The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1861-03-16
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Mr. George R Brainard has retired from the
Magnolia, Harrison County, Rspublican. Mus
grove and striss ars shs new editors and pro-
prietors.
SCANDAL CAsE.-We have been informed that
i . certain Reverend gentleman in this county, IL
| under Church arraignment for criminal intima-
cy with tho fair sex. If Ministers are vsent, !"
! as Is alleged, it Is thought that community
would DO safer If invalids, instead of robust
men, were commissioned. The frequency Of
these acts among Clergymen, are painfully com
mon in these latter days The Church does not
exercise enough discretion, In comforting upon
men the Rev title A Minister. should have
purity of mind and = cultivated and refined ma
ture. Lazy, pot-belied ignoramuses, whose faith
is bigotry, aud who generally have reputation
for being sharp, in = :" sermon or horse trade, "
are unfit for the sanctity of any freside.-Afton
Reville. 9s 0oiiE
! A Brr or RoxAscE.-A newly married couple,
of Teutonic extraction, came into . store for
the purpose Of buying the necessary articles for
housekeeping. After purchasing dishes, knives
| and foaks, coffee mill, &c. and "et set cry" ia
cob looked around, and observing grain cradle,
| he asked" Vat is de brice of de grader" The
rcd checked little spouse did not see the useful
i farming implement, ard when her liege lord
asked the question, she turned around with .
4 blushing face, and exclaimed-"Now Shake
dent pc a fool. you knows we don't want no
Cradle now !"-[Sigourney Democrat
/ The revival in the Methodist Chuech of this
| city, of which we have already spoken, and
which has been going on during the entire winter,
still continues with increased interest The num-
Der who have been added to the Church, up to
this time, we believe, Is about 100. We are
~ Al = H. Is loo,
Of religious interest among the people of this
city and vicinity, ard hope it may continue. -
The Pastor, Rev. F. w. Evans, has been laboiing
un,iringly and almost altogether unassisted in
his ministerial capacity, and it must be source
Of much qualification to him that his labors are
not in vain.-( Muscstine Journal. %
1 ASSAULTED RY BAwpYlTEs. Bradford
of Muscatine was assaulted on Saturday after
| noon by several inmates of bawdy house near
| that city He was severely injured by the cut
of an axe inflicted by one of the males of the
establishment, and by dagger in the hands of
one of the other sex. Were it not for timely
interference, he would have been killed. The
Journal very properly recommends the cleaning
| out of such an establishment.
| HORSE PREMIUMS The Davenport News says
that the Scott County Agricultural Society offers
a premium of 800 for the best horse exhibited
at the next County Fair and $50 for the second
| best.
A SINGULAR DEArH.-Last evening, soon after
dark, a man drove up in an open buggy, to the
door Of the Julien House, and asked permission
| to stay all night. He was told he could do so,
| and the hostler was summoned to take care of
! his horse. The man went out to his buggy and
| then returned, saying he had sick man with
him and that he was asleep; that he could not
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him into the house. Servants were sent out to
help him, and after considerable labor, for the
man was heavy, the sick person was got into the
Office of the hotel and seated in chair On
| closer examination it was found that the man
was stone dead and cold. A doctor was hastily
| sent for. DR.. McCluer responded to the call,
and pronounced him dead Of the decease of the
heart.
| The young man who drove the horse stated
the deceased to be Father Wheeler, the Priest
ofthe Roman Chatholic church, at Belvue, Jack
son county; that they had started from home
that morning to 60 to Galena to purchase paints
to use in the church at Belvue. They we're un.
able to cross the ferry and came to Dubuque in
stead He said Father Wheeler was lively and
apparently in good health until within three.
quarters of an hour of their reaching Dubuque,
when he stopped talking and leaned heavily up
on him. He imagined that he had fallen ASLEEP
and put his arm around him to prevent his be
ing thrown out of the carriage. They had both
partaken of bottle Of wine, which the Father
had brought, on the road, but that, however
was not probably the cause Of the deatl-Dubu
que Times.
ATTEMPTED SuIcIDE.-Last sunday woman
n, med Mrs. j. Thorpe, of English extraction
and living in West Dubuque, attempted to take
her life by cutting her throat with razor. She
went to aneighbor and borrowed the razor, say
ing her husband wanted it to shave with. As il
happened, the woman lent her dull one, which
she took home, and in fit of mania potu, cut
her throat in horrible manner. Medical as
sistance was sent for and at last accounts she
lay in semi. unconscious state, and cannot live
long.-Dubuque Herald.
The ice left the river Sunday, a. m. In the
afternoon the ferry boat Peosta commenced hel
trips and is now running with all the ease and re
gularity of midsummer. The river is clear O
ice, and as far as the eye can reach is in good
boatable condition. We may now look for ar
arrival from below at any moment Dubuqu,
Herald, 18th inst. @