Burlington tri-weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1852-1855, 1855-05-07
NEWS ITEMS.


In Springfield, Macs, recently, man wa
lined IS for stealing an umbrella on a rain
; day! If that 10 not hard law, tell us wha
is!
i Edwin Forrest, the tragcdian, has give
81 900 each to the widows of three pilot
lost in the tow boat Ajax, last winter, Will
going from New York to the relief of the shi
Edwin Forrest, 10 distress on the coast.
\ VIM. II. Perrin, Boston lawyer, has bee,
suspended from the privileges Of his profes
sion until June lst, by the Judge of the mu
nicipal Court, for calling member of Ju
~ that had given verdict against his client
ga id skunk
The Detroit Inquiry says, that party o
eighteen fugitivts from slavery passed thro
that city on Monday las, for Queen Vic's do
minous, and another party of fifteen wer,
expected the next day.
Fifty bushels Of green peas were picked il
Charleston, s. G., on Monday last.
A sturgeon was caught in the Hudson riv-
er, off Teller's Point, on Monday night. weigh
Ting three hundred and fifty pounds.
There is said to be at least 20 per cent
more wheat in Illinois this season than ever
before, and the winter has been very favora-
BILE.
A Masonic lodge has been established in
the town Of Bellevue, Nebraska.
Anthracite coal is ABUNDANT in Nebraska.
Some of very good quality has been found
along the Platte river.
The new Council of Gainesville, Ala, has
put the liquor license up to $4,000, and no
quantity to be sold less than 70 gallons.
Washington street, in Boston, from Court
to summer street, is to be paved with iron,
the contract having been concluded for $780,
600.
MoNEY.-Money is reported as being easy
in all the Eastern cities, and the banks are
taking all the approved p per offering.
The Wheeling Gazette says that the Amer
lean ticket will be elected BY from 10000 to
40, 900 majority in the Old Dominion.
A diamond, about the size of hazelnut,
was found recently near Manchester Va, and
in the opinion of judges in New York,
pronounced to be worth $4,000.
The Judge Of Niagara county, New York,
refused to perfect the naturalization pap RS
of fifteen applicants, because their deciara-
tons were made before the clerk instead of
open court.
MIR. J. Carskaddan, Of the Muscatine En-
quircr, has sold his interest in that paper,
to MIR. Robert Williams of Pennsylvania.
A wonderful sea serpent is said to have
been seen af Cape May few days ago, and
an expedition, under the stimulus Of 81 900
reward for his cap ure. had started in pur-
suit Of him.
The gross receipts into the treasury Of the
United States for the quarter ending March
81, 1855, were SIS, 1922 6S. Expend-
lures during the same time, SIS, 572,349 IS.
There are now in the United States thirty
two insane hospitals ir active operation, and
nine others in construction. Twenty eli CHIT
are State institutions, and the number Of the
insane is nearly 10000.
NJ. Chacornae. astronomer at the Observ-
atory, discovered at 10 o'clock and so min
utes P. NJ, on the 9th of April, new planet.
l3 hours and 40 minutes by right ascension,
and 702 southern declinalion
The workmen employed on the road near
Jefferson city Missouri, struck for wages,
and on Wednesday night 18th inst, blew up
fourteen krgs of powder, Of "a lbs. each,
destroying the implements Of the contract
ors, and doing some damage to the house Of
Capt. Rogers.
Salmon fishing has comm need on the
and a Few have been already in
troduced into the New York markets. They
retail from ST. to 81 % per ID. Asparagus
ard green peas, from Savannah, are in the
markets there, the former selling ut SO cents
a bunch, the latter at SO per bushcl.
San Francisco has city debt of 1892,
O78; Sacramento 81 100000.
Rev. John Pierpont is 70 years Of age, and
the Painsviile Telegraph says that he has,
"ilbin lhr last so days, travelled 4, 900 miles,
26 lectures, and preached SER
mons.
Gen. Suffer, once the richest. is said to lie
am ,ng the poorest men In Cal fornia. To
poverty are added the in6rmites Of old
age.
SHOCKING DEATH.
1t becomes our duty to record one of the
most att .cilng circumstances which has come