The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1859-05-10

children, Of our county, are sowing wheat, oats
making garden, etc. Soae OF our farmers hAv
ing sowed their wheat and oats, are now pre-
pairing their grounds for The corn crop. A grea
deal Of wheat and oats have been sown. Tb,
present indications are that our farmers vii
Cultivate more grain than ever before; theJ
seem determined to cultivate every inch o
ground that they can well attend to.-Winter
81 Aadisonian.
RfTURNED.-Tbe two men who left thi
county some Eve or six weeks ago, en- route To-
Pixies Peak, and hauling with them . han,
cart, have returned home.
They had gone ~ far as $50 miles west o
Council Bluffs, when they met parties raturnin,
from the Peak, who told them such discOuragin.
reports that they resolved TO 60 no further
and, accordingly, turned about and came home
-Winterset MadisOnian.
The Chicago Daily Journal has entered upoi
its sixteenth volume. The editor says that tn,
news was received in Chicago, fifteen year
since, in forty days from Europe, and two hun
dred and fifty hours from New York. Nov
London advices reach that city in ten DAYS, ant
news from New York is received in five minutes
A man in New Orleans, who is victim O
universal bad luck, became 40 depressed il
spirits in consequence, that he would have huns
himself long ago had he not felt sure that the
rope would break.
DISAPPOINTED EMIGRANTs.-A party OF disap
pointed emigrants, who left home on the 2Otl
Of March last, returned on yestetd day. Ate,
proceeding out as far as the Big Blue, their faith
IN the gold mines "gin out" and they took the
back track. Their appearance at Market Square
with their hand cart and cooking utensils at
tracted general attention, and created quite a
Mas a;,x,.,l d.. II
now about starting out, while the more know
ing ones wanted to know il they 'sdidn't have
wives at hum" One OF the returned part ' in
formed US that he would leave Tor the East on
the evening train, having had enough OF the far
West, and that as he had just walked six hun.
dred miles, be intended 10 ride the balance OF
the way. The West was no place for him.-St.
Joe Journal, 29th.
Conversing one day with a fashionable and
pretty belle, the facetons Mr.. Spriggs observed
anat Ladies that lisped wished to be kissed =
The young lady had before spoken unaffectedly.
bu. now replied, Tho I've heard thay."
Mr.. Pullup coming home late "pretty fully. /"
hnds the walking slippery, and exclaims: "
yer very sing lar; whenever water freezes il
anus ir-ireezes with the slip slippery side up;
singular
The amouot of domestic goods sold 10 Boston
since the first os January, BY the heaviest firms
. unprecedentedly large. Probably at no pc
ROD within ten years have their sales reached
% high figure as during the present year
rive OF the most extensive commission houses.
engaged in this department OF business, have
disposed OF goods amounting in the aggregate
o about nine millions ct dollars during the past
our months.
A PosER-It is not proper FOR you to play
'chool to day, dear, for il is Sunday"
IN playing"
Miss Fanny !. Yates, piece of the President.
md occupying almost the position of an adop,ed
Laughter TO him, died last week at water cure
n Cleveland, Ohio
simultaneously with the rumored negotiations
between Buchanan and Douglas, at Washing
on, remarkably frateFnal state of feeling has
'fohen out between the organs of these two
nagnates, IN Illinois. The Buchanan paper at
>h'cago declares It's READINGS to support Doug
a., II nominated at Charleston. and the IL ding
douglas organ at Springfield, gives like pledge
o regard to Buchanan.
Inc campaigns in pro ,ress in Kentucky and
Iirglnia seem to be sckly John Letcher. the
Democratic candidate for Governor in Virginia.
seriously i'll. Linn Boyd, Democratic cand,-
ate tor Lieutenant Governor OF Kentucky. is i'll.
oshua I. Bell, Opposition candidate for Gov
rnor OF Kentucky, is sick.
An exchange says large East India proper-
es have fallen to young Cincinnatian, Mr..
IN. frevost Edmeston, and his sister, a mar
ed lady, residing in Keokuk. relative of
II. Edmeston formerly resided in Cincinnati.
no oied seized OF the property in question.
Sam Houston is said to be about to try ano-
Ter race iQr the Governorship OF Texas, agains.
uhheiis, the present incumbent, who is the |
lucus candidate Of the Democracy. Perhaps I
Will have better luck this time.
An Indian has been discovered in California
70 ieet ana hall, high, and weighing only /
seventeen pounds" being mere skeleton, +
1t IN good health and lively. This il supposed
be the yertable "Lo, the poor Indian"
The little son of Mr.. S. Earl, of New London.
aron County, a few days since. placed h,s
outh to the spout OF tea-kettle filed with
'illn2 water, and drank a swallow He sur
yea, IN great agony, till the next day.
SIcKLEs' ESCORT HoME.-The New York
'ening Post OF SATURDAY saws:
we learn from reliable authority that Gen.
al William Mulligan, in command of a small
my OF shonider-htters, pot-house hullies and
lcy men, goes on to Washington hy this
eninss train to escort Mr.. Sckles back
through Baltimore" next Sunday, on his tri.
lphal return to this city.
The Mnscatine Journal says that the farmers
ihat county have got along finely in their
TX. Last week they had about finished SOW I
wheat, AMI commenced blowing Tor corn - !
me wheat sowed several weeks ago is already Z
and growing finely. The prospects for good {
Ups TINS year are exceedingly fattering.
BANK BROKEN OPEN.-The Bank OF Dekey 4 ,
at Pennington was broken open on SUNDAY
snlng last, and robbed of currency, drafts ,
les, ETC., to the amount of about S.. 5000
OILS taken from blackamith's shop were en-
yeu 10 Iorce an entrance, and the safe was r
wn open with powder. The villains made
an work, taking every thing of value in the
TX, together with some untitled and useless
'er.-L Keokuk Gate City.
,ENsUs OF NASHVILLE, TESx.-A census of p
city Of Nashville, lately taken, gives the fol. b
ing results: The population OF the CITY nro- 5
is 25,ll3-of which 1928 are whites Il
'51 males and 6,97l females, 1885 blacks d
whom l,75S are free. The population Of the
oros Is $500, making total of 3l,Sl3.- 5
manufactures OF the city reach S2,374.7OO:
TOTAL trade exclusive oil manufactures. il "
,4i6,Sl2. About one hundred steamboats, sa
the port during year, with an aggregate fe
aage OF 100000. OF
here are l6 Protestant Churches. with
n6ership Of 1885, besides five African
rches with 600 members. The Catholic mem i,
ship is 1000. ~
oUIsA CouNTY.-The Columbus CITY Enter. n
estimates the number of acres Of wheat 10
q IN that township at 5000. The prosnects a.
. good crop are fattering. n,
company OF seventeen citizens of Columbus Ia,
) including one woman and two children
led on Thursday last for Pixies Peal. Sir 40
even others are expected to 20 soon also ne
raj companies from other parts OF the fo
nty. ~
'me years ago, Dr. Webb, a well known nhy.
q IN Windham, Conn, committed suicide
angihs himself in the stable where be kent -
.orse. tie was succeeded in his practice by =.
who kept his horse in the same a. -.
9, ana once remarked to a friend, II seem 80
e hlm hanging there every time 60 into a. a.
BARN short time afterwards DR.. T. HING VI
ell in the same place. These are two cases =
u dozen suicides within as many wears in "
own OF WyEdham. pa
= Gu
is said on recent occasion Prince Jerome IA,
upon his immortal nenhaw a. 49, TN, ~