gun going of in get
ting through q hedge-their own gun
or some companions who will never be
happy again :; some by drowning, in
bathing at home, or by foundering al
sea; some by fire; in the dressing-room'
or in the ship, or in their beds ; one OF
two by suicide in disease of brain OF
agony Of mind +; some of the youths,
years hence, by appoplexy brought or
by intemperance of one kind and an tn
er some Of the young women in the
most pathetic possible moment-moth-
ers for an hour or day, but prevent
ed from rallying by previous violations
of the laws of nature some few, very
few, from mere old age, when they will
remember this day, but not anything
then Of receDt date large proper
tion from the ordinary diseases affect
ing the three great departments of the
head more from the various diseases
Of the abdomen, and most from those
| of the chest. The deaths in the streets
from brain seizure are common items
Of news in the papers. We need but
refer to liver complaints, cholera, the
govt of the olden time, still surviving,
and the miserable stomach complaints
of our own day. But all this last class
together will not carry off so many as
consumption, if We are to judge the
next half century by the past. Within
fifteen or twenty years, large proper
ton Of the young people who to day
look so full of life and spirits, will
have died of the slow strangulatlon
and tormenting fever o. consumption.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-02-10

s~The best adhesive label you can
put on baggage, is to stick to it your
self.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-02-10

s9The greatest gluttons are those
who feed upon SANDER.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-02-10

Also, connected with the above, .
Newspaper 4 Periodical Depot
" oere will be found all the Popular
Papers and Magazines
OF THE DAY.
Atlantic, Cooley.
Harper Graham.
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And oil the topul.r Papers Of the day.
Nov is the time to su bscribe 70, your Papers An
MAJ. s,nes. Any of the
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BOOK. &C.
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BOOK Roo
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tX7E now offer to the public our stock of Eosks
and Stationery, consisting of Standard and
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Prayer gooks, LYNN Bookt, DC. Our list Of ), hooi
Books comprises al in general use in the State
plai. and Fancy Stationery, Cap, Letter and Note
Paper, Plain and Fancy Envelopes. Ink and L. +
stsuds, Pens and Pen Holders, Sealing Wax, Gold
Fens, BiaLk DO Ks, Wall and Window Raps-
Fancy Goods, 70. tmonies, Portfolio, Pocket Cut
i.rv, Pearl Paper FolIers, LadIts' and Cent?
Writing and Dressing Cases, Toilet Articles, Do
Ours aelv, 8 will DO furnished With the late pub
locations as THEY iss us from the hanis of the
publisher At publishers prices.
Jan. 4th, 1850. "
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-02-10

OF the ArNA INSURANCE CO., HAssssRD,
COM. Incorporated 1873 Charter P<rpet ual.
Cash Capital, 81 900 900: 'r ..'
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-02-10

r. you want good and cheap Lumber, 80 to the
i Lumber Yard Of HOcH WHITR6OUSk
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-02-10

back, while its capacious depth, stuffed
soft and tackled with bright tufts Of
worsted, together with the added cas-
tors, made it "quite a model affair for
deserving husbands least this was
Franks decision, as he threw himself
into it, with such an air of happy aban-
don that lmogene clapped her hands
and burst into one of those musical
peals Of laughter, calling him grand
old Turk ; to which he playfully added,
s'that if so, she was certainly his Sui
tana,' and must share his throne with
him." and catching her in his arms he
drew her towards him, and thus they
sat together in the big armchair, be-
fore bright fire, in their pleasant lit
tie sitting-room, all that stormy winter
evening
With such a help-meet, who could
make easy chairs out of next to moth
ing, with her own skilful hands and
bit of cbintz =; and who wrote nice little
stories, the proceeds of which brought
them many an added comfort though
Of this, sly little witch as she was,
Frank was kept in utter ignorance, }
what wonder that fortune smiled uron
the young husband, and at the end of
three years he found himself raised to
the Office of junior partner in the es-
tablishmcnt where he had previously
been clerk f.; and that by the excellent
thrift of his sweet wife, he also found
himself impressed by debt, and with
means sufficient, with their present pros
poets, of purchasing delightful cot
tage-home in the suburbs of the noisy,
dusty city.
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1860-05-03
1egdl.

