The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1865-02-18

A "Hoss CAR OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Ward is looking at things in Boston. He
had an adventure one day, which resulted
as follows:
I returned in the Hoss Cars, part way.
A pooty girl in spectacles sot near rue, and
was tellin young man how much he re-
minded her ola young man she used to
know in Waltham. P0oty soon the young
man got out, and smilin' In Q SEDUCTIVE
manner. I said to the girl in spectaclss:
Don't remind you Of somebody you
used to know"
: EYES," she said, you do remind the Of
one man, but he was sent to the Peni.
Tertiary fer stealin' q barrel of macksrel
The died there, so I conclO0ded you amt
him." didn't pursoo the conversation.
The difficulty between Spain and Peru
has been settled, the latter recovering pos
session of the Chinchas aud paying three
million dollars for the expense Of the Span
ish expedition. p a 4
A wedding in Washington has put the
female hearts there In delicious hutter.
The bride was Miss Albrecht, and the
groom Charles NJ. Walker. Ex-Secretary
Chase was FIRST bridesmaid. The ladies
were all lovely, and 20 were the dresses,
and the chatting delicious. .sas1A
Counsellor Racket yesterday stated in
the Supreme Court that !, $50 suits had been
brought against the city for damages done
during the riots of 1863. The amount
claimed is about 81 500, Co., IN. Y. Tribune,
1lth.
A New England soldier, who has served
three years creditably, and received three
wounds, was sent in from camp to Wash
ington, on Tuesday of last week, ard made
to exchange an infantry uniform for . BON
net, dress and hoope-the appropriate sarb
Of her sex, which she had kept concealed
from her colleagues. sh
ANOTHER CHICAGO PAPER-Joe Forrest
it seems is to have opposition in his new
tered, with capital of$50o. 900. who intend
publishing daily paper, to be called The
West. II is said it can commence with
$1,000. The Board of Directors for the first
year is strong one.--Iseri Transcript.
A man walking in his'sleep precipisated
himself from the attic Of a house in Hart
ford, and dashed his brains out agains: the
pavement.
INTEREST, IMPORTANT LEGAL DECISION
rHEREoN.-The District Court at Keokuk
on last Saturday on authority Of recent
decision in the Supreme Court of the Uni
ted States decided that note which stipu-
lates for eight per cent, interest, draws on
" six per cent. interest after tho note has
become due, unless it is stipulated IN the
noteit shall continue TO draw eight per
cent after 1t is due.-P0indeGLer.
All the railroad communications If
Charleston are reported as being now sew
erred, with the single exception Of thai ria
Wilmington, and this, it Is anticipated. will
also soon be broken, Union force having,
according to rebel advices, landed at Smith
Geld, on the North Carolina coast, irr this
supposed purpose Sherman il making
Ia 80 9th S,o,,th Co rO0;ua ratlrOatiS all
directions. ~
/. The workmen in the Ophir silver mine,
Nevada. have been driven out by an i'm
mense quantity Of hot water from some
subterranean reservoir, bursting in Upon
them. @ Z 1s
The Buffalo Express says Judge Ryan,
of that city recently made the follow u re-
sponse to LIMB of the law who venttred
mild remonstYaEce against some ruling of
the Court: ~ have no law for it give it
az the opinion OF the Court, based upon
common sense. ! am no lawyer. rnever
read q law book in my life, and never will
who have read law that dare not venture
tho experiment" p 1z45
DEEP SSow.-The snow is from four to
Vermont and New York. Along the sea-
coast of Maine it il about two feet deep. In
the White Mountain region snow has fallen
to great depth. Some of the drifts in the
roads are from twelve to fifteen feet deep,
and the snow is so dry that the wind blows
Il into the most fantastic shapes.
nMr. Love, wife, daughter and step
mother were lately drowned In Lake On
tario at the mouth Of Niagara river. They
had croeaed the river from Youngtowut to
Niaeara. and were returning when they
wore swept by the current and loo into the
lake, and drowned.
There are ak colored churches In savan-
nah. Three Of them havelarKe organs and
fine choin. The pastors OF 1eur Of them
have always been Colored men. Three o.
these churches are decidedly very fne edi-
ices, and cost not less than ten thousand
dollars each,