Burlington tri-weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1852-1855, 1855-02-15
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The coal mountain in Pennsylvania which
has been on fire since 1888, will probably
soon be extinguishcd. as the FIRE is approach
ing point which can be submerged in wa
ter \ mass Of coal has been consumed
three-e ighths of a mile long, sixty feet wide,
and three hundred feet deep, equal to l 400
600 tons of coal.
= The arrivals Of foreign paupers and GRIM
inals at New York city, from Europe, have
been officially complained of by the mayor of
that city, in communication addressed the
President, asking that remedial measures be
adopted. For that purpose bill has been
introduced into Congress.
From an article in the Washington Star,
it seems that the Secretary of the Treasury
will shortly send in to the United States
House Of Representatives the project of a law
on the subject.
THE GREEN Casa dispatch was receiv-
ed here on last evening to the effect that the
Supreme Court at Springfield had rcfus d to
grant the habeas corpus applied for by the
consul of George w. Green. The prisoner
will now have to take his second tiia', at
this or the next term Of court.-(Chicago
Tribune.
In New York, on Monday, while a party
or laborers were engaged in tearing down
the old City Hall, one OF the walls fell, in
stantly killing one of the workmen, and Sc
verely injuring three others.
A rarty of forty Cinnamon, at Forbestown,
Yuba county, California, tied to tree and
severely beat Deputy Sheriff Chapel, who
taxes. A person coming up shot one of the
rad fyrn throo nth
with assistance, arrested fourteen of the long
tails.
CVS. S. Foster, an author Of some celeb
rity and at one time city editor of the n. Y.
Tribune, has been arrested and imprisoned
in the Moyomensing Prison, Philadelphia
for forgery. Since taking up his residence
under that hospitable roof. he has committed
matrlmony with Madam Marguerities.
A VILE ISLANDER "A police officer in Syr-
acuse, who has lot of Shanghai chickens,
which he don't care about supporting during
the present high price of grain, advertises
them as stolen property, hoping some gree'un
will come forward and claim them.
The following notice is said to have been
given on the opening of new church at
Davenport, Iowa-sschewers Of tobacco
are earnestly requested to avoid the use of
the weed in the church, or else spit in their
hats.''
Another new game at Washington for Sc
curing the public lands, is that of PLAYING
Old Soldier. The Senate is now engaged in
hammering out proposition which if adop-
ted will authorize grants to a million of peo-
pie of quarter ection Of land each. Mr..
Stuart of Michigan says it will absorb three
hundred million acrpa
An editors life is spent in ushering clever
people into deserved celebrity; he sits as
charioteer outside the vehicle in which pro-
digious talents are driven to Immortality.
..This is great country, but it wont do to
be born in it - is the exclamation of the Al
bany Register over the fact that the Mayor of
Albany has turned out his city Marshal, an
American born and put an Irishman in his
stead.
Barnam's Autobiography docs not sell SO
fast as his too confident publisher predicted.
1t was first re.ailed at ST. Is copy-now it
can be bought for 90 cents.
In Plymouth, Massachusetts,, a man picked
up boot on the beach, and proceeded to
wash the mud ont of it, found 1t to contain
the foot of man, in good state of preser-
walton. Probably the remains of some shin.
wrecked mariner, whose body had become
food for fishes.