The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1858-09-21


and its doings.
The city's bill for the funeral of alderman
Murray in New York was S672, of which $1St
was for drinks on the road to and from the Gem
etsry. Tender hearted fellows, those New Yorl
aldermen
One Of the best inscriptions Of the New Yorl
cable celebration was that in relation to the en-
gineer who contrived the paying out apparatus
l-"Don't forget Everett, who sh1ihed on the
immortal coil"
The Etoile Beige gives the following exam
pie Of the danger Of precipitate interment. A
few days ago, while the clergyman was reciting
the usual prayers over the coffin Of a child, the
supposed dead child, who had only fallen into a
trance, awoke and knocked at the sides OF the
coffn uttering cries. The coffin was opened
and the child taken to the hosptsl.
| Intelligence has been received OF the &C
couchment Of the Empress Of Austria. Her
| Majesty has been delivered of son. The infant
4 Prince and his Imperial mother are both doing
well. The Prince has been baptized Rodoph
Francis Charles Joseph, and at the same moment
named Colonel Of the 1914 Regiment Of In
fantry.
| An Irishman in the employ of John JAG oh
Astor, Jr., at Esopus, N T., rode over to Pough-
keepse with the governess Of the family and
Miss Haywood, the gardeners daughter. In
| driving home, he urged the horses to such
| furious speed that the wagon was partly tipped
| over, and himself and the governess thrown out.
| Miss Haywood preserved her seat, but was SO
| much frightened that, although the horse was
| soon checked, she died in short time.
| Geo. May, Esq, is doing manly service in the
good cause. He makes several speeches every
week, and all Of them are eloquent, impressive,
and convincing. He has been invited to speak
at Ottumwa, Des Mones, and Charlton, but is
not certain yet whether he can leave home,
to address his many friends and acquaintances
abroad.-Knoxvie Journal.
gentleman III Boston has recently pur-
chased for the Emperor Napoleon three of the
finest horses he could find in the Eastern
States. The order was sent direct from the
Emperor himself. The New York Commercial
says it'would be interesting to know the price
the Emperor pays for the horses. Fine spans
OF horses now bring high prices. We know
gentleman who gave 81, 800 for pair of horses
now in use.
One million acres of land are advertised to
bs sold at auction at Tallahassee, Florida, on
the 7th and l4th Of December, belonging to
the Tallahassee Land Company, extending from
the ST. Marks to the Apalachicola rivers, in Mid.
die Florida.
Ahe ANeW LoIh HeTalu tllUKs tHe Uem0cratic
party is going to ruin. 1t says that neither
sympathy for Douglas, nor hostility to Douglas,
nor little movement here for Governor Wise,
nor another there for Slidell and Bright, nor
anything of the sort, will avail to unite the
distracted, dismanted, dsjointed and divided
Democracy"
Mayor Rodlnan, OF Providence, has refused
to license any more circus exhibitions in that
city, the last one having resulted in a murder.
The Undertook Rough Notes of last week
says :-" The negro who hit last week in
the head with hatchet, the physician who ex-
amined the wound informs us, was not hurt as
badly as was feared at the time; fortunately the
edge OF the hatchet only passed through one
thickness OF the negro's skull!'"
| David L. Miller has gone and done it, He
has invented machine embracing the three
principles of wedge, lever and screw, with
which a workman at the Norris Locomotive
Works, Philadelphia, weighing f56 pounds, lift
ed with facility the enormous weight of 81 .332
pounds-more than eighteen tons-merely by
the application of his strength through his
| hands to the lever.
| The JEWISH New YEAR-Our readers may
have noticed that on Friday and Saturday the
places OF business of all our Jewish citizens
| were closed. On those two days the Hebrews
throughout the entire World were celebrating
! the Inauguration of their New Year Accord
ing to Mosaic calculation, Friday commenced
| the first day of the year 5609. 1t is observed
as solemn festival for two days.
| THE HEBREws.-The Jewish nation, dispersed
in almost every part of the globe, amounted in
number Nj 1853, to 4,65S, 500 individuals, not
computing 10000 Samaritans, and | 200 Ish-
maeiites, who would make total Of $50, 900
persons. The total number OF Jews in Europe
is stated to be 2,45l,l7s.
| Mrs. Amanda A. Myers, in a fit of temporary
arrangement committed suicide at Marengo, on
Sunday night, the Goth ult., by drowning her
self in the Iowa river. She leaves husband
and four small children.
WHEAT is LAGER ?-Lager is said by the me-
dical faculty to be a tonic. Adoniram says he
thinks it is too tonic (7eatoaic.)
/ CoRN.--Mr. J. NJ Skidmore, living a few
miles east of this city, left on our table an ear
OF corn of the improved King Phillip variety,
the seed Of which he says was planted the 27th
| day of June last The corn is now (Sept. 9th, J
fully matured, as can be seen by calling at our
office.
! lie says it will produce from 5 to ears to
each stock, and under ordinary good cultiva-
ton will yield l2O bushels to the acre. Oska-
loosa Times.
! SuIcIDE-A YogNG MAN PoIsoNs HIMSELF.
| -Thos. p. Welch, aged about % years, com
| mtted suicide in Washington last night, BY ta-
king strychnine. HIS remains were brought 70
this city on the train this morning, and are at
the residence of Mr. Wm Chambers, awaiting
the action OF the parents of the young man,
who reside at Rochester in Cedar county, and
! who have been sent for Muscatine Journal,
Saturday.
man by the name of Jerry Kelly was mur-
dered at Dyersville, on the 7th inst. He and q
man by the name of Owen were working for
Judge Dyer, and had been quarreling In the
/ morning they went to work together, and Owen
/ returned alone to dinner, bespatterei with
blood. Kelly was found dead, having been sho,
through the head, and Owen was secured and
| placed in custody.
We love to see ladies' in the market house
/ There is many a fine woman that goes with a
nics, plump pair of calves to the market every
morning. journal.
A Halifax paper says that tinsmith of that
place is building wherry to contest the cham
1 pionship at coming regatta. Ii is constructed
! Of tin, the frame work being merely Of wood
and is Is feet in length and two feet broad in
+ the center.
During the shower of Saturday the house Of
LoHoaiu, ou DFOWH lsIdnN, OH
Wellheet, was struck and almost completed,
I wrecked by lightning. Every room in the house
was injured, floors ripped up, plastering ripped
of, 40 panes of glass broken, and nearly all tn.
crockery in the house broken. Mr. Lombard
was thrown from his chair upon the floor updcl
the table, but neither he nor any of his famil,
i were injured. During the same shower, til,
house OF Christopher Champlain on Block Islant
was thoroughly torn to pieces by the lightning
but the inmates were only stunned.
The price Of the passage of the three horses
purchased in this country for Louis Napoleon
by the Vanderbilt steamer Ariel to Havre, wa
$500.
At Cincinnati, little girl about three year
of age, daughter Of Philip Potsdam, swallowc,
a copper cent Of the old coinage. The chii
suffered considerable pain, but Gil efforts to re
move the cent by cathartics or emetics prove,
unavailing. The coin was skillfully taken from
the stomach BY a physician, by the use of Al
instrument inserted in the mouth
Geo. Combe, the great phrenologist, who die
at the hydrophobia institution at Moor Park