Burlington Weekly Hawk Eye (Newspaper) - April 1, 1875, Burlington, Iowa March 23 Is INS ni March nil m l vss March OK Hno nor out So I Hur li r Singer ES Go OO OO OO itli 1875 I- LOTTERY time 10 Sept -75 Doc x I of CO I Mo ERS HI DS W RAILINGS tt loss than u not hr N or Cor- c Iowa N rth ol nine OF LAND i u i pro vf i tut mn h r and in vim mostly or appl STORE perl tOMOS lire or Ij I 0 llox Ml OKS MAR CO in ton BURLINGTON HAWK-EYE BURLINGTON IOWA THURSDAY MORNING APRIL 1 1875 1839 He Itinerant MT March 27 week d U this blessed and pious burg ami itinerant street preparing for the Sabbath day Sine little transpired of a startling char and the shades of Saturday night com upon us and yet we are not entirely hap understand that the allusion 11 last to the investigation at the considerable excitement The pol ent into the hornets nest and the buzzing I am told that Mr Wicker at circulating a paper among the Pleasant to the effect tha of Mt Mr is a first-class business ma livery respect and that several signature hare been obtained This is very kind m the and when a man has much trade a his disposal as the Steward of the Asylum the poorest place in the world to find men who refuse to give him the benefit of their names to broad aud milk endorsement is among the who have wares to sell Just why thi should apply to Mr not to the other gentlemen named in my former letter 1 cannot immagine unless it i because the Steward is more fortunate in ing an attorney who never sleeps 1 under till or endorsement o mustard plaster or whatever you may cal it is to be published ia the and thus i man to be vindicated I have been much comments I hear on th made in my letter and no less a the wild guesses made as to the authorship o same Some especially those uh riding in the State carriage to patron Jang the livery stables and those whose par tors and are made to blossom a ie rose at expense of the hospital greet rouse arc very severe in their give their hearty w your correspondents statements and eve of the gentlemen who 1 am told cert i to superior business 1 heard tins very day say that lie i for the position Such is life and her n this where the saints hold sweet con terse do men say thing and write an ither I hivi t the least doubt that some o ike farmers who have been selling the wood for hard wood and gathering to th tor corners of their pockets the Stale will feel sad that they did not get t their in the poultice attorney has kindly wounds I no inten Joi hi my former letter nor do I wish now in charges against any person con with the Asylum When the Secretary it the Board to the world that there been some glaring outrages an gross neglect of duty in perhaps one or two and also a violation of tin not to be tolerated in an institution o kind WP cannot why the air be tilled with maledictions from a few the head of your for merely the impression made upon the minds of the people here by the facts brought out m the investigation lam gathering some facts in regard to Mr brilliant ness management of in his department and done will give them to Tut HAWK Sn that may go into history with the breml ami milk endorsement of a few business men in this who like their bread better when it is But hot befell the town and churches And it all from t tongue f presum no town on this has suQered more from tongues than big one You know it is a great for circles reading clubs missionary sorosis conversational clubs and the Ike and with such a concentration of a thin misery trouble follows in its wake known some of those tongues to do though Members of the city council tale been uiet at saloon doors and talked into being the most rampant temperance men be- fore they would reach the council chamber not of such tongues 1 write It in the tongue they call it tongue here under the hade of two seminary and brewery bat you river rats would call it a clapper of the old college bell So imbued with the spirit of enterprise possessed by the other kind of n piace did it become that it into the contest and in its to up with its rival its rattled away until it split ia twain the old bell itself und no more tlie deiver after knowledge aroused ty startling twang You cannot imagine thankful our are that is one tongue whose occupation is gone and I have liitle doubt thut the thankful ness would swell songs of if your correspondent's clipper would shutter the which il miles West hus resigned and will shortly his bed his laurels and sacred and go West Already is there who will take his place The tongues we not so unfortunate as the college bell work on the subject Some say others Newbold some McClure I don't know who the will be and as my forle is religion Morality and not I don't care Senator West was as a legislator he good citizen and general regret is ex- at bin leaving Many improvements are talked of in Mt season and at another time I make a note of This is already enough RAILROADS Title of Many persons seem yet undecided as to th merits of the narrow gauge system of rai roads The following able and pointed sug ideations contained in the report of Presiden Talmer of the Denver and Rio Grande railway to the stockholders are a concise summary o reasons for adopting the narrow should be carefully read by every one information on this important question When the Denver and Rio Grande Company was ready to start the of its road and it became necessary to ur on the gauge the following condition of a1 fairs was observed upon the road west of the Mississippi River and to a greu