Burlington Hawkeye
Burlington, Des Moines, Iowa
Feb. 1, 1877

     Among the ladies the "side whisker" style of arranging hair is highly fashionable. There might be a better and less masculine style adopted.

DISTRICT COURT.
Weatherby Acquitted-Squire Haw to Have Another Trial-Defendants in Nuisance Cases Had Better Settle Up.
     Monday was an interesting day in the district court, and the spectators, of whom the court is rarely entirely free, increased in numbers. In the first place, there was that suit on the
LAW AND CHANCERY
side of the docket known as
3111. Wherein E.M. Calloway was plaintiff and James Layden and others were defendants. Wherein Mrs. Calloway, the plaintiff, claimed $5,000 damages, because, as she alleged, she had been injured by the drunkenness of her husband, induced in whole or in part by liquor furnished by the defendant. The trial occupied four days and the jury were out two nights, finding at last for the plaintiff and assessing her damages at $775.00. And thereat both sides rejoiced. The plaintiff, because she got damages, and the defendant, because she didn't get any more.
3300. P.R. Huggins against Mary Lau. Foreclosure. Decree granted.
3243. Luke Palmer, Jr., assignee of Fred L. Wells. Assignment. Report of assignee approved. Ordered that accounts be sold.
3431. J.H. Wyman against Stephen Long and wife. Action on note, Judgment against M.R. Long for $1,096.80.
2724. James McConnell & Co. against Thomas Castello and others. Action on account. Judgment against defendant for $142.07.
3074. Otto Lorenz against Frederick Springer. Action on account. Plaintiff has leave to amend.
3203. Burlington Mutual Loan Association against Helen L. Nelson and others. Foreclosure. W.K. Stewart, receiver, resigned. Resignation accepted and J.M Howard appointed receiver.

STATE CAUSES
489. State of Iowa against John J. Kellogg, J.J. Rosseau and C.J. Weatherby. Cheating by false pretenses. In this case John S. David is the prosecuting witness. The circumstances are about these: Rosseau, who was a doctor at Washington, became a division agent or superintendent for the Centennial Life Insurance at Red Oak. J.J. Kellogg, a school teacher, lawyer, and what not by turns, occupied a similar position in another part of the state. Mr. Weatherby was the secretary of the company at Burlington. Rosseau came to Burlington with notes and mortgages upon which he sought to raise money. Failing in his own efforts he left the papers with Mr. Kellogg or Colonel Root or Mr. Weatherby, and they or some of them presented the papers to Colonel David who loaned six hundred dollars on them. The papers proved to be forgeries. Rosseau committed suicide in St. Louis since and the grand jury indicted Kellogg and Weatherby as above. The case was called yesterday and the defendant, C.J. Weatherby, was arraigned and pleaded "not guilty." A jury was empaneled and his case went to trial. Thomas Hedge, Jr. represents the prosecution, while the defendant is surrouned by the following array of legal talent: Sam K. Tracy, Charles H. Phelps, Dodge & Dodge, and Blake & Hammack. The prosecution rested their case about four o'clock yesterday and Mr. Phelps at once moved the court to dismiss the indictment for want of evidence, supporting his motion by a strong argument. But the court overruled it, and held that the prosecution had introduced evidence which must go to the jury and the witnesses for the defense were called. Evidence will be introduced this morning, and the case will probably be given to the jury to-day.

ACQUITTED.
489. State against J.J. Kellogg and C.J. Weatherby. Cheating by false pretenses. The case was concluded this morning and the jury were out only long enough to write a verdict of acquittal. Mr. Weatherby only was on trial, but the case is virtually one, and ended. The verdict found with so little hesitation on the part of the jury is a triumph for the defendants in which their friends and acquaintances here will and do rejoice.

