The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1859-02-01

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honor Of the Norfolk martyrs. which took place
recently, makes, in the advertising columns OF
The Press, an appeal for assistance to purchase
his freedom and that OF his wife and two chill
dren.
UNExPEcTED RESULT OF ELoouENcE.-Ger-
man Clergyman BY way Of giving point 10 .
eulogy Oi dead man Ut funeral, declared
that his own experience would prove that the
defunct was the most generous Of men, as he
Dad long ago borrowed forty dollars OF him, OF
which to his dying day he had never asked the
payment. OF the debt thus acknowledged be-
fore witnesses, however, the heirs the next day
demanded the payment with interest!
EGFEcrs or ExrREAE CoLD.-The Salem
Mass Register says that during the late cold
epell the earth and ice cracked frequently with .
| loud report, and in one instance large linden
tree on Oliver street VAS split from be roots
| TO the top of the trunk, with an explosion like
| piece OF ordinance.
The screw Of the steamship Saxonia was de
stroyed on the 18th inst, while on the dry
docks iD the East River, New York, the intense
cold causing il 70 crack in several places.
| General Scot, was robbed Of his overcoat By
couple Of clever rascals at the St. Charles
New Orleans, last week As he vas going uI
the s,airs. surrounded by a crowd. two indivi
duals insisted upon relieving him Of his over
coat Gracefully he consented, supposing tha
the act was only part Of the hospitality which
had been offered him but unfortunately h,
has heard nothing since OF his supposed ad
mirers or his overcoat, and has had TO pIocur
| another.
/ DrABoLrcAL OUrRAGE-Three Young men
named George Stewart, VILLAIN Elliott nn,
Elijah Hall, were arrested on yesterday ant
brought before Justice Francis, charged, each .
them, with committing N outrage on Sunda
night upon . Mrs Isaac Hbbs, living in th
Fourth Ward. The case as IL stated is a mos
revolving one. it appears that the husband Q
the woman was beaten aud driven from III
koule while each in turn stood at the doc
with an axe preventing MIN from returning an
rendering his wife any assistance against the q
sanlts Of the others. A daughter aged seven
teen WAS badly injured BY being struck with
bottle and by being iorciby thrown upon III
door, but she finally made her escape. tn
case il s@t for hearing on "Wednesday, Stewa'
and Elliott having given bail in the sum I
x1UVO. Hall is in iail-Springfeld llli.) Jour
nal.
In q speech in New York, ,ihr other evenin,
Rev. Scndder, the ilindoatan missionary, sal
that the home OF American PantheIsts was !
Boston Pan, n,hei-m 10 tie belief Of the Hlnd0'
and he could point TO the original Sanscrit stan
z.s from = h.ch those cclebratsd ones, cntitte
"Brahma," BY Elm. rscn, were taken.
Jenny Lind Godschmidt has renewed b.
l4.se Of her r.sdencr Al Wimbledon, E glsn,
for number q sesr-. and y announce . san
10 the philharmonic concrrt. VI Liverpool
Il IL understood iha, Mr. Richard X. Cfslle
Virginia, has In preparation an elaborate hies
| raphy OF John G Calhoun. founded on his pr
, vate papers and other authentic materials. n
Cs1lls u editor Of the six voumes Of Calhoun
works, published b. the Applrtons.
The records Of the weather at Montreal sho
! that The four days. from January 9th 10 l2,h, /
/ e~,hes, form the cold~st period for ~ wears !
4. u Martin. neg Montreal. on the 10Th, Il
-psri. thermometer marked ~, 8 degress bsla
Zoso.