The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1859-01-25

The Post-Ofice Committee sgreed in general
terms to abolish the franking privileges and to
substitute stamps, allowing one hundred dollars
for each member, and that the department.
Of the general government should be furnished
with stamps in lieu of their present Thanking
privilege. The mode of advertising mail lettings
to be SO changed that hereafter the transmission
of mails are alone to be contracted for.
They have courts of justice at Honolulu. Re-
cent advices from that place inform us that q
medical quack from the United States, was sen
fenced to five years hard labor, for causing the
death Of native by malpractice. Served him
right.
The Davenport News of Wednesday last re-
lates the following anecdote Of the Rev. G. F.
Msgoun, whom it styles with all due reverence
specimen brick" On Sunday last he had
engagements to preach three sermons in Iowa
City, in three different churches, and to lecture
on Monday evening before the Literary Society
Of that place. On going to take the cars on the
n. l. N. r. r., Saturday evening, to his conster-
nation he found that no evening trains 20 to
Iowa City. But nothing daunted, he showed
his pluck BY chartering a special locomotive at
. cost of $27, to put him through to meet en-
gagements He was to receive $25 for his lee
ture. This makes him 81 out of pocket.
Three men arrived here yesterday en route for
Prairie du Chen. They left that place some
time since in q sleigh, came all the way down
the river on the ice-went around to Galena,
and are now travelling ho.neward on the same
highway Dubuque Express.
The Council Bluffs Bugle, Of the 18th inst,
says the house and all that it contained belong
ing to Jesse Shoemaker, Of Silver Creek, was
entirely destroyed by FIRE on the lst inst. Mr..
ia harN inc m nd ia
keenly felt. Loss about 81 500, with no insur-
ance.
At Liverpool, England, last month, August
Wilhelm, surgeon. was found guilty OF mur-
der, in causing the death Of female by an
attempt to procure an abortion, and was sem
fenced to be hanged.
The Scientific American states that phenate
Of soda, Of one degree of strength, will effect
ually extermiuate bedbugs, aeas and flies.
A CUBAN LADY's OPINION OF THE PURCHASE
OF CuBA-AxERIcAN GEEr.EAAN iplayfully)-
Do you know Madam, that next year / shall
have the pleasure Of calling you fellow citizen
of mine
CUBAN LADY Indignantly Was
there ever SO unprincipled a nationg Because
thing suits you, you think you have right to
steal it, ,y
Aurr,c.s GESTLENAN-Oh, no, Madaml We
SoD,, nesn 10 s,,. al it; We propose 10 buy it.
CUBAN LADY-Ha, al Mna1, you guy Ou-
ba? Why you cannot BY you' own &oun'
Vernon!-(N. Y. Post.
Tho people Of Polk County are ca.'ed upon
to vote on the 18th of February, whether OF
not they will authorize the issuing Of county
bonds to the amount Of CSC, 900, for the pur-
chase Of the two bridges across the river in the
town Of Des Moines, and the erection of anoth-
er across the Coon, in the same town.
QUERr.-An inquisitive individual reading
the advertisements in newspaper. found in one
column the announcement of "Dr. Hollands
Bitter Sweet" and in another "Holland Bit
ters," and wished to know If both are BY the
same person?