LAW AND CHANCERY.
2970. Newcomb brothers against Nelson & Reid and others. Injunction. Referred to P.H. Smythe.
2981. William B. Bradley against W.W. Nassau, and others, impleaded. Foreclosure. Decree granted modifying former decree.
2768. John H. Gear and others against the city of Burlington and others. Injunction. Judgment against the plaintiffs for costs, on the refusal of application for injunction. Continued for assessment of damages.
2937. Diedrick Bokenkamp against Max Langerbeck. Action for damages. Dismissed for want of prosecution.
2963. Ferd Galey against J.P. Yager and others. Replevin. Dismissed at defendant's costs. And there goes the Lyon battery looking lass suit off of the docket at last.
2964. Berthold Meyer against John L. DeHague. Attachment. Dismissed at plaintiff's cost.
2971. Mahala Teedrick against L. Teedrick. Equitable relief. Continued.
2988. Eugene Sherwood against Snow, Foote & Co. and others. Action on note. Motion for new trial overruled. Defendant excepts.
2991. Elizabeth Jacoby against R. Boetcher. Action for damages. Motion for new trial overruled. Defendant excepts.
2996. Farrar & Wheeler against W.B. Owens and others. Impleaded. Equitable action. Continued.
3009. Nairn, Gillies, & Co. against Hall & Baldwin and others, garnishees. Garnishment. Continued.
3022. William Tieman against W.A. Haw. Action for damages. Motion for new trial sustained.
8412. E. Moy against the city of Burlington. Action for damages. Motion for more specific statement overruled as to the first and second clauses, and sustained as to the third.
3416. H.A. Kelley, guardian, against J. P. Wightman and others. Action on guardian's bond. Default for want of answer entered, and judgment rendered against defendant.

Western Patents
The following western patents were issued from the United States patent office for the week ending January 9, 1877, as reported for THE HAWKEYE from the western patent office agency, by W.B. Richards, solicitor of patents, Galesburg, Illinois:

IOWA.
Postal Circulars-J. Chapman, Dubuque
Ricking hay and straw-J.R. Hill, Bloomfield.
Nigger engines-C. Lamb, Clinton
Car couplings-T.J. West, Pleasantville.
Grain-binders-Samuel Miller, Lamoille.
Cultivators-Philip Studer, Mechanicsville.

Burlington Hawkeye
Burlington, Des Moines, Iowa
Feb. 8, 1877

How to Make a Lactometer
(Pittsburg Commercial)

     Any housekeeper who desires to test the purity of the lacteal fluid furnished daily by the milkman, can provide herself with an impromptu and to all purposes an efficient lactometer in this easy way: Procure a glass bulb and stem, both hollow; load it with quicksilver, sand or even bird shot, until the instrument will float upright in milk known to be pure. Mark on the stem the point to which it sinks-the surface point. Remove it from the milk and float it in pure water, marking the surface point as before, which will be considerably higher on the stem than the other mark. Now take a narrow slip of paper, capable of being rolled lengthwise and inserted in the stem of the instrument so that figures on it will be visible through the glass. Lay off on this-in the direction of its length- a space equal to the distance between the two surface points, numbering the first point 0 and the other 100. Subdivide this space into ten or twenty proportional spaces correspondingly numbered, roll the slip and insert it into the stem until the 0 is at the surface point of the milk, the 100 at that of water. Your lactometer is now complete. Float it in your milk can every morning, and the depth to which it sinks will register the percentage of dishonest water, if any, the milk contains. Suppose, for example, the instrument sinks till the surface line cuts the figure 15. The milk contains fifteen per cent of added water.

The Curse of Liquor
(Irish World)

     We found this paragraph hid away in the corner of one of the daily papers:
     "A man ragged and penniless, who was sent to jail at Boston as a common drunkard, on Saturday, was once a rich and prosperous citizen, an honored alderman, and a candidate for mayor of the city."
     What a world of misery is revealed in this small paragraph! Think of the cheerless garrets, the abandoned families, the murders and deeds of violence with a whole catalogue of still unnumbered evils,- and all traceable to liquor. Ah! they knew not what they do who oppose the temperance cause. And you who scoff at "prohibition"- you who sneer and jeer at the "families" that would save society from the fell destroyer-God pity you! And God pity the victims lured by your arguments! Your arguments may be clever and plausible; but so much the worse for the silly victims that fall into the snare.

A Tilden Carpet-Bagger
(Gate City)

    Hon. H.C. Rippey, of Greene county, Iowa, has finally taken up his residence in Florida, on account of his health, and has been appointed by Governor Drew judge of Leon county. Mr. Rippey is spasmidicky and inclined to sore-headism in his politics, but an honest man, we guess, and that the appointment is a good one. But what Florida and all the southern states need to learn is that if a man like Mr. Rippey is fit to hold office there he was just as fit to hold it when he was a republican as now, when he is a Tilden man.

