The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1861-07-20


Council Bluffs where she has friends living
The child was decidedly averse to the arrange
ment, and wanted to 60 home, and the mother
seemed to have repented to some extent, AZ she
waited willingly for her husband to come, and
when he arrived greeted him with excessive fond.
ness After conjugal embrace which she seem.
ed to enjoy much better than he did, she pulled
out six hundred dollars which she had in her
pocket and gave it to him together with the
keys of her trunks, which contained the rest of
the money. He was much more concerned about
the money than he was about her, and more
anxious lest it should get into the newspapers
than he was about either The matter was very
soon made up between them, however and they
took the first train back to Cincinnati The hus.
band was glad to get his five thousand dollars
the child was glad to her father, and the wife
was glad to get homeD again. She got sick of
her folly in very short space Of time, and will
perhaps profit by her experiences. Chicago
1lmes' bsge.s -
The delivery OF slave to his master BY Col.
Cowdin, of the FIRST Massachusetts, regiment at
Washington has created considerable excitement
among the troops. 1t is alleged that the master
had no papers by which he could legally claim
him.
Among the goods destroyed by the late terri.
BILE fire in London were l7,764 bales of India
cotton.
PROPERLY PUAlsHED.-On Saturday evening
as the express train of the Louisville, New Al
bany and Chicago Railroad was passing through
piece Of forest short distance below Craw.
louisville, Ind, man was detected throwing
stones at the cars The train was stopped, the
offender chased and captured. taken on board,
and badly whipped with piece of board. At
Charlottesville he was released Louisville
Journal @ $50
The RIGHT SPIRIT Yesterday as lady of
this city in company with two or three friends
from the country, who were not strong Union,
was passing ont of her front gate, she spoke to
two or three soldiers who stood near. Her
friends asked if she knew these men. She an
swered no. "Why then do you speak to them ?"
Oh" she replied, "they are young soldiers far
from home aud among strangers, and must feel
desolate. "-EHannibal Press.
The late fire In London was inferior only to
"the great fire." Three acres were burnt over,
and property to the amount of at least ten mil
lion dollars destroyed. The buildings were
mostly occupied for commercial purposes and
many of them filled with ship chandlerY. The
stock Of tailow on single wharf was value at
a million dollars. Three acres Of ground were
covered with mass of FIRE, glowing and crack.
ing at white heat like a lake of molten iron
The saltpetre, the tallow, the tar, and the other
combustibles ran blazing into the river until the
very stream appeared to be covered with flames.
Ships were burnt as well as houses, and the
danger to life was almost as great on the Thames
as in the street. The glare Of the conaagration
was not only visible, but strikingly conspicuous,
thirty miles off.
During the storm Monday night last, some
cowardly persons went into the public square at
Hannibal, and sawed down the liberty pole
erected there several years ago. as an ornament
to the Square.-St. Louis News.
A woman with pine in her mouth went to
answer - knock, in Charlotte, Michigan, when
the door was pushed violently open, her pipe
stem driven an inch into her throat, and she died
in agony.
Intelligence arrives from Connecticut that
couple was lately married at the Wooster House,
in Danbury, and stopped there until the next
parlor on account Of the modesty of the bashful
bridegroom. Cause for divorce
From the summit Of Wachusett Mountain,
says the Worcester Transcript, sixty-on bon.
fires we're seen between eight and nine o'clock
on the night Of July 4th.
A. 8. Anderson, an old resident of Quincy,
went out fishing with four of his sons on Monday
evening, and while his attention was withdrawn
fora few moments, two of the boys, aged 9 and
IL years, while wading in the water, stepped
into . hole and were drowned. Their bodies
we're recovered.
MINNESOTA WHEAT CRoP.-From persons who
have travelled through Minnesota we learn that
the present wheat crop in that State promises
fully equal to that OF any previous year-[Mil-
waukee Daily Wisconsin.
CRoPs IN INDIANA-Our farmers are busily
engaged in harvesting their wheat, which from
all the information we can obtain, will be q fair
crop. Hands, we learn, are exceedingly scarce,
and in some cases, ~ per day we're offered with
but few takers
The Vinncennes Sun says the corn crop in that
section will be immense. One farmer offers to
sell his coming crop of one hundred acres, At
fifteen cents per bushel.-[ Lafayette Journal.
The papers say the rebels are in want Of DOW
der and lead. They will have plenty before they
see the end Of the war.
A GooDLT LAND.-A writer, in referring to
the march of Federal troops on Harper's Ferry,
remarks: ''The country through which the
troops are passing is clothed with the richest
yerdure. The country is rolling and picturesque,
and 10 impressed are many OF the northern
troops with the agricultural advantages of the
country, that they have resolved, after the war,
to make Maryland and Virginia their future
home"
A traitor named Taliaferro, lately clerk in
the Navy Department, and son-in-law Of the
expelled Senator Mason, on Thursday thought it
expedient TO retreat to Port Tobacco The
Washington authorities thought it expedient to
capture him, and the steamer James Guy went
in pursuit, taking him and bringing him back
In his pockets were found several letters to
prominent traitors, and plan Of the camps and
defenses In and about Washington. He is in
confinement Y. Tribune.
THr WHEAT HARVEST IN WESTERN VIRGINIA
The wheat harvest has been fairly commenced,
and the golden fields are falling before the stur.
dy Graders The crop is generally frst rate,
though in some fields the wevil and the cheat
have done little damage. The corn and pota'
toes are also doing WE'LL Wheeling (va. Intel
hgsncer. 5a
The #. Dodge Republican says that the mai
between that place and Sioux City has been in
creased 70 Ssmi.weekIy service.
| II II announced that Senator Breckinridge Il
about to make speech against the war. o
course. But while he il about Il, perhaps b
viii explain his dispatch to Montgomery ofIerinl
men from Kentucky to fight for the destruction
Of the Union; and also afford little light o.
| the assertion of his friend 1t Paducah tina
" Breckinridge means Secession" He gill per
! haps also tell % Why the Kentucky traitors ar