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Weekly Trinity journal., 1861-04-13

A HAsTY NTRoDUCTIoN.-The Corvallis (OreS
gOn) Union says, Z" An elopement took place g6t
long since, not thousand miles from this place.
The parties proceeded to well known Esquire
at late hour of the night, knocked, and were
answered by the Justice, who made haste to strike
a light which took some time. The anxious par
ties, not waiting for the door to be opened, walk
he got light, who had no time to don his appa-
rel having only his neither garment, and that
rather immodesty short, In this costume he
was introduced to the blushing lady We did
not hear whether they waited for him to put on
his pants or we're united at once"
Weekly Trinity journal., 1861-04-13
The Law of Newspapers.

Subscribers who do not give express notice to thu
Fnrary are considered wishing to continue their sub
riptons.
If subscribers order their papers stopped publishers
pay continue to send 1t till all charges are paid
If subscribers neglect refuse 10 take their paper;
from the office place to which they sent, they
M responsible until they settle their bill and give noce
b. discontinue them.
If subscribers move to other places, without inform
ing the publishers and the paper is sent to its former
irecton they are held responsible Notice should always
Ic given of removal
.. Postmastcrs failing to give notice within three
months of the failure of subscriber to call for his pa
!, liable for the amount of the subscription.
The courts have decided that refusing to take paper
periodical from the Office removing and lea wing it
lncallcd for, is priBid fdcie evidence of fraud.
roStmasters would Oblige by strict fulhmcn Of the
regulations requiring them to notify publishers in
three months of papers not taken from their Office by
subscribers.
Under the laws of Congress, papers not charged
postage in the counies in which they published.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1861-04-13

y BAYARD TAYLOR tells of Yankee who, walk
ing the streets in st. Petersburg one muddy day,
met the Grand Duke Constantine. The sidewalk
was not wide enough for two to pass, and the
street was very deep in filth whereupon the
American took a silver rouble from his pocket,
shook it in his closed hand, and cried out,
"Crown or tail I" Crown" guessed the Duke
Your Highness has won," cried the American,
looking at the rouble, and stepping into the mud.
The next day the Yankee was Invited by the
Grand Duke To dinner
Weekly Trinity journal., 1861-04-13

infalibly cured, it is said, by making strong
deeOcton of manzanita leaves, and applying it
to the portions of the body afflicted, as warm as
the patient can bear it, with sponge or linen
rag, 1t is said to be certain remedy, and has
never been known to fail in producing speedy
cure.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1861-04-13

| "BRICK" ON OPERA SINGING.-Pomeroy, Of the
La Crosse (Wis) Democrat, attended the Opera
at Milwaukee, and gives the follwing opinion of
1t, which, we doubt not, will find a response in
many natural heart:
Opera singing is humbug That's what's
the matter with it! Folks go to Opera because
it is good place to show their clothes It's u
nice place to be seen. It's fashionable. The
upper crust go there. II may be a good place to
hear music, but we don't believe it, and dare say
50. II Opera singing is music, we don want to
hear music If a succession Of yels, boots,
howls, squeas, growls and spasmodic jerks of the
head Is music, our share can be had at discount
II that's the kind Of music they have in Heaven,
Heaven is no good place for us We had rather
lay our head in the lap Of her who has so often
rocked us to sleep, and listen to the lullaby OF
childhood, than attend all the operas in the
world We had thousand times rather stand
out by the door when the thermometer is below
zero, aud hear some one inside, who waits our
coming, sing our favOrte tune We'd give all
the operas in the world to join the group by the
freside as they annually met in years agone and
sang the song they sang so oft aud 50 feellngly
when away,
Do they miss me at home, ," &c.
We'd rather walk ten miles in the mud to hear
a female voice dear to us sing,
Home sweet Home, -
than to ride in a cushioned carriage TO any Opera
ever started.
There is real music--music that causes the
heart to feel like wet sponge and the eye to run
over with Joy when the tired head ut close OF day
reposes Oh a loved breast-when
Come rest in this bosom"
is verified and loved lips press the hearts warm
kiss on the throbbing temple. There was music
in the song our mothers sang to us-there is mu-
sic in the song our sisters sing to us now after
long absence
" Home agan--IIome again"
but there is no music for me in Opera singing
We may be uneducated, but we can't help it,
We may not have an ear for fine muslc-nor do
we want it.
We can find music far better for US at home,
even if the voice that sings is not that of Jenny
Lind or Fabbri. There is music good enough for
us in the little sOnglets of Tom Moore as one we
know of sings them. Thereis music in the songs
of Bobbie Burns when a voice we know of sings
to u.s. There is music far sweeter than Opera
music in The light footstep that seaithi!y tip toes
into our sick chamber, and there is music in the
gentle whispering that asks after our heath.s
Weekly Trinity journal., 1861-04-13