extent throughout the United States 1 That the weight of an ordinary freigh was from 8 to It tons empty to carry froi 8 to 10 net tons of freight when fully loaded That the empty weight of a car on those roads was from 15 to 18 or 2 tons to carry 56 passengers when fully and that of a sleeping car was 25 an more generally 30 tons to sleep 28 persons 3 Hut that while this was the capacity o the respective cars yet that iu the of business compelling quick delivery of goods and from the inequality of trade in directio either regularly or varying with the differen seasons of the year requiring many cars to b sent hack but partially loaded or empty that the average load of the freigh cars throughout the United States for ever mile they ran did not exceed three tons o the passenger day car less than 20 persons and of the sleeping car not over 1.1 The stylo of the cars for freight generally admitted to be vicious and un economical but it had followed out west froi eastern roads which by dense lation could belter stand the expense an unless the idea of interchange should be aban it became necessary to construct ever car weighty enough to stand the hammer ing which it would be sure to gt from those already running An spasm for reform would prompt a line to rolling stock of a wiser and lightening the car and reducing the con tre of these modest beginning would soon be knocked to pieces by Ihc mo mentum of some heavy and higher stock perhaps from a far distant road and s tho evil went on rather increasing than other wise the boing at the mercy of th heaviest cars wherever they might have com from or whatever may have been the specia local reason or heresy which induced thei construction Agnin the centre of gravit could not be lowered on new earn because o the difficulty of loading at the platforms whos t was established throughout the States As the light and heavy cars couM iiol b run they all had to bo ones and they were all to use the idea tit built to hold a gallon although they did no have more than a quart to carry At a meeting of tho National Association o of the Slates it con eluded after a most thorough discussion thai practically that evil could not he am that the roads must go on building heavy and high-pitched cars But in order to transport this load amounting for cars and freight us w have seen in practice to nearly three times as much as the freight alone it was use heavy engines and this extra with the extra weight and height of HIP cars themselves required a different class of rail way heavier iron joints spikes larger lies more expensive bridges besides the increase cost of the larger cars and am above all it required a wider and more sive gunge than was necessary to carry rolling stock properly proportioned the requirements of the transportation business Hut new roads had not hesitated rush into extraordinary expenditure by the fact that the rates of charges of transporta tion could be high at the start and that the great bulk of their business rnu finally bo carried at very low rates per mile or it could riot be moved over long as now seen in the Mississippi Valley where farmers are using their corn for fuel It was true also of very many of them thai while they were adapted to millions tons per annum on a singlt truck they were actually carrying bin thousands and often much and scarcely be likely to reach even single track capacity in ten years During all of this time the extra expense of transporting the find engines the would be by the interest carried upon the additional cost construction at the high rales for money pre- vailing in the West the only compensation being tho luxury of having a road capable ot doing ten years before it would have it to do ten times the business it was then doing but iu no event more than a narrow guage and of being able to transport over it without unloading a car from New England or sylvania should one happen along Bnt at 10 per cent per annum a sum ew very rapidly and it was even susceptible of proof that a Western company of average situation would have saved enough in interest alone had it built its road of narrow guage to lave enabled it to rebuild entirely before the otal cost of would have become a serious item and if there was any question about the capacity of u narrow-guage road which appears to have exercised ome of they could built another rack with this saving before it would have een required by their business If the cost of rails and all other iron for purposes had remained ut what it was the war less that one-half of the nt the useless loss of building those rouds with their corresponding oiling stock nol be so serious as it is it the chief coil of building most t least in the West la that of iron Quite sis serious an evil was resulting to the also from the impossibility of not as well populated as others although lied with valuable resources al to build this expensive class of roads and lines were shut off from much local raffle and the beneficial results of 1 development from the construction by these of numerous branches which would ave swelled the business of the main line The belt of country benefited by the railroad r that it would draw upon to benefit was hus greatly narrowed Further as on nearly very the Pacific local that which was or does not como from r go beyond its termini constitutes the bulk fits business it is apparent to what an extent tiis major interest has been sacrificed to the minor by the continuance of the system we have described It must