The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1858-08-17


| to Holt, his bartender, that he will have re-
venge. He also remarked to others that the
| people Of Onei!-. would not sleep much that
| night. He and Holt were seen about o'clock
carry ing clothes from their store TO their dwell
ling. Ii IS supposed that they saved all of their
| own goods Of any value. Wall was not seen at
| the fire but was found concealed be ind pile
of boards. Wal and Holt were Immediately
arrested and examined beiose Esq. Conger OF
this city. The excitement at Oneida was in
tense and officers Pollock and Reace had hard
work to keep the crowd from lynchng the cul-
| prlts. They will be sent to Knoxville to day to
| await trial. The loss is estimated at from $l2
to 5,000.-GAlesburg Democrat.
Livingston Manor, Columbia Co., N. ",
March "a, 81. !
Your "Baeh's American Compound" has per.
formed some astonishing cures in this vicinity.
Please furnish me Formula, and will give it
circulation, as believe i. TO be very yalu.
able Medicine, and worthy the confidence Of all
Physicians.
Yours, respectfully, J. Horror, N. D.
A living frog has been found in the coal
mines at Evansville, Ind, 800 feet below the
surface, closely Embedded in the coal Between
the coal seam in which he lay imprisoned and
the surface, there are two hundred feet of solid
sandstone and coal, and about forty feet Of
coal, slate and common clay. These are all
regular qualifications that must have required
| ages, beyond the power OF human conprehen-
sion to compute, to have formed them.
The Paris Presse recounts shocking and al
most incredible instance Of Papal oppression as
having passed at Bologna, in the States of the
Church. child Of jew, pamed Mortnra, fell
III two years ago, and was secretly baptised by
its nurse. The woman recently mentioned this
fact to her priest at the confessional. The priest
Immediately sent report of the affair to the
Inquisition at Rome. On June go, at o'clock
in the evening, five gendsrmes, with monk Of
the Holy Office for their guide, came to Mortu.
sra's house, and told him that they had come to
4 claim a Christian child, whom he was unlawfully
tarDoring. In Spite OF the circumstances Of
the father, and the tears and screams of the
mother, their child, now four years old, was
torn from them and taken TO Rome, where it il
believed TO have been placed in a founding hos
| pitr. The mother has gone out of her mind
This monstrous act il said 10 be notorious az
Bologna.
| WONDERFUL ROTATION OF CRoPs.--A friend
thus describes his summers gardening opera.
| tons: -" The bugs ate up our eucnmbers, our
chickens ate up the bugs. the neighbors' cats
ate the chickens, and we are in hopes that
| something will now eat the cats"
The delicate and interesting operation OF
transferring the blood from one person TO an
other, has again been successfully performed by
DR.. Wheatcroft, an English surgeon, in the case
OF female patient. When apparently expiring
from the loss OF blood, about two pounds were
| transferred from the veins of her husband into
her veins, with the most favorable result In a
few minutes AFTER the current of blood began
10 flow, and the ebbing of life was checked, the
! circulation being established, and the. deliver.
ance from apparently approaching and certain
| dissolution secured.
| Parson Brownlow, Of the Knoxville Wing.
notifies the public that his great discussion on
| the subject Of Slavery, will come off in Phila-
deiphia on the 7th OF September next. His OBJ
ponens will be Rev. Abram Prynet, Of McGraw-
vile, CORTLAND county, New York.
| A curious calculation has been made BY a low
er of the astonishing. He finds that | pin
dropped into the hold Of the Leviathan the first
week of the year, 2 the second, the third, s
the fourth, l6 the 9Th, and so on, doubling
each week for the whole year, (52 weeks the
entire number OF pins dropped Would be 4, 5o3,.
| 1884, $40, 49,, the weight OF them following
200 pas to the OUNCE would be CPS, zg2, 35S
tons, or tonnage enough to fully freight TWEEN
weight thousand ships OF the size OF the Levia.
| than.
What vulgar people |" said boarding school
miss, superciliously, the other day, as All honest
| farmer and his daughters took their seats near
| her IN the drawing room OF watering-plaee
| motel. Yet, OF the two parties, she was really
the more vulgar, il words are to be used in their
true significance. For the farmer, though plain
in his attire and speech, was kindly hearted,
sensible and good citizen, while the fashiona-
bic miss was pert, an ier, a gossip, extravagant
and foolish.
Great men never swell; it il only three cent
| individuals, who silaried at the rate of two
hundred dollars year, and dine on potatoes
4 and dried herring, who put on airs and hashy
waistcoats, swell, puff, blow, ana endeavor to
| give themselves consequential appearance
No discriminating person can ever mistake the
! spurious for the genuine article. The difference
between the two is as great RS that between a
bottle of vinegar and bottle Of the spure Juice
Of the grape"
The editor of a Georgia paper, speaking Of
the Fourth Of July, says I'VE have but one
other remark to make in regard to indepen-
dence day. We think that our forefathers
would have conferred signal favor on their pos.
terity if they had signed md published the Dec
laration when the weather was fraction cooler
| Quilts are things that are sometimes taken
| from the pnons OF one goose to spread the
| opinions Of another.
| A pr0verb is defined as a coin from the mint
OF wisdom stamped by the hand Of experience
l. kirwan says that pous Scotchman used to
pray 20 Lord keep me right; for thou knowes.
1t 60 wrong it is very hard to turn me-"
The vineyards about Cincinnati are attacked
by species Of rot, which will make the grape
crop perfect failure.
GREEN Com FoDpER-The AMERICAN Aeri
cu'turist suggests that this may be cured for
| winter use by packing it in layers Of dry straw
or hay, thus making the straw partake the odor
Of the corn. a4
HoRsE ANECDOTES. Are you fond Of hof-
ticulture! ?" asked a guest at the White house
Of General Jackson. sOh, yes; oh, yes.n
was the reply, " was always partial to
horses
sick Irishman was recently asked if he
found much hospitality in America. FAITH
said he. ~ have been in the hospital ever since
landed"
"What makes your horse stop so often ~ said
friend to the owner of bAlky horse. "Oh.
he's afraid somebody II say schoG, and he shant
hear it,
Capt. Travis-the Louisville sharp shooter
has rung the bell three times in succession
shooting with his back to the target, and the
pistol between his eyes, at 4 distance Of thirty.
five feet.
Up I'M little Gown in New England flaming
p'acard was stuck about the streets, bearing, in
bright yermillion characters, this device Have
Won read Cott's nsW storg One Of the lads of
the village paused before the poster, and scrawl.
ed beneath II With red chaik--"ndsy rsdi"
How p Il proved that Adam was orthodox IN
MS sen!,mentsl Because his belief was un.
doubtedly Ew ssgsi;esl.