Burlington tri-weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1852-1855, 1855-02-13
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Aac VWsnlnStOn Otdr gays IL mas receive
/ letters confirming the Statement Of an excite
ment in Cuba, and is expecting daily t
hear Of m outbreak. $500
i BrFrALoEs.-Large number of buffaloe
/ have made their appearance this fall, il
Minnesota, not many miles from the settle
ments on the Minnesota River. Rare spor
| is had in capturing this giant game!
The new loan of the Illinois central rail.
road company amounting to 100000 has
been taken at 20. That is the Company real
Ire So, 100000 on the bonds. This shows the
lightness Of the times.
The last steamer fromEuro2e brought intel
ligencc of the death of.iiss..Mary Russell Nit
ford. an English authoress of high literary
merit, whose works are we'll known in this
coantry. aF.ha
Many citizens Of Newbu-yport heard, and
felt a shock Of an earthquake about O'Clock
the afternoon of the 29sh.
Our friend Stehbins has been reading the
market reports. He says that as Wheat has
been quoted sdull' all the winter it had bet.
ter be ground.
The Washington Union states that Mr..
Soule was recalled at bis own request. 1t
is moreover understood that he comes
home to make war upon the Pierce admins
tration Would Soule attack thing that Is
SO unspeakably deal?-Richmond Wing.
The admirers Of Mrs. Sinclair, formerly
Mrs. Forrest, in California, have presented
her with diamond necklace valued at three
thousand eight hundred doi!ays-s.s
The powder mill of Parish. Silver & Co.,
situated about two miles from Wilkcsbarre,
Pa, exploded on tho 10th inst, killing two |
bows. About 400 kegs of powder were de-
stroyed. Total loss about So, 500.
The Charleston Mercury says: sit is strange
that while there is such decline in the price
Of white labor Mt the North. there continues
to be a scarcity Of slave labor at the South,
where prices are exorbitantly high"
private correspondent Of the p nnsylva-
man, writing from Washington, Jan. Goth,
regret to say that regular fat fight took
place To-day, between Gen. Lane. of Oregon,
and MIR. Fairly of Maine.''
1t is stated that one tenth of tho inhabi-
ants of Caracas fell victims to the cholera
asst year. In Cum ina also 800 people died
ontof a population Of a population of six
thousand.
Wildcats have bern recently shot by sports
men near Southampton, Mass. The creatures
lave ravaged the tlocks of the farmer for
but the people were not ready to
,clievc that such varmints existed in their Vi
in'ty.
On the lst inst, the celebrated aronaut,
ions. Golard, left New Orleans inshis bal
con. and in three hours and half afterwards
anded safely at Amita settlements in East
'clicinia, La. one hundred and ninety miles
rom New Orleans.
Lieut.. General James Robinson Arnold.
led at his residence in Onslow Square Lon
on. on the 9th ult. 1t is said he was
econd son Of our Major General Arnold,
the. traitor,) and Of Margaret Shipper, c
aughter of Edward Shipper, Chief Justice
Pennsylvania.
young army officer writes from Constan-
nople: 'sThis is the place; for the paltry sum a
$500 per year man Of moderate desires
Jay live like prince; commodius habi.ation,
le best of wine, the most glorious tobacco,
'ree BEAUTIFUL wiv IS, and no going to churchr' 1
DEATH OF KING decentralization &
IA ILL.,, King of the Sandwich Islands, died
!; Honolulu, Dec. l4th. in the 42d year of
IS age. Immediately after his des til. Prince r
ltolho was proclaimed his successor, under
lie title of Kamehameha Nv. 9a !
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ae~e is man whose vaui,iny Ambition hath r.
O'errcached ITSELF
Long ago when VIC wera young in years, we .;
i did listen tc a croning old nurse, as she Il