BEAUTIFUL THoUGnT.-There is but breath of
air and a breath Of the heart between this world
aud the next. And in the brief interval of pain
funess and awful suspense, while we feel that
Death is pressing upon US, that he is all powerful
and we are powerless, aud that the last faint
pulsation here is but the prelude OF endless life
hereafter we feel in the midst of the stunning
calamity about to fall upon us, that earth has no
compensating good to mitigate the severity of
our loss. But there is no grief without some
benefcient provision to soften its intenseness.
When the good and the lovely die, the memory
of their deeds like the moonbeams on the stormy
sea, light up our darkened hearts, aud lends to
the surrounding CLEAN beauty so sad. so sweet,
that we would not, if we could, dspel the dark
ness that envrons it,
Weekly Trinity journal., 1861-04-13

Col. SEATON, of the National LateihgeHeer, has
been appointed Postmaster of Washington City.
He is not Republican, but strong Union man.
Good, for old Abe Shasta Courier,
Weekly Trinity journal., 1861-04-13

BEAUTIFUL was the reply of a venerable man
to the question, whether he was still in the land
of the living" No but am almost"
Weekly Trinity journal., 1861-04-13

He who is passionate aud hasty is generally
honest 1t is your old, assembling hypocrlte
whom you should beware There's no deception
in bulldog. IL Is only the cur who sneaks up
aud bites you when your back is turned.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1861-04-13

"LETTING the cat out of the bag" is thus rem
dered in the KnickTJockr: Dscharging the
EeIts d0meSt.cus from saceeous confinement"
Weekly Trinity journal., 1861-04-13
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Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-02-15
poor vine is made from their grapes.

poor vine is made from their grapes.
My mode Of summer pruning is to
take off all the shoots that are thrown
out from tho main stock near the
ground, and the small one that is not
wanted for tho next year !; and just be-
fore blossoming Of the grapes, break
off the end of the shoots that have
grapes on, three or four leaves after
the last bunch then, if the latter
shoots come out strong, break off two
or three leaves farther ; after that, let
all grow that will ; then your grapes
will ripen we'll, and be fit to make good
vine. Always have in view quality,
not quantity.
MIR. Editor, feel it to be my duty
to say few words to warn those who
are not vine drcssers, and are not
practically acquainted with the raising
grapes in field culture, not to be led
astray by those theories that have been
promulgated at times by q fow individ-
uals, on the cultivation and pruning Of
the grape, in the Cincinnati Horticul-
tu:al Society. think those men had
little or no practical knowledge in grape
growing. My own practical experience
Of just thirty years in this country, has
satisfied me that tho system l have
adopted is the only one that is safe
and profitable fer field cultivation in
this climate. | have been close OBJ
server Of my neighbors' systems, as
we'll as Of my own. One thing I will
say. in conclusion it is necessary for
tho vine-dresser to study the strength
of his vine, SO that when he comes to
plant, he can tell what it can bear,
and trim it in proportion toits strength.
At present, l prefer good cuttings, for
my own planting, to roots. I plant
cuttings the same way as roots, except
that one is placed on each side of the
stake-two in one place if both grow,
one is to be removed or destroyed.
JOHN E. MOTHER.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-02-15

Low TO PRESERVE THE TEETH. THE
mouth is a very warm place-98 de-
egrees Fahrenheit. In this northern
climate we never have temperature so
high in the shade. Even at ninety.
beef will begin to decompose in twenty
four hours. The particles Of beef and
other food which are left between the
teeth at dinner, begin to purify before
dinner the next day. Ifyou then pick
the teeth, the odor of the breath testi-
6es to decomposition. With this man
asemcnt we ought not to be surprised
that the gums and teeth should become
the subjects Of disease. What is to be
done
LIST. Use the toothpick goose
gully after each meal. Follow with q
n.outhful of water, to remove the par
ticlcs the toothpick may have left be.
hind.
3D. Every morning, on rising, use
the brush and CASTLE soap.
With these things thoroughly done,
you will preserve the teeth to old age.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-02-15

