The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1857-1858, 1857-11-18

Bailston, Saratoga county, N. r., shot himsell
accidentally several days ago. He VAS cleaning
bis gun, which probably struck against some
thing, causing is to 60 of, the charge going
straight 70 the heart. He staggered . few steps
and fell dead. What makes this event peculi
arly sad is the fact that n. Van Buren, was "a
have been married the same crening.
| A TEST OF DExocnAcY.-The Democratic
Legislatures of Pennsylvania and Missouri have
legalized the bank suspensions in their respec.
tive States without taking single step in the
direction Of an exclusive gold and silver cur.
rency, or diminution Of the amount of bank
paper. Locofocos are oftentimes giants in te!k
and pigmies in ction.-L0uisville Journal.
GtkauLAR AccIDExr AND NARROW EscApE-
Last Saturday evening Mr.. Thomas Sands and
wife, of Manchester, were visiting ut Mr.. s.
Johnson's, in Merrimack. While some members
of the family we're in an outer room endeavoring
to catch . chicken for breakfast Sunday morn.
ing, the fowl threw down and discharged q gun
that was standing in the corner Of the ROOM
The charge. which was very heavy, passed tbro'
the door, and also through the dress and very
near the body Of Mrs. Sands, and then entered
the ceiling above the s01a upon which xr. Sanda
had been sitting half minute before.
~ The Native Muse.
The Sigourney Life in the West, publishes an
orig :ual poem To the Loved and Lost,"eby q
Young lady of the Richland Academy who re-
;oices in the nopswae de plume Of !" Prairie Fay.
The editor, rather =shors Oh for matter, de.
votes i column leader 70 : review Of this Inn.
mense EFFORT, which he thinks has the ring Of
the true poetic metal.
We append specimen Of ~ "ring" in the
fo!lowing-the closing stansa -
"Yet hope - meet thee " : better cline, 4
- umA<. DfN0a Nf fiUoH-
Yea the flowers of hope steysaL bloom.
Though they cluster around brothers to0m :
An HKla IN rnE A1R-Dusing the terrible
storm day before yesterday, tenant Of house
In East Twelfth street, New York. reached out
of q third story window to shut blind which
was siamming With much violence. She held
/ nursing child At her breast; but. either from
being slightly intoxicated. or1from the force Of
the gale. her bold upon il was mot strong
enough, the little fellow was blown out OF her
arms! Proyidentially the child was carried ~
the wind into q tree, on the other side OF the
street, where II was found, by . member OF the
Metropolitan police, hanging by its.shirt to
twig and screaming Justify.
Il CoNoHrss or DAxcIKG NAsrERs.-AmoDg for
eicn items lately received is the announcement
Of Congress or Dancing Masters recently as
sembled at Vienna TWAS attended NOT only
81 III the principal masters Of that city. Dus Dy
| deputasiODs from Prague and Odessa. Ths OBJ
iect Of il vas 10 deliberate ON the grave question
| Of the introduction Of new figures in dspctDg'
and he Congress, after much anxious reflection,
Coo 10 Abe copclusion Of adopting new quad
rifle, invented BY dancing master Of Prague,
| Of the name of Eichler.
SOUTHERN ARIsroCRACY.-A Correspondent
Of the Boston Transcript says: mrs. Carone
| Woodman: e al the world il learning, IL the
| wife of New Orleans druggist, and being tne
| AauRhter Of fashionable dress maker, passed
for 4 fashiopable lady. I remember seeing he'
| At Saratoga two or three years ago, With he'
| thirty trunks, and . new dinner dress for every
| day durinn the season. She was pointed 81 oy
| the gossips for her remarkably small waise, or,
q vas said, for being laced within an 'ncn =.
~ Of soose habits.' However, It Saratoga such
things are hardly noticed"
The females Of Logan, O., convened lass Tues
| Aay. ana demolished the contents Of al tn
dsinkisg houses in that town.
- The burning alive Of two nsgress io'
he murder OF lady named Hill, II ASHLEY
eoansy. Arkansas, y cOn6rmsd. Tho excifs
meat hes spread I'll over the country. and tearf
arc enssstains1 that some dimcuity may grow
opt Of the transactions between the owners Q
shs negroes and The parties acting h the pre-
miseS. a.
4 nv. N. Msssiil, Who was lhsutally knoske,
q lava and Stabbed d tho streets Of Diddlef0sd
n Va. lAst ueek, will reeoves from his Uounds.-
HI assai,Apt has nes beeD asseste6, but th
4 aaneo az Tie aesAAlt y egpposed - have beel
tie zeal which NF. Aossi1 tes maNllqoted u "a
tempsssscs oasss.
Ioo.e Ave that Ii 4 a folly Ssr kis frisnd
N - AeSl AZ ~ nusnh inceeaao his &ebta. whal