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The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1858-10-19

An Indian chief in Carson Valley, saws 4
correspondent of Stockton paper, has a
white woman FOR his wife, whom he purchas-
cd from tribe of Camanche Indians Her
history is related as follows:
About the year 1914, there was small
company Of emigrsnts, numbering about ten
wagons, who left the frontiers Of Missouri
for Oregon Territory. The Camanehe indi
ans watched these unfortunate Gmigrants
with q murdsrous design, from the time they
left their protected and peaceful homes
One beautiful night these emigrants had on
camped near the foot of n range Of noun
tains, and had turned out their cattle to
Craze.
Little did they dream Of trouble, or that
danger was near at hand; but it was even
so. The Camanche. surrounded them on all
sides SO that there was no chance Of their
escape The conflict was soon decided The
men numbering twenty fye) we're all bru-
tally murdered and scaped, together with
several Of she women The remainder were
made captives and carried off to other tribes
and bartered for horses, provisions, &c
Woogmawker purchased his wife for two
horses and a couple of deer skins The
other captiyes 1.-TWO women and three girls)
were sold to tribe of Indians which inhab
it that portion of country where the Collar
ado has its source
The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1858-10-19

CAUGHT ON THE jury following
which we heard told as fact some time ago
may be beneficial to some gentleman who
has young unsuspecting wife.
A certain man, who lived about two miles
from k, was in the habit Of going to
town about once week and getting on a reg
ular spree, and would not return until he
had time to "cool of, which was generally
two or three days. His wife ignorant of
the cause of his staying out so long suffered
greatly from anxiety about his welfare
When he returned Of course his confding
wife would inquire what had been the mat
ter with him, and the invariable reply was,
"that he was caugh on the jury and couldn' t
get off
Having gathered his corn and placed it in
u large heap he according to custom de
termined to call in his neighbors and have
real corn shucking frolic So he gave Ned,
a faithful servant, jug and order to 90 to
town and get a gallon of whiskey-a very
necessary article on such occasions Ned
mounted mule and Was soon in town,
and equipped with the whiskey, remounted
to set out for home, all buoyant with the
prospect of fun at 'shuckiug"
When he had proceeded few hundred
y
"stuf, and, not satisfied with once, he kept
trying until the world turned around so fast
that he turned off the mule, and then went
to sleep and the mule to grazing. 1t was
now nearly night and when Ned awoke it
was just before the break o'day, and 50 dark
that he was unable to make any start to-
ward home until light AS soon as his be-
wIlderment had subsidized SO that he could
get the point he started with an empty
jug, the whiskey having run out, and afoot,
for the mule had gone home OF course he
was contemplating the application of two
year old hickory" as he went on at the rate
Of two forty.
Ned reached home about breakfast time
and "letched up at the back door with a
decidedly guilty countenancc.
"What in thunder have you been at, you
black rascal SAID his master
Ned, knowing his masters excuse to his
wife when he got on spree, determined to
tell the truth ii he died for it and said -
"Well master, to tell the truth, war
kotch on the jury and couldn't get of. y
Nashville News
The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1858-10-19

DEATH OLA VENERABLE NEGRO. Cool A
G. Eye, of Doniphan county, X H., informs
us that George Young, venerable man oil
color, died at the Ranch Col Eye S residence
on Sunday last, aged one hundred and eight
years. lie was an cd family servant, and
served as body servant to the Colonel's faith
er-in-law, in the Revolutionary War, lie
recollects having frequently seen Gen. Wash
ington, and related many incidents of the
'times that tried mems souls and could
give minute description of Washington
personal appearance,-[St Joseph Journal
Oct y
The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1858-10-19

PERPETUAL MorroN. A correspondent Of
the London Builder thinks that the follow
ing instances como as near perpetual motion
as any one can desire In the rotunda of
the woolwick barracks, there is, he says, a
clock moved by machienery, which has been
going for more tlan thirty years He further
states that he knows gentleman who has
had watch in his possession for over thirty
years, Theoretically sealed, where there is no
means Of winding, that tells the day of the
week, the hour, the minutes, seconds, months,
and he believes, years, and how far you
walk in the day. 1t cost about two thou
sand dollars, and was made by French ar
fist in Paris.
The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1858-10-19

