Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-03-09
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NH we eRoulQ nave said "baleS" instead
of 'tons," when mentioning a few days ago the
amount of hay purchased for the Southern market,
by Neidig 4 BURNER.
W@ The jury in the ease of Davis vs..
Heath, for malicious prosecution, were out three
days and nights before they could agree and finally
brought in verdict of one cent damages for the
plaintiff This threw the costs of the suit on the
defendant, amounting to about $3.50.
THANKS. We have been under repeated
obligations to Secretary Sanders, Of the Senate,
Secretary Aldrich, Of tho House, and members
Price and Shipman, for Legislative documents. We
hope they will continue such favors to the close of
the session.
The Posi- OFFICE BUSINESS. = Postmaster
Mccormick informs us that the mail sent from this
Office to-day was the largest for two years past:
There has been steady increase in the business
the Office lately which indicates Enthusiastically the
improvement of general business.
Ley About 70 beef cattle have been
slaughtered at LELAND Co.'s establishment during
the past few days, and considerable number more
have been purchased for packing Mr.. Taylor is
putting up . lot of beef to be sent to Boston by
express as a sample of the kind he is packing,
which is very choice.
CAuTIoN.-An aged man has been going
about the city several days soliciting subscriptions
for the erection of Quaker meeting house in this
vicinity. We are authorized by persons who know
him to say that he is partially insane and is acting
without authority from any one else. As he has
already been endsayoring to make contracts for
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this notice may be given SO that no one may be put
to Inconvenience or loss by his representations.
GT The Enquirer says it meant to say
''pics" but the printers put in instead of c,
and it beratcs the Journal "despicable for call
ing attention to typographical errors. 1t should be
observed that the author of this mprecation is the
editor de tacto at the Court House, while the item
in which the "error" occurred was written during
his absence at Dssmoines by an individual who
when he read our notice of it, declared he couldn't
see the point! Wonder if nobody else but printers
ever make mstakes?" We presume the rascaly
printers must also bear the blame Of saying that
Father Donelan delivered hisIecture "orally!"
BURLINGTON, PEORIA AND LoGANspoR1
RAuRoAD.-Now that navigation is open, our citi
zens have the advantage of cheaper and more
direct route East than heretofore, via the above
new line of railway. The advertisement of thu
Company will be found in another column, by
| which it will be seen that connection is made
directly East with the Toledo, Wabash and West
| ern Railroad without change of cars between Bur
lington and Toledo. This is in every way the mos
desirable route for persons going directly East, al
| :, h,s opj tha oh
of the lseches lowering around railway stations a
Chicago, which have made the name Of the place
notorious to all who have been heretofore compel
led to take that out ofthe way route in travelling
between the East and the West.
BEEF PAcKING.-We are rejoiced to an
nounce that the business of slaughtering ant
packing beef cattle has been commenced in this
city. The gentleman engaged in the enterprise il
Mr. j F. Taylor, of Boston. He has taken charge o
Leland l. Co.'s extensive Strengthening and packing
establishment which is we'll adapted to the bust
ness We learn that 1t is his design to slaughter
| and pack 1900 beeves, if so many can be obtained
during the present month. He has already killed
goodly number of the finest stock we have eve
seen in this market. Two oxen in lot of fourteen
purchased from Mr.. Curtis, of Ononwa, weighed
1000 lbs. The fourteen head brought SITS. Ir
consequence of this demand for beef cattle, the
price has advanced in this market from $2aS2 te
s3as3,25 gross which is fully as high as the Chic
ago market and much better than shipping live
cattle by the cars.
We hope our farmers and stock raisers will en-.
courage Mr.. Taylor to make beef packing perma.
nent business at this place. The advantages of rei-
able home market should not be lightly esteem
ed. We find that it is too generally the case when
packer comes in midst aad offers prices as high
as have heretofore been realized at Chicago for live
stock, farmers and stockraisers at once suspec
prices are comingup at the East, and refuse to sell.
This policy is short-sghted and suicidal. 1t is found
the greatest obstacle in the way of building up this
branch of business in Muscatine aud making it as
important as the pork trade 1t is our interests
therefore, to encourage Mr.. Taylor to remain per-
nenty among us in his present business.
In this connection we may be pardoned in sug-
costing to farmers that they should more generally
engage in the business of stock-raising. 1t has
been and always will be better paying business
than grain raising. The wheat CROP although it il
usually considered our staple export does not bring
cattle products. Let farmers profit by these
hints.
OAK GROVE LITERARY lNsT1TUrE.-An un-
usually large audience was in attendance at Hugh
j Campbells lecture on "John Brown, before this
society, on last Saturday evening. Previous to
entering fully upon his subject, Mr.. c. stated that
he understood it had been charged that the ideas
advanced by him in relation to John Brown were
the principles entertained by the Republican party,
as he was member of that party. He wished to
contradict that superstition - he stood there, he
sad as the exponent simply of the views enter
tanned on this subject by Hugh J Campbell, and
not those of the WHOLE any great portion, of the
party to which he belonged. AS lengthy review
of this fearless discourse was published but short
time ago we deem it unnecessary to recapitulate.
1t delivered in the usually clear and forcible
style Of the speaker and was well received by his
hearers, who loudly applauded him.
Rev. G. Woodhouse will lecture on Saturday
evening next. Subject Labor
THE LATE DR.. MRRRY. - The St. Louis
Republican, of the 2Sth ult, pays the following
tribute to the memory of Dr.. Merry, an old citizen
of this county, whose decease we have already
published: rrsr.. rs ar
PASSING AWAY. A dispatch from Muscatine,
Iowa, OF yesterdays date, announces the death,
the evening of the previous day, of DR. Samuel
Merry in the 73d year of his age having been born
the I'd day of September, 1887. The name of DR..
Merry will recall to the recollection of many of
old citizen of the best physicians of the time in
which he lived with US. He resided in st. Louis
many years, and enjoyed the confidence Of every
one In his professional character his practice was
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