The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1858-11-02
Jane fears 10 walk mid flowers in spring
Though each one fragrance distils,
Because her nerves are weak, and all
The plants are Shooting Disfiks

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DIED DILIGENTLY Of disloeatien Of the spir
Mr. Atlantic 7. Cable. Mr.. Cable but q Il
: weeks ago was apparently in the best healt
}. AND communicating freely with bis friends.
since that time, however, he has taken to h
osd, and, Notwithstanding the frequent al
j, powerful application OF electricity, his syste
J. gradually became weaker, until it ceased to r,
act altogether. CONTRARY to the usual eustor
n.s taking to bis bed was made the source
unqualified rejoicing by his friends. He res
in Wilmington IN. C.) Journal.
FATAL AccIDExr.-We learn that a fatal |.
cidsnt occurred on Monday last, about ten mil.
rom TINS town, on the farm owned BY Dr. Nc
MILAN. 1t appears that Mr.. VIM. Cameron Ia
procured gun which had been loaded som
time, and in discharging is, instead of pu
sing ii to his shoulder, he held it little distane
from him, and the result was that she rsboun
Of the gun struck him with such force 40 /
cause his death on Wednesday merning. NJ
v. was about 70 years of age, and leaves a VIII
ana CHILD to mourn HE less.-Oquawka Plain
dealer.
On Monday evening as young lady Of sigh
teen, daughter Of ex alderman Prldham Of NJ "
ark, n j., was entering the gate Of her father,
residence, she was seized by four rufians, wht
| dragged her, nuzzlsd, to an unfrsousDtec
street, whore they attempted diabolical out
rage, but became alarmed and fed. The youns
lady. in her struggle to escape, had her clothes
nearly torn from her psrsea and was robbed Of
her jewelry. Two OF the supposed rascals have
been arrested.
Robert McCue, an aged citizen Of Schenecta-
dy, n. T., having been found dead in his bed,
the coroner discovers shat, by his extreme age
and disease of the heart, the same Almighty
pa eh~H
himself"
Mrs. Alkaline Clark Of Frsstown, convicted
OF mansaughter in causing the death Of David
Simmons Hathaway by shooting him with q pis.
toll, has been sentenced to the house of correc.
ton for five years.
A witness was asked if the defendant stood
on the defensiue. mo, he stood on q bench
and fit like the devil"
One firm i. New York employs $50 girls in
the manufacture Of crinoline.
The New Orleans Picayune laments the con-
tnual tampering with slaves. 1t says .-"T
disappearance of one after another of valuable
family servants affords evidence of the existence
OF an extensive organization to protect and aid
those who may seek it. Free papers are manu-
featured, and false certificates of birth furnish.
ed, and perhaps still other means exist of in.
terierlns between masters and their servants"
A negro burglar attempted to break into the
house OF Rev. John Parker, in Carmel, N. Y,
when an English servant girl seized q corn. slash
AID struck him severe blow ON the arm He
then started off scrsss the fields, and the girl
followed him for some distance, but he finally
escaped. His track was marked by blood for
nearly a mile.
free negro in Pontotoc county, Ark, killed
a white man near Fort Smith, and on the sheriff
coming with posse to arrest him he shot one
OF them, and killed the officer in hand to hand
encounter. Finding that he was wounded and
could not escape ne then shot himself, and the
surviving member Of the sheriff's party burned |
his body on log heap.
The Cincinnati Gazette says there is double /
headed girl in tina. city, with double sets of
arms and legs, but consolidated arrangements
for the digestive organs, etc. She talks and |
Eats with both mouths, and walks with two or
four legs according to her own choice. She is
to be the youngest srandchid of Joyce
Heath and p. 7. Barnum
The Lake Ontario steamboats, Canada and
America, chartered at &, 900 per month tor the
amous Paraguay expedition, will be repaired,
strengthened, and their guards cut off at gov
,rnment expense. 1t is expected that they will
ail in December. Seventeen vessels are now
Engaged for the expedition including three fri
yates, which will proceed to the outh of the
'araguay and transfer their crews to the smaller
'essels.
The old managers of the National Monument
t Washington have been restored to power,
md promise to complete the shaft, if nothing
more, as soon az they can get the money. The
olumn is now IT'S feet high. The plan is to
ave it 500.
An lrishman entered the resin oil still of the
'owmsn oil company, Rox bury, Tuesday fore
Don, to remove some sediment, and being
verpowered by the noxious gases, Dennis But
sr, superintendent of the works, and his broth
r Nathaniel, went in to bis rescue, and all three
'ere taken out dead.
Four hundred and six,y-eigh thousand of the
olored slaves at the South are church men,
ers.
Ii is announced that James Gordon Bennett
nd family TO form part OF Mr.. Buchanan's
Republican Court" the coming winter. The
Ugh moral and social position OF Bennett bar
nonizes excellsntly well with the exalted char
cter OF the administration.
CHINESE WIr.-SomeDody writes from an
american vessel in the Chinese waters, that =
'orthy missionary had scattered several copies
t the Ten Commandments on the shore. The
ext day they were sent back, with the request
hat tney might be distributedamong the French
nd English, for the tracts contained admirable
Doctrines, and these people evidently much
eeded them.
A German musician has brought out in Nav
FORK new musical instrument, which he calls
he Organo- ACCORDION, combining the powers
# the two instruments whose name it untes.-
t per orms all the parts Of choral music, and
nth purity, fulIness and variety oil tone which
re surprising in so small an instrument II is
apable of the quicker and more lively measures,
ut seems better suited to the graver and more
majestic harmonies OF psalmody.
A very extraordinary occurrence has Just
ONE to light here. 1t appears that on Tuesday
fter last Carol Court, Abner Brady, whose
&c is supposed to be about sixty years, went to
he well OF Mr.. Crockett, hotel keeper in this
lace, and in attempting to send down the
ucket fell in. lie was missed, but it seems no
me suspected he was in the well until yesterday,
or MIR. C.'s family used water from the well
Until then, period Of about nine days, when it
'ecame very offensive. On searching for the
ause, Mr.. G. and another man discovered the
ody and brought itup
Rarey, the horse tanner, instead of returning
ONE, has gone from England to Sweden, and
purposes seeing Laplsnd before be returns
he London News. it is surprising how his
ystem takes everywhere.
The sword worn by Col. 10 Daviess at the
attle OF Tippscanoe, has been presented to the
irand Lodge Of Kentucky by Judge Todd Of
Indianapolis, who studied law with the Colonel
nd was a member Of the family at his death.
Two men swopped wives near Danville, VT,
ately, the one who had the best claiming and
ecelving two bushels and . half of potatoes a.
oOt
STEPHEN II. Branch, editor OF tue Alligator,
ave a dramatic representation Of his late i'm
risonmeqt on Blackwels Island, at Hope
,hapel, New York, last Monday evening"
'ranch was assisted by . negro barber and
hahn gang Of discharged conyicts, all in prison
ostume. Branch said the scene inspired him.
Willis, the keeper Of the Broadway gambling
ouse, where murder 10 supposed TO have been
ommittsd, has been released upon bail in
1000, until the blood stains in his house and
bout the cistern can be analysed.
A handsome young Scotch woman, who had
ONE to this country on bridal tour, Is pursu-
NJ her iaithless husband through the vest He
eserted her at Philadelphia last week, taking