MARRIAGE.-I have now been mar
rid ten years. I know what it is to
live entirely for and with what l love
best on earth. l holdmyself supreme
ly blessed-blessed beyond what lan-
guage can express, because am my
husbands life as fully as he is mine.
No woman was nearer to her mate than
lam, ever more absolutely bone of his
bone and flesh of his flesh. know no
wearines of my Edwards society and he
knows none Of mine, any more than
we each do Of the pulsation Of the hear
that beats in our seperate bosoms;
consequently we are ever together
To be together is for US to be at once
as free as in solitude, as gay as in
company. We talk, I believe, all day
long; to talk to each other is but q
more animated, and an audible think
ing. All my confidence is bestowed
On him; all his confidence is devoted
to me; we are precisely suited in char
acter; perfect concord is the result
Charlotte Bronte, an Jane Eyre.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-02-15
O. B. MCDONALD.

ATALISSA, ----- IOWA.
LAS JUST RECEIVED NEW AND SELECT
Ii assortment of Fancy and Staple Dry Goods choice
Family Groceries, Ready made Clothing, Boots and
Shoes Hats and Caps, Hardware ueensware Glass
ware. Also, Drugs, Oils, Paints, Patent Medicines,
Fancy Goods, Books and Stationery, Yankee Notions,
Window Glass; Putty, Turpentine, Tobacco, Snuff and
Cigars of all kinds, and every other article usually sold
by country merchants DEF. 2Sth, 1860.
So SPECIAL NOTICE. ~
THE undersigned wishes those indebted to him to
call and settle old accounts and if not able to at
present. from the fact of indulgence to let him have all
the cash they o. b. McDONALD.
Atalissa, Iowa, Dec. 2Sth, 1860.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-02-15
- - - TT
u & ROWE.

A TALISSA, MUSCAT1NE COUNTY, IOWA.
IA tenders hs services, professionally, Physician
and Surgeon, to the citizens of Aassa and surround
ing country. Calls attended to promptly.
PRICEs.-Visit, Medicine and Prescription in town
day or night, 90.
If the becomes protracted reasonable charges by
the day.
Mileage day night 5ocents as it is reckoned in
some countries eacn way, % cents.
Medicine and Prescription, in the country, from so
ents to $780, owing to the quantity and kind used.
Obstetrical cases, (ao estras.) $500.
In such charge for mileage for the first three
miles.
All surgical in the same proportion as the above
deduction of rs per cent. will be made in ali cases
where payment is made within month after services
are rendered.
Though the above is fair statement of our charges
yet all accounts, where circumstances would seem to
demand it, are subject to favorable consideration.
Ataissa, July 18th, 1860-wtf
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-02-15

Nsr FAR OUT OF THE WAY. - Minnie was
one day talking to her little class in Sunday
School, about Gods great love to man.
Wishing to impress it upon their minds, and
to know whether they understood her, she
asked
Now, children, who loves all men ?"
Tie question was hardly asked, before s.
little girl, not four years old, answ red
quickly
Gan women y
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-02-15
BLACKSMITHING.

a WOULD announce to the citizens of Musca.
81 L tine and surrounding country that have 1T
Dted up the old stage stand, near the State Bank,
W where can be found good assortment of shoes
manufactured from the best sligo ron ready at mo.
ments warning and the boys that can spike them on
And would assure all who may favor me with their
work, that do not general thing intend to be ex
celled in my Job Work Shoeing With experience
of twenty years shoei and half of that time dealing
considerably in horses together with the instructions
of Veterinary Surgeon, considered the best in the
British Army, have knowledge that enables me no.
only the structure and the ailments
of the foot but keep it in healthy condition. there
by preventing most the evils of the foot and shoulder
arising from founder and unskillfal shoeine There
be found amongst all he horses that have been
shoed under my instructions for the past six years.
single contracted or corned foot.
Thankful only for the patronage of punctual custom.
ers, would solicit only the continuance of the same
Nov30 60-w3md1w GEORGE PERRY.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-02-15
All women !


