The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1865-05-13
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The State Gcg,s,er saws:

| The State Register says:
A few days since we recorded The dealt
Of Mrs. Westf,ll of Pleasant Val
ley, Scott County. She was drowned il
the Mississippi River, by the Academia
overturning of q skif in which she wa!
seated. We learn that she was y sister o
Hon. w. +. Davis Of this place. Her hus
band is surgeon in the army, aud wa.
absent at the time of the terrible ca
lamitv."
The Hamilton Freeman learns that Rem
ner's School House in Hamilton County
was illuminated by certain rebels on tn,
receipt Of the intelligence of the assasina
ton of the President.
| Wright. County has near 5000 in it
Treasury, and ia clear Of liabilities. S,
says the Hamilton Frecnean
I SWEARING In CoURT.-A friend hands VI
the following which WAS probably intend
ed for Harper's Drawer, but ii is app.opri
ate here:
| "a young lawyer not thousand nile.
from this place, had 8 little case not long
I since III Il Justices Court. His ciieut a..
pended somewhat on the testimony OF /
| tyne of Southern Chivalryt The lawyer
| having some Doubts about the com peiciicy
! OF his wit'1esa, thought proper to question
Linn concerning Lie edge Of TIE Ea
ture Of IN oath. After asking the witness
numerous questions hiciI we're above his
comprshens!on, the lawyer finally said:
Ibid you evee swear in Court2
The witness strengthened up as though G
CLEAN Of light had ''struck in and replied
thus:
"Wa,, now, hev said cog on 1t a few
tirnas!'
The case didn't go to the iury.-State
Register.
j. B. Graham, an old and esteemed 9TH
zen of Keokuk, was severely injured
Thursday last, by the falling ofa high scat.
fold. The Gate CITY says he was badly in
jured from the same cause some time since,
and had not fully recovered when this Sec
ond misfortune overlook him.
The soldiers ia hospital ut Keokuk are to
be examined aud all able to travel will be
mustered out Of service and sent to their
homes.
The Keosauqua Republicans records the
death ola Mrs. Ma;teson who resided near
that piace in consequence OF burns sus-
tanned by the bursting OF can Of coal oil
which was igni,ed while she wa" Filling a
lalnr. Also the death OF Il son Of j. c.
>
OF age who was killed by lightning Il short
tine since
y bridge to c.'st $4,000 i. to be built
across the Des M,ines at X eosauqna.
QUEER.-Ths Darlington iIopa- Eve
reports that seven,y-a!1 townships TX Mus
catine county have population Of S3l -
An, friend Carton, marrying has had it's
usual effect III ootuscatlrs your optics. II
always has that effect. We've tried it. II
May, 1859. the lome. CMi.e,, he old Dad o.
the present state Register. recorded the
sta ,!ins tsct tina, u man some where IN tie
b}under WAS charged. TO the account OF lie
subscriber, and we never Ienied the soft
i'm gsAcnipen.. How could WEI
Guess Well have to OWE up. Bat pray,
keep the matter private: we don't want ev
eryhody to know it. De;.cats thing. you
know.
Jas. Mcdonald Of Davenport was run
over last Thursday by feeightcar and al
most instantly killed.
The Seventeenth Iowa Infantry has been
mustered out Of the service.
+ A baud Of sixty armed rebels, doubtless
'.kuights Of the Golden Circle" entered
the town Of Mason City, Cerro Gorio coun-
:y. on the Goth OF April, with OK teams,
and all armed to the teeth with reviewers.
who, as soon as they arrived in the streets,
began to hurrah for JEFF. Davis, Beaure-
gard and other noted rebels, also to cheer
at the news OF the death Of President Lin
coin, using the most obscene and abusive
language towards the citizens OF both sex
es, who were of course unprepared for such
a demonstration and powerless to resist.
AS soon rs possible, however, after the de-
pazture OF the tien.:s, n band of $50 armed
men were rallied from the county and pur-
suit OF the rebels made. The Republican,
from which we gather the above, went to
press before the result Of the pursait was
known.
Since August lst, 1854. sos, goo have been
subscribed to the 7-3O loan in the city OF
Dubuque.
The distiilery at Delhi, Delaware county,
has been seized by tho same Government
officer who closed the Dubuque dis.illeries.
The whisky makers are likely to learn
that cheating Uncle Sam il dangerous bu-
siness.
TIE vinton Eaale says the farmers
thareabouts are very much behind with
their work, and the work which should
have been done three weeks ago has not
yet heen commenced owing to the heavy
.ai1s.
The El7yvill. wa- records ne capture
by Frank R.uior ia Wapel!o conn.y. CT IA
gigantic: pelican, measuring abouG nine
feet six inches from the point of one wing
to the point Of the other.
The Spring in this country go far is very
back ward, farmers a. yet having sown but
little Data or wheat. Fall wheat promises
well.-Etldyvile Star. 6ka.
A few evenings since, the friends of Rev.
d. Lane OF Elayville made him call and
left him over 500. Served him right, only
We wish 1t were Thousand times as much.
Were not the citizens Of Eddyville a law
abiding people, they would take John Bur-
gess of that place and throw him into the
Des Moines river with q milestone tied
In hia nock Eo nuhliclv nlOata Ovar Mr.