hrtytwo perches TO the place of beginning Contain
ing Hundred and foryone and ninety-four per-
more or less with aboutd five acres improved with shan
ty thereon.
Seized and taken in execution at the sus Of Mary To-
land Margareta Toland Elizabeth Toland and Juiiana
Toland W. Johp,Gartland.
ALSOThe following lot, piece parcel OF land stu
ate in Wlmot tp beginning at the northeast corner of
the John Allen tract at the beech between The
John Allen and Samuel Marsh tracts, thence the line
between the two tracts south one degree west 80 per-
thence north 60 degrees west lC0 perehes thence north
one degree esst 60 perches thence south So degrees
east lC0 perches 10 the place of beginning Containing
10y acres more or less being part Of the tract surveyed
IN the name of John Allen about 90 acres improved two
log houses, log barn and fruit treas thereon.
Seized ald taken in execution at the su.t OF M H.
Weles 10 the Of Charles Weles vs. Charles Hinder
THOMAS NJ. WOODRUFF, Sheriff.
Sherih's Ofice, April u 1860
NoTICE 70 PURCHASERs.-To prevent misunaerstard-
ing notice is hereby given that purchasers at Sherns
sales will be required TO pay the amount bid at the time
the land is sold. Ii has become imperatvey Necessary
adopt this rule and will be strictly adhered to- ex
cept in where the purchaser IS lien creditor and
Is entitled to the fund provided in the lst section of
the act Of Assembly, approved April 90 lS4G, which s
Orphans Court Sherifs sale, shall appear from the
proper record to be entitled lien creditor to receive
the whole or any portion Of The proceeds OF said SALE II
shall be the duty OF tha sheriff. administrator executor
other person making such sale to receive the recep
Of such purchaser purchasers for the amount which
he or they would appear from the record aforesaid.
to be entitled to receive Provided that this section shall
not be consruedas TO preventive right Of said Sheriff.
administrator executor other person aforesaid TO de-
mand and receive at the time of sale sufficient to
all legal costs entitled to be paid of the proceeds
OF said sale and provided further that before any pur
chaser purchasers shall receive the benefit Of this
ton he they shall produce to the Sheriff other per-
making said sale, duly certified statement from
the proper records under the hand and official seal Of tho
proper officer showing that he is lien creditor entitled
to receive any part OF the proceeds Of the sale aoresa
Saidn
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1860-05-03
NOTICE.

T1UE Stockholders Of the Tewanda Bridge
l. Company are hereby notified that an election wiz
be held at the Office Of said Company, in TOwanda,
the first Monday of May next, at 10 O'Clock NJ, for
the election Of one President, Sly Managers, and Treas
urer TO for the ensuing year in accordance with
the act Of Incorporation b. 5. RUSSELL,
TOwandd, March u, 1850. Secretlry.
ENECUTOR'S NOTICE-Notce is here
H bys given. that all persons indebted to the
tate OF HANNAH EYIrTS, late of tPike twp. deceased,
hereby requested to make payment without delay,
present them duly authenticated tor settlement.
ABEL MORE,
March q, 1860. Executor.
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1860-05-03
A UDITOR'S NOTICE.

4 UDITOR'S NOTICE-E the matter of
"A the eState Of AHsn By0sCn, deceased. In the Or
phans' Court Of Bradford County.
The undersigned, Auditor appointed upon EXcep-
tons filed to the account Of NJ II Farchild administr
tor OF said estate viii attend TO the duties OF his appoint
melt at his Office in the Borough OF TowaHda, MON
DAY. APRIL Is. 1850, at O'Clock, A. NJ of which al
persons interested, requested 10 take notice
+. OYERTON Jr.,
March -. lSGN. Auditor.
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1860-05-03
New Arrival Of Boots & Shoes
At
NJ E L S ON

Ladies celebrated serge Long CATERS, at NELSON'S.
Ladies' serge bottomed GAUTERS, at NELSON'S.
Ladies French kid heeled SLIPPERS, at NELSON'S
Ladies klband morocco BOOTS, (hs own
make and warranted not to rip) ut NELSON'S
Misses serge Congress CATERS, at NELSON'S
Misses kid Congress CATERS, at NELSON'S.
Misses French kid heeled SLIPPERS, at NELSON'S
Childis coppcr-toed SHOES, at NELSON'S
Infants SHOES, at NELSON'S
All kinds of BOOTS and SHOES, at NELSON'S
Gents Oxford TIES, at 81 G3 and 81 7j at NELSON'S
Gents thick and kip BOOTS, 50 75 q s., at NELSON'S
Gents calf pegd BOOTS, SO so to 81 80, at NELSON'S
Gents calf sewed BOOTS $ and s. so, at NELSON'S
They determined not to be undersold, at NELSON'S
They have engaged the services Of Mr.WEBB,
OF New York city, highly finished work
man, to make first class pegged and sewed
BOOTS, Mt NELSON'S.
Ladirs calf SHOES and BOOTS for IS cts,
81 90 and 81 %, at NELSON'S.
Ladies' Kid BOOTS made to order, for 81
3Il and 81 G23, at NELSON'S.
Call and leave your measure, at NELSON'S.
All kinds OF Repairing done at NELSON'S.
All kinds Of Country Produce taken for Boots
and Shoes at NELSON'S.
I0WaNll. Aulil lG. 1850.