Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-11-11
THE JOURNAL.

4AG OhN ALI.
BUTLER's NEW PORK HoUsE.-Thof
Of our citizens who have CHANGED I
visit South Muscatine during the pat
i've or six months cannot but have ne
ticed that our enterprising fellow-towns
man, s. O. Butler, has been making ez
tensive improvements at his slaughte,
ing and packing establishments. Bot
houses have been rebuilt, on a large
scale, and with much better facilitie
than formerly. The slaughtering hOus
Is 20 by 100 feet, substantially built
with every convenience and improve
taent known to the business OF slaugf.
ering. The process of slaughterinr; an
dressing hogs is somewhat interesting t
the novice. Ten or fifteen hogs ar
driven at a time into M elevated pen
where they are knocked in the head an,
stuck, the blood running through tn,
Slated floor into q sluice-way, which
carries it into the river. The hog il
then showed into the scalding-vat, il
which the water is heated by steam
The animal is then taken out and placed
on a scraping bench, where about a doz
en- men are ready to relieve the carcass
of its hair. The hog is then swung on O
circular hanging frame, cleansed of it,
entrails and transferred to the hanging
department almost as speedily rs W.
can describe the process in writing
Instead of hooks as formerly, the hang
ing house is fitted up with slides, by
which the hog can be moved about with
. slight effort. 1t formerly required
three men to put One hog on the hooks;
now u boy Of fifteen car manage it from
the time it leaves the cleaning bench
till 1t is placed on the cutting block
In this department alone the labor of
ten or fifteen men will be saved by i'm
proved machinery. Every part Of the
hog, except the thin blood, is made use
of. The hair 10 already sold to manu-
facturers, who pay ten cents per hog for
all they can get. The entrails are thrown
into a steam vat and made into grease,
the feet are packed in barrels and sent
off to be manufactured into glue, and the
head is steamed into lard.
The packing house is As by $50 feet,
having a cellar of the same dimensions.
It is connected with the sl%aughtering
house by a railway 100 feet long.
The establishment is complete in
every department, and oneof the largest
in the State. 1t has facilities for slaught-
ering and packing from 600 to 500 hogs
q day. and will employ when in full OPP
Grafton about 100 men.
The carpenter work Of the buildings
was executed under the supervision OF
Mr.. John Beard, who has been in MIR.
Buffers employ for several years, and
superintends his packing house during
the pork season. The enterprise reflects
credit on all concerned, and especially
on Mr.. Butler, who has invested largely
in the impr vement and thereby added
to the busin IS interests of our city and
aided in developing the commercial adj
vantages of this locality.
SENs1RLE.-Brick Pomeroy Of the La
Crosse (Wis.) Democrat, urging the
adoption of the cash principle upon his
brother editors, gets off the following:
HE is q poor patron of any place or
enterprise who does not pay. Such pa
tronage wears credit thread bare. If a
man is good, he can pay to-day as we'll
as tomorrow. If he is not good, you
lose money by trusting him. 1t costs
more to collect little bills than they are
worth; men think to themselves, " 1t is
but little l owe to the editor; he surely
don't want or need that! And as men
think about paying such little debts the
editor has always hard luck. Others
cal influence!" Who made the politi-
cal influence but the very editor they
sponge upon? Another man is a friend
of the editor, and thus wants a paper for
nothing. And so he eats up the profit
of a half dozen papers.
"No class of men in the world do As
much work for nothing as editors
They must puff this and that-mus1
publish weddings and deaths-must cal
public meetings-must attend to school
and church interests-must give tC
charity-pay taxes-be cursed more thar
other people-trust more men-havt
more poor debts than any other business
men in the community"
A NEGRO ORATOR.-COl. HigginsOr
is writing his experience with colorec
troops, for the atlantic Monthly. HI
gives a graphic sketch of a speech by
negro corporal:
The most eloquent, perhaps. was Cor
poral Prince Lambkin, just arrived from
Fernandina, who evidently had a pre-
vious reputation among them. His his
tOrical references were very interesting
He reminded them that he had predict
ed this wal ever since Fremont's time
to which some of the crowd %assented.-
He rave a very intelligent account o
that Presidential campaign, and thel
described, most impressively, the secre
anxiety of the slaves in Florida t
know all about President Lincoln's cleo
ton, and told how they all refused t
work on the 4th of March, expectin
their freedom to date from that day
He finally brought out n of the fey
and really most impressive appeals 70
the American flag that 1 have eve
heard:
"Our mas'rs day hab lib under de flag
dew got dere wealth under it, and cher
ting beautiful for dere chilen. Under
dey hab grind us up, and put us in del
pocket for money. But de fus' minut
dey tink dat ole flag mean freedom ft
we colored people, dey pull it rigf
down, and run up de rag OBJ dere own
Immense applause But Well nebt
desert de ole flag, boys, neber; we ha
lib under it for eighteen hundred an
sixty-two years, and Well die for
now"
With which overpowering dischare
of chronology at long range, this mo
effective of stump speeches closed.