Burlington Hawkeye
Burlington, Des Moines, Iowa
Feb 12, 1874

THE STATE

   Davenport has a revenue of $10,000 annually from licenses.
    The ice harvest at Dubuque is about closed, with all the ice houses well filled.
    Hon. John E. Henry and wife, of Davenport, celebrated their silver wedding last Friday.
    A boy in Davenport shot a dog last week and all the cities in Iowa are trying to borrow him for a few days-the boy, not the dog.
    The gas at Dubuque is so wretched that the lamp lighters have to carry lanterns to find the street lamps when they want to suppress the illumination.
    William Huston, of Batavia, is the owner of a yearling calf that has five legs, the fifth leg growing out of the left hind quarter, terminating in a hoof having two splits instead of one.
    Last Thursday night a man applied for food and shelter at the Hurd house in Corning, saying that he had walked all day in the driving snow storm. He was properly cared for and turned out to be an escaped lunatic from the asylum at Mount Pleasant.

MARRIED.
    On the 28th ult., by Rev. E.P. Smith, at the residence of Mr. Edward Smith, near Winfield, Mr. Samuel Foster to Miss Sarah L. Smith.

DIED.
    At the residence of her parents in this county, Mary O., daughter of Tillman and Nancy Smith, January 31st, at 6 1/2 o'clock a.m.
    Two years ago Mary experienced religion and visited with the M.E. church, since which she has maintained a consistent Christian character. During her protracted sickness she suffered intensely, yet endured with all Christian fortitude, and passed from earth in firm faith in Jesus.

   At Washington, Iowa, Feb. 6th, 1874, Mrs. Mattie Quigley, in the nineteenth year of her age.
    The deceased was the daughter of Henry M. and Margaret Ochiltree, of Morning Sun, Iowa, and was married April 30th, 1873, to W.Y. Quigley, Esq. She was an affectionate and dutiful daughter and devoted wife, a faithful and consistent member of the U.P. church of Morning Sun, Iowa, and died in the assurance of a glorious immortality.

 Burlington Hawk-Eye
Burlington, Des Moines co. Iowa
February 19, 1874

Agricultural College Investigation.
Des Moines, Iowa, Feb. 17 - Mr. Hoggatt, of Story county, testified before the Agricultural College Investigating Committee to-day, but his testimony was unimportant. No one else was called.

Patrick Kennedy of Sioux City, while digging a cellar for his new house, exhumed a human skeleton, and has been compelled to put up his house on the alley end of the lot, as his wife declares she will never go into that cellar, and Mr. Kennedy has been put to so much trouble about it that sometimes he half wishes the man hadn't died.

Judge James, of Council Bluffs, has been sending prairie chickens to Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati. It is thought by a slight surgical operation to one of the wings of each bird they can be permanently kept in the grounds. The keeper of the Cemetery has been very successful in taming and keeping many varieties of beautiful and rare birds which each year rear their young in the tickets and hedges within the enclosure.

Death of an Old Citizen.
Gilbert Goudy died at his residence in Franklin Township, this county, last Saturday. Mr. Goudy came here from the State of New York in the spring of 1837, and was a resident of the county from that time until the day of his death. He was a quiet, unobtrusive citizen, and much esteemed by those who enjoyed his acquaintance. His funeral was held at the Baptist Church, in Dodgeville, on Sunday, and was very largely attended.

Fatal Runaway.
Saturday, two young men named McCune and Walkinshaw were out sleigh-riding, in the northern part of the county, near Linton postoffice. The horses ran away and both of the gentlemen were thrown out. One of McCune's legs was fractured in two places, whilst Walkinshaw's skull was broken. The physicians state that the latter person cannot recover. Both of the young men are of very respectable families and are highly esteemed among their acquaintances.

Hymen in the Sanctum.
Mr. Charles H. Monger, city editor of the Dubuque Herald, was married Thursday evening to Miss Kate L. Adams, daughter of Hon. S.P. Adams, of that city. We tender our happy borther our heartiest congratulations and shall look for increased brilliancy and sparkle in his department hereafter. An exaggerated respect for old age leads us to avoid any professional puns on this pleasant occasion, and we will only hope that the charming bride will be happy a Monger new relations.

Wolf Hunt
Editor Hawk-Eye: Will you please give notice through your paper that there will be a meeting at Messenger Hall, in Danville, on Saturday, the 21st day of February, 1874, at one o'clock P.M., to make the necessary arrangements for a circular wolf hunt, on a large scale. All persons interested are invited to attend. 

The ladies of Durant, twenty-two miles west of Davenport, have inaugurated the Ohio temperance movement in this State. Thursday evening twelve ladies, led by Mrs. Whitney and Mrs. Lane, the wives of leading ministers of the town, went to the saloon of one McElray, and begged him to discontinue the business of whisky selling. They took with them the wives of two inebriates carrying babes in their arms, which were held up before the bar-keeper, while an earnest personal appeal was made to him. McElray received the ladies respectfully, and made good promises, but has not yet closed his saloon. The movement will probably be kept up.

The State.
The weather yesterday was very conducive to Spring fever.

Mrs. H.N. Kellogg is writing a history of Decatur county.

The population of Muscatine is fairly lop-sided with the mumps.

John Post, who stole the registered letter out of a Midland mail car, is at large on bail.

Gentle Anna Dickinson will startle the people of Lyons with her conundrum, "What's to Hinder?" next Monday.

Mrs. Bridget Tobin died at Long Grove, near Davenport, on Wednesday morning, at the advanced age of one hundred years.

Mr. J.P. Yates, a well-known citizen has been arrested and confined in the jail at Keokuk for having one wife in that city and another in Illinois.

Wolves are drawing their daily sustenance from the sheep folds in the vicinity of Dexter, with a dexterity that baffles the dextrous efforts of the grangers to capture them.

Mr. McDonald is the dryest toper in Dubuque since Mrs. Ann McDonald has publicly prohibited all saloon-keepers, under penalty of prosecution, from selling him any more liquor of any kind.

Thomas Arnold, of Davenport, tried to drive across the Mississippi, Wednesday, with a load of beer, but the ice gave way, the beer was unloaded and shipped to St. Louis in bulk, under the ice, and one of the horses was drowned. The ice bridge is no longer safe.

Last Saturday, Mr. Haley called at the residence of Mr. H. Merritt, a farmer living in the vicinity of Dubuque, and foolishly threw a bottle containing wolf poison into the kitchen stove. A violent explosion followed, which made scrap iron of the stove and severely burned Mr. Merritt's two daughters.

A pair of mules and a coal wagon belonging to John Dwire, of Davenport, broke through the ice while crossing the river Tuesday afternoon, and were rescued with great difficulty.

George Sheeshly a young man who teaches school near Pella, shot himself last Wednesday while carelessly handling a revolver, the ball entering his left breast, inflicting a serious wound.

"Them as has must lose." The residence of Mr. John M. Eldridge of Davenport, was completely ransacked by burglars recently, the villains carrying off an old pair of boots and an empty pocket book.

Miss Hattie Garland, dress maker, Davenport, is her address, young gentlemen. Old grandfather in Indiana died last week, $2,000 in bank and a valuable farm, a handsome garland for somebody to wear.

Submitted by S.F., Feb 2007