Burlington Hawk Eye
Burlington, Iowa
May 1, 1879

Obituary
     Des Moines, April 28- Colonel G.B. Brown, proprietor of the Aborn house, of this city, died last night.

Western Patents.
Iowa.
    Flower and work stands-Thomas Murgatroyd, Clarinda.
    Aspirator, uterine cauterizer and vaginal syringes-A.L. Palmer, Chariton.
    Compressors for trees-E.A. Quinby, Memory.
    Washing machines- L.C. McCullock, Ottumwa.
    Reducing ores-John Leanor, Cedar Rapids.
    Corn dropper and marker-J.A. and J.J. Stpehenson, Mormontown.
    Ditching machine-Grant & McClelland, Mt Pleasant.
    Turbine water wheel-John McLucas, Redfield.
    Horse-shoe weights-John Robinson, Ottumwa.

TOILET AND HEALTH HINTS.
Items of Interest to the Ladies.
    To keep hands soft, mix honey, almond mesh and olive oil into a paste, use after washing with soap. Castile soap is best for use; it will cure a scratch or cut, and prevent any spot.
    For inflammatory rheumatism, take half an ounce of pulverized saltpetre, put in half a pint of sweet oil, bathe the parts affected, and a sound cure will speedily be effected.
    The Parisian method of cleaning black silk is to brush and wipe it thoroughly, lay it on a flat table, with the side up which is intended to show, and sponge with hot coffee strained through muslin. Allow it to become partially dry, then iron.
    The prudent housewife who, on account of "hard times" has decided not to repaper the sitting-room, as desirable, will find the old paper very much improved in appearance by simply rubbing it well with a flannel cloth dipped in oatmeal.
    To remove grease from silk take a lump of magnesia, and rub it wet over the spot; let it dry, then brush the powder off and the spot will disappear; or take a visiting card, separate it and rub the spot with the soft internal part, and it will disappear without taking the gloss off the silk.
    A moth destroying tincture is made as follows: One ounce of gum camphor and one ounce of powdered shell of red pepper are macerated in eight ounces of strong alcohol for seven days then strained. With this tincture the furs or cloths are sprinkled over and rolled up in sheets. This remedy is used in Russia under the name of "Chinese tinctures for moths," and is found very effective.
    The small bustles used all along for trained and demi-trained skirts are now commended by the fashionable modistes for supporting the panier draperies of short suits. These bustles, however, are offered with the caution that they must be very small, as bouffant effect is more stylish when it is produced by the voluminous, bunched-up draperies of the over-dress. The imported bustles are of muslin with some curved whalebones run in casings and these are confined to the middle of the back, beginning just below the waist-line.-- Bazar.

CHARMS AROUND OUR HOMES.
The Mistakes That Some People Make.
Mrs. Laura Lyman Shepherd in The Housekeeper.
    There is nothing about a place that attracts and holds the admiration of visitors and residents alike more surely, than abundance of shrubbery and vine and flowers. By these, even an old and broken habitation may be made to seem lovely, a barny, dry goods boxy house be transformed into a comely residence, but where architecture and shrubbery unite to make the home charming we have a rural paradise.
    One of the features of western homes that arrests the attention of travelers from the eastern states is the great number of cheerless looking, treeless houses, scattered over the prairies-houses with not a bush or vine, or shrub or tree, anywhere near them, exposed in winter to every blast that blows and in summer unsheltered from the fervid rays of the noonday sun. There is no shady arbor under which children may play all the day long; under which tired farmers may enjoy his noonings; on which the house mother may gratefully reset her eyes, weary of the endless monotony of the prairie landscape.
    Many a woman who has left her eastern home to build up with her husband their fortunes on the western prairie, misses more the delicious shade of the tress that surrounded her childhood's home, the beauty of the climbing vines at the windows, the fragrance of the flowers that decked her door yard, than anything else that can be named. She misses the soothing companionship of these mute friends, mute, yet speaking in language too dear and sweet to be translated into words.
    It is a mistake many thrifty farmers make when they think it will be time to adorn and beautify their homes after the mortgages are paid off and the substantial improvements are made. The fact is, as much is paid for beauty and attractiveness in any homestead as for other homelier qualities. Other things being equal, a country farm house, with an abundance of shade and fruit trees, with shrubbery and vines, and small fruits that bloom of flowers about, will always command a much higher price in the market than one bare of these attractions; so that time and money spent in these improvements make simple pecuniary returns. And if this were not so, a cozy cheerful home is far more restful and refreshing to the weary worker than a bleak, barren and dreary one. One gets paid as he goes along, for his toil and his struggle when he sees his trees coming into fruit, his vines laden with grapes, his currant and raspberry bushes heavy with luscious fruit, and tastes the bounties his industry and forethought have secured.

