Burlington tri-weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1852-1855, 1855-05-09

Messrs. Lewis Tappan, William Goodeli,
ierrit Smith, S. s. Joycelyn, w. h. hitting
James McCunn Smith, George Whipple and
Douglas haveissaed an address 10
he radical friends of the abolition of slave
", calling for national convention to be
leld at Syracuse on the Goth 9th and 18th
81 June. for the purpose Of reorganizing the
anti slavery movements upon more pro-
,ressive and eff ctivc basis.
"Mary, Mary, where in the deuce are my
pants?"
s.Pant, sir? | reckon missis has 'em, she
has gone to the convention, she has,
A Snowman exhibitinga picture, said: La
dies and gentlemen, there is Daniel IN the
den Of lions. These arc the lions and that
is Daniel whom you will easily distinguish
from the lions by his having a. blue cotton
under his ARM
Prof. James Hall, Of Albany, late State
Geologist of this State, has received the APP
poinntnirnt Of Professor of Geology, Natu
raj History and Zoology, in the State Qniver-
sitv of Iowa.-N Y. Times.
4 coroner's jury in Warren county, Miss,
lately returned a verdict ''that the deceased
died from the visitation Of God; or sone
other disease unknown to the jury"
A foolin high station is Ikea man on the
top of the mountain-everything appeared
small to him and b. appears SIN ii to every
body.
who died at Paris on tbs 10Th of March, ar
L. A.
steamer St. Louis, and were taken to Kinder
hook for burial.
Its stated that Fanny Ferns portion Of
the profits on the sale Of Ruth Hail." al
ready amountto some Sl5, 900, and the prof
its Of the publisher to nearly an equal sum-
LAKE SUPERIOR SlLvER.-A lump Of silver
from Like Superior, weighing ninety-six
pounds, and warranted to be seventy-five per
cent pure metal, has been received at De-
troit. 1t is mixed with copper.
Letters from Florence state that the full
length Marble statue of the late Judge Story,
intended for Auburn, has been shipped to
this country. 1t is the work OF VIM. w.
Story, son of the deceased.
x shocking murder was committed last
Monday just on the edge of Pamela county.
Miss, and what is still worse, brother was
by brother slain. John Wright, killed
his brother, Columbus Wright, with club!
vANDERBLr's LlNE-Com. Vanderbilt's
we'll known steamship the North Star, is on
her way to Havre with l4S passengers and
$l64, 900 in specie. The Ariel succeeds the
North Star, and sails May 10Th.
The proprietor Of a first class grocery in
Broadway, New York, states that the demand
for wines and spirits for family use, in that
city since the prohibitory liquor law is I'M
Or cedented. Persons who formerly bought
a gallon at time, now purchase twenty or
thirty gallons, with view, prob bly,, to sto
ring an ample supply before the law goes in
to effect.
The body OF the unfortunate man, who
was buried alive in a we'll in this city on
Wednesday, was rescued on Friday after
noon after having been immured nearly for
weight hours. \ friend thinks that if so
mary of those engaged in digging him out
the first night had not got drunk, the man
would have been sayed.-Davcnport Gazette.
The sentence of the law was carried INFO
effect on Friday last at Fort Wayne, Indiana
by the execution of two men, Madden and
keefer, found guilty Of the murder of Mr..
Dunbar. Both confessed the crime. A third
man, named Romaine, participator in the
murder, was sentenced to be hung on the
18th OF June next.
Three quarters Of a pound Of the best meal
are consumed n making one gill of whis
key.
The steamer Mayfowes left S.. Louis on
the 25th ult, for New Orleans, with freight
Of 100 tons---the largest cargo ever taken
from St. Louis.
The Boston transcript says that TIE num-
Der of newspapers, distributed annually by
the press of that city, reaches sixty millions.
A dovetailing machine has been invented
and is in use in Boston, which, it is said, en-
ables single workman TO doyetail with ease
from eight hundred to one thousand bureau
draw rs a day
PRIZE CoNuNDRUMs. In Boston, the other
DAY, there was prize conundrum conven-
ton. One, supposed to be from one of the
fair sex, was as follows WHY is the hand
Of the author of this conandrum like bell
Ans.-Because you choose you can ring 1t.
The Grand Jury of Orange county, Fla, in
their general presentmtnt, made at the late
term of their court, mentioned the fact that
out ola population of four hundred in the
country there has not been single death in
twelve months.
There are o21 females who ray tax on
S6, 900 and upwards in Boston. Mrs. H. X.
Hunt, who protested on the ground that it
was taxation without representation, pays
$308 10.
There have peen recently discovered at Cal
ais the remains of a Roman ship in good pres
eryation, bearing the name julius Cesar in
gold letters. The dimensions of the vessel
are considerable. an 4 intimate that this xas