Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1857-07-01
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race for 5000 aside rar,c off iris r N. b.
!. y tween the Dalton horse osned here. and III
ool rss lor horsc,I owned in Nas. gYerk. The dia
MI tance was 90 miles in harness. The DsIiol
rhhtse made waiting race Tor " miles, laying
eioee 10 Tayor's quarter and taking \ east snt
he At THE sth mile Dallou drew ahead ana main.
saincd it for . mile, when Taylor ran past him
~ and going in q few lengths ahead, The hm'
81 for travelling twenty miles one hour, twelve
H. min. and Eve see. The Judges Decided tho race
in favor Of Dalton, who gets the stakes In con'
IN sequence o.. the Taylor horse runaiRg. The
ID horses are matehek for. so mile race 10 come OF
d at New York.
y Albany, June "a.
q . The decision Of the Court or Appeals IN The
. Metropolitan police case hss not been rendered.
Case No. 2 IL now on argument IS 20 &ea---1
!: b ejtas5 slsls sdf ias Troy, jane "a
q Gen. Wool is slarmingly III. 5ta sa 1aaS'a9aH
. sas csos.qE+ asbsa Alexandria, Jone "a a'
$ The ,Jewelry store of W.. W : Adams, in this
flaee was entirely swept by burglars last night.
IN Upwards of 90 900 dollars worth of Jewelrs and
pie te was stolen by them. There is no clue 10
the robbers. Fsi ,7s58 afil5Esf rd' - Etlsss7sf
@'hs'7 10 Sac Bristol, r. l., June "a aF
: The Bristol oakum works. owned by M.s>rs.
IDceoc j. Co, wese DESTROYED. by fire this pp,rn-
ing. The buildings we're insured for sl0,Vvp. .,i,
Ia syqss4o ,s3 ls,,, s4E Boston, JGps a. II d
The building No. ia Blackstone street, occu-
MED byW. i. Brooks, furniture dealer, John
Morgan, liquor seller and others were utterly
destroyed ty fire last night The loss sbous
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4, t4sa a.ss# # Bangor, Me-, June 25.z q
T. The State is we'll represented at the Rrrub-,
I lican State Convention, which met here 10 day.
The Hon Lott ". Merrell. OF Augusta. Will pro.
badly be nominated for Governor. ConsIders-
bic interest is manifested as bst position ,hs
party will take In relation TO the prohioitory
LAW. .-.. IT,. , ...-..-..-
4 af.G Memphis, Juae "a
| John Able, gambler, shot dead man r,arpcd
John Fvanson this r. N. in front OF the Wor-
sham House, for asking to be paid soDc money
owed Great excitement followed the, ciuEgDs
! assembled at the Jail TO hang HIM, but were per-
| .uaded to desist 10y the Mayor and others a
meeting is appointed for this eveHing TO .dster-5s
mine what to do. r .-..t.sr ras .. fs- t4-Hat.
T. s.f -ra E.a .ea o. New York. June. 25. ?
The steamship Kangaroo left A. NJ. for Liy-
erpool, with nearly 100 passengers. ... - .
The Times says special despatch from a re-
liable CORES spondent at Albany indicates the
| probability Of decision in the metropolitan
police case this week. Our correspondent has
ascertained carefully the opinions entertained
by the members of the bar in attendance upon
the Court of Appeals and thinks there is no
doubt but that the decision will be in favor of
tho constitutionality of the law, only two OF the
Judges dissenting, Brown and Comstock
Hon. n. y. Banks was nominated Yesterday
by the mass State Republican Convention at
Worcester, for Governor, by the very decided
vote OF 3S7 against 1S for j. G. Goodrich and
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was nominated for Lieut.. Governor, Mr.. Good
rich declining. The resolutions adopted reaf.
firm the Philadelphia platform, dcnouHcing
the Dred Scott decision, and pledging the party
to an untiriug and uncompromsing oppo-
stien to the existence and further extension Of
slavery. ..