IA schoolma' ain in one of our district
schools was examining a class in or:hogra
ply. "Spel and define ioweret," she said.
ST 10 w-s-r-e-t, floweret, little flower"
went eff tow-hs ad in perfect streak. -
"Wavelet." "W-a-v-e-l-e-t, wavelet, little
waYe," was the prompt return of number
two. Bullet "B-u-l- Let, bullet, little
BuN,' shouted urchiG number three, who
was innocence personiied.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-02-15

ay-The Dubuque Herald, noticing the
facs that tie debt Of Missouri is some TWEEN
ty-foar millions ofdoilars, remarks: what
u happy thing it is for Iowa that she has
KEEP, out of debt, even to build railroads.
Aad yee in the past two or three State can,
vases, Demo Gratis have howied long and
Justify abous-the great indebtedness OF the
State created by the Republicans, and Hen
~ Clay Dean, in his harangues, was wont
to assert that men have left and were leaving
Iowa on account of this Indebtedness, and
the consequent high taxes This shows
the srutbfulness of Democratic olectioneer-
inp.-Independence Guardian
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-02-15

VERY NATURAL.-A man and his
wife were seated by the fire. He was
in.ently occupied in reading; she in
some domestic cares. At length he
raised his eyes from the book and said:
"Is is here stated that Lots wife looked
back towards Sodom, and was con-
verted into pillar of salt because she
coveted something she had left behind,
and added, 81 never thought it was
for that reason" His wife very quiet
ly asked, "what do you suppose induced
her to look back, if it was not covet-
ousness?'' He replied, 81 always i'm
agined it was curiosity - and after
sitting a moment, be said, cit seems
TO me that should have wanted to look
back if I had been in her place, should
not you 2"
eyes," she replied, Il think
should, especially il l had been told
not to Go it," How much human ma
ture, not to say woman's nature, is de-
veloped is this remark /! 1t has been
questioned whether Eve would ever
have thought Of eating tbs fruit Of the
tree Of knowledge if she had not been
forbidden to do it.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-02-15

e~ A preacher, whose text led him to
s,eak of the prophet Jonah, remarked Incl
deotal,y IL am of the opinion Jonah was n
old man. neither smoking nor chewing, from
the fact the fish retained him SO long IN his
stomach. II the fish had swallowed the
house we are worshiping in, he woaId, DO
doubt. haze puked himself to DEATH
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-02-15
9 Misser LinkerHI.
Ohm EiZ Kon2mashus Cilonz
BY OUR NED.

BY OUR NED.
Ode abe linkern
VIII doc U kepe SOW still?
UK knott DUN
Blu?
boo U meme 9 spoke
If COW U does, wi knott out with it
at wuuts
Crater MEM than U speke-
Il meme bigger rounde
Butt knott sow longe)
take it u Ian speke
People IL watein 9 heer U
g. something.
IL q short ov wind?
Orr agreements
Orr has Their Oxogin
gin eout ?
NUTHER wERs.
Oh doc spoke Abraham
muiter out wunts
Kos o know Bennitt's
Watein too heer ure LIST
remarks.
B . madd at Bennitt
j. want speke
arnt . fraid of hiz
Bisg PaperG
Bepnitt's downe onn dam peepel.
KoNTINUAsHUN.
Ak U wunts moor, abe
Kant U gin US | squeel
Peepel r looking 4 ure utteranz
IRE cilenz wurries evreboddee-
it wurries HIM.
l. it wurries NEE!
IRE mene-U r.
KoNKLUDIN STAND sIRs.
Kongure e 2 sreke
If lit haint 6rite
No matter.
Hev u got err sower monthe
Orr is IRE tung tired-whioh?
Maouee q loste ure teethe
titein ingnns-
WIT kan make U SOW DUMB
Bennitt says Ell U don't speke
kannons will!
Then ware Is L
go1e . Their client TcOms,
| recon.
PERSwAsIv LINES
0! linkern, link ern
brake that dred'I cilenZ
Jest wunts , keps Bennilt
Quiett-I rede hiz pspure
IL pa . cent? 4 lit
twice err weke.
it don't pa
Bennitt fills their pspure
with IRE cilenz.
SOW gifts nuthin 4 mi 3 sentz.
Farewell kontraree 81
kontumashis siiizen
Wa off in Illernoise.
adoo krooked limbed man
Inwiacible she ulder ov Their
Revolushun.
l leve ure ci!enZ 2
Bennitt & Reno sse.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-02-15
LOCAL NEWS.

