The Hawk-eye and Iowa patriot. (Burlington, Iowa) 1839-1843, 1839-10-31
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(Mass.) centennial celebration, and
sat down to dinner. Is it necessary
to add that decent mirth and tempe.
rate hilarity crowned the board?
IMPORTANT. RAIL, Roam opENED.-The
Directors of the New England West.
ern Rail Road passed oversthe whole,
extent from Springfield to Boston, (9s
miles, on the 9th, in four and half
hours, travelling time.
RACE BETWEEN DEER AND STEAM
ENGINE.-A few days since a race,
came off on one of the lakes, between
a deer and steam boat; but since
that there has been another on the
railroad, at Wilmington, N. C. A fine
buck got on the track, and tried his
speed for two miles with the locomo-
tive, when he was finally run off or
The would have been run over. The
sight was witnessed by the passen-
gers. s4. ss
TwILleHr.-The evening grew
more dull every moment, and melan-
choly wind sounded through the de-
serted fields like distant giant whist
ling for his house-dog.
Isaac Carpenter, a runner in the
18th ward bank, New York, was seiz-
ed with a partial attack of ssSwart-
woutism,'' and has stepped out with
$4,000 worth Of Fl. gold belonging
to that institution. Carpenter also
held a subordinate Office under the
present Locofoco City Council. He
was therefore regularly inocula:ed
with the disease.
The Wing National Convention,
for the selection of candidates for
President and Vice President, will
be held at Harrisburgh, the capitol Of
Pennsylvania, on the first Wednesday
in December nert. 81 IS
A TEToALLER.--The young sultan
whose father was rather too fond of
wine-bibbing, has issued frman de-
cree prohibiting, under severe penal
ties, the use of wine, and caused his
fathers stock of wines, and drinking
service Of crystal, valued at million
Of piastres, to be thrown into the Bos-
fphorus.
A LARGE ONE.-A very fine calf
was exhibited at Mount Vernon, Ohio,
four and a half months old, weighing
five hundred and twenty five pounds.
He was raised by Mr. Philip Cosman,
of Morris Township, Knox County.
SAD MISTAKE The northampton
Courier says that Mrs. Bennett of that
I place, on Sunday last, swallowed
some Corrosive Sublimate, supposing
it to be some drops, which she had
been accustomed to take. With the
aid of a Physician, it was immediate
ly thrown off her stomach, but she
tstill lies in a dangerous state from the
effects of poison.
CRoPs.-An acquaintance from the
1 Green Mountains tells that the crops
which are now well in, are unusually
exuberant, and that the farmers ack-
nowledge themselves satisfed-which
is saying a good deal. The accounts
from Maine are much the same. The
Indian Corn is all gathered, ,lntouch-
ed by the frost.
j There are unfavorable rumors in
circulation, as to two banks in Ohio
81 the Bank of Circleville and the West
1 Union Bank. The first named insti
J tuition has heretofore enjoyed good
Il credit.
The Portland Courier announces
the completion of the Exchange in
that city, and the opening Of it for bu
j siness. 1t affords some of the most
commodious and conspicuous stores
in town. 1t affords ample and con.
venient apartments for the Courts OF
| the United States.
:. Paul Burdick, of Milwaukee, Wis
consin, was shot by his fellow citizen
Otis Hubbard. The former was black
berrying, thelatter cunning, and when
engaged in the bushes, in STOPPING
j position, Hubbard mistook him for a
deer, and put charge Of twenty-five
Of the largest kind Of buckshot into
a his body. Fortunately none of the
wounds are likely to prove dangerous
! An eagle, entirely black, was re-
Gently shot at Killing, Conn, by a Nj
Chace, which weighed IA pounds and
Z ounces, and measured 8 feet 8 inch
!, es, from tip to tip, across the wings.
I A girl named Nancy Simpson is now
in religious trance or lethargy, Al
!, Philadelphia, having been SO, it IS sale
& for eight days, without morsel 0
food or drink. Of course, there ar.
the usual visitations, speculations an,
: wonderment on all such occasions
: plenty Of old women, curiosity-rnen
gers, the faculty, &c. around her sui
4 ficient to make up lengthy newspa
per paragraph. So
Mi. John English discovered on hi
farm in Decatur county, La, a sal
n spring at the depth OF only is feet
d One pound Of salt is obtained from
: four gallons of the water. Mr.. Enc
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