Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1855-10-24

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tietsssn computes the damage 10 The COPS ana
Ia,ns along DO b f,aks of the river At Que nun
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The Eseva,,svilie and Crayfor5sviils kat-
road Company. had ap engine and as'fa' men
s{ work at the White K yer Bridge all day Sat-
urJay. pulling away The drifi from the piers
Tie Wabash at this point has not osefhowesi
vet. But we see from our last ua river ex
changes that it j. rising, aud that the upper
,r,bat ries are very full. while reports OF rain
come in Il ON every quarter A great deal g
damage has been done along the Upper Waoash
by The high watsr. We hear Of nane hoSever,
sou h Of rene Hsute. -
Why,would ladies make better traders and
pedlers than men?
Because they never get shaved. -
The editor OF e Cleveland Herald received
/ i Mstcer pota,oe LIST wees--one OF sixteen
taken from s,ngie hill measuring % itches
in circumference sone way and Is inches the
other way II was sent us as specimen OF
Summit comfy vegetables. ~ 1880 q
On the 10Th ult., a man, named Caldwell,
accused DR.. w. Richards, Of Salem, Va, OF
circulating reports concerning his family,
viii. b led to a seperatis IN between him and
his wife, and demanded a retraction from the
Doctor, who refused, whereupon Caldwell
drew pistol and shot him dead.
The farmers Of Washington territory have
raised this year wheat more than enough to
supply oil that country, and the mills al
Olympia were early in August mannfactur-
ing an excellent articleof -four at 80 bar
rel. Much better than importing it from San
Francisco at Sl5 10 $50, as had formerly
been done. Fsr$a9
Recently, in this city, q young boy, aged
seven wears, attempted to drown a little girl,
three wears Of age---the daughter Of a res
pectable Utican an. This youthful william is
remarkable for his almost insane depravity
| His organs OF destructiveness is ungoyern
able, and he finds pleasure ID attempting tn
destruction of human ife.--Utica Tel.
Every bitter has its sweet. Hot weather
brings up prickly heat and mosquitoes, but il
also brings us Strawberries and succotash -.
Frost adds to our fuel expenses. and makes
folks swear about the. "high price Of coal.
Still, rs frost frees Us from yellow fever ant
brings us thought nearer grddle cakes, VI
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aibecoming philosophy, and the right kind Of
molasses.
1 A sufferer at cheap boarding house de-
MES the infallibility of the proverb that
ssPromiscs and pie crusts are made 20 be bro
KEN" as he recently met with n pie-crust tina
deied fragmenta-y annihilation in toto.
During the recent trial of Mcdonald, fol
murder, in Hampshire county, v, it was oh
served that there were three witnesses be-
tween whom .herc was so close resemblance
rs to render it difficult to distinguish on,
from the other. On inquiry It turned ouI
that they were brothers, and all came init
the world at the same time.
Judge Richardson, in going the western
circuit. had a great Stone thrown ut him
which as he happened to stoop at the instan
passed clear over his head. "You see,' h
said to his friends who congratulated him il
his escape, "you see, if l had been an up
right judge, l had beeu slain"
Whenever you find yourself in compan,
with man who is constantly hin ing to treat
the very best thing you can do is to re- treat