The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-05-07

OUR STATE.
While Peter Stetser, Of Banner Valley,
Linn county, was putting . harrow on q
wagon, on the 18th instant, it fell on him.
and one Of the teeth penetrated his head.
causing his death = few days afterward.
4 DR.. A. b. Lee, Surgeon Of the I'D Infant
~, died at his residence in Iowa CITY. on
Monday last. He had reached his home
only . few days before, on furlough. in
tending to return to the army soon. His
disease was miasmatic fever. The Repvb-
lican pays = high tribute to his worth.-
Davenport Gazette.
The s'creed' and ''rules'' of the new COD.
perhead church 10 published in that IRE.
ligious" and family Newspaper known a.
the Des Moines Stdtesmam. The editor of
the Winterset Flag says, "Let all who
sympathize with the murder Of the limo.
cent. let Ill who delight in treason, all who
love oppression and cruelty, all who hate
liberty. progress and humanity, rush TO
the fold Of this church. The very nends in
hell are gloating over its organization. !"
Pretty strong language, brother Wilson,
but 1t suits W. IF the devil and his imps
ere not pleased with that church organise
ton weshall always think they ought to be.
Two houses were destroyed by fire near
Upton, Iowa, on the 3d. The contents Of
both were entirely consumed. Loss esti-
mated at nearly twelve hundred dollars.
50 says the Upton Advertiser.
The emigration to the gold fields il great
q this spring than Ut any time aimee 1852.
A good many have gone from this vicinity.
-Ttpton advertiser. M s,'-
Messrs. Alexander, McCracken. Phelns.
Allen and Davis, are raising companies at
Fairfield, for the one hundred-dsy mon, :
On Friday last, the wind blew the new
building that is being erected BY Mr.. Tenn
pleton, from it, foundation, and landed it
about four or i've feet from the street. The
ground being level, but little damase xa "a
done. We understand that the proprietor
does not object to the change Of site, though
no doubt he prefers house-movin9 in the
regular way Whedtldnd Times.
The above paragraph we clip from the
Sioux City Register, April %; and in an
other column will be found an article from
the same paper, under the caption of-More
Indian Depredations! Somebody is doing
q heavy business up there toward crushing
out those Indians. The whole thing is q
farce; aud we advise government to call
those "brave" commanders to Washing
ton, and court-martial the whole batch
1t is too costly to court-martisl these chaps
in the west. We can take q barrel of strich-
nine whisky, and the more strichnine the
better, and kill mere Indians with the
"truck than all the troops about Sioux
City.
Thos. Brook, an old resident Of Des
Moines township, came to his death by &C.
cidentally falling out of hia wagon one day
last week. SO says the Keosauqua Repsb-
lic0ss.
Mr.. James McKinlay, Of this place, re-
ceived photographic dispatch yesterday, an
nouncing that his wife, Catharine DeLori-
mier McKinlay, had died suddenly at
Brownsville, Minnesota, where she and her
TWO children were visiting her sister. Mr..
Mckinley had received a letter from her
only the preceding day, the tone Of which
and spirits.-Dw6xque Times.
WITHOUT HoPE.-Faith, Hope and Char
ity, are the three grand pillars Of Christi
cause must indeed be . desperate one.
How is it with our copperhsad friends
Well might they sing:
Plunged in . gulf OF dark despair.
We wretched traitors are;
Cussd AID cu6d and kicked about.
We surely must soon gin eos3.
-Bloom6eld Guard.
CHEATING THE SoLDIERs.-One or two
men q have been around town lately pur-
chasing the certihcates for $50 issued to
the soldiers in Marshall county, for 160 and
then not paying until = return from the
warrants issued on their presentation to
the County Clerk. As they are bringing
now about tllO on the street, the profit is
very great Gen. Baker happened to come
across couple Of these sharks . few days
since and gave them . talking to that made
them quake in their boots. He has taken
the matter in his own hands, and when the
interests OF the soldiers are in The hands Of
Gen. BAKER, they are safe.-Dov. Gazette.
GARDENING "As Is GARDExIre."-As
| there IL probability of failure of crap
| IN the ''sars patch" Of ye local OF the Ha0k-
Eye lin consequences Of the wet we would
INFORM him that we have made ample pro-
vision for tUo, himself included. We've
got regular gay old garden, all sprouted
ana everything growing on the rampage
style. Got potatoes, pothrnips and perma.
tises . test high, and all the other ''t0es, y
"nips," and ''tises," properly sprouted and
decsntly ''dunged ia The hill" sccording to
the most approved style Of tsbook' lafut
kusses," Hoyle Included. Besides which
we have put in THAT means planted, &C.
cording to Hairy Nation dialect, some to-
bacco-plug and 6ne-cut, "a boz Of cigars.
g dozen chalk pipes, and q bottle Of brakes
Plantation. That's the, way We do it-wet
or no vet. = you like our style, step mp.
OsoV"yses~ O@o5u. ayr
! Well. IL we don't like your style, then ~
don't know ourself; and with heart over
flowing and full Of unfeigned thanks We
accept your invitation to, step up" Our
''sars patoh' has '.gin euA y andsin view Of
that .Ast We entered into The biped bus