GENERAL NEWS

Wednesday, April 23.
    A cutting affray occurred at Lovilla, Monroe county, on Tuesday morning, between Levi Cooper and J.E. Story, in which the latter received thirteen cuts about the face and shoulders. His injuries are believed to be fatal.

Saturday, April 26.
    A young man named Knapp, at Iowa City, was drowned on Tuesday night, but the upsetting of a boat while spearing fish in Dutch lake, near Oxford.

Burlington Hawk Eye
Burlington, Iowa
May 8, 1879

Iowa Items
-Drew's temperance work closed at Cresco last week. Fourteen hundred and three persons signed the pledge.
-R.N. Richardson of the Davenport Democrat is going to Europe with his family in July, to be absent a couple of years.
-E.P. Washington (colored) of Marshalltown, challenges any colored man in the state for a twenty-four hour walk, $200  a side.
-Tom Eichelberger, city editor of the Toledo Commercial has resigned his position, and will probably re-enter the journalistic field at Des Moines.
-Father Milner, who would have been one hundred years old next fall, died at Center Point, Linn county, the twenty-third. He was a pensioner in the war of 1812.
-The Mt. Pleasant Press says: A novelty for this climate and for this town is a fig tree. P. Jericho has one at his residence and it has about twenty figs ripening upon it.
-The Ackley Enterprise says that Mrs. Sallie Hardin, an old-fashioned girl of eighty-four, at Iowa Falls, is building her fortieth bed quilt, each spread being composed of two thousand diminutive and variegated pieces of silk.
-Says the Iowa City Press: The cultivation of wolves is profitable. You don't catch a scalp hunter killing an old wolf. He makes the acquaintance of that old one, finds its burrow, and in the spring, when it has a littler of twelve whelps, kills ten of them and saves a pair for seed. This is how it happens that Cedar county pays out $55.00 per week for wolf scalps.
-At the state schooling tournament at Marshalltown on the 21st inst., Captain Bogardus will undertake to break forty-five out of fifty glass balls, springing the trap himself. The difficulty of this feat will be more readily understood when it is known that the balls are never thrown twice in the same direction, and that no reliance can be placed on the direction in which they will go.

April Alliances.
Marriage Licenses Issued Last Month.
    The number of marriage licenses issued during the month of April by the clerk of the courts of this county was twenty-six, making one hundred and nine since the first of the year. This makes twenty-one more than during the same period of 1878, and indicates a revival of business in this line. The following are the names of those to whom license was granted:
    A.J. Smith, jr., and Miss Mary L. Miller.
    Frederick Reis and Miss Matilda Luth.
    Charles H..L. Toup and and Miss Emma G. Hill.
    William H. LeBrocq and Miss Ida Rothrock.
    Peter E. Nordstrom and Miss Annie Gustafson.
    George Frietag and Mrs. Louisa Ellerhaf.
    Christ Boan and Miss Mary E. Jacoby.
    Henry Steinbrecher and Miss Sophie Dratring.
    Charles Childer??? and Miss Mary Martin.
    James K Penny and Miss Addie Snyder.
    John Curran and Miss Mary Agnew.
    John Fitzpatrick and Miss Mary A. Kelley.
    William Young and Miss Martha Griffith.
    J.W. Hastings and Miss Josie Hicks.
    Augustus Egglestots and Miss Alena Ingersoll.
    Albert Hunter and Miss Sarah E. Ingersoll.
    Petro Lotto and Mrs. Julia Columbo.
    John Leicht and Miss Caroline Lucas.
    John J. McPuke and Mrs. Annie Lacey.
    Adolph Bosch and Miss Philepena Pilger.
    Louis Morris and Miss Augusta Miller.
    Charles W. Walte and Miss Frances A. David.
    Charles Kamminski and Miss Lizzie Bruns.
    Theodore L. Roberts and Miss Olive C. Bridges.
    J.H. Roger and Miss Mattie Ryder.
    M.W. Bowers and Miss M.V. Church.

Western Patents.
Iowa.

Buckles-Nathaniel F. Revell, LeMars.
Rotary engine-Samuel B. Davis, Hamburg.
Dough kneeders-Dow & Berkeley, Cedar Rapids.
Washing machines-Pardon C. McCune, Mount Etna.
Harrows-Chas D. Price, Emmittsburg.
Churns-Jonathan W. Rogers, Mt. Sterling.
Hame strap and pad-Jas. M. Sharp, Atlantic,
Clothes driers-Wm. H. Uren, Independence.