ARM DIsL ~CATED.-A little son of Henry
Nicholas had his arm -dislocated on Wednes
day week, while sliding down hill. Another
warning to boys sr
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-02-15

Pl.srIcAL BENEvoLENcE.-Henry Farnsm
ESQ, of the Chicago & Rock Island Railroad
has lately donated fifty tons of coal to be
given to deserving and needy persons in
Chicago.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-02-15
WILTON HOUSE

THE und ersigned having taken the proprietorshi
u of the Wilton House, in Wilton, Muscatne coun
ty has retted and overhaued the house generally aud
is now prepared to accommodate the public who may
favor him with their patronage If he does NOT give
satisfaction he will make no charge.
Jau 10Th, I'll IT, F. McELROY
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-02-15

~ "Mrs. Snizzle, pa wants to know ifhe
might lend himself to your axe little while.
He'd always rather lend than borrow"
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-02-15

WoRK.-"I wish | was rich, and
not obliged to learn a trade. l have
to be so punctual-always at the shop
in season." said John Hawkins, in a
grumbling, discontinued tone to his
mother. ''There's Sam Meade, his
father is so rich he doesn't have to
work; and there's Ichobod Sampson
he doesent do anything unless he has
a mind to. But I have to work"
John talked as if he thought it was
great hardship; and I have known
ether boys who seemed to regard
working in the same light. 1t is a
false light, boys, and it is sure to mis-
lead and ruin you. Of the 6O6 con-
victs now in the Ohio Penitentiary,
400, OF nearly 50 per cent, have 10
trades; and $50 cannot read or write
What 9 lesson does this teach us
That education and regular occupatio n
are two great elements Of success. Nor
al training IS Of course important. But
without habits Of industry, grated on
regular occupation, the perils of the
young are fearful. Sono trade, calling
or profession, should be thoroughly
learnc'. 1t occupies the mind, curbs
the passions, and tasks the faculties of
youth. It prevents your running to
waste, or, what is worse, running to
ruin. A good education, habits Of in
dustry, and useful calling, are of far
greater price than the greatest fortune
without those qualities, for it is these
which make the man CHild's Paper.
BoRAX-T The washerwomen of Hol-
land and Belgium, SO proverbially
clean, and who get their linen 80 beau
tifully white, use refined borax as a
washing powder instead of soda, in the
proportion Of q large handful Of borax
powder to about ten gallons of boiling
water; they save in soap nearly half.
All the large washing establishments
adopt the same mode. For laces, &C.,
an extra quantity Of the powder is used ,
and for crinolines, required to be made
very stiff, a strong soluti on is neces,
sary. Borax being neutral salt,
does not in the slightest degree injure
the texture Of the linen; its object is to
soften the hardest water AMI therefore
it should be kept on every toilet table,
To the taste it is rather sweet, and used
for cleaning the teeth, as an excellent
dentrifce, and in lot countries is used
in combination with tartaric acid and
bicarbonato of soda for cooling" bevs
erage.
Good tea Can not be made with hard
water; all water may be made soft by
adding teaspoonful Of borax powder
to an ordinary sized kettle Of water,
which it should boil. The saving in
the quantity Of tea used will be at
least one-ffth.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-02-15

G% s'John. what is the past of see7''
"Seen, sir enc, ieiksaw-rec ,llect that. y
Yes, sir. Then if d sea.fish swims by me,
st becomes a saw-iisi when it is past, and
csn't be seen" you may go home, John )"
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-02-15

EDIroR SLAUGHTERED. - Married, at La
Grange, No., n the 10th ult Charlton H.
Howe. editor If the National Democrat IN
Miss Fannie Z. Slaughter.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-02-15
G.. W. HUMPHREYS.

NOTARY PUBLIC. Office at Moscow, Muscatine
IN county, Iowa. Will attend to the acknowledging
Of Deeds, power of attorney, mortgages, bonds &c.
Nov. 2 ON.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-02-15
E. M. TIMONEY.

A TTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW, AND
II Notary Public Columbus City, Louisa County,
Iowa, will attend promptly to collections examine til
ties, pay taxes, &C. d1y2.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-02-15

That our pump can raise water faster and easier than
any other pump that can be produced Come and see
them at factory Walnut street, between Second
and Third, Muscatine, Iowa.
W. 4. L. McGREER
H0-Our pump took the First Premium at the Iowa
State Fair, 1860 Nov o. 6O.vsm