GENERAL NEWS

Thursday, February 1.
     The long-contested suit of Muldowney vs. the Iowa Central Railroad company has been settled, the plaintiff getting a verdict of $5,000 and $450 interest. The cause of the action originated from the death of Mr. Muldowney's step-son, who was killed at Iowa Falls, while performing his duty as a brakeman in counting cars for a mixed freight train.

Saturday, February 3
     A lodge of Old Fellows was organized at Marble Rock, Iowa, on Friday evening.
     On Friday morning, 20th ult., Mr. Truman Nichols, of Independence, Iowa, seventy-eight years of age died. The following day his wife, about the same age, also died, and on Sunday they were buried in the same grave.
     At a meeting at Chariton, of the directors of the new Chariton, Des Moines and Southern railway company, the following officers were elected: President, S.H. Mallory; vice-president, B.F. Bates; secretary, E.E. Edwards; treasurer, J.D. Wright; executive board, S.H. Mallory, J.G. Stuart and W.H. Maple.
     A new feature in the gift enterprise line has been introduced at Chariton. The man who brings the largest number of ladies to religious sociables wins a prize.
     John Timm, of Hamburg, this state, hanged himself on Sunday.
     Myriads of grasshopper eggs deposited in northwestern Iowa last season are now hatching. The farmers are predicting that the young hoppers will either be frozen or starved to death.

Wednesday, February 7.
     McBride, of the Eldora Ledger, was cowhided on Monday by Mrs. Hart, wife of the editor of the Herald.
     Mary Mailley has been arrested, at Sioux City, for setting a fire, recently, which destroyed two tenement houses in that city.
     A delegation of the Pawnee tribe of Indians passed through Sioux City, on Monday, on their way to the Indian territory to select a home for their tribe.
     A shooting affray occurred at a brothel in Marshalltown, on Monday, one shot grazing the head of a servant girl sitting at the window of a house on the opposite side of the street.

HOME NEWS

Obituary
The Late Mrs. Hannah Parsons

     Thursday morning, after several days of severe suffering, Mrs. Hannah Parsons, in the fullness of years, passed peacefully and tranquilly from time into eternity.
     Mrs. Parsons was one of the oldest residents of Burlington, having lived in the city twenty-three years. She was born in Royalston, Massachusetts, on the 8th day of January, 1800, and was consequently, at the time of her decease, over seventy-seven years of age; more than three score and ten allotted to human life. In her youth she removed to East Parsonfield, a village in York county, Maine, where she was married to Mr. Thomas Parsons whose family name the village bears. With her husband, twenty-three years ago, she came west to Burlington, and the following year Mr. Parsons died, and alone she has trodden the pathway of life during the remainder of her days. And not alone, for loving hearts and tender hands were ever with her, in the three sons who still survive her, and will lay away her mortal remains with the respectful and filial sorrow that long years of consistent patient life worthily secure. She was not alone in another sense, for during the last fifty years she has exhibited in her daily life the beautiful fruits of rich christian experience. She united upon professing christianity with the Free Will Baptist church, but upon coming to Burlington united with the First Baptist (regular) church of this city and there retained her membership until death. With her, christianity was to be lived rather than to be professed, and, though never afraid or ashamed to give oral expression to her faith in Christ and his work, it was in her quiet, patient, trustful live that the power of her faith was more richly displayed. She was, at the time of her death, the oldest member of the society in this city.
     For many years she has been a sufferer, rarely being able to be out from home, and the last few days of increased pain, yet when the hour of dissolution came like the gathering shadows of a summer twilight, or the silent influences of a peaceful slumber. With an unclouded mind and an unshaken faith, her feet trod the dark valley and went over the swelling river, whose waves inspired no fear in the heart of her who had for half a century believed and tried the promises of God's word.
     The deceased had six children, three of whom, sons, survive her. Two daughters and one son have preceded her. Her surviving sons are C.B. Parsons, one of the heaviest wholesale and retail merchants in the city, Mr. Albion Pason and Mr. Oscar Parsons, who have charge of the leading departments in the same house. Hon. A.W. Parsons, mayor of the city, Mr. Frank T. Parsons and Mr. T.L. Parsons were nephews of the deceased.