ELECTRICITY IN TooTH-PULLING.- The
painless extraction of teeth by means of cleo
tricky is no humbug. The thing is done
daily by New York and Boston dentists,
and it will soon be universally introduced
II we consider the amount of suffering and
nervous apprehension which will thus be
obviated, it is one of the greatest discoveries
of the age. DR. jerome b. Francis OF Phil.
adclphia is said to be entitled to the discov-
cry. The electricity is obtained from a small
electromagnetic battery. The patient takes
one pole of the battery in one hand and the
other is attached to the forceps, the dentist
insulating himself by silk gloves. The Bos-
ton Medical and Surgical Journal has an ar
ticle on the subject, vouchng for the gen
uineness and Importance of the discovery
Some of the dentists of Boston have already
extracted hundreds Of teeth, with this ar,
rangement with little or no pain to the pa
tent. The wife of u lawyer in Boston had
fourteen teeth taken out ut one sitting, and
said she felt no sort ofpain, only disagree
able sensation at the instant of gr sping the
tooth. Others experience moderate degree
of pain. Tho advantages OF this an9sthetic
over ether Or chloroiorm are, that there is nc
danger from it, and there are no disagree
able results We see no reason why il may
not be applied to produce local insensibility
for other surgical purposes. as well as to the
pulling Of teeth
The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1858-10-19

The lTAEIAN SALAMANDER Christofero
Buono Core the foreigner, who has, under
the above title, exhibited. himself for some
time past in the Asaburnham grounds of
Cremorn, appears in England to test the ad-
vantages of dress which is stated to be i'm
pervious to fire, and which will preserve the
body though in actual contact with flames
The modo OF proceedings adopted by the ex-
hibitor are as follows: Two iron cages are
framed TO intsrsect each other, about fifteen
feet long, by seven feet high, but only three
feet wide, with four openings or doorways
These he completely surrounds and covers
with light brushwood, which is fired, and,
when the whole becomes az if it were one
body OF flame, he coolly enters trayerses the
several narrow burning avenues, passing in
and'out at each opening with apparent ease,
and perfectly unframed During the period
the performance takes place the heat Of the
hire Is so great that none of the visitors can
approach within distance ofthrty feet, and
then only by partially shading the face. The
public are not in any way restricted AZ to
examination or point of sight, so that ne de-
ception can be practieed; and it would ap-
pear that Mr. Core has proved what he as
serted, that life and action can be main
s'iuou "ituout AiJuIJ liz tne MIDST OF nro.
The exhibitor has served in the Nsapolitap
army, and has spent much of his time in
Egypt, where his attention was drawn to a
considerable loss Of life and property from
fires which appeared to him to admit Of a
remedy. Repeated experiments during four
years resulted in success for which he was
very handsomely rewarded by Said Pacha;
but becoming involved in political intriguss,
ne was nscessitatsd to take refuge in Eng
land where he seeks to benefit BY an invsn-
ton which certainly seems calculated to be
OF considerable importance. The dress 10
OF light, portable material, made in sack
like form, over portion Of which il worn
kind OF hood, with glasses to shelter the sys.
Il London Illustrated News.
The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1858-10-19
Burlington house Factory

.
I>HE Undersigned would y to his friends and pat
= rons that he has succeeded in perfecting his ar
raneements 30 as to do by machinery all the work or
Houses usually done by hand except fitting and mailing
He has on hand q large supply of
building Materials. Rulldcrs, Hard.
ware, Chain PUN ps, Gc. T@
Cottages and District School houses built nj anv rea
sonaes distance from the city, Or the line Of Rail
road East West. "
u you would have cheap House, build II In 1885,
and II you would have IL completed ready for oc
~ enc Thus saving time and trouble and have Il
built short notice dating terms send In
your bill 10 the Burlington House FACTORY.
ukinds q House Work, such Doors, Sash, Biinds
Door and Window Frames, Coraice MoulLing. Band
Mouldings, &C., constantly on hand.
Persons o distance wishing 10 know the cost Of
buildings, or anything In the building line. have
their wants attended 20 BY paying postage and address
Ing Burlington House Factory" or the proprietor,
maylbply \. JOY.
The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1858-10-19

The government Of Russia is substituting
a metallic currency for paper money through
out the empire Sixty millions Of pspsr
money have already been called in and can
callsd but it appears that complete reform
is to take place. The capital necessary for
this new operation is estimated at one hun
dred millions of roubles three fsrths Of
which, it is said, will be furnished by di
rect loan
The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1858-10-19

By the fire at the State House at Columbus,
Ohio, on Tuesday, five or six hundred volumes
Of public documents we're destroyed. They we're
Of great yalue, embracing the political history
OF Ohio from its first territorial organization,
and cannot be replaced.
The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1858-10-19

