Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-11-18
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The tenth anniversary Of. Mr.. Dun
hams connection with the Burlington
HotcheJe was celebrated by a supper al
the Sunderland House, upon the even
| ing Of November 10th. All hands
about the IIo'okeyc Office, from The edit.
or to tho devil, were III attendance, and
that printers banquet was Il lively and
elegant affair
Senator Grimes presided. Speeches
were made by Senator Foote, Judge
Tracy, Senator Grimes, Mr.. Carlton
local editor, and many others.
OF tile Howheyc Itself, thaC paper
says:
In this connection We may be per
mittcd TO remark upon the growth OF
| tie business OF the UItUh'eEC office since
! it came into the hands of the present
! proprietor. On the morning Of the tes-
i tiVai the regular issue amounted to III
! 4uircs-0n The morning OF November
| 10, 1871, to s quires. About the same
| proportion holds good i'll regard to the
! weekly issue ana genera! business of the
office During the last quarter this
office paid Government taxes upon a
greater amount, t0i advertising, than
tie entire receipts of the Office, from
every source, during the first year.
| The H0ieA BE WGs established March
%, 1898, and is the oldest paper in
| Iowa.
I And by way Of items it gives the FOL-
lowing
At the Printers Reunion Saturday
evening, there were too many good
things said and done to be lost There
were TOO many good things uttered, too
many fine tOasts offered, too many Datri-
otto sentiments given to be lost. But as
everything was spontaneOllS-nOt hiny
| fixed up, cut ana dry, for the occasion,
| we fear that no full and correct report
will ever be given. For fear that it will
not, we propose to preserve one of the
toasts given by J. T. Abrahams, which
we think will be appreciated by the
craft. 1t is as follows:
| PRINTERs-Of all the types of man
kind, none perhaps have SO many sorts
amongst them as the printer.
| Like an Irish gentleman, he is no.
where without his sistjc&.
| Like an E.squimauX-he is partial to
iJ0t.
Like pretty girl az Il quilting, lie is
bound to l0ke, and don't mind ''settin'
Iup. y
Like the Scotch terrier he is ''h--U"
on rats.
He forms his impressions with light
ming dispatch, has dealings with the
derU, and is q - big thing" just nj this
lperiod.
extract s@ssisa the supplementary Report
"Es ssse Conduct os tsse esar-s;xisssires-
sios, fss gen. HicCiesisn Continued.
q. Were you, in tie fall OF 1854, cam
didate for the Presidency?
4. don't remember.
@. Did you. in the fall of 1864, encour-
age any persons to vote for you Tor Pres
ident"
A. may have done SO. ~
O. Do you know whether any person
voted for you tor that office?
A. didn't see it.
G. Did you, during the period referred
to, call for larger forces?
a. 'lon't remember. / may have
done so. Ii would have been in accor-
dance with my habits.
s3a. A restless genius who went to a
Quaker .neeting, after bearing the dec
orous gravity ior an hour or two, at lat
declared that ne could stand itno longer.
'Why,' said die, Its enough to tire
the,very devil OUT ''Tc&, friend,' re-
sponded an elderly gentleman Of the
ssDoes thee know that is
exactly what we want?"
-1L .-ras-@ I
London burned ,067, PSI tons of coal
in 1853, l32, 626 tons more han the pre-
y.ons ya9g.