also be evident how the developement of a country and Ihc consequent growth of business on the line be retarded by the necessity of ing high rates of transportation because of the heavier to carry and the greater an- load of interest The result of this outlook was to convince this company that it was best to take the bull by the horns and having settled upon the general character of the car which would have the best proportions for economy and ency and weigh the least in proportion to the load it would practically have to carry to adopt a gauge as narrow as would safely and carry the vehicle If we had been projecting a road to carry stone houses I suppose wo would have adopted a broader Huage and if we had expected to carry ing but feathers we might have been n little about the roominess of our surface Hut tho road was not expected to rely upon cither of these articles for its und the gunge was adopted which would carry advantageously the articles known to commerce MEN for New York World At thu regular meeting of tlie Society last night Professor Frank H ton read a paper entitled Prosecutions for Surgical which was ly as follows He was iu constant receipt of letters from members of Ihc profession asking his advice either where prosecution was anticipated or had been already instituted against them It was notorious that surgeons were specially ble to suits of this kind From about to they had been so frequent that many able men were impelled to abandon the tice of surgery Profession Klwell had laid it down that surgery was a very so far as property and reputation were concerned and the same author held thut even victory in such was a defeat of the practitioner because of the vexation ind Inss of time that were involved Amputations dis- locations and fractures were the of rations ou which such were principally based Why it that other professions caped such troubles and surgery alone was How it that und ami engineers were so sued for professional malpractice And in law there were two sides to overy cause and it was certain that one of the ties must have been wrongfully advised who ever hears of the client prosecuting his ney therefore TUB HISKS OF Meanwhile a surgeon can hardly perform an amputation that a prosecution 11 not INTERESTING RELIC The The Saturday says that the house of Haynes or forms are in use contains a relic of Elizabeth's Earl of Essex says the is a remarkable ring which in with an unbroken family tradition is held to be the same which Elizabeth gave to Essex which in the hour of utmost need sent to the Queen through the Countess of Nottingham and which by the advice of her lord did not deliver The ring is of gold with chased sides the inside variegated with blue enamel In front with a rim of gold is set a sardonyx of very fine quality on which the profile of is delicately cut in relief The sardonyx in tho judgment of a very ex- engraver of is such a one vcd to he selected for a and both mill and setting are in u style of art There can be no dates from the It acI eristic of the period doubt in short that the latter pait of the reign of moreover been altered in size by the of a small piece of gold much inferior in quality to tnat of which the ring was originally made the work possibly of a provincial jeweler who not match the metal The piece of interpolated gold is soldered with soft solder showing that the alteration was made with the stone in the ring and that the workmen were afraid of subjecting it to the temperature which the fusion of hard solder would required All this seems to suggest that the ring had first been m for and worn by the Queen and that it had been altered to fit finger perhaps in Ireland at any rate at a distance from tho skilled workmen and jewelers of Lombard street The ring it should added bos descended to its present owner from Lady Frances daughter of the Unfortunate Karl and the wife of that Lord Hartford whose first marriage with Arabella Stowart brought him into so great trouble Tho grand- daughter of Frances married the first Lord Weymouth the good lord who vided an asylum far Ken at Longleat There is nothing therefore in the appearance of the itself inconsistent with the tion which has been attached to it On the contrary it may be suid that in so far as i of any value the ring confirms the But that is to say very little and though is no reason for doubting that the ring had descended to its present owner from Lady Frances is tells us nothing OK to the truth or falsehood of the story itself It is right to add that another ring exists which claims to be the true man of This is in the family of ner und is a small diamond set in gold inlaid with black enamel Hut us descent is not clear ami it has no evidence of Hih We reproduce and curiously suggestive article which lately in Ihc editorial columns of the ington The lias always been a Republican paper and though it has not been in a special sense an organ of the Administration its general course has with the views and wishes of Genera and his nearest political friends Thut such a paper should timl a letter of Mr son Davis disavowing bitterness of feeling toward tlie Northern people an occasion for advancing arguments 10 show that he would be the fittest and most available man fur the tional to run for President in 1870 certainly lias significance Precisely what il means is open to various conjectures bly it is as a bait to entrap the Southern people into an impetuous rally to the support of the ex-President of thp thai would