The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1858-08-24
Gen. Maximo Jerez. the new plenipotentiary

Gen. Maximo Jerez, the new plenipotentia
| Of Nicaragua accredited to Washington, con
| manded the Nicaraguan forces who committ'
the outrage on the residence Of the Amer
can minister at Granada in October, lS5
and perpetrated the cold-blooded murd
Of two American missionaries and a merchan
with violation Of the daughter Of one Of u
former. He ought to have cordial reception
A few stale eggs wouldn't be bad.
A wedding came off in New Bedford recent
between a colored gentleman and white lad
who il respectfully connec ed.-The groom hi
white blood flowing in his veins, and claims n
less parsonage than the President Of the Tn
ted States, whose name he bears, as his patterns
ancestor.
It 10 proposed to erect monument to Cap
John Smith at jamestown, Va. II all the John
will contribute, the thing can be done withou
calling on outsiders.
Tie police of New York having found tina
the obscene sheet entitled "Venus' Miscellany,
which they congratulated themselves on havin
broken up last summer, was still published
traced out the Office last Tuesday, arrested tn
printers, and seized 5000 copies which the.
proceeded to burn on Wednesday.
An additional amount Of $4,000 Of claim
Stone l. Co, making the whole indebtedness
amount to about So, 100000.
Five infants born in the Jersey City aims
house within two months all died there on Fri
day afternoon between and o'clock, ant
we're buried in one casket. 1t is not doubted
that they were drugged, but perhaps undesignl
edly by some Of the persons who called to sst
them.
HUNG HrxsELy.-Enoch Wright, Of Farmer,
Creek township, hung himself on the 3lst ult
When found, life was extinct, the knees near
the ground, the beam from which he was sus-
pended not being bigh enough to allow him to
swing at ulllength. Pecuniary embarrassment
is supposed to have been the cause which led to
the rash act.-Maquoketa Excelsior.
Pump Carpenter is decided original, and he
has some new ideas on political economy. He
says that the Democracy are going to ignore all
take their stand on the Cincinnati
platform, and ''restore general prosperity, ana
q fair price for wheat to tie farmers Of Wiseon-
sin"
The Missouri Democrat, referring to the jubi.
lation of the Washington office.holders over the
defeat Of Frank Blair, and their proclamation,
that the news from st. Louis was the first gun
Of the political contest just commencing, says:
ITO the first gun they are welcome, and to oil
The advantage is may give them; but if we don't
ire the last gun, and that over the bows of the
dsmantled, surrendered Administration ship,
then may we be visited with unending dishonor
and reproach."
According to the latest version Of the Riverie
affair in the Savannah papers, the difficulty be-
tween Col. Blount and the Zouave+had been
'honorably ard satisfactorily adjusted" How
much this may mean is left to conjecture. Col.
Blount had previously wi hdrawn his complaints
against Riverie and consented to his release. It
. rumored that the Count proposes to procure
! divorce from the wife that he has abandoned,
md then to marry the romantic Miss. B.
General Tom Thumb has made his debut as
character singer at the Alhambra, London. He
'ang several songs and was very well received,
especially in "BoDbin' Around = and his dan
ling, which was really very clever, was received
With immense applause.
A barn in Swampscott, Mass, was struck by
lightning on Friday afternoon, and burned, to-.
yether with the celebrated mare Lady Suffolk,
Talued at $4,000.
Prof. Buckmar, An Englishman, who has in
crested himself in this matter, discovered, by
,areinl examination, 1000 weed seeds in pint
'f clover seed in pint Of Congress seed, 12,-
800 ; in broad clover, 39,440, and two pints of
Dutch clover seed yielded seyerally 25,56O and
10, 400 weed seeds.
Mr.. John A. Washington, who now owns Mt
Vernon and the remains of Washington, has no
lrop Of Washington blood flowing in his veins.
the nearest relationship he can claim 10 that Of
grand nephew.
A knitting machine has just been invented by
! genius in Seneca county, n. Y. One of the
editors of the Syracuse Journsl saw the machine
knit perfect stocking, in less than FIVE min
ties.
A soldier at Lucknow, digging among some
rubbish threw up dirty looking box, that he
was about to cover up again in his search fer
more valuable plunder, but concluded to open
3, when to his astonshed eyes were revealed q
of rubies, diamonds and other pre-
,ious stones Of the value Of lo0,o rubleS.
When Douglas was at Naples. day before yes;
for liquor and paid the treat. Generally be was
With, '.Mais,er Douglas, and I'll
vote Tor ye." But one old fellow took his glass
and said, "Maister Douglas, Ill take your liquor,
but Ill be damned if don't vote for Old Buck.
"RuSNING" JCHuRcHEs.-A man sitting upon
the verandah OF an up-country inn, hailed tone
VI tAG OiAcot iHHhDltduls, anu luuulTCu tue ut-
aomination OF the church upon the opposite
was Baptist natrally, but they don't run her
now"
Ir THY HAND OFFEND THEE, CUT 1T oFF.-A
LADY CUTTING HER HAND oyF.-Mrs. Chadwick,
wife of Mr.. Geo. Chadwick, of Peekskill Hol-
low, who 10 said to have been laboriAg under
intense religious excitement, cut off her hand
Nhaa all Ia,
She had recently been heard to say, "If thy
right hand offend thee, cut it of, J" and in mis-
taken compliance with the letter Of this text she
cut her hand of, inficting serious and proba-
bly, fatal wound.
A little boy, six years old, was poisoned to
death in Falrbank, Buchanan county, last week,
by tasting Of the contents of jar that had been
thrown out of drug store.
A man who is tired Of waiting for the QueeL's
message perpetrates the following -" Why Is
a COW like a baby!" because one drinks
water and makes milk, and the other
doesn't.
A woman residing at St. Marys, c. w., OBJ
served drunken man coming up to the toll
gate with a club in his hand, with which he
made after and struck boy /; no doubt believ
ing he was going to murder the boy, she utter
ed cry and rushed to his rescue, but had only
proceeded a few yards when she fell upon the
ground and expired.
ELECTORAL VorE FOR lS6o.-The electora
vote for 1856 consisted of 296 votes. The ad
mission Of Minnesota will increase that number
to 500, and should Kansas and Oregon be ad-
mitted, the entire vote will be 500, requiring
l54 for a choice of President. OF this 300
there will be l20 from the slaveholdng States
and 1856 from the non slaveholding States. Ii
the Charleston (Democratic) Convention, un-
der the two thirds rule, it will require 204 vote
to make nomination. 1t wi require 81 North
ern votes, even with the united South, to max
a nomination.
HORRIBLE MURDER IN CHIcAGo.-From tn
Chicago papers we have the particulars Of
cold bloodsd murder in that city on Friday last
A man by the name Of Busch, who is son Q
one of the wealth:est citizens OF Chicago, sho
q ionrneyman carpenter named Magee while b
was engaged in his work. There was no pro
vocation whatever for this cruel deed other tha
that Magee, in obedience to his employer, wa
pulling off boards from building belonging I
young Busch's father, in order to erect the wall
Of another building next to it. Busch was i'm
mediately arrested, and savagely remarked ths
it was well he was taken so soon, else ther
would have been four other dead men," II
will probably be made TO swing 40 he just
merits.
INTERNATIONAL CoURTEsIEs-The fourth