BULwER AND HIS PIpE.-Those who have
read Ernest Maltrevers, viii remember the
illusions to .he "favorite meerschaunl" OF
the hero in tie early stage of the novel The
distinguished author of this work is Row a
Secretary of State, and is himself far more
inveterate smoker than any character DIES.
cribed in his works. Indeed. it would be
difficult to find a man more devoted to the
practice. Each administration seems to haye
its smoker par excellence, and between Lerd
Clarendon and Sir 4. Bulwer Lytton, ii
would, perhaps, be impossible to decide
which statesman consumed the most tobacco.
Lord Palmerston, on the contrary, has such
an aversion to it, that he wrote SHARP re-
buke to the young attaches at Constantine
pie, because the dispatches .meit Of tobacco,
and desired the ambassor to have the notice
stuck up in the Office, to see that his iniunc.
lions were attended to "No smoking allow
cdr
The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1858-10-19

Iheard her, oh, how cautiously,
Open my bedroom door;
heard her step ~ noisslessly,
IL, To my couch across the aoor;
/ felt her hand my temples press,
Her lips just touching mine; s.
And in my anguish and distress,
Twere sinful to rep,ns.
Our pilgrimage il nearly through
We've passed LIES mountain brow;
| though | loved her years ago
konw | lover her now.
Her face was towering over mino,
Her warm tears on my cheek;
Her whispered prayer of thought divine
Rose fervently but meek.
Her bosom rested on my arm,
felt its tremu,ous thros;
] knew the cause Of its alarm,
And felt its source of woe.
Aud then the blood my system through
Came pressing on my brow
! thought loved her years ago
/ know l love her now.
Thus watched that tried and patient ons
BY night as well rs day;
In sadness and almost alone,
Till weeks had passed away.
Bereft Of sleep-deprived Of rest
F! Oppressed-borne down with care,
/ Till oh, her labors have been blest,
For God has heard her prayer
Her cheek resumed its wonted glow,
And placid is her brow
l thought loved her years ago
/ know | love her now.
The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1858-10-19
stopping In New Yesk.
A p1RoDY-BY JfK0.

a rsRoDY-BY yfEo.
Strolling quite at leasure
Up and down Broadway;
Staring at the ladies
On 4 pleasant day;
Dining ct the stevens
waiter, bring q fork j
Bless me this Is pleasant, -
Stopping in New York!
2
Seedy locking stranger
In CATERS and slistress,
A hundred dollar lever
Will sell for fifty less;
Buy the watch for thirty,
Though he intimites
h It's wicked thus to corner
A gentle man in straits.
3.
Fellow in the alley,
Offers me a book
Stop q single moment
Just to take a look;
Judging BY the pictures,
(Not Of strict propriety)
He is not an agent
Ofthe Tract Society
4.
Fashionably lady
Treats me like brother;
Hospitality asks me
Home to see her mother;
Rather like her manners,
But think her language odd,
Swearing she has "nary red
To buy brandy tod !"
5.
Lady dressed in mourning,
Stops me in the street;
Says | am the angel
That she hoped to meet;
Smiling very sweetly
Thanks me for the sum
Which | k ndly lent her
"Tiil her letters come.
6.
Strolling quite at leasure
Up and down Broadway;
Gazing at the windows,
On pleasant day;
Dining at the Stevens
(Pop goes the cork }
Bless me this is pleasant,
Stopping in New York
The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1858-10-19

A gentleman visited Ireland last sumner
An hour after he landed in Dublin, he was
denounced as "a id furriner" This SO
MORALLY offended him, that he returned
home in the next steamer The idea OF be.
ing called "ad-d furriner'' in Ireland,
was rather more than he could stand.
The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1858-10-19

The Buffalo papers say that the little negro
boy taken from Aerwin, the New York travel
ing agent. by the more jealous than wise blacks
at Chatham, Canada. was Buffalo boy, and had
been hired by Asrwin TO wait upon him for his
clothing and board.
The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1858-10-19

The vicksburg Southern OF the LIST, reports
snesyeiiow fever steadily on the increase. The
city hospital was crowded, and there were more
than ten admissions on the Both ult.
The City Council Of New Albany has paid
MI. beecher six hundred dollars for damages
Incurred ~ biz falling into Q cellar.
The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1858-10-19

