Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-05-10

THE JOURNAL.
LOCAL DEPARTMENT.
POST OFFICE REMOVED.
The Post Once 10 now located in Green Stones ne
building ON Iowa Avenue, near Second street.
My1m JOHN MAH1N, P. II.
Notice to Subscribers.
We often recsivs complaints from subscribers on ~
count Of the receipt of their papers. and in refe
ring to our books ind that the clerk has only olowe
Instructions discontinue sending at the expiration
the time paid for. All who miss their papers will
well to examine their receipts and this is not tn
cause, We sometimes make mistakes, however, and
all such cases hope our subscribers will correct u.s.
~ Upwards of thousand dollars wer
paid out to the volunteers, for their board
Saturday evening, at Green Il Stones ban
q Four hundred dozen eggs were receiv
ed by Bowers & Mauck, by railroad, Tues
day, from points west of this place.
Iowa TROOPS MovlNa. - Two Dubuqu
companies and one Davenport company pas
sed down on the steamer Hawkeye State
Sunday.
MORE TRooPs FOR KEoKUK.-The steame
W. l. Ewing passed down yesterday, will
tho Iowa City and Cedar Rapids companie
on board, for Keokuk.
REMovED.-Johnson h Evans have re
moved their boot and shoe store from Uniol
Block to the room recently occupied by @
B. Williams, nearly opposite our Office.
~ Judge Dillon has appointed jerome
Carskaddan, ESQ.,, District Attorney, pr
tenn, for Auscatine county, in place of Mr.
O'Oonnor, who has enlisted in the army.
~ An Irish volunteer company has beer
organized in this city, with the full compile
ment of members. We understand THAT NJ
Thomas Mackey has been elected captain.
A FIELD PIEcE.-Mr Geo. O. Stone, Wsh
left for Chicago, Wednesday, designs nego
tiating for field piece for the German Ar
tilery Company of this place. The cost of (
''machine" of this descriptions about 5000
EDITORIAL VIslr.-Mr. J. G. Davenport
editor of the. Cedar Rapids Times, was in
the city Wednesday. Mr.. D. is postmaster
elect Of his flourishiug town, and expects to
enter Upon the duties of the Office on the
LIST of July.
TLarge numbers of our citizens have
visited tho new Post Office, this week, both on
business and through curiosity, and they all,
so far as we could hear, expr essed themselves
highly pleased with it. We have now one
of the neatest and best arranged Offices in the
State.
SUMNER MILL1NERY.-Mrs.W White, 50 long
and favorably known to the ladies of Musca-
tine, announces, through our advertising
columns, the reception of her Summer stock
of millinery: She has fine assortment of
goods in her line, with tasty and skillful as
sistants to make it up.
RETURNED FROM CAL1FoRN1A.-JohnB Black
we'll, an old citizen of this vicinity, who has
been eight OF nine years in California, near
Stockton, returned yesterday, with the
intention, we understand, of remaining here.
Mr.. Foss, formerly clerk with Geo. G.
Mahan, also returned few days since. He
has visited England since he left California.
LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY. j. Bennett,
agent for the American Temperance Life In
surance Company of Hartford, Connecticut,
paid over to Mrs. Samuel Ketchum one
thousand dollars, the am cunt of insurance in
this company. This is the third loss which
this company has promptly paid in this city
within about three years, amounting in all
to six thousand dollars.
No SUNDAYS IN REVOLUTIONS. The mem.
orable words of Daniel Webster, that there
are no Sundays in revolutions, were exem-
pliied by many of the noble-hearted and
patriotic ladies of this city, who were en-
gagged all last Sabbath in making up soldiers
uniforms, land only completed the work in the
evening. Great credit is due them for their
industry and devotion.
New MILLINERY STORE. = The advertise
-ment of Miss Hattie E. Snyder, who has
recently opened a millinery store in Greer
& Waters block, will De found in another
column. From sample of Miss C's work
we Judge her to be lady of excellent taste
and skill. She has no on hand full and
fashionable stock Of millinery, which w
invite our lady readers to call and examine
~ The District Court convened yes
terday. 1t has been resolved to try only thu
criminal cases and take defaults for the pres
ent, and if the excitement throughout th'
country abates before the close of the month
q week will be taken at that time to try
chancery cases. Judge Dillon left this mat
ter to the lawyers, and it seemed to be tn
general feeling that regular term shoult
not be held in the present excited state o
the public mind. There are upwards OF A