The Hawk-eye and Iowa patriot. (Burlington, Iowa) 1839-1843, 1839-10-24
CHIPS AND sHAvINGs.

trlous as the commander OF the bloc
dy s4th regiment of Pennsylvania mi
litia, died suddenly on Tuesday at the
Blockley Hospital. The Colonel has
we believe spent his declining years
in the Almshouse.
Governor Hill, in his Monthly Wis
itor, estimates the wheat crop of New
Hampshire at half a million bushels,
which is more than a bushel and half
to each man, woman, and child, in the
State. 1t is, besides, of an excellent
quality. And the same remark is ap-
plicable to the wheat crop through
out New England.
Honest industry is, after all, mans
only sure dependence for the double
blessing of contented mind and a
comfortable livelihood. a
Judge Buel, of Albany, in his adj
dress before the State Agricultural
Society Of New Jersey, at Trenton,
urged the necessity of individual ex-
ample, competition, the introduction
of agricultural studies in our public
schools, and the encouragement of le-
gislative enactments. alise ga
-Four men were SO much injured by
the explosion of rock which had been
charged with gunpowder, in the tun-
mel of the Reading (Pa.) Railroad, that
they are not expected to recover
The explosion did not occur at the
expected moment, and these men had
approached to ascertain the cause,
when the explosion took place.
In parliament of the Inner Tenn
! pie held 5th Of May, LIST and I'd Phil
ip and Mary, decree was made that
no fellow OF that house should wear
his beard above three weeks growth,
upon pain of COS. forfeiture. a
Mr.. John NJ. Haines, who put up
at the New York City Hotel, while
at breakfast, had his money, amount
ing to $4,000 in Virginia Bank Notes
taken from under his pillow, where
he had incautiously left It.
Jane Prince and Claudius Benson,
colored servants in a family residing
near Baskenbridge, N. j., fell victims
some days since to the poison con-
tracted on the 18th inst, by eating
toad stools, mistaking them for mush-
: rooms. ... -:
/ Mr.. Arago, an English philosopher
gives notice that he has discovered a
mode of preventing the occurrence Of
hail and thunder storms. His plan is
to discharge the electric fluid of clouds
!, by means of a balloon, furnished with
: small lightning rods which are to COM
E municate probably byemeans Of a
i wire) with the ground.
: "My dear what shall we name our
babe?'' said Mr.. Smith to Mrs. Smith
the other day. "Why huz. Eve set
e tied on Peter" ':Peter! Good Lord
n | never knew man with the simple
n name Of Peter who could earn hi:
salt" swell then, we'll call him Sal
d Peter ..~.a .s. .s.s
d -Four young men, tailors by trade
s, recently died in New Orleans withir
< a few hours of each other. They wer,
If all buried ut the same time. The flu
Y neral is said to have been most strik
|, ing and solemn. They had all work
D. ed in the same shop.
S, A Yankee and an Irishman, har
;e pening to be riding together, passe
s. gal!ows. "Where would YOU be,
I'd said Jonathan, ''if the gallows had
nj due?" ''Riding alone, to be sure" sal
" Pat. ........ ..,..
II. "Here's the banisters, but wher
e. the dS-l is the stairs,'' as the drunk
n en- fellow said, ven he felt his wa
s, round the bedstead in the dark.
lie BARON HAcKET, the celebrated con
RS edian, died at New Orleans of tn
tn yellow fever, last month.
of A REToRT coURTEoUs.-In Hunge
lie ford market, lady laying her han
ne on joint of veal, said to the butci
IT. er, ~ think MIR B. this veal is not $
e. white as usual.'' "Put on your GLOW
u madam replied the polite dealer, IAN
ct you'll think differently"
o. CARRYING PApERs.-The editors
of the Saco Democrat are smart mel
e. and take the right view of things
% Hear them talk:
M "Our carriers having resigned, "
c. shall perform the honorable duties
that Office ourselves. If any subscl
ed Der should be missed in our rout
he they can be furnished With a paper
til calling at the office.''
OF GAMBoeING SpARRows.-We lea1
MS from the Liverpool Mercury that
no practice is in vogue in that place,
~ mong the rogues, of"gamboging spa
IN rows" and passing them off upon py
me chasers for canaries.
aie Mr.. Pizzaro Edmunds, of Richmol
nu Va, has committed forgeries in tn
l ~ city, to the amount of some $500
= with which amount he has decampe
Mr.. James G. Birney has execut,
tbe at Louisville a deed of manumissit
the to twenty slaves, which descended
ted him from his father, who died latel