The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1859-04-12

duh at 81 $50 o 90 per 100 lis.
WHEAT-salss At 81 4e@l AZ for winter red.
| RYE-Dn. Sales S6GlsS.
BARLEY-Sales 5000 bush at IS.
CORN-sales loo bush At S60s7 for mixed We
OArs-ouiet. Sales at ss0s4 for ssa4e, Western an
Canadian.
PORK-sales Of 5000 bills new mess At OF Is; oil
do ~ 81, si2 6o0sls Is for prime.
BACON-Quet.
BEEF-Prime mess 17021.
BEEF HAMS-steady.
OUT MEATs-salss 1000 pkgs s10ex for shoulders
S(19k for hams.
DRESSED HOGS-S0sk.
LARD-Firm ct llA0iix.
| BUrTER-ln moderate demand at 1001Sc for Obi
14124 for State.
ChEEsE--Steady At soil.
WHlSKEf-Quiet at 70.
| FIFTEEN THOUSAND MAJORITY IN MICHIGAN
The election returns from Michigan are Of tn,
most fAttering character and Indicate Repub
| lican majority of $4,000. The Detroit Adyer
tiser. in view of the result, remarks:
The Republicans have effeetualy wiped on
| the reproach cast upon it by portion of tn,
Republican press for the diminished majority
| they gave last fall, and have significantly re
| buked the insulting sneers with which the re
suit was greeted by the doughfscc organs. TIL,
subservient demagogues will probably be NOR,
| sparng Of their taunts hereafter.
There are now many men in San Francisco
whose families in a state Of dee titution, who
q few years ago, were worth hundreds of thou
sands of dollars. Speculation in real estat.
ruined them. One family that were intensely
aristocratic during the Inflated days, now keeE
boarders, and take in washing.
A man named Gait, 10 Cincinnati, recently
married a mute, and some curiosity was excited
| by the fact of his marrying u woman who coulC
| not speak, and constable asked him the cause
| OF his doing so. Gait answered that he had two
| wives already, and that they gave him no resi-
by reason OF their talking necessarily, and com
planning and scolding from morning till night
Both had died and now, as he was forty years
old, and DESTROYS of having little peace for the
remainder of his life, he had determined to SEE
lect dumb woman.
Mr.. Perry, ex Secretary of the United States
Legation at Madrid, who is married to "A Span
ish lady and settled in Spain, has proposed to
the Government to lay down a teleg raphic cable
between Spain and Cuba; and he proposes that
it shall touch the Canaries, Porto Rico, and
some other places.
The curious nomenclature of the towns in
Western New York was never better exempli-
fed than by the announcement that Gov Nor
gan has vetoed bill annexDg Italy TO Naples,
such being the name of two townships in the
counties OF Yates and Ontario.
A German named Kraus died in Pittsburgh,
Pa, Jail, a few nights since, passing away SO
quietly that his companions had no adm0nition
OF his departure, and in the morning it was
found that the rats had devoured the greater
part of the unioi tunate mans face.
About a year since, Sarah ] Gould Of Louis
vile, st. Lawrence county, n. Y, school
teacher, was murdered by James f. Eldredge, a
young man who was thought to be engaged to
her in marriage. He was tried and convicted
of the murder, but new trial was ordered,
which was soon to have taken place. But he
died of consumption, in the Canton Jail, on the
oath inst.
THE COMING CROP.-A friend, who, last week,
passed over a large portion of Southern Illinois,
Iowa and Northern Missouri, informs US that he
never saw fairer prospects for wheat and fruit
giving an abundant yield than this year. The
fields OF whit wheat we in advanced growth,
tie wheat already having grown about an inch,
and being very thick and healthy. The peach
crop was about budding. showing already the
coier of the blossoms. All reports give US en-
couraging hopes of boanteous yield fall kinds
OF fruit aud grain in the autumn.-tJoliet True
Democrat.
The Hoe presses built in England for the
London newspaper establishments do not work
well, and will probably be thrown out and their
places be filed with American made machines.
The Messrs. Hoe sent over exact drawings and 4
competent mechanic to attend to the construc-
ton, but the English people denied him admit.
lance to their workshops, and after two years
they have turned out their bungling and unsat-
sfactory machines.
EIoPEMENr.-An estimable lady ~ living on
the East side became disguised with her liege
lord, and eloped few days since in company
with AN accomplished Lothario. Our latest adj
vices are that the husband, armed with pistols
etc., is in hot pursuit. II the guilty pair are
over;aken, there will be an exciting scene. The
absconding party are bound for Pixies Peak
Such cases are getting little too numerous out
Yves, and taking every thing into cousidera-
ton we have abandoned the idea Of marrying
just now.-lDes Moines Citizen.
Charges Of official malfeasanco has been pre-
| ferred against Postmaster Shields Of Brooklyn,
Poweshiek county. The Postmaster at Monte.
Emma has been assigned the responsibility Of in.
vestigsting the facts.
| The notorious slave trader Lamar, hearing
that gentleman in Savannah, a Mr.. Hazard OF
| Providence, had written letter to a paper in
that city describing the scene at the sale Of the
ackno ledgement OF the authorship Of the letter
| in question, struck him in the face, and order
ed TO leave the city by the next train.
| A girl employed in the family of William
| Leach, three miles and halt northwest OF this
| city, committed suicide on Saturday evening
| by taking poison. Her name was Parmelia Stew
art, and she was about Is years Of age. Her
| father came TO this cly some two years ago
/ g. aka md hia6
after his arrival. Her mother is also dead, but
her step. mother resides in Bl0omington.-De-
corah Gazette.
We missed the Coach the other morning
when we desired to start to Burlington, and un
| dertook 10 foot it to the cars The distance be
| ing less, aud desiring to see how the work or
the Railroad between here and Agency wal
getting on, we took the route along the line Of
| that Improvement, and were gratited to find &C
much more work done than We had been led "a
expect. So fas as we could judge more thar
half OF all the work. grading, masonry and
| bridging is done. Some 20Osmen, We were told
are ut work About all the culverts are COM
pleted, and the large quantities of dressed stone
and timbers on the ground, indicate an early
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Courier.
PoLIrIcAL DowxvALL.-While caucus waa
in session in the dining room Of the Commerce
c,al Hotel. Saratoga, N. T.. on Saturday even
| ing last, the floor gave way, precipitating about
one hundred persons distance Of nine feet
into the cellar, and mixing them promiscuously
with the wreck Of boards, timber &C., below
Several persons received bruises, and one man
| by the name of Mcclure, had one OF Two rib
broken. The dining tables on which were piled
dishes sufficient for seventy persons went dowr
with the crowd, smashing the crockery into ,
thousand fragments.
= CEDAR Bishop Lee, Of the Episcopa
Church. was at this place on the Gosh ultimo
| The Bishop confirmed nine persons, and NJ
w. y. Lloyd was admitted to ths holy order Q
lDoacon.