The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1858-08-31

BUCHANAN DxaocRAcy AND DIsuNIoN-At I
political meeting in South Carolina the othel
| dap, L. N. Keitt was called upon for speech
Among other things be said:
AS for himself, SO long as he was in the
| Union, he was for discharging everv obligation
that deyolved upon the state or the citizens o.
the state. Twelve months ago he advised ad-
versely but now he would say, sustain Mr.. Blu
chanan's administration. He went 70 Washing
ton at the beginning of the last session resolved
to oppose the administration; when he 60!
| there he found Buchanan upon the platform oi
the south. It was then he determined to sus-
tain the President cordially and ungrudgingly.'
Miss Blount asserts positively that she was
| legally married to the Zouave before they left
Mobile for New York, and that they lived as
| man and wife for weeks. This accounts for the
| facility with which the old gentleman was
| brought to terms.
Another camphene fatality occurred in New
York on Monday, the victim being Adelaide
Sombart, a child three years old. Camphene
should be added to the tables of mortality, as
one of the principal causes OF death
SUGAR IN ILLlNoIs.-An Illinois correspond
ent Of the New York Tribune says -" One
thing appears encouraging to the farmers Of
Illinois, that is the prospect OF raising our own
sugar cane has been tested, and remains no
more an experiment. The prospect is that there
will be made in this State more sugar and mo-
lasses than will be any article of export
Mrs. Merrill, who ran away with Fltton, part
ner and robber Of her husband, has returned to
Syracuse from England. She got homcsick,
and her paramour tired Of her, and gave her
money enough to come back
SAD AccIDEST-We learn that on last Sunday
morning, young lad named Geo. Moore, aged
some ten or twelve years, was accidentally shot
at Shpman. It seems that during the absence
of his parents, he took down the shot gun from
its resting place, and started out on hunting
excursion. Soon after his leaving the house,
the report of the gun and a scream were heard.
Immediate search was made, when he was
found, fatally wounded, breathing his last when
assistance reached him.--lllinois State Journal,
l9th
On Saturday an old man attempted to get on
the train going west at Ottawa, on the Chicago
and Rock Island r. r., while it was in motion.
He held small dog in one hand and with the
other made an effort to catch hold. He missed
his hold and fell across the track. The hind
most wheels of the back car passed over him,
cutting him almost in two pieces. The deccas-
ed was a stranger.
NEBRASKA OOkN.-JuuSe hnlnnt, OF tnls VI
cinity, has left at our Office twelve roasting ears
Of Corn, grown on his farm; the shortest of
which measures l3 inches, and the longest one
l64 inches. The whole length of the twelve
ears is fifteen feet three inches. Can any one
beat it! II so We would like to hear from him.
-Brownville Advertiser.
Mr.. Somerset, why don't you get married?
Because | am too modest to ask any respecta-
BILE young lady to turn Somerset.
When the news Of the successful transmission
of the Queens message reached West Lebanon,
n. H., the Church bell was rung ny Captain
Joseph Woods, a veteran of the Revolution, 80
years Of age.
foolish young man. named Augustus
Alderman, residing in Lancaster, Pa. attempt
ed to commit suicide the other day, for the
purpose, as he said, OF worrying his mother
He ought to have his back worried with cow
hide.
FATAL AccIDENr.-Stsphen Bilbec, of Car
thage, H.. was killed, q few days since, by the
accidental stroke Of scythe, in the abdomen,
which let out his intestines.
Pennsylvania has finally purchased an Execu-
tive mansion at Harrisburg, and Governor
Packer is how comfortably settled in it with his
family