Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-07-05
THE JOURNAL

THE JOURNAL.
LOCAL DEPARTM EMIT. q,
OWNER WANTED-For gold lingering,
with the initials F. J. B. on the outside and
). 9. or J. T. inside. Apply to the editor of
this paper.
The Supreme Court in session at Des
Moines adjourned on the 25th. In the list
of cases, we find only one from this county,
viz: Bamford vs.. O'Brien, affirmed, The
next term Of the Supreme Court sits in DAY.
export in October.
Crops IN OHIo.-A private letter from Mas
silon, Ohio, under date of June oath, says:
"Our wheat cropis being injured very much
by the weevil. Oats, barley and corn are
doing we'll There is but little fruit, except
apples, of which there will be enough"
GONG TO EURoPE.-The Rev. Phi. Lau-
rent, Of St. Matthias (Oatholic) Church, de-
signs visiting his friends in Paris, in few
weeks. His numerous friends and acquaint.
ances here, by whom he is highly esteemed
and respected, wish him pleasant voyage
and speedy return.
ELoPEMENT.-Some ten days since, John
Meyer, a German about 40 years of age, hay
ing wife and two married daughters, eloped
with young American girl Is or Is years of
age, who lived in the family of Mr. Ogilvie.-
1t is supposed they have gone to California.
Meyer had considerable property, most of
which he sold and converted into drafts on
San Francisco. 1t appears that he lived I'M
happily with his wife, who is 20 years his
senior
CROSSWORD AcADEMY.-This is the name
selected by Mr.. Daymude for his aourishing
high school in this city, which is just closing
its first year. A printed catalogue Of the
Academy has been issued from this office
which we invite the friends of education t.
examine. Mr. D. is ambitious to establish {
more extensive reputation!for his Academy
in which he sh ould have the cordial cooper
alton of all our citizens, as he is an accom-
plished scholar, an efficient teacher and az
exemplary gentleman.
on rafhprln,
of about fifty men on the sidewalk, on Secon(
street. last week, a vote was taken on tn
question whether the Iowa City Press, TO
publishing an article calling the Iowa volun
teers Invaders of Missouri" and Col. Curti
Leader of an abolition horde" deserved 6;
cleaning out" 1t was decided unanimousl,,
in the affirmative 1t is generally believed
here that LIE Grand Byington is the author 0
the article, and it is matter Of wonder tina
the old traitor and falsifer is not driven on
of decent society, as he was in Ohio man.
years since.
cY@ 1t is but justice to the honorable Sc
ciety of Friends to state that the advertise
ment published in this paper, few day
since, charging three Of them in Cedar cour
ty with robbery, was handed in and paid fo
by one who is, unfortunately, not respons
bic for anything he does, not being Of rigf
mind His manner, however, completely d.
ceived US, and we had no suspicious of h
insanity till informed of the fact by thos
who know him. The matter of which
complained was altogether imaginary. Il
is the same individual who made contract
with various persons, few years since, fl
the building Of meeting house, while u
der the influence of hallucination.
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County BUsINEss.-The Montezuma r
publican contains one whole page of the of
cial proceedings of the Board of Supervise
of Poweshiek county, being for the session
of both January and June, for which it
dollars, including the Treasurer's report. Y
believe in most counties of this State the pr
ceedngs of the Board are not only publish
by authority in the newspapers, but in palnp
let form also at the expense of such countit
In Muscatine county, however the proceedin
of the Board have not only been publish
free of charge, in the Journal, but we ha
incurred the trouble and expense of comp
ing our own copy from the official records
" ~ Of fiji, H,of fb
we were Justly entitled to fair price f
publishing the financial statement after ea
meeting of the Board but at the last meetil
resolution was passed resembling previo
order for the publication of the statement
the Journal, and authorizing the Clerk
contract for the publication of the same at
cents per thousand ems This is the rate
which we are asked to publish the stateme
which appears in our columns to-day. 1t b
putting it in, type, leaving no adequate col
pensation for press work, &c. Our WORT
Supervisors were probably laborng under
misapprehension as to the proper compensate
for this kind of work, and if so we hope tn
will at their next meeting make some reason
bleproyision for it, whether they give us the j
Or not. At 80 cents per thousand the tw
column-and- a-half statement elsewhere cos
the county only $3.50.
THE IRISH BRIGADE. - Applications we
received by Col. Mulligan on Monday, fro
three full companies, for admission into Il
ranks of the brigade The Shamrock Guar(
from Port Huron, Fontenoy Guards, fro
Muscatine, and a company from Indiana, Sc
an earnest request to be permitted to join t
brigade. The regiment now here is full, al
there would not be any very great effort r
quired to fill another regiment in a few day
The brigade will leave their quarters in Il
barracks on Polk streel for camp at Cotta
Grove, to be established forthwith, temporal
board structures are to be erected for this pu
pose. Mrs. Col. Mulligan and few 9th