II is stated that a. much Is &C., 900 worth Of
bogus coin IL issued every month at Hoossc. =
few miles from Troy, N. Y. The American
halves and quarters are 90 we'll executed a.
nearly to defy detection. They sell ct Wholesale
foe thirty dellaso On the hundred.
The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1858-10-19

A mormon missionary is going about the
north Of England in velocipede preaching
and collecting subscriptions on behalf Of the
general community Of SANTA
The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1858-10-19

TIE SEVEN ANCIENT WONDERS OF TIE
WoRLD. These were, lst The brass Colos-
sus Of Rhodes, built by. Cares, A. ID. 2SS. 1t
stood across the harbor Of Rhodes sixty.six
years. and was thrown down by an earth
quake. 1t was bought by jew from the
Sara Gems, who loaded nine hundred camels
with the brass.
> The pyramids Of Egypt The largest
one engaged 100000 workmen thirty years
in building and has now stood three thou
sand years
3. The Aqueducts of Rome, invented by
Appius Claudius, the censor
4. The Labyrinth of Psammetichus, on
the banks of tho Nile, containing within one
continued wall, 1000 houses, and II royal
palaces, all covered with marble, and having
only one entrance The building was said
to contain 5000 chambers, and hall built
of marble, adorned with statues of Gods
5. The Pharos Of Alexandria a tower
| built by order Of Ptoemy Philadelphus in
| the year 2S2 b. Q. 1t was erected as ligh
house, and contained magnificent galleries Of
marble-a large lantern at the top, the light
which was seen near hundred miles off /;
| mirrors Of enormous size were fixed around
| the galleries, rejecting everything on the
| sea.
6. The Walls of Babylon, built by order
of Semiramis, or Nebuchadnezzar, and fin
| ished in one year, by 100000 men. They
were of immense thickness
l. The Temple of Diana, at Ephssus,
completed in the reign Of Servus, 9th King
of Rome. 1t was $50 feet long, 200 broad
and supported by l25 marble pillars, 70 feet
long. The beams and doors were of cedar,
and the rest of the timber cyprus. 1t was
destroyed by a fire B. G. 265.
Horace Greedy closed his address at Con-
nersville, Indiana with the following beau
tiful sentence ITO the intelligent, instruc-
ted, wide-awake eultiyator, no change which
the future has 10 store threatens evil or
counsels discourage cement. For hin: and such
as he is, every advance in the mastery Of Ma.
ture by man, is Il personal advantage, and
an assurance of that ultimate triumph where
in every atmospheric change being foreseen
and prepared for, every late Mt force of ma
ture evolved and rendered useful, the mar
wells Of chemistry shall become tho familiar
landmarks Of tillage, and every breeze that
wanders idly across continent shall Jour.
ney laden with bounties and blessings for
the human race.
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N ew Work.

&c. new WORK.
lust published-The Church Polity OF the Pilgrims
~ BY Rev. J. w. weliman, Boston, lAA pp., l2mo.
n 5-sI J.P. BROWN,
The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1858-10-19

A bet was made once on a slow railroad
line that the engine couldn't pull q man 3
boots of. The trial came oil, and so did
the boots; but there were loud complaints Of
foul play. 1t was said that they chained the
engine to stake, and then set big dog ut
the man, causing him to jump out of his
cowhides.
Great men never effect anything. It 10
your three cent folks that put on airs, swell
and put on pomp.
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10 Farmers and Dealer