Iowa Post Office Changes.
    Washington, May 5- The following are the post office changes in Iowa for the week ending May 3: Established-Hentonville, Mills county, John Leach, postmaster. Postmasters appointed-Barnum, Webster county, Allen De Pue; Dodge, Guthrie county, John E. Reymour; Fern Valley, Palo Alto county, William Thompson; Hazleton, Buchanan county, M.S. Wheaton; Wagner, Clayton county, Henry Walter; Ward's Corner, Buchanan county, George M. Foster.

Burlington Hawk Eye
Burlington, Iowa
May 10, 1879

An Iowa Hero
Interesting Reminiscences of the War.
Garden Grove Express.
     DIED- At his residence in Garden Grove, Decatur county, Iowa, on April 12th at 3:30 o'clock p.m. Captain Charles P. Johnson, aged 37 years 4 months and 3 days.
     Captain Johnson who was familiarly known to most of our readers, was born in Waterville, New York, December 9, 1841. His father, Dr. Charles S. Johnson, a man eminent in his profession, died when the subject of this sketch was a lad of a few summers. His mother came to Garden Grove with her twelve-year old boy, about twenty-five years ago, with her brothers, O.N., C.L., and R.D. Kellogg. He enlisted as a soldier under Captain (now Major) J.L. Young, in Leon, this county; was mustered into the United States services at Keokuk, March 21st, 1802, as First sergeant of company A, seventeenth volunteer regiment of Iowa infantry, was promoted to second lieutenant, September 4, 1862, and commissioned to captain of his company June 3, 1863.
     At the battle of Black River Bridge, in the rear of Vicksburg, when leading a desperate charge, he was wounded by a minnie ball passing entirely through his body, and left on the field for dead. Litter bearers afterwards, by his own order, conveyed him to the field hospital, where his wound was pronounced mortal. Undaunted he sent for his regimental surgeon, who dressed his wound by drawing a silk handkerchief, half at a time, through his body. The day after, he and several others fell into the hands of the enemy, and were taken to Atlanta, Georgia, as prisoners.
     As soon as his fate was known at home, his mother, a woman of great personal courage and determination, bidding defiance to the perils of the undertaking, at once decided to go to Atlanta, to take care of her only child, in whom were centered all her earthly hopes. Passing through our lines at Nashville, she traveled in a little one-horse wagon across the country most of the way to Atlanta, meeting and overcoming all difficulties. Spurred on by mother-love, she reached Atlanta to find the captain in an emaciated, suffering condition. He was at once removed from the hospital to a private house and the care of him relinquished to his mother. Here they remained for months, and until after  the siege and occupation of Atlanta by General Sherman, by whose orders they were sent north to St. Louis.
     His condition and suffering from the time he was wounded up to his arrival in St. Louis beggars description, and but for the watchful care and tender nursing of his mother, he would doubtless have slept in a southern grave, where the perfumes of the hedge rose bloom would have been wafted over his narrow bed. Captain Johnson was the only member of the United States regular army by special act of congress. Brave and generous, kind to his soldiers, he was universally beloved by his command. He was a good scholar and a man on whom nature bestowed natural gifts with a lavish hand. His inflexible will and natural bravery served him in a good purpose and tendered to make his life more endurable than it would have been to one less brave. From the date of his wound to the time of his death he had been deprived the pleasure of standing or sitting even for an hour; he had also been deprived of the relief that any change of position would have brought, but had lain flat on his breast while sixteen years have dragged their slow length along. We would not paint his suffering if we could, and could not if we would.

Western Patents.
    The following western patents were issued from the United States patent office for the week ending April 8, 1879, as reported for THE HAWKEYE from the western patent office agency by W.B. Richards, Galesburg, Illinois:
IOWA
     Bevels- Joseph D. Hobbs, Mediapolis.
     Carbrakes and starters-Crocker & Lytle, Des Moines.
     Sand sifter- Joseph D. Hobbs, Mediapolis.
     Window blind opener-Jeremy Bradley, Cedar Falls.
     Road scrapers-Jeremiah Johnson, Mt. Pleasant.
     Corn planters-A. & C.A. Norling, Stanton.
     Car pushers- Edward P. Phelps, Scranton.

Improving Bad Butter.
Mrs. E. in Country Gentleman
     In your paper I noticed a simple way of improving butter. One I have never known to fail, is to cut the butter into pieces about a pound each, wrap each piece separately in clean white cloth, then inclose all in a nice white bag or large cloth, and bury the whole a foot or more in the ground-the deeper the better. After a week or two, according to the rancidness of the butter, unearth, wash carefully, re-salt, and it will be found to be sweet and wholesome. I have so treated butter which was too rancid for cooking, and when put upon the table, after such treatment it could not be told from fresh butter.

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