G.A.R.
An Interesting Meeting Last Night
     Mathies Post No. 5, G.A.R., held an open meeting last night, and their hall was well filled by friends and visitors, the ladies being present in large numbers, and the meeting being one of unusual interest to all in attendance. There were songs sung to hear which did every one good. Tales were told that brought down the house and stirring speeches were made by Will Darling and Major Perkins, the post commander.
     Col. Storrie, aid-de-camp to Gen. Hartranft, commander of the Grand Army of the Republic was present and stirred all hearts by his thrilling eloquence. No one could listen to his words as they led through the early experiences of the great war, as they led through the storm and smoke of battle and the prison pens of the south, and not be moved. In the course of his remarks he said that this was the heroic age. The heroes of the past were not to be compared to the heroes brought out by the war. Heroism inspired by the din and roar of battle sank into insignificance beside the heroism that nerved the emaciated skeleton in a loathsome prison to refuse food, liberty, even life itself, at the cost of dishonor and for the love of country. He said that the fathers gave us a triune government, consisting of legislative, judicial and executive departments; it was represented by a triune flag-red, white and blue, signifying love, purity and fidelity. When the soldiers returned they brought back the old flag with not a star dimmed or a stripe erased. They gave to the world universal liberty, equal rights and national unity. By the blood of three hundred thousand loyal men these states were cemented more closely than ever before. Our women were more heroic than ancient women. The mothers of Sparta and Rome, sent their sons to battle, and bade them act like men, but our mothers and sisters, followed us into the field and there amid the stern realities of war, bound up our bleeding wounds and cheered our drooping spirits. He closed with the following stanzas, from the pen of Colonel Ralph:
     Great Greece has her Thermophylae;
    Stout Switzerland her Tell;
     The Scott his Wallace heart;
     And we have saints enshrined as well.
     The glorious deeds of Marathon
     Are rich above the ground,
     But we have battle fields whereon
     The grass at root is red.

     We say, O little mounds that cost so much;
     We compass what you teach,
     And our worse grossness feels the touch
     Of your uplifted speech.
     You thrill us with your deeds
     Like Eucharistic wine,
     And by our holy deed we know
     That life is still divine.

ACQUITTED
G.M. Todd Acquitted and Discharged
     We are glad to learn that the charges made against Mr. G.M. Todd, of this city, of being responsible for the illegal voting of Benjamin Feldman at the polls of the first precinct of the presidential election, last fall, have proved to be without foundation and unsupported by evidence. As stated in THE HAWK-EYE several days ago, Mr. Todd was indicted by the grand jury of the United States district court at Keokuk upon the testimony of Feldman, who admitted having voted illegally, but who attempted to throw the responsibility of his being registered upon Mr. Todd, his employer, who had become surety for his appearance when arrested for the crime.
    Yesterday the case was called for trial. When the prosecution rested their case the defense rested also, introducing no evidence and submitting it to the jury, who were out only a few minutes and returned to announce their verdict of not guilty. Mr. Todd returned to the city last evening, having been discharged upon the verdict.
     The indictment against Jacob Wohlwend for voting twice was withdrawn.

Gregory's Seed Catalogue.
     Our readers will find the catalogue of J.J.H. Gregory's well known seed house advertised in our columns. For freshness and reliability of the seed sent out and enterprise in introducing choice new vegetables to the public, Mr. Gregory is endorsed by the prominent agriculturists of the United States; as recommended from over forty states and territories, to be found on the cover of his catalogue, amply attest.

Double Harness.
     The following is a list of the contracting parties to whom licenses for marriage were issued during the month of January. There is a peculiar appropriateness in calling them contracting parties which we never mentioned before. When two souls are united in one that is contraction literally and it obtains considerable currency among all classes. We don't allude to a contraction of the currency but to the currency of contraction:
     Mr. T. G. Foster and Miss Lucia L. Schramm.
     Mr. John W. Davis and Miss Lavina V.Dodds.
     Mr. J.V. Clayton and Miss Mary E. Moorman.
     Mr. J.B. Morrison and Miss Louisa J. Carithers.
     Mr. Albert Kern and Miss Mary Hiers.
     Mr. R.H. Harris and Mrs. Elizabeth Trobee.
     Mr. William Henry Ping and Miss Almina P. Gulick.
     Mr. John Borne and Mrs. Elizabeth Boshart.
     Mr. John F. Woodward and Miss Helen A. Howard.
     Mr. J.M. Hayes and Miss Frank L. Trask.
     Mr. F. Scheller and Miss Alga Kollstede.
     Mr. August Gotterman and Miss Mary Riepe.
     Mr. John Hermann Ebbestneler and Mary A. Hanny.
     Mr. J.E. Brownfield and Miss Emma C. Wright.
     Mr. Henry Meyers and Miss Mattie Crupper.
     Mr. B.F. Sterling and Miss Julia Duttweiler.
     Mr. William Bacherbeg and Miss Bertha Wert.
     Mr. Henry W. Shirk and Miss Hattie Selser.
     Mr. George Roscum and Miss Catherine Zart.
     Mr. Charles Clark and Miss Emma Mintling.
     Mr. Henry Mueller and Miss Dorothea Krahn.
     Mr. William Johnson and Miss Louise Colson.
     Mr. Henry Davenport and Miss Minnie Taylor.
     Mr. Charles Heitmeier and Mrs. Wilhelmina Rieme.
     Mr. Herman Doermeyer and Caroline Aspelmeir.
     Mr. J.C. E. Yohe (or Yobe) and Miss E.J. Jones.
     Mr. Robert Gotts and Miss Anna E. Gabeline.
     There are twenty-seven couple of them and their combined ages aggregate 1,338 years, the combined ages of the gentlemen being 717 years and those of the ladies being 621. The youngest lady married was sweet sixteen, the oldest, sedate fifty. The youngest gentleman married was seventeen, and the oldest, fifty-seven. The average age at which gentlemen married last month was twenty-six and a half, and the average age of the brides was exactly twenty-three. The influence of leap year upon the marital market may be observed by comparing the marriages last month with those of January, 1876. In 1876 (leap year) there were thirty; last month there were only twenty-seven. The comparison is suggestive.

MARRIED
HUMPHREY-MYERS- At the house of the bride's parents in Danville Township, Iowa, on February 1877, by David Philips, J.P., Mr. Raymond Humphrey and Miss Elizabeth Myers.

Notice-Proof of Wills.
STATE OF IOWA, DES MOINES COUNTY- in Circuit Court, February Term, 1877.
    In the matter of the last wills and testaments of Augustus C. Smith, Wm. B. Ewing, Jane Baird and Gottleib Elbrader, decedents.
     To all whom it may concern:
     Whereas instruments in writing purporting to be the last wills and testaments of said decedents have been filed in my office, and opened and read as required by law.
     Notice is hereby given that Tuesday, The 20th day of February next, has been fixed as the day for hearing proof in relation thereto.
     Witness my hand and the seal of said court this ??th day of January, A.D.1877.
     T.G FOSTER, Clerk.

Notice in Bankruptcy.
DISTRICT OF IOWA, ss:
    At Keokuk, the 11th day of January, A.D., 1877.
     The undersigned hereby gives notice of his appointment as assignee of A. Kaiser, of Burlington, in the county of Des Moines and state of Iowa, within said district, who has been adjudged a bankrupt upon his own petition by the District Court of said district.
     CURTIS D. BIRD, Assignee.

Burlington Hawkeye
Burlington, Des Moines, Iowa
Feb. 15, 1877

A BRUTAL OUTRAGE
A Man Shot and Probably Murdered in His Own House in Jefferson County.
Special Dispatch to the Hawk-Eye
     Fairfield, Iowa, Feb. 13- At Batavia, in this county, last evening, four roughs, headed by the notorious Pat Henry, went to the house of Theodore Hill, a druggist, and knocked on the door. Mr. Hill answered the call and asked what they wanted. Henry demanded that he should open up his store and get them some whisky, and when Mr. Hill refused to do so, the gang fired on him with their revolvers, and left him for dead. He has three balls in him. One entered near the bottom of the breast bone, and is lodged near the kidneys, and little hope is had of his recovery. It is since reported that Hill has died, and that two of the roughs have been arrested. The community are ready for Judge Lynch. It seems that his law must be relied upon to stop such outrages, since a Wisconsin sentimentalist talked our Iowa legislators into enacting that any murderer may kill, but he may not be killed in turn. Mr. Hill was one of the most quiet, law-abiding citizens of the county, and had never had any difficulty or trouble with his murderers.
    
Burlington Hawkeye
Burlington, Des Moines, Iowa
Feb. 22, 1877
    
GENERAL NEWS

Thursday, Feb. 15
     At Dubuque on Tuesday an application for a writ of mandamus was made in the district court to compel the board of education to admit colored children to the several ward schools on equality with the whites, instead of congregating them all in one school as has recently been the custom. The court, now in session, has taken the matter under advisement.

Friday, Feb. 16
     The distillery of Adam Jaeger, at Dubuque, was destroyed by fire on Thursday.
     George Hunt, of Company K, fifth United States cavalry, was shot and fatally wounded at Sidney, Nebraska, on Wednesday by Thomas McClain, of company D, same regiment.

Saturday, Feb. 17
     Cedar Rapids has gone into the free soup house business.

Sunday, Feb. 18
     The corning mill of the Lafflin, Rond & Co. powder mills, at Platteville, Iowa, was blown up Friday, killing one man named John Stout, the only person in the building at the time. The explosion was witnessed by several persons living in Dubuque, a distance of twenty-five miles from Platteville.

Wednesday, Feb. 21
     A lawyer named Wolf, of Woodstock, Harrison county, has been arrested for defrauding a client.
     L.F. Cook ,editor of the Dunlap Reporter, has been sued for slander by Frank Griffin, a lawyer of that place.
     An attempt to settle a business matter between two young men named Hiller and Modlin, in Marshall county, on Monday, came very near settling Hiller's hash. Modlin used a knife to square the account.


New London Notes
    New London notes are as good as gold if they are signed by the right man. These here New London notes are signed at the bottom "Nuts."
     F.A. Griffith puts in his time these days building churns that are warranted to bring in butter five minutes from the neighbor's cellar across the street.
     Charles Miller has about concluded to put up a fine frame building, twenty feet front, on Main street. Alrich block is also almost a certainty and other improvements are projected.
     R.C.J. Smith and James Love had a law suit yesterday before 'Squite Yont about a team of horses. Judge Dillon is willing to take one horse for legal service and 'Squire Yont will take the other for court costs. The court took the case under advisement.

An Old Gentleman Loses an Eye
Pleasant Grove, Iowa, Feb. 15.
     Editor Hawk-Eye:- One of the oldest citizens of this village, Mr. John Gannaway, met with a serious and painful accident yesterday while working in the woods, a mile or two from home, which resulted in the loss of an eye. Mr. Gannaway cannot give any exact account of how the accident occurred, but says he was trimming in the top of a tree, and merely hacking with his axe, and struck off a small limb, not longer than his finger, when something, he knows not what, struck him in his eye, nearly knocking him down. This is a very sad accident, and Mr. G. has the sympathy of the whole community.

CIRCUIT COURT
Orders Entered on the First Call of the Docket.
    John Horn of Germany, of Christ Ebert of Wurtemberg, were made citizens and these United States in time to swear at the electoral commission if the result don't suit 'em.

IN PROBATE:
795. Catherine Menge against George Dewein, for appointment of guardian. H.A. Kelley was appointed guardian.
666. Estate of John Curtis, Authority was granted to erect a monument.
826. Guardianship of Effie May King and others. For authority to sell real estate. Luke Palmer was appointed guardian ad litem and authority was granted.
838. Guardian of Mary Jane Keiser was ordered to make a payment to the guardian of the same ward in California.

REPORTS APPROVED.
800. Estate of Wm. A. Gardner deceased. Final
803. Estate of John Egnolf deceased. Final.
815. Report of the guardian of Mary J. Keiser was approved.
816. Guardianship of the minor heirs of F.W. Brooks deceased. Final as to Annis. C. B. Hawkins (nee Brooks) and J.M. Brooks.
822. Estate of John H. Armstrong deceased. Final.

WILLS PROVEN
813. Will of Augustus D. Smith, deceased.
819. Will of Jane Baird, deceased.
821. Will of Gottlieb Elbrader, deceased.

LAW AND CHANCERY.
1226 Mary Steifle, administratrix against John A. Brooks. Action for money had and received. Death of plaintiff suggested. Administrator de bonis non to be substituted.
1329. Alonzo Wagner against Fenton Doran, appellant. Appeal. Leave granted to file amended petition.
1379. Henrietta Huggins against G. B. Huggins. Divorce. Default entered.
1409. Sidney F. Webster against J.R. Kenn. Action on note. Judgment against defendant.
1361. Blake & Hammack against Perry Freeland and others. Action on note and mortgage. Leave granted. Distlehorst and Jac. Thienes to intervene.
1422. Howe & Rablin against J.S. Brandeberry and others, garnishees. Garnishment. Clerk to take further answer of garnshees.

In the following cases the plaintiffs were granted
LEAVE TO VERIFY PETITIONS:
1373. Thomas Duncan against Henry Bomaster. Action on account.
1418. Richard Howard against T.J. Coulter. Action for rent.

In the following cases the plaintiffs took
LEAVE TO AMEND:
1401. M.M. Hamill against Hermann Helmuth and wife. Foreclosure.
1080. B.M. Holland against Olof Larson and others. In chancery to establish lien.
1415. Kahn & Goldsmith against Leon Huffman. Action on account.
1416. B.L.Solomon & Sons against Leon Huffman. Action on account.

The following cause were
CONTINUED:
761. H. Langwort & Co against S. Mason and others. Attachment.
803. Hutchcroft, Bowers & Co against Eugene Damon impleaded. Action on account.
837 First National bank against the Burlington and Southwestern Railway company and others. Action on bill of exchange.
1250. Philip Shapter against the Burlington and Missouri River Railroad company. Action on contract.

SUITS DISMISSED.
1037. Mary E. Clark against William R. Finch and others. Action on note.
1046. C.P. Squires & Co, against T.L. Parson, garnishee. Garnishment. Settled.
1049. Walter Minard against C.B. Kline, appellant and others. Appeal.
1399. F.T. Parsons & Co against Wm. Timmerman. Foreclosure of mechanic's lien. Settled.
1115. David Michael, appellant, and others, against Robert Carter. Appeal. Settled.
1244. August Gerke against D.H. Gails and others. Appeal. Settled.
1298. McCullough Iron Co against Nelson & Co and others. Action on note. Settled.
1340. Ed. F. Runge against S.W. Zerber, appellant. Appeal. Settled.
1383. Murray Iron Works Co against F. F. Thul. Foreclosure mechanic's lien. Settled.
1410. Hawk-Eye Job Printing Co. against the Centennial Mutual Life Insurance Co. Action on account. Settled.

JUDGMENTS BY DEFAULT.
1368. Third National Bank against V.W. Bullock. Action on note. Clerk assess.
1369. Durand & Co. against A. Garels. Action on note. Clerk assess.
1390. Oriental Powder Mill Company against James Frame. Action on judgment. Clerk assess.
1402. T.W. Barhydt against Theodore Waldschmidt. Landlord's attachment. Attached property to be sold.
1408. Shields & Nugen against Fred Balbert. Action on note.

Laying Hens
     To get hens to lay have a warm room feed potatoes with corn meal, bone meal, scraps of meat, cabbage head to pick at, onions, turnips, etc. Change the food occasionally, giving lime in water, egg shells, crushed shells, bone, with ashes and road dust to roll in.

DIED.
     In this city, at his late residence on West Hill, at half past eight o'clock Sunday morning, February 18th, Michael Kelley, aged 85 years. Funeral services will occur this Tuesday morning at half past eight o'clock from the late residence of the deceased at 514 Leebrick street and St. Patrick's church.
     The deceased was an energetic hard working man, and although a resident of Burlington but a few years, had many warm friends and associates who admired the sincerity of his conduct, his affectionate disposition and his exemplary life. Seven years ago, in the declining years of his protracted life, he came from Seneca Falls, New York, to Burlington that he might spend the twilight of his earthly day with those who were near and dear to him. During his more than four score years he has witnessed some events which comparatively few were permitted to see, and remembered distinctly the battle of Waterloo, and other historic events of that period. He was present and participated in the laying of the foundation of the abutments for the Niagra suspension bridge, and delighted in the evening of life to recount the scenes through which he passed. Although so aged he retained all his faculties remarkably. His life ended peacefully, and in the midst of loving and attentive children, who bestowed every care upon his failing body that affection could suggest.

Personal Points.
-Hon. J.J. Glenn, of Illinois, is in town, and there is talk of something being done in the Curtis Will case.
-Miss Sadie Newman, who has been prostrated by congestion of the brain, has so far recovered as to be able to ride out.
-Miss Theresa McCoy and parents departed last evening for southern Kansas, where they will hereafter reside. Miss McCoy has lived in Burlington since childhood and has been a general favorite with the members of the circle of society in which she moved. Her absence will be felt at the social gatherings of her friends.

The Funeral
     The funeral services for Mrs. Charles O'Brien were attended by a remarkably large concourse of people on Sunday. The church, St. Paul's Catholic, was packed, and many were unable to gain admittance. Messrs. C.B. Parsons, Jesse Meehan, Hon. W.T. Newman, E.D. Rand, Gen. A.C. Dodge, Hon. A.W. Parsons and Joseph Norton acted as pallbearers. The cortege was unusually long.