Albany June 25 4
Advices received from Savannah, at the Office
OF the canal depot in this city, state that uuoth "
great freshet last night, at Ptnnysn, has done
greater damage to the canal than the former
one, the water at the outlet is teariuiy high, p,
end is washing out the greater portion of the
bank. ">"
- New York, June 25
In the superior court to-day Judge Hoffman
discharged the order for the commitment OF The d.;
Mayor for contempt of court. .-.,.,.
st. Louis, June rs.
F we axe III receipt oI santa re uhte5 10 tp5 .
18th ult. $50 troops under Col. bonneville en-.
tered the Apache country Oh the Gila
The Governor Of Chihuahua designed open.
ing hosties against the Indians and would
prevent their taking refuge in Mexican terri-
tory, and would cooperate with Bonneville as
much as possible.
Memphis, June 25. 81
meeting Of citizens last night formed
Jury Of six in each ward and found Able gully
OF murder in the first degree---l2 tor
lynching, the rest for lawful ulrans. Rcso'u-
tioHs passed requiring all gamblers 10
leave the city within ten days or be iorclhly
,jected. The father OF Able, also a murder aud
gambler, made to leave CRY by u O'clock
TO day. Iasl night the crowd got canon 10 b.
force the Jail, but were dissuaded by the Mayor.
=. New York, June 25.
The adjourned decision in the ha bcas corpus
granted 10y Judge Russell, to prcven, the arrest
Of the May on warrants issued by recorder
DR.. Smith, took place at Judge KusseIs iou,ns
today, and resulted in the dl,cha &c OF MAJOR .
Wood, on the ground that ili-teelng had brrU
towards him, and moreover, that
the recorder had no jurisdiction. In the evil
dence OF street commissioner the case
cluded, ard arguments will be mad. 10 moiivw.
reflects of the Appearance
oT u Comet in 1712. y -t
As every body is On The 9ai srs 10 regard to
the Comet ard as all sorts OF IDEAS are around, a
in regard 10 il, we give the following amusing
sketch CLEANED from an old paper; So. . - %
"In the year l7l2 Mr.. Winston. having caic:.-
lated the return OF n comet, which TO make
its appeH rance on Wednesday,, The l4ih OF Oc-
tober, ut i've inmates after hve in the morning
gave notice TO lae public accordingly, with ..
rtying addition that total dissolution OF tho
world by ii,c was TO take place on the Friday
following. The reputation Mr. Whistoa had g
ling maintained in England, both adiytue
and philosopher, left little or no doubt with :,
the populace 0i TIE truth OF this prediction. ~.
- Several lud!crous events took place
number OF persons in and aaont London seizei
all The barges and boats they could lay their
hands on in the Thames, very nationally conciu-
ding that when the condagration took place
there would be the most safety on the mater.---.s
gentleman who had neglected family prayer
for better than five years informed bis wife that
it was his determination to resume that landa-
BILE practice the same evening; but his wife bay-
ing engaged a bali at her house, persuaded her .
husband to put 1t off till she saw whether the
comet appeared or not The South Sea sock
Immediately fell to five per cent, and tire Iria
to eleven; and the captain OF Dutch ship threw
all his powder into the river that the ship might
not be endangered.
sTbc next morning, however the comet ap-
peared according TO the predictions, and before
noon the belief was universal that the Day of
Judgment was at hand. About this time three
hundred and twenty-three clergymen were fer
ried over TO lambeth il was said, to petition '7'
that short prayer might be penned and Or
dercd, there being none in the Church service
on that occasion Three maids of honor burnt
their collection of novels and plays, and sent 20
the booksellers 10 buy each OF them Bible and
Bishop Tayors Holy Living and Dying The
run upon the bank SO prodigions that al "
hands were employed from morning til night in
discounting notes and banding out specie. On q
Thursday considerably more than 1900 kept
nlistresses were legally married in the face Of
several congre ega,ions And to crown the whole
c. rce Sir Gilbert HeAthcota ead Director oil La