The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1858-06-01

Patsey Carroll, an Irishman. died almost i
stantly at Oieon, N. T., from the effects
choroform given him in anticipation Of a su
gical operation. Less than a drachm of chlol
form was given.
One argument in the British Parliament
favor OF letting men marry their deccas
wives sisters was good, vix,---that by doing
. man had only one mother-in-law instead
two.
| Samuel Blewtt, boy convicted at Staunto
Va, OF abstracting money from letters, has be,
sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary.
Among the distinguished arrivals at Sale
| on Thursday were an African tiger and sever
boa constructors. -F I
Francis W. Pckens Of s. G., recently appoin
ca Y. ,. minister to st. Petersburg, has been ,
Louisiana to get him wife before starting q
his mission.
The Detroit Advertiser states that cale
meeting OF the Aldermen was postponed on .,
count OF only i've members being present.
fignt OF the absentees were too drunk to a,
tend.
RUMoRED MARRIAGE.-An exchange saws IL
rumored that Forrest, the actor, is about I
marry Laura Keene.
- eSsA SANhCiuCut eAiSbS III MCECeT county. Ia
on account of the death of a Young woman
who, during her husbands absence in Califor
MIA, committed an indiscretion and died unde
the doctors hands. Her name was Kerr. for
merly White.
The investigations into the Bright and Fitcf
case, IN lndiana, have been concluded and tn.
result forwarded to the U. s. Senate, which ha,
All the facts in its possession before, but chos,
10 AGOnt this in nd L., u
senators in their seats long enough to secure
their votes for Lecompton.
Mayor Tienann of New York fined fifteen sw;l
mix dealers on Saturday. He intends to have
the cow-pens at the distilleries abated as uui
sances. At Brooklyn at least 500 gallons o,
swill milk were returned to the stables on Sa
turday, because there was no market for it
The question put to the milk dealers by Gus.
toners is, "Do you sell the long-tail or the
stump tail mik?"
1he SIX revenue cutters recently built by gov.
erhment Tor the Lake service, but which have
been laid up at Sandusky, are to be nut in com.
mission Immediately. One is to be stationed on
each OF Lakes Erie, Superior, Huron. Ontario
ana Michigan, and the other on lake St. Clair
and Detroit river.
A correspondent of the Charleston Mercury.
attend'ng the Southern Commercial Convention
It Montgomery, writes: II have not met sin
sle man. except the Virginians, who approves
'f the late compromise in Kansas. 1t is de-
bounced with great bitterness"
A chicken has been hatched at New Bedford
With but one leg, with which it got about pretty
sell although occasionally losing its center Of
,ravity and tipping over. As proyidential
compensation chicken has appeared at Rattle
make, ILL.,, with four perfect legs, and having
10 occasion for the hind ones, sticks them out
s ornaments.
The Boston submarine expedition to Sebasto-
ol has returned, having given up the attempt
raise the sunken Russian ships and sold their
roperty at Constantinople to pay expenses. 1t
as been losing operation for the Company.
he Philadelphia Company remains at Sebasto-
oil and will try to clear the harbor, having re-
eived additional inducements from the Rus.
IAN government.
AN EXTENSIVE FARMER.-Jacob Carroll, of
exas, is the largest farmer in the United States,
e owns 250, 900 acres of land. His home plan.
ltion contains about 5000 acres. Col Carroll
as on his immense ranges of pasture lands
bout 1000 horses and mules, worth $50, 600;
900 head OF cattle, worth 81 900; 600 hogs,
orth 1000; 300 Spanish mares, worth Is, 900;
JNhAAiSSS WI III Ts,oOVs IL JdCAs, WOEtu o. |
DO; and five stations worth $4,000. His an
aal income from the sale Of stock amounts to |
10000, and from the sale Of cotton to $40, ,OOO |
Tuckerman, before being committed 10 the !,
ate Prison at Wethersield, Conn.,, requested |
at mis- clothes might be put away in camphor,
that he could use them after his twenty -one |
'ars had expired. And put away they were
cordingly. He also wanted a carpet in his |
ii, but this was not permis missible.
On Wednesday last the remains of Mr.. Her
'rt were removed from New York to his resi-
nee, 1.-THE Cedars," in the vicinity of Newark.
ID after an informal service by the Rev. Mr..
lackleford, of the Episcopal Church, dust was
Unsigned to dust in Mount Pleasant Cemetery.
after life's itful fever. he sleeps WE'LL"
The Albany Knickerbocker revives the Bour-
N question again, and states that the Rev.
:. Williams was in that city last week, looking
certain evidence. 1t appears from the old
oks OF b. j. Bleecker that one DJourdin,
attache of the French court, was in that city
1919, with son of the king of France, and
at the firm mentioned became his bankers.-
ere are several charges on the books, show
: that D'Jourdin vent to Whitehall with the
=, and there is no trace of him further, but
is understood that Mr.. Williams can prove
~ HC 10 tuS ivy WHO was with ~ JOuFUln at !
hitehall. Mrs. Dudley of Albany is interesting
rself in the investigation of the mystery.
Whether Chinese cows are pastured in dstl-
y stables, and fed on swill milk, we have new.
seen stated; but Sir John Bowring, the Brit
envoy, after long residence in the flowery
lgdom, says he has never seen or heard of
tier, cream, milk or whey being introduced
any Chinese table.
locomOtive-says the Utica Herald-was
It out on the line of Watertown and Rome
llroad to carry some men to subdue fire ra.
& on the line in the woods. The engineer,
hing to return, directed the fireman to FIRE
which he did, and while throwing wood into
furnace the boiler; exploded, blowing the
man into hundred pieces. The engine was
Tery old one. s-N
1 is Of no use to send costly presents to the
peror of China. Either his c0urtiers steal
m and they never reach there, or he considers l
m trash not worth keeping; at any rate cop
of Audubon's Birds Of America and Of the
'erican Antartic exploring expedition sent to q
emperor have been sold by peddlers at Can
for trift.
iatilda Griesill, German girl Of fifteen, ran 7
~ from her home in New York and went to |
gertes. where she remained week before
parents IOuHu ueF. Sue was traced Dy means
. letter that she had addressed to her lover,
nut the same age, asking him to come over '
marry her.
yellow wolf was killed at Belleyiew valley, 8
n county, No., last week, which measured
feet four inches from the nose to the tail. 8
J three feet in height, and its foot with the I
vsl was five inches in length. The ''var- /
It" had killed one hundred sheep in the coun. /
! workman narrowly escaped suffoca,ion in 8
rotor water pipe at New York on Saturday. !
had gone inside one of the large mains, to +
some corking, expecting to get out of the ?
,-c0ck, but no screw was at hand to unscrew n
stop-cock, and the poor fellow nearly per- v
d before the main pipe could be broken to '
him out.
he gallant young men who have volunteered
the Mormon War, are greatly annoyed by Y
rumor Of Brigham Young's submission. The
isville volunteers, we learn, are determined
% to Utah, anyhow. If they cannot fight
Mormons, they will join them. This. the .
isville Journal remarks, viii serve their main S
pose. II
II. Hackney, elected by the Democracy as b
rkeeper OF the House Of Representatives, ut
commencement Of the present session Of o
gress. has been dismissed for his scandaloIs =
ulations. The Democrats took him as their 2
man from among . hundred Democratic
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