The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1858-08-10
Only one copy Of the London Times Is no
allowed TO enter France and that il cent TO Lou

10 Only one copy Of the London Times Is nt
e. allowed TO enter France and that il cent TO Lo,
% Napoleon in . sealed envelope.
q Madame Murat has been appointed Vice r
= gent of the Mount Vernon Association for Ela
= ida. She is the grand niece of Washingtt
Q through the Lewiscs. By her marriage VII
ls Achille Murat she became the niece OF Napolec
i the First.
The taxes to be raised in New York this We.
: amount TO eight and half million dollars MOI
than last year. The taxable valuation is Owe
five hundred and thirty one millions, an increas
OF ten and one half millions over last year.
The New York Sun saws that an effor. vi
shortly oe made to get up, in hat city q monste
] company, TO carry out the Paine project OF m,
king gas out of water, which il is claimed, wa
not failure, as generally believed.
. Julius Cesar Hannibal, giving an account Q
bis voyage, says:-"Ail dc passengers was nc,
! heavin', and as 1t dat wasn't enough de Capta
give orders for de ship to heave too, and sh
hove too"
modern tourist calls the Niagara rive
"the pride Of rivers" That pride certainly ha
J q tremendous fall
FACT FOR RAILROAD MEN.-All railroad
running TO fashionable watering places durin,
the summer season are grand trunk lines.
DR.. Syntax is Of opinion that in Cuba III.
i heat OF the weather must be greatly modifie,
alter the introduction of so many Coolies.
Eight thousand conversions among children
were reported by the Methodist Sabbatt
Schools Of the Philadelphia Conference for the
past year.
A conference of the Mormons Of New York
and neishboring States was held at New York
on Sunday, at which satisfaction with the pro
ceedngs OF Governor Cummings was expressed
The publishers Of the Chicago PresseWna
Tribune have determined to issue their paper on
Sunday morning, instead OF Monday.
A slave boy named godfrey was hung at
Mobile, Alabama, on Friday last. His age was
only l3 years. and his crime the killing Of a
child but four years old He split its head open
with a Ratchet because it attempted to get hold
Of the string Of his kite.
There is considerable excitement in Lynn
| IN consequence Of notification by the mayor
TO the bakers that they must deliver no more
baked beans and brown bread upon the Sab
bath, under penalty Of prosecution under the
law gxinsstransacting business upon the Lords
day.
The assessed value Of property in the town
ship in which Davenport is situated, according
TO the valuation Of this year, is $6,757,ll6.
Frank Ringeler. German, thirty-fve years
of age, committed suicide at New Orleans, on
the I'D inst, By taking landanum. He was
victim of disappointed affection The obdura,e
far one" is described as beng twice his age.
weighing 25s pounds, and black as the ace Of
spades.
The Austrian government is getting alarmed
at the extent of German emigration to this
country, and the Frankfort Diet i. endeavoring
70 de'ise means to give check to the depopG-
lating tide.
The Rev. Eleazer Williams, the Bourbon
Prince, is now dangerously sick at Hoganspurg,
Franklin county, New York.
Alme Boupland, the celebrated naturalist and
co la6orer with Humboldt, died near Montevi-
dec IN May last, at the age of 50.
; The County Judge Of Polk county has con-
tracted for the building of new Court House
at Des Moines, which il to cost S64, 900. Ii is
10 be OF the DorIc order Of architecture. sub
sfantially built, and well furnished with every
thlng necessary to the convenience OF the courts
and county officers, and the security of the Re
cords.
duel - announced to take place between
Thomas f. Marshall and Thomas p Porter
they got into quarrel at Versailles. Ky.. on
Tuesday. Porter choked Marshall and Marshall
retorted by challenge.
The college of the Jesuits at Rome is built in
a lite square, where violent wind il ever
blowing. This is the reason Of it. One day |
the wind and the devil were taking a walk in
Rome, and having at last arrived before the |
honse OF the Jesuts, the devil said to the wind. |
: Wait for me here; have word to say with. |
~. lie entered and never again emerged from |
me ~ mouse. Ihe wind is still waiting for him at /
The door.
Robert Barnet, constable Of Allegheny /
,ownship, IA, was found dead BY the roadside
'n wednesday morning, having evidently fall
tn from his wagon and became entanglcd IN
he wheels, and SO dragged about four miles.
BLOODY FGHr AT BARBRcug-We leirn
rom Capt. Henry, Adams L Co.'S Lexington
Messenger, that a bloody fight occurred at n
barbecue in Madison county, some ten miles
rom Richmond, on Monday last, in wbich three
hen were killed, two Of them named Jones.
na TWO named Mullen were mortay wounded,
y one Haisey and his two sons. One Of the
after was arrested in Lexington night before
ast.-Loussllle Journal, July 81
There has been serious outbreak among the
tudents of Leipsc, Germany, who, for some
cry trifllng cause, have risen in open rebellion
gainst the acGdcmical authorities, and have
een carrying their violence so far as to render
necessary to call in the aid, not of the civil
over alone, but Of the military.
A scouEGE REaovED.-The City Physician of
oston, in his last report SAYS:
Ihave only TO reporta single death from small
OK during the year, and there is good reason
hope that for the future the disease will new
: again prevail to any evtent in our city, so .
'ng as vaccination is attended TO SO generally |
J the profession and the people themselves.
During thunder shower that passed over
ewburg, Me-, last week, ten sheer aud some Z
title, belonging to Mr.. James Morrison, were ,
lied by lightning. Nine Of the sheep were
IT standing IN their tracks, and were SO stand, 5
q when found.
Captain Travis, the "great pistol-shot." has q
cen instructinS class OF iorty-fve Young la !
es at Lexington, KY, in the use of the pistol. |
mong them, he says, the most timid became G
lc best shots. With practice they acq1ired
'urace, and ten times out Of twenty they I
ould hit the bulls eye" 2
Considerable alarm is felt by the English and >
merical residents Mt Panama, lest the with
'awal Of the United States naval force from !
9TH sides OF the isthmus, which has been re
ntly ordered, may encourage the natives and
aeks 70 make another attack upon the lives
20 property OF foreign residents and passen |
srs traversing the islhmus. d
There was snow squall on Mount Washing !
u on the night of the 2itt, and the dodgers '
the tip-iop house amused themselves with a
'me OF snow. .balling in the morning. The !
'ols among the rocks were crusted with ice. = 7.
The black tongue has appeared among The :
title in South Carolina. and the disease is said =
be spreading rapidly in every section OF the
'uth. The disease renders the flesh OF the
final very poisonous.
MARROW ESCAPE OF PRESIDENT KING FROM !.
King, OF Columbia Col. 4
&c, narrowly escaped drowning last week, 8
Rocsaway LII, while bathing in the surf i
3 and his brother, Coy. King rode over from !.
maca, after dining at the Pavilion, when the !;
rmer took a bath, and though an expert swim Il
er, he ventured out too far, bu. was rescued 4
a boatman. The boatman in rescuing him.
It knowing his dignity, called him an .,old :
oster,' and rebuked him for going beyond :,
) depth. Il
Mr.. Lincoln Of ILL.,, 10 now in the field, open q
Avowing hostility to the constitution on tie
ounds Of its sustaining the Dred Scott deci
On; would appeal from that decision to q re- ,
lblican caucus, and II elected, and carries out /