The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-08-13

F-SPOAo Ava OeessAs Anu you OOPpoTue0Q
would shout-amen! It's your dirty, Althy
love Of party that hurts you. No Office
no country. That's what's the matter.
AGRICULTURAL COUNTY FA1R.-Smitl
the halter has offered premium Of TWEEN
ty.hve dollar hat to be donated to the bes
lady rider on horse back, to be awarded q
the County Fair in September. This is {
handsome donation from q public spirited
man, and we hope there will be number
OF ladies' competing for the prize. It shoulc
De one OF the features OF the Faif.-Daven
| port Gazette.
A MODEL YOUNG I4ADY.-There is &
young lady residing not hundred miles
from Davenport, who has assisted her faith
or IN harvesting this season, driving thu
reaper, and at times binding, doing It more
ior healthful exercise than from necessity
She is also an expert h0rsewoman, and fire.
quently drives q pair Of horses from hel
iatners residence to this city, and after At
tending to her purchases, returning in time
i0r supper. 6un-browned AZ she is from
Natures healthful exercise, she il the very
picture of health, and though some Of oul
clsy young ladies might consider her Ia.
DORIS undlgnlfied, yet her appearance In the
parlor is characteristics Of the highest
breeding. modesty and retirement in hel
manners being prominent feature. Sim.
liar instances are uncommon, and this il
Why we make q note of it, that the women
Ibid. go
A war meeting was held in LIE Claire
Hall ut Davenport, on Tuesday evening,
and resolution were adopted requesting the
Board of Supervisors to at once make an
appropriation to pay one hundred dollars
bounty to each volunteer duly credited to
Scott County.
Capt. Conn. who has just returned to his
home, his time having expired, informs US
that our townsman, Col. w. w. Belknap,
has been promoted to be q Brigadier Gen.
eral. We congratulate our friend Belknap
on his well deserved success In the military
line.-keOkuk Consultation.
SHEEP.-Messrs. Gardner & Sweet, OF
Fayette, recently bought 1900 sheep and
lambs in Wisconsin, which are now on
their way to this county. That is the way
to do it.-F9bltc Record.
A Dubuque merchant has 81, 900 worth
Of butter stored away in his cellar, waiting
for prices to ''rise." Surprising butter
should fall few cents and stay there,
wouldn't that chap wish he hadn't been so
greedy?-Public Record.
A correspondent of the Nevada 1Egis as
sures the public that he has hen which
lays two eggs each day, and q nutmeg on
Sunday! That beats Vermont.
CoLLEaE FARM.-We learn that the con-
tractors for doing the foundation work fog
Tuesday. The work on this structure will
be pushed forward as rapidly as may be
to its final OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES gis.
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there passed our Office 600 sheep in SIN
gle flock. They belonged to Messrs. EN-
erson 4 Axtell-being bound to Jasper
county, from Dodge county, Wisconsin,
Other flocks pass almost daily.-Gmardian.
WHEAr.-One or two threshers@ with
whom we have talked, say that the wheat
is turning out well, considerably better
than farmers anticipated. The yield, in
stead OF being below, promises to be above
the usual average. - sk0l0osa Herald.
Capt. James A. Sewers, late of the 18th
infantry. is authorized to recruit . new
company for q new regiment of one-year
men. The company when organized will
choose its own officers, receive the bounty.
and be mustered into the service in the
usual manner. Here is now . chance to
enter into the service on as favorable and
honorable terms as any yet offered to pa
triotic young men.-Oskaloosa Herald.
STRANGE PRoCEEDINGs.-Our citizens
were astonished, yesterday morning, at q
report, which rapidly spread from ear to
ear that an old and much esteemed citizen
was discovered, at about IL O'Clock the
previous night, removing the brick work
from the corner stone. of the Baptist Church,
which was laid on the I'd inst. At first no
one could believe the report, but it was
substantiated by men of credibillity, who
were present and saw the transaction.
His apology for his conduct was that he
was acting in obedience to the determine
ton which he and six others had come to,
after consulting about the ill-feeling excl
ted because the Courier was not placed
under the corner stone. They thought
that by removing the stone and placing the
relic box where the building committee
would find 1t, they might reconsider their
action and reconcile all differences Of opin.
ion by either taking the Journal out Of the
box or placing the Courier in with it. He
stated, further, that His associates were to
be there at that time to assist him in the
work, but for some reason unknown had
failed to come. He is not q member of the
Baptist Church, nor are any Of his associ-
ates, 80 far AS we have been able to learn.
This is a plain and brief statement of
about which there Is NO lit
our citizens. We withhold names, trust
ing that those who haye been made tools
Of by the few bad and designing men who
control the Courier and who seize upon
every straw for political effect, are hear
tily ashamed of their conduct and wish to
bury it in oblivion.-Musc0tine Journal.
SCARCITY or HARVEST HANDs.-We are
told that owing to the scarcity of hands
many Of ourfarmers hereabOuts will have
the hardest kind of work to secure their
wheat crops. One man not from this
place is reported to have had, on Friday
night OF last week, eighty acres Of wheat
cut, and the forces engaged in binding the
same consisted of barely two persons-him-
self and wife. It strikes us that under
these circumstances every man who pos
sibly can should for the time being throw
aside his other work and lend a helping
hand in securing these crops. II for no
other reason the very liberal wages offered