Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1857-06-03

4s-..I was told TODAY story so touching in re-.
ference to this that you must let me tell It. Il is
temperance case, but it will illustrate this just
as well. Il is the story of mother on the
green hills OF Vermont, holding by the right
hand a son, sixteen years old, mad with the
love OF the sea And, as she stood by the gar
den gate on sunny morning, she said ed
ward, they tell me-for | never the ocean
that the great temptation OF the seaman's
life is drink. Promise me, before you quit
your mothers hand, that you will never drink"
And, said he tfor he told NE the story,i gave
her the promise, and | went the broad globe
over-Caicutta, the Mediterranean, San Fran
cisco. tie Cape of Good Hope, the North Pole
and the South 1 saw them all in forty years,
| and never glass filed with sparkling Ii
quor that my mothers form by the garden
! gate, on the green hillside of Vermont, did
! not rise before me; and to-day, at sixty, my
! lips are innocent of the taste OF liquor. ZAP
! plausc.) Was not that sweet evidence OF the
power of a single words Yet G.at was bu,
| half. For, said he, yesterday there came into
my counting room, a young man OF forty, and
| asked me-''Do you know mes" NO" We'll
l was once brought drunk into your presence
on shpboard you were passenger; the cap
tain kicked ME aside; you took me to your bertt
and kept me until had slept of the intoxica
ton, then you asked me il had a mother;
said | never knew word from her lips; yol
told me of yours at the garden, and to-day
am the master of one OF the finest packets IL
New York, and l come to ask you to call ant
see me-" How far that little candle throws it
beamse Oh, God be thanked for the almight.
power of single word ! as4
| ACCIDENT.-Au accident occurred about tw,
o'clock yesterday afternoon, OF the Peoria an,
Oquawka Railroad, at the crossing Of the Cantor
road, some two miles from this city, which re
suited in the death of Mr.. Milton Noel, Esq, Su
pervisor of Limestone, and fine horse. So fa
as we have been able to gather the particular
it appears that Mr.. Noel was trying to get hi
team off the track when the train came arouu
the bend in the road just below the crossing bu
his horses being balky he was unable to get on
of the way before the locomotive struck then
Mr.. Noel was thrown from the wagon, KILN
him Immediately. One Of the horses was kille
and the other considerably injured-Peori
Rep. esd
GERMANS IN New YoKK.-There are one hun
dred thousand German inhabitants in the city o
New York. They have upwards of twenty pla.
ccs of public worship, upwards of fifty schools
ten bookstores, and five printing establishment,
German theatre, German OPERA and matinee
aid soirees musicaies innumerable Many Ger
mans are engaged in mechanical arts, many ar
practical turricrs, surgical instrument makers
manufacturers OF pianos and fancy articles, gro
GERS, bakers, conicctioners and hotel keepers
There are several German daily, weekly, aut
monthly newspapers. The character Of the Ger
man merchants in New York is said to stan
, high. During the last year, the direct trad
with Germany from New York employed in it
marine a tonnage Of upwards Of $4,000 tons
numbering 152 arrivals and 100 departures
There are six lines of packets and two of steam
ships. The valuation OF this trade for the yea
was Sl3, 1882 OF direct imports, and ST, 567
$40 of direct exports. The number OF passer
9 gers arriving during the same time Was IS, $50
, TIE WASHINGTON Poison CAsE.-Wc ha,
seen II letter from physician of Washingto
dated last Saturday, which mentions that wor
men employed in the open air, in cleansing Il
outlet OF the National Hotel sewer into the c
= nal, were made violently sick. This con6rr
:. Dr.. Charles T. Jackson's theory of the cause
'. the malady at the National llotcl.-Boston Tr
Weller Tuesday.