The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1858-12-28
An Act


alt, the school districts Of this State In coDse-
qucnce and by reason OF an act of the last
General Assembly of this State, commonly call.
ed act for the Public Instruction OF the State
Of Iowa; and
Whereas, The Supreme Court Of the State
has recently decided said act to be unconstitu-
tional and void in many OF It's provisions; and
as great confusion is about to result in conse-
qnence Of such state of facts, unless a curative
act be passed, therefore
SECTION l. BE it enacted by tho Board Of
Education of the State Of Iowa, That all cleo
tions which have been held, or have taken place.
all acts done, and contracts made, and any tax
which may have been levied by any person,
school, district or corporation; and any rights
which any person, school district or corporation
nav have acquired under and in pursuance OF
an act Of the General Assembly, entitled IAN
act for the Public Instruction OF the State Of
Iowa." approved March 18th, 1858, be and the
same hereby legalized and confirmed as
fully and effectually as though the same had
taken place in pursuance OF legal enactment:
Provided, That nothing in this act shall be con-
stfued TO impair the right of the BoardsCf Ed
ucaton TO fix the term Of Office OF any officer
elected under said act, or to abolish any office
created by said act.
SEC. .. This act to take effect and be in force
from and after its publication in the Iowa
Weekly Citizen, the State Journal and the Iowa
Statesman. (signed)
ORAN FAvILLE,
President Of the Board OF Education.
| hereby certify that the foregoing is a true
and complete copy OF the Act as this day pass
ed by the Board of Education.
I. j. TUBBY,
Secretary pro TEN. Of the Board.
Dec. Is, 1885,
CLEVELAND VESSEL IN THE BosPHoRUs.-
The schooner I'D. b. Sexton" from this port,
arrived safely in Constantinople on the Sth OF
November, after a rough passage up the Medi-
terranean. The Captain states that he outsail-
ed everything in his course, and was the first Of
fleet of one hundred and fifty sail that arrived
at that port, and withou: breaking rope yarn
or leaking a drop.
This vessel has attracted much attention
there for its fine qualities as a fast sailer, and
applications were made for her purchase.
1t will be remembered that the Sexton was
one of the fleet that left here under the COM
mand OF Capt. Burke, on the goth of May last,
| for London.-l Cleveland Herald, 10th.
Alexander Robinson, one of the two young
men who lately decoyed young Irish girl into
the woods at New Castle, Delaware, and out
ragged her person, has been convicted of rape
and sentenced to death, that being the punish
| ment of the crime in Delaware. The other
! scoundfel made his escape.
PURGAToEY NOT RECOGNIZED IN CoURr-We
mentioned about fortnight since that the heirs
| Of John Handy, of Seneca county, deceased,
| had contested the validity of certain clauses in
| his will, which bequeathei sums of money to the
| Roman Catholic Church for the benefit of souls
| in purgatory. At the last term Of the Court,
| jury sustained the will, but the case having been
continued, the Court held that the devise was
| not to any one in being. Also that the provi-
| sions OF the two clauses were uncertain and not
susceptible OF execution OF their own provisions.
| The clauses must therefore be set aside and
| the property decreed to the heirs.
Mr.. Glenn and son, Americans, of North Car
olina, travelling to Monterey from the interior Of
Mexico, were murdered and robbed of some
$500 in gold and silver. The murderers are
still at large in the streets OF Saltillo.
| A singular but accurate way Of estimating
| the price of field negroes, may be found in the
| price of cotton. For every cent pound for
/ cotton, field hand will bring one hundred dol
lars; for instance, the present price Of cotton is
| 10 TO IL cents, and the price of a negro man is
| from thousand to twelve hundred dollars
| The price of the latter may not huctuste as
rapidly as cotton but is not the less certain to
| follow an advance or decline of any duration.
| A barrel of sauer kraut exploded in cellar
| in Cincinnati, the slaves fl sing in all directions,
and iniuring several men who were moving it.
IL had been standing long time, and the gas
! SEES were strong in various senses.
! The orange crop of Louisiana, this season, is
| very large, and the crop is selling from planta-
tons at from six to eight dollars per thousand.
| 1t will interest the proprietors of saw mills
| and carpenters in general that the ingenuity
| OF Partisan cabinet makers in the Eau
bourg St. Antoine, has found a use for common
| sawdust, which raises the value of that com
modify far above the worth of solid timber
By new process, combining the hydraulic
press and the application OF intense heat, the
wooden PARTICLES are made to reform them
selves into a solid mass, capable Of being
moulded into any shape, and presenting bril-
liant surface, durability and beauty of APP
pearance not to be found in ebony, rosewood
or mahogany.
The Albany journal thinks that the epithet
"btack republican" is decidedly out of place,
considering that the republican States now
have l3,530,650 whites, while the democratic
have now but 6,422, 4lS-the former being in
the proportion OF TWO TO ONE. According to
the census the republican is pre- eminently the
white mans party.
Elisha Magown committed suicide at East
Cambridge, by hanging himself. He was fifty
years OF age, and the father Of Sophia Ma gown,
spiritual trance lecturer. He had not lived
with his wife for year past, and his suicide is
attributed to the influence of spiritualism.
The st. Louis Democrat learns that skiff
containing four persons had been upset on the
Missouri river, between Isabella and Brunswick,
all being drowned. The names of the unfor-
tunate are not given.
thirteen steamships with three thousand per-
sons have been lost being one in every hun
bred passengers. In the last four years, three
Transatlantic steamships have been lost, with |
twelve hundred lives.
The venerable Thomas Ruffin has been elected
by the North Carolina Legislature to the vacant
seat on the bench of the Supreme Court, caused |
by the death of Judge Nash
A gang of ten or twelve boys, from fifteen to |
twenty years old, have been arrested at Indian.
apolis, Ind, for burglaries and robbcres to q /
large amount recently committed in that city. I
A new trial has been granted to Rev. Daniel |
Downey, the Catholic priest, of Staunton, Va,
who was recently sentenced to eight years i'm.
prisonment for having shot and killed man /
who had seduced and refused to marry Dow
ney's servant girl. Popular sympathy in Staun.
ton is with Downey.
In the Prussian standing army Of one hun
dred and twenty-six thousand men, but two SOL
diers are unable to read; and Of two million
nine hundred thousand children between the I
ages of seven and fourteen, at the last census.
two million three hundred aud twenty eight |
thousand were actually attending the schools.
A member of the legislature now in session
at Indianapolis, vino had been "coughed down"
on several occasions, offered a resolution in
structing the door keeper to buy twenty dollars
worth OF cough medicine for the use Of the
members.
In Chicago on Saturday, the bank porter Of
Messrs. b. w. Phillips 4 Co., while passing
through an alley in broad daylight, with a
package of 81 400 in bills in his hand, was
Knocked down and robbed by q man, who made
good his escape, although closely pursued
Cotton is now grown in Cuba with exec lIent
success. Havana correspondent Of the
Republican speaks of a cotton field on