the old tional jealousy and animosity in the fourt But possibly that is not its intention sibly the intention is to sow discord between the Southern and Northern Democrats It is confidently supposed perhaps that North the Democratic will utterly leaders of to entertain that the the idea of nominating Mr Davis or any other distinguished for the Presidency And it may be hoped in case that the President and the licans be commended to Southern ments as more liberal and than their Democratic opponents in tiie North That Grant has flirted to some with Mr Stephens the President of the Confederacy is pretty well Does be propose to try his grim upon Mr Duvis next One thing is certain the U in conceding Mr Davis friendly regard for thp Northern before the and his wish fo a dissolution the work about it aw the ring at Haynes sort ot nval that the Warner ring Was it because surgeons were less com- in their work tho members of was seat to by Queen of Scots other He thought not for if some lines by Americans excel in anything it is in whittling They ire a mechanical people What then the reasons lie waa dis- posed to say that it was because surgeons did not exactly realize what they could do and what not do in effecting perfect cures They did not consider the actual proportion of or complete successes They The In Monthly lor A physician suid out- day to the As I was walking down the street after dinner 1 felt a shock in the back of my head as if some one had struck me I have Hot fell well since 1 fear I shall die committed themselves lo impossibilities and UMt as all my ancestors have of paralysis people took them at their own standard Uo The answer is an average of fatality and an average m blood vessels and there of success in all operations lie had published be faal Of tearing them in a weak of trestinvul and in cases of expresses in plain forms fracture so far as 1849 and his tables the iu Rreat ma of instances and it is one too which every one Irw it in his power to prevent A Tho proportions of perfect cures to failures blood of the he had found to be as one to five in fractures win he mentioned has lost some of ils fo cl is ilon if JH jn hut worked off by exercise the tension fore the political of pride ambition patriotism knew mi bounds be- tween the and the the of Mexico and the great His affection fov the national flag was intense lie the Union and no one experienced greater pain than he die at the which led fo and the of Were be elected President he would be as safe a man for Union and for ill the with its integrity ns ever thp chair of the nation Nor would any event be belter calculated and firmly Of there arc were still an authority in the courts rm HAMILTON'S of the tibia and fibula one to six in the icle and one to three in the femur or thigh boue The imperfect results were mainly a shortening of the bone or limb about half an inch The professor Ihen told the history of various modes of treating of Hie special of his und said thut all the originators or discoverers that their own system would give fect results and any other must shorten the imb In the if a surgeon shown to have employed the earlier methods and he wan guilty of error in the selection an obsolete treatment If he had chosen i modern method ami failed it was urged that he did not understand the treatment in case if he did not make a limb 10 in pocket and reputation Tlie remedy lay with the lot assuming lhal they could accomplish too artery vcin is u flow is temporarily hte thl impelled at some point throwing a pressure on another the vessel which has lost lie elastic strength gives way blood is poured out a clot is formed which by its pressure on the bruin produces complete un- consciousness This is the apoplectic stroke It will be perceived that there arc leading conditions upon winch production of thp stroke depends a lessened strength in the vessels and an increased tension on it The Valcour Community Herald Tlie noted spiritualistic on now pronounced not only bul decomposed Wilcox the main moter of the scheme has been put in jail by Dr Stephen then made some charged and writes ions and thought the of the fumi bis quarters a long in which he showed clearly why surgeons were held responsible in ancient the priests or were medicine men of the tribes and to have divine power If they osl a patient therefore it must have been rom malicious intent and they were promptly mug up to a tree When the Roman period was reached and medicine bad become a en science laws against malpractice were It all came of the Physicians and and sK of were expected to keep pace with the advance of their science The courts lold thut every patient is entitled to the best He thought these prosecutions to weed the profession of quacks and A competent and educated ian nearly always wins his case ON FRACTURES Professor Save the facts and views resented by H Hamilton He held that de- after an operation was not necessary fa fracture is properly adjusted properly and held in till union takes place will be no of the limb vcr there were numberless contingencies that night lead to failure and the surgeon e protected HP held in his hand a which lie would like lo through the providing that when a patient uos for malpractice he ahull give bonds that lie surgeon's law expenses should be paid in he of Ins clearing himself Ohio had assed tht very same law at his instance It Iso passed at Albany but was vetoed by rnor Hoffman Would the society take charge f the The did so society by secretary Dr of