10 Farmers and Dealers.
NuCN attention s respectfully solicited to the
L present extensive and complete stock or Farm
ing Implements and Utensils now IN store which
enatles the propriutors of the bur ngton Agrcaars
and Seed Warehouse oer gnrivailed nductm to
the trade and purchasers generally.
Large invoices Of Hay ng and Harvesting Toois con-
ssting of
SCY7HE SNATHES, CRADLES, WOOD AND
IRON BRACE IND GRAPiETTEE pdE.
1KRNs, IA FoRkS, II s.!ayd,l sCrTRE-
SIOAEo &c HiFLES flfNJ e REVOL.
PING HiI FORAS, ETC., ETC.,
have just been received which aEy adj lions are he.
ing made by r.sh arrivals
Purchasing drecti, from th.nan utac,urers, these
ticies Obtained the lowed possible prices nabns
10 sell lower than any other'house in Burlington
full assortment OF Wood and Willow Ware Cor.
"ee, Bed Cords, Clothes Lines, &c.. constantly on
hand. KEITH, ROBINSON A %
June l2-4dt-wtf Water Street. near JelIeSscn,
Burlington, Iowa
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WoMAN's FowEE-NIan is her willing
slave, if she be true to herself But no SEN
sible man of moderate means-no man who
has to work, and is willing to work, for his
livelihood might, perhaps say no sensible
man in any position-pic his wife out of a
ballroom or an opera box, however much
he may like to see her there. A true wo-
man has much more chance-we all know it
of winning any love that is worth her
winning in her own home in her undrsss in
her little nameless every dav unstudied gra-
ces sitting on st lie, lettering by brook,
rafting in railway carriage, or busy and
unconscious a:nid common household duties,
than in what the sex choose to consider the
special scenes Of their glories and their tri-
umphs. ! have read somewhere, or haye
been told that any woman, who removes
from a gorgon in personal attraction, can
make any man propose to her il she has the
chance of living in the same house with him
.or a month. ! am inclined. with some mod
itcatien, to believe it, humiliating as it may
seem to us noble ANIMALS Jack, 20 whom
quote it, shakes his head with an rir of SUI.
perior cunning; but | sec in him, at all
events, ready victim. A real woman, with
good figure and Il kind heart, might hoo.:
him easily in a fortnight 'lackwuod.
The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1858-10-19

some seventy yeaFs ago . comet IN passing
across che heavens entered within the orbits
Of several OF Jupitsrs moons aud was check
% in its course thereby, remaining in that
vicinity nearly four months, bat produced
no perceptible eject ON upper or its satel-
tips. The mass Of the comes is so small
that Il Is supposed that the collision Of one
with the earth, even ct the tref endous speed
at which it moves, would pre- lace no per-
ceptibis shock 70 our system The matter
Of the tails is 90 attenuated - not to be COM
parable to our atmosphere, anil the faintest
stars are secn distinctly throu h thousands
ofEmiles Of this nebulous matter In Is
Of them the bodies themselves seem but a
little moro substantial than the tails SO that
if collision should occur there is no great
reason to suppose that things generally would
DO smashed by the force Of the contact.
Those who are disposed to terrible appre-
tensions, however, cannot fail to find much
comfort in the comet II may be composd
Iof some gas, the mixture of which with our
AIR would render respiration uncomfortable
or impossible, and 80 smother US ell together.
Or 1T may be composed Of some highly in
fiammable gas, the FIRST contact of which
with the atmosphere shall set all things a.
blaze, and reduce vegetable and animal exis-
tence to their original elements in twink
ling. Nobody can say positively that such
is not to be the manner of the final conilagra-
ton which has been so many times predicted.
We are apt to comfort ourselves with the
idea that the world 10 to stand till the great
brobblems Of human society and govern
| ment shall have some worthiers solution but
our world is Tut small part of the universe,
and the great scheme of the whole may not
depend for ito completion upon the perfec
| ton of so small q matter as that of human
existence on this planet There is no good
reason in tho past history Of this globe or
others, SO far as they are known, to preclude
the belief that the comet may strike and
make the ''crack of DOOM if anybody in
clines to that opinion. Most certainly the
spectacle would be one Of stupendous gran
deur and ma gniicence-and why should it
be dreaded by those who believe that our
present life is but the portal to higher and
nobler existence-with free range, perhaps,
of the solar system and "the milky way =
But truce to such agreeable anticipations
and we end as we began with verse from
Holmes
And what would happen to the land,
And how would look the sea,
II in the bearded devils path
Our earth should chance to be?
Full hot and high the sea would boil
Full rcd the forest CLEAN;
Methought saw and heard it all
In q dyspeptic dreaml'
The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1858-10-19

A FLEA UNDER MIcRosooPE-Whe a
flea is made to appear as large as an eie-
plant, we can see all the wonderful parts
of its formation, and are astonished to find
that it has coat Of armor much more com
plete than ever warrior wore, and composed
of strong polished plates fitted over each
other each plate covered. like II tortoise shell,
and where they meet, hundreds of strong
quilts project like those on the back of
hedge hog or porcupine There are the ar.
ched neck, the bright eyes, the transparent
cases, piercers to puncturc the skin, suck
er to draw away the blood, six long iointed
legs, four Of which are folded on the breast,
all ready at any moment 10 be thrown out
with tremendous force for that jump which
bothers one when they want to catch him,
and on each leg hooked claws to enable him
to cling to whatever he lights upon. A flea
can jump hundred times its own length,
which is the same as if man jumped to
the height of seven hundred feet, and he can
draw load two hundred times his weight
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