Burlington tri-weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1852-1855, 1855-04-14
NEWS ITEMS.

NEWS ITEMS.
The Methodists are exsrting themselves
With praish worthy zeal to evangslize our for
eign German population; their German mis-
,ions include fifteen presiding elders, one
hundred and eighty preachers, and ten thou
sand communicates, the result OF ten years
labor.
A correspondent Of the California Chroni-
Gle, from Kern River, writes that he has found
a monster gold boulder worth $4,000
and that he is watching it day and night. He
begs some Of his friends to come to bis as
sistance. Do go.
Two boys got to quarrcling over the pos
session Of q sled, ct Carthage, Jefferson
county, N. Y, a few days since. A scuille
ensued, during which the neck of one of the
boys was broken BY a kick from his assailant.
He died Immediately.
Death by the garotte is looked upon as
more horrible than by hanging, yet it would
appear that it is less excrutiating, for it is
instantaneous. Pinto, lately garotted in
Havana, was dead the instant the instrument
Of death was sprung-his features were as
placid as before the fatal moment.
The Rev. Bishop Baker, one of the Bish-
ops of the Methodist Episcopal Church, sail
ed from New York in the steamer George
Law. The Bishop goes out on an official Wis
itation. He will be accompanied by the Rev.
Messrs. Rooney and kelnsr, with their fami-
lies, who 60 out to join the California con-
ference.
A bresch-loading cannon was tried ut the
Charleston, Mass, Navy Yard on the Goth ult.,
in the presence Of some United States officers.
Discharges were made repeatedly as often as
six times . minute, but it is claimed that,
having everything perfect, from fifteen to
eighteen discharges can be made in that time.
This is pronounced formidable weapon for
naval warfare.
At an adjourned town meeting at Meredith,
N. H., on Thursday, the Know Nothings were
triumphant and elected three Rel resentatiyes
by 100 majority.
A sleigh, rugged up with sails, made the
run from Glen Haven to Skaneateias, N. Y,
on the ice, in less than an hour, with a party
Of FIVE persons. The distance, we believe, is
about l6 miles.
Mr.. Nathaniel Harmon, of Pittsburgh, Pa,
left that city on last Wednesday with large
sail boat, fully rugged, which is intended to
be placed On Lake Minnotonka, q beautiful
sheet of water about ten miles west Of ST..
Anthony falls, Minnesota.
In Kent county, Michigan, a boy IL years
of age saw two enll grown deer coming to-
wards him, and firing his rife, the ball passed
through the neck of enc and into the body of
the other, killing them both. The boy would
be brilliant acquisition to the army Of the
allies.
The Cincinnati Columbian states that suits
for damages, in defending the Rosetta suit,
have been commenced against the Rev. Mr..
Dennison, and that writ Of attachment has
been served.
Shawnses IN Kansas, the Methodist Church
South having two, the Babtist one and the
Quakers one.
The Duke Of Cambridge testified before
the Crimean Committee Of the British Par
Lament, that the guards died there for want
Of porter! Our Maine Law men should be
warned by this fact.
Martin Van Buren,, Jr., died at Paris on
the 10Th ult. He had long been wasting a.
way with consumption, but his death was
nevertheless sudden, having taken place in
simultaneously, while he was seated at dinners
The annual Convention of the National
Printers Union will assemble at Memphis,
Tenn, on the first Monday in May.
1t is said that several of the persons in
jured by the recent accident ct Meredith, N.
H., have commenced actions against the
town for damages.
The Police Gazette of st. Petersburgh
gives an account Of . large wolf, perfectly
mad, which ran through the streets of the
Russian capital, and bit % men and 6 NO.
men.
1t is estimated that there were in the Uni
ted States, at the time Of the President ial
election of 1852, about 5 90, 3l4 persons On :
titled to vote, Of whom only 3,l26,37S
awaited themselves of this freemsn's privi-
l,ge.
VIM. Arrison's mother arrived in the city
yesterday from her residence, Lee County,
Iowa, and visited her unfortunate son. now
in the county Jail awaiting the death penalty
for the murder of Isaac Allison.-sC Gin. Com
mercial, 28th.
On Thursday last, in Boston, Mason B.
Allen, ESQ.,, colOred man, was admitted to
practice as an attorney and counsellor ut
law in the q. S. Circuit Court.
There are one dollar bills purportng to be
Of the "American Exchange Bank" Spring
field, ILL.,, in circulation. It is fraud, there
being no such bank.
The firm of A. & W. Sanders, Of Mt.
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