The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1858-08-24

. "Children's Table Of the Knickerbocker. II
has the merit Of being strictly true:
q A little girl. day or two since, said my lit
lie grandmother II living, bu. my great grand
mother il dead and gonet ~ heaven; bu. then
shall see her thers.s A LADY visitor asked her
, how she would know her departed relative, see
ing they hsd never met on earth. "0n,' WAS
the ready reply, y suppose COP will introduce
uss"
A party Of four persons was drowned by the
} upsctting Of boat in the harbor Of Thomsst0n,
Ne on Saturday. They were two brothers Gil
christ, Miss Mary Flinton, to whom one OF the
brothers was 10 have been married the next day,
and Scoschman named McVicker. The father
OF the young lady saw the accident from the
shore, but could give no assistance.
In Humphrey Marshals district XVI which
elected HIM BY l,lO6 majority last year, the
America. candidate for state treasurer has
majority this year OF only Al; and in Gays dis.
trct the democratic candidate has majority of
| only rs.
The inhabitants Of Kingston, Jamaica, have
held public meeting to petition the Queen not
to withdraw the Cuban squadron, and to make
some arrangements with the United States gov
/ eminent for the suppression OF the slave trade.
1 Two women, Miss Cross and her servant,
i living on the eastern shore of Staten Island,
near the New York quarantine ground, have
| died OF yellow fever.
/ Gen William Walker 10 now in Alabama, he
| having left New Orleans on the 9th for Mont.
| gomery. The story, therefore, of his being in
| Sonora must be false.
The Washington Union declares with great
| indignation that the letter Of the president to
w. II. English, recently published, is forgery.
But the New Albany, Ind, Tribune, which first
published it, insists that it 10 substantially the
/ AZ -
nominated English, and although 1t is no, a yer.
| batim copy, its main points and phrases have
| been faithfully reproduced. The only way to
/ get alta satisfactory decision of this matter is to
| publish the presidents letter from the manu-
| script, just as it was read at the convention.
Let US have it by all means
| Woodford Taylor was brutaliy murdered in
| his own house at Gordonsyille, Va, on the
| night OF the lst inst. Three persons have been
| committed to Jail charged with the murder-a
slave named Frank belonging to A. A. Boston,
a tree man named Bushrod Jackson, and the
wife Of the unfortunate victim. While putting
irons upon one of his slaves, Constant Metaneon
of st. James $. G., was knocked down and kill
ed by the slave with smiths hammer On
being pursued, the slave run into the river and
drowned himself.
From appearances, Samuel L Cooper of Sa-
lem, n. J., will be adjudged as heir to the Jen-
nings eastate; and will receive 81 900, 600. The
services Of Sir Fitzroy Kelly, 'the most eminent
man at the British bar" have been secured for
the New Jersey claimants, and his opinion is
that "the case is theirs"
A Mr.. Abel Matthews announces in the Lon
don papers that he will recite throughout, from
memory alone, the twelve books of Millions Par.
adse Lost, comprising ten thousand five hun
dred and sixty five lines.
little son of Judge Donaldson, in Montezu.
ma, indiana, was bitten on the BY spider
while sleeping in cradle. The arm swelled
rapidly, Inflammation spread to other parts of
the body, and the second day after the injury
the child died.
very destructive storm passed over par,
of Meeker county, Minnesota. on the 31st ult
Hail-stones measuring twelve inches in clrcum-
ference fell in large quantities, nearly covering
the ground. Crops were almost entirely de-
stroyed. Extensive fields of wheat and corn
that looked beautifully and promised an album
dant harvest, were cut in pieces and leveled to
the ground. Windows were broken. and cattle
that were feeding on the prairie suffered much
from the severe pelting they received.
COLUMBUS ClrY.-The question of removing
the county seat from Wapello to Columbus
City is to be submitted to the voters of Louisa |
County at the October election.
BoDY OF GIRL FouND.-A letter written |
from Manchester, Iowa, under the date Of the
9th, to the Dubuque Herald. saws :-"Oar rsu.
ally quiet town was thrown into a state Of in
tense excitement on Sunday last, by the finding
OF the body Of Miss Catharine Gill, (who had
been missing since the Thursday preceding,1 in
the Maqnoqueta. about one mile below our
town. The body when found was perfectly
nude. Nerdct--dcath by drowning"
SAD Occurrence The Cedar Valley Times
states, that John Brennenan and Richard r.
Bae", the former Il years of are and the lat
ter II, we're drowned in Cedar River on Sun
dag, the sth inst. Mr. Lehr, in enaeavoring
10 save Breuneman. was nearly drowned
I Dung Buck had been persuaded to leave his
mothers side to go in bathing, while she
desired ne should remain and 90 TO
church, as he seemed inclined TO do.
JOHNSON Co.-Df. H. w. Humphrey, aged
about 90 years, committed suicide at Iowa City. ]
on Sunday last. by taking morphine and bran !
ny. Depression OF mind on account OF reverse !
81 fortune IS supposed to have been the cause.
a son OF widow Henry, while fishing on the !
DahA oil the Raiston creek, in Iowa City, was
AIKEN with fit, ana falling in the crock was ;
trowned.-The trial of Philip Clark, Michael .
freeman, Daniel Marshall, George W. Rawson,
md Charles Dove, five of the Is prisoners in q
itcted Tor the murder of Boyd Wilkinson in |
day last commenced at Iowa City on the 10th | \
nst., and is still progressing. 4 jury was not
till Thursday last, after summoning ,
90 jurors.
The Turner Hook and Ladder Fire Company
I burlington came down on the Keokuk, last b,
iohday am, and paid visit to their friends
ere. good Band of Music accompanied q
hem. They fine looking and well drilled
onpany, and their carriage, ladders aud tack VI
hg are all new, neat and substantial. They
al dance at the Turner's Hall in the evening, Il
M every thing went off pleasanty.-Ft Ma
ison Independent. az
l. ~ keitt, in his late speech at WILLIAMSON,
G., isreported to have said = tn
"Ihe democratic party, he thought, was
'under now than it had been for years Ii was
because the South was now the majority in al
at party, and had driven Oft from it numbers
the tainted, tmid and feeble members from co
e North. lie would lot predict, but, in bis
dgment, the black republicans se0,sla ,eta the go
ecfioa IN 1860" lie
The death of Deborah O'Connell, a servant 'o'
81 at Boston, involves suspicious of terrible
me She had been persuaded BY her lover. A
orthtess fellow, to draw her money from the su,
wings bank and entrust it 10 him, ana she ne
on after died suddenly. DR.. jackson found ha
'th phosphorus and arsenic in her stomach pe
q inc coroner found that she died of poison sea
by some person unknown. ra,
Several deaths have occurred in two families WI
Fierce County, Ga, from eating the meat tol
q milk OF cattle afflicted with the murrain ar al'
ack tongue, andseveral other members Of the vii
me families are sick and likely to die from the ro
me cause. rea
Dr. Jared Sparks has just returned from Eu- I
Pc, where be has gathered fresh materials d;a
~ winch to enrich the history on which he is the
gagged. 80
One of the celebrated Fox family-MiSs Mar. can
ret FoX--is to be baptised in the Roman Cath exp
church, Barclay street, Monday next.
y Margaret was one of the Rochester knock.
!, but several years ago separated from the L
I, aud went to complete her education in
iiadeiphia, where she has resided since Mrs. y
'wn and her sister Catharne residein hand. h.,
ne house up town, New York, and are still y
tessed mediums.
he proposition to celebrate the layinp Of tho >
graph cable by a re DEAN in Trinity Clnrch TO