Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-04-27
WEEKLY JOURNAL.
LOCAL DEPARTM EMF.


LOCAL EMF.
O. These afflicted with diseases of IL
eye or ear are requested to read the advertiseme
of DR.. Anderson.
A STRKR.-The laborers at Hershey
demanding 81, rs instead of 81 per day. The mi
has in consequence stopped running for the presen
DRUNKENNESS AND DrsoRDRRLY CONDUCT
Three men named joe Langley, Bill West an
John LLOYD, we're arrested Saturday evening, i
"Shanghai Row." on the above charges. The
were wsodmen. Two of them paid their fines Is
each) but the third is yet in Jail.
D1souARGRD-Mr. Herrick, Of Muscatin
county, near Blue Grass, who was charged will
larceny in taking away colt upon which he hat
given mortgage, from livery stable IN this C ty
some days ago, had hearing before G. G. Blood
Esq, yesterday, and was discharged - Darenpor
Ga.<t!e, 26h.
moon, last ev ening was almost complete, as seen
from this part of the terrestrial armament At a
quarter before s o'clock Venus was nearly hid
behind the southern limb of tho MOON The e1hi-
biton was rarely to be seen, and was witnessed
with much interest by star-gazers Daily, ASIA.
I Several errors occur in the Council
proceedings on the fourth page The steamer
Luzerne mot the Fred. Lorenz) the for
which reduction of wharfage was asked, it being
proposed to run her as packet between this port
and Burlington. The owner of lots from First to
Fourth streets, On Mulberry, are required to lay
down sidewalks, and not merely the owners OF
lots from to T." as printed.
A CARAVAN FOR THE PsAK.-W ednesday
eighteen teams bound for Pixies Peak passed
through our streets in company. We understand
that the party halls from B.loit Wis, and own two
quartz mills manufactured in Chicago, which have
been shipped BY water 10 ST. Joseph This is the
largest Company that has yet passed through this
place for the gold regions They had about fifty
yoke of oxen.
OLD BIaELow FOUND GUILTY. Old Bige-
low, the countereiter we'll known in this latitude,
and formerly living about twenty miles above
hook Island, has had his trial 1T Chicago for coun-
tereltlng, and been found guilty. Clark, who was
arrested at the same time, turned States evidence
against him, and the jury were out but short
time. Bigelow is now 6s years of age, and must
undoubtedly, as he is worn down BY sickness,
spend the balance of his days in the pententary.
81 The managers Of the sOrphans'
Home of Industry" at Iswa City, acknowledge
through the papers of that place the receipt of
assistance IN various ways to the amount of $25s
among which We find the following from citizens of
this place:
Lemp Sells, Dbl pork, $1,000
A. W Norris, trees, 500
Suel Foster, do 500
Isaac Negus, do 1920
COMING BAcK.-A number of our citizens
who went down the river several months ago in
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 1t 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 20 be gained
by going from place to..place in search of better
times"
RoBBsRY.-A young man named Dunn,
who has been stopping for several weeks in this
city, endeavoring to raise class in pennlanshp,
suddenly disappeared, the other day, from the
Nuscatine Hotel, where he boarded, leaving his
bill unsettled and carrying off some so5 worth OF
clothing and other property, belonging to fellow
ooarder with whom he had become intimate.
Dunn claimed to be in partnership with Mr.. l
shaw, the phonographist, which is false. Mr. t
haw, who is man of entirely different caibre a
lever had anything to do with him. 2
PROSPECT OF CRors IN CENTRAL IowA.-A a
asty trip through portions of Muscatine, Louisa,
Washington and Cedar counties has given us an
lea of appropriations making for the next crop. The
respect for a large yield of wheat, corn and oats
ever was better. The breadth of wheat sown is
unusually large. The number of acres put in
'heat by each farmer varies from so to $50, though
ONE have 200. Much ground has been prepared
and potatoes, and in some localities consid-
rable 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
I'D corn, which most farmers seem disposed to turn
nto pork by next fall. We have never seen as
many young hogs and cattle in the country as at
ng their attention more to the raising of stock 1t
pays" ;
A MEAN MAN.-Editors frequently have
occasion, when travelling, to acknowledge kind
attentions from strangers, and it il always with
pleasure that they bear testimony to the courtesy
and adabiity 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 a stranger and heap curses upon his head
without provocation it is their duty to hold him up
to the and contempt Of the public and to the
adherence of his neighbors. Such man we uhe
Senior proprietary found in Louisa county on Tues
day of this week. We were travelling road from
Fredonia to Ononwa which had been fenced up
lay or two previously, though unknown to US, and
when we came to the fence, (beng in great haste
% reach the cars at Onenwa, We laid down couple
Of rails for the horse to cross over the field - an
old corn6eld, not plowed this season - when the
owner came running at US, and with club and
horrid oaths threatened to do personal violence
II expostulation with him was in vain he insisted
hat We 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 te 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. r
Hiser. He resides three four miles west of
Ononwa Let all decent men avoid him as they
would the nameless animal whose very presence
infects the air.
GO The Davenport papers have both
taken up the challenge We 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 100000 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