The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1858-09-14

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eeereepohdens Of lie New Yoek Tribune wife
Il On, ted that funeral procession Of Nor
mons is rarely seen. There 10 hearse Ia the
} city, nns y L. seide0 used. The dead are usral.
c0aveyed 70 burial IN carriage, though
sometimes on bier. A gentleman tells me
shat QUE morning while lettering there. he oh.
served grave dug IN the sce Of one az N.
swens OF ground, and shortly alter Jaw Z man
entef the cemetery alone, carrying q tile coffin
On ne shoulder, which he proceeded 10 Z +.
IT,. IL vac she body Of one Of the man,s o.n
children, and she father was too poor 20 aff.,rd
any funeral rites. Ao's
sode out yesterday to the cemetery. II il
1.aased just outside the city wall, on the slope
nlouItain, about mile northeast from
| Brigham foung's house. A cobble stone5 Wall
surrounds IT, like the wall Of FORT B,ideer s.
snose around Brigham's aad Hsber's sauares.-
1ae ground is undulating, and is trAversed BY
vSs ~ Two deep gullies The se 10 parched
s"o tr'aoic, and the only vegetable 10 melan-
c0oiy crop OF weeds, conspicuous among which
are stuntsd sunfowers, whose leaves we're
drooping languidly in the heat Of the forenoon.
There 10 not . tree. nor hardly . shrub to en-
live0 the enclosure, which embraces ten acres.
The disproportion Of deaths Of adults 70 thos.
Of children, which 10 made great subject Of
comment by almost every writer on Marnon;sm
10 especially noticeable. Considerably mors
than half the inscriptions seems to be IN ,hs
memory OF children under four years of ace
Many OF them are marked by headstones en-,
from the same rock from which 10 qusrried the
zone zone ossd Tor building the Temple but four
nisns OF them are indicated onlv bv = ,orsA |
board, on which is scrawled rudeiv Vim -
gu e paint, the name and age Of the deee.ssd
snd line OF poetry or . verse from the R;hl.
among oil the inscriptions did NOT not;c. .
single quotation from the Book OF Mormona
..
g IkisbLk's REcoRp-The Locofocos Of The
,s sass are al IN fever Of virtuous indignation
...s ee DAYS against the high salaries and
sxsravagant expenditures of the present S,.,s
S'~'e
may DC remembered by some of our read.
IA' 'iat the salaries Of the Supreme and Dis
ZIG. Judges were fixed by the Legislature dur
ny tue session OF 1867. And some of our !.
Feaoefs may remember that q meeting of dis.
nguisnsd lawyers was held at the Capitol
3nlcn memorialzed the Legislature in favor of :
s'ares much higher than those finally agreed !
'pon ny the Legislature. The senior editor
icing at the Capitol took occasion to inform
lis readers OF this movement Of distinguished | !,
A~yers, headed by Judge Hall and Judge Love. T.
70 iiustrious leaders OF the present ecopomy. n
owing Democracy of Iowa. We condemned C
DO effort to fix such high salaries aud were de- r
ounced for SO doing in the Democratic organ o
hon published in keokuk. We labored against ii
'rong Influences At head quarters, however, in p
shaf OF our views and the salaries we're finally ct
'duced 40 now provided by statute. W
During that session, II. H. Trimble, then Sen. IN
or and now candidate for Congress, was the 10
ivocate Of the views of the memoriasts on III
70 door Of the Senate. By reference to page TT
-, Senate journal, it will be seen he voted M
tn seven other Senators for fixing the SALARY m
supreme Judges at 81, 500, and, finally, when tw
spite OF his opposition the salaries were re- in
icsd, he offered the following amendment for sa
hich only two Senators voted with him: .Pro uu
ded, that said Judges of the Supreme Court ey
TALL receive for the first years salary the sum tn
THREE THOUSAND DOLLARS EACH" For which II,
nendment and vote, see page 2l2, Senate
urnals. oh
How consistent for the Locofocos to denoupce
9 present high salaries while supporting man
r Congress who struggled most strenuously I'll
favor OF salaries fifty per cent. higher than FIR
ose now paid.-Gats City. N,
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Washington letter-writer lie responsible for ma
g following: 10,
curious story is told here of the Collector 80,
San Francisco. Mr.. B. Washington, one of The
. Twins appointments, and one OF the "chiv- Fir,
y who SO bitterly contended against Mr. the
chanans nomination. 1t seems that orders gri
re semitic Washington by Secretary Cobb to be,
luce his force, in response to which he re- or,
wed some Of the Oldest and truest friends of uni
President. John Farrell, once OF Pittsburgh, the
GEORGE Is. Porter late of Lancaster, were wal
OF the decapitated. This is, indeed, "a new VIII
y to pay old debts" to
,r --- Ere
WANTED IN iowa few more live men to | nra
q tie places Of fogies, who, under the euise !. !
coavervatism are endeavoring to hold back and
country from that advanced state Of pro- W.,
ss to which it nigh, be fastened. nh
few more 10 take in hand the manufac- At
ing interests and advantages of the West, Tn.
place her in u position of dependence upon tho
own resources, instead of the one of hanger. NV
to the East. r.;
few more TO aid in stirring up the citizens He,
the subject Of railroads, and to assist in him
hing them through in directions where they The
known TO be absolutely necessary to the ron
Mort Of the people and prosperity of the the,
To-.
sadly wanted, more men who will patronise con
~ class OF business in the West which comes w.s
competition with similar kinda at the far inc
~. s ior = lew Genus than said
q localities.
.o;,'.h. .nSss, IN the CULTIVATION OF love
ma
ill., oue enesper ana OF oetier love
. -. 49, " AsI act e.hSranes 10 tnose feet
.,lr in en-. 80 .o' e"s"-Aho' es' acQ'
70 make good butter.
lev more farmers who will give their sons of !
d Engis education, to make them superior ver,
n a. :" "iaa ha pefsons VINO designate Sep
number OF young men to engage in II
hanicsi arts, and thus help to increase the labo
e and slnew OF the country-and q few less use
indulge in professional aspirations when not spre
racterixed by that peculiar fitness which Kim
10 render them sppropria,e.-Des Moines peas
orter. poy
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he Lyons, France, newspapers record the call
"a Q, an Old miEer in that city, of the name ing
'repin, whe has left 5000, 600 Of francs and had
houses at Lyons. So great was his ayarice
!, .hey say, Tor long time before his death, II
,niy disburssd IS csnts day for his food. land
has beqlsthed the whole OF what he pcs mott
ed TO poor widow lady, who, by contract, Gerl
supplied him with Two meals q day for his the
ents. and
most unnatural crime was psrpetratsd by ing
renchmsn, Monday before last, in the town Inc
,togan, Lewis county, N. Y. In the absence Ne
ne other members Of the family, he turned mos
water from Kettle into the mouth Of q anu
PING oaoe, months old, scalding it dread "
:. lie and his present wife have been mar. -,
out few months, and he charges that the Va e Il
10 Legitimate.
Chicago, On the 5th, Richard Grout. a bar Com
er, was fatally stabbed by Martin Barry, that
use ne refused counterfeit bill offered in well
hsnt Tor drink. This 10 the eighth murder dida
ncago in az many months. very
lie Both Annual Fair of the American Inst. ance
opens on the 18th inst, and will continue thin
Oct. goth, in ths Crystal Palace in the city run
ew York. He
and
ably
MARKET pref
goot
Burlington, Monday, pm. Rep
lie river 10 again at . stand with over Eve r,