The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1858-10-12

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Berks--she couo1h shE gave Buchanan z .00O
meipriiS.s The isiassCas J. Clancy Jones, n.
!. rusninS f6s reel cstoe 10 Congress. The cg~
posisiea, Repet Ass, Americans and Anti
LecocAnlon Oen1Srais have united on A41o1
ecAw55& Both candidates are stumping 80
o0enty md speaking twice day. SchwAft4N
: sAr;9 aud ne eoil Democrat. Il 10 BELIEVES
~ siil 81 elected. Hi meetings are larger
nd more enthusiastic than Jones', and hie
friends more scsive. The defeat Of the trsach.
erous, supple Jones would be one Of the great
| 81 wiappha Of priacipis ewes wea - ~ Nsssa-
over Doughfacssm.
SuIcrDs goR LovE OF HonE.-Ths Rising
Sun fTnd.) Visitor states that Nrs. Nary Mont
gomsry, widow aged about 66, Who had
lived on farm in Switzerland county, Ind, for
forty year,, recently, q the solicitation Of her
children, sid her property, and Was shout 70
remove TO Rising Sun. Her attachment 70 the
locality where she had spent 70 long time,
and the excitement Of removal, however, so
| aeitated her, that In . &c Of frenzy she cut her
throat, and was found dead in her bed, day or
two-betore the time Fixed for her departure.
The lion killer, Jules Gerard, in letter de-
scriptve Of campaign against mOnstrOus
| lion, states that in the Algerian subdivision,
Bona, there are as present no less than six OF
| these ferocious beasts, which have destroyed in
one year ten thousand head Of cattle. In his
hunting excursions, Gerard now makes use OF
the Devisne, which exPlodes IN the body Of the
animal.
De Riviere's lecture in New York, on "Love,n
which was advertised for Friday night, was any
| thing but success. Hardly FIFTY person were
present, and this handful rushed into the streets
before the lecture was ended, to witness she
| greater attraction Of passing procession.
| VIM Enderlin, employed as porter in the
| indianapolis Post Office, was caught opening
letters, on Thursday. A large number Of let
tiers were found that had been opened by him.
He was committed TO jail in default Of bail in
! 1900.
| Astronomical novelties abound Just at pres
ent. Besides the three comets, two of them
| telescope, and one glorously visible to the
naked eye, now flashing through the sky, il is
stated that daylight view may be had, with .
| good pair Of eyes, Of the planet Venus, the
evening star, now at the height of her bril-
iancy. Her position is southerly, about 80 Dc
grees from the sun, and as many from the hori-
zon, at rough calculation.
There was q riot at an Italian Lager Beer
Garden, on Fifth Avenue, New York, between
fifty Italian organ grinders, and a party Of
Irishmen. Pistols and knives were used freely.
One Irishman was killed lnstantane0usly, two
| injured.
The Typhoid fever, which had assumed an
epidemical form in the Penitentiary at Column
bus, Ohio has SO far subsidized that the Chapel
is no longer used as an hospital.
DEBT or ST.. LoUIs-The latest statement Of
the consolidated debt Of St. Louis sets it down
at IS, O27, 1896, on which there is an annual in
terest of $3SS,437. The assets Of tho city,
including railroad shares are SIS, 1856, 900.
Three convicts, on their way to the Hudson
river cars in New York. to be taken to Sing
Sing, undertook to escape By throwing cayenne
pepper into the eyes of the officer who had
them in charge, but did not succeed.
We learn that cases of yellow fever have oc-
Cured at Louisville within the last few days.
The bursting of . camphene lamp caused the
destruction OF $4,000 worth OF property at
Milwaukee, on Sunday evening last.
man named Hessey, 10 years OF age, has
been found guilty of seduction in Spence coun
ty, Ky, and sentenced to pay $4,000 damages
Served him right
A man in Vcksburg, Miss, who had an ex-
cellent rifle stolen from his Office, remarked
that the gun went off with less report than any
gun he had ever heard OF.
The Editor of the North Io,ca Gazette, says he
has been presented with fine sample OF syrup
made froui the Chinese sugar cane, raised in
the immediate vicinity Of Vernon Springs, by
Mr. N. 3. Doolitte. l, is of a clear amber col
or, of pleasant acid taste, and on the whole
''not bad TO take"
John Daily and wife, of Fitchburg, Mass,
went TO bed drunk one night last week, leaving
a lighted candle in such close proximity to the
bed as to set it on FIRE. The inebriates were
soon aroused by the fames, and escaped from
their shanty, which was also on FIRE, by jump
ing out Of a window. They we're SO s;upefed
by liquor, that they paid no attention to their
two little girls, one two and half and the 9TH
er four years OF age, and left them in the burn
ing building, where they persisted in the flames.
The Postmaster General has abolished the
dishonest practice Of giving to clerks Of the
Post Office department free passes upon rail
roads, upon the pretense that they are travelling
upon post Office business.
The robber OF the San Antonio, Texas, mails
proves to be boy of fifteen, named Jacob
Dammert, in the employ Of the San Antonio
Office. and fifty or sixty thousand dollars in
drafts. bank stocks, ETC., were found in his pos
session,
A western paper mentions as among the ad-
vantages derived from residence in Iowa, that
'people who have endured chldless union for
10 these many years in other States, on re
moving there, have been blessed with well
springs of pleasure to the full extent Of their
DESIRE"
The Emperor of Japan is so well pleased with
the telegraph presented to HIM by the Ameri-
cans, that he has ordered telegraphic commu-
Eicaton to be established between Jeddo, his
capital, and several Of the most important pro-
vinces. An American house at Simoda furnish
rs the materials.
Mr.. j. X. Barrett has made reply to the no
tice of contest served On him, some time ago by
Mr.. F. P. Blair, Jr., in which he denies, seria-
tim, the nineteen charges made by Mr.. Blair,
and concludes by preferring fifteen charges
against the friends OF Mr.. Blair. OF course!
Several spiritual mediums have revealed that
Thurston, the missing aronaut, is at a certain
house in Canada alive, sick with fever, but
they can't point out the location OF the house
go that it can be found.
The Memphis, Bulletin says President Blu.
chanan owns $4,000 of the suck of the Plant
ers' Bank of Tennessee.
Wiz SwAPpiNG.-The Grand Jury of Pu-
laski county, made some thirty odd present.
ments last week, one of which &C least, is ra-
Their rare case.t Two men, one Of them a Bap-
list preacher of the old sort, and the other .
member of the same Church, snapped wives,
which offence being considered contrary to the
good morals of the Commonweal they were
all presented. So it is clear that mans wife
is not an article of personal property that can
be traded off.-Petersburg (Va.) Paper.
SoLD.-The J. Mckee, the old standby Of
the X. l. r. l. Packet Company, has been put
in running order and sold to Captain Kirker,
for 50, 300 She is to serve as a tow-boat be-
tween ST. Louis aud Warsaw.
New Orleans paper says of the overiowed
district known as the "Beii Crevasse," that the
spot looks like desert. Not blade OF grass
appears where once was smiling plan tation ver-
dure. The ground is furrowed into every shape.
and the chansel OF the crevasse is wide and
deep enough to form respectable river.
They have Steam fire engine at Cincinnati,
called the Citizens Gift" which is said 10 be
fastand strong. One of the papers states that at
a recent fire the company attached 10 the ina.
chine, hitched ho,ses ran t5o squares, laid $50
feet Of hose, firing meantime. and but water on
the fire, in four minutes from TIE frat tap Of the
alarm bell. The same paper adds: +. This is
no more than she has often done. 1t may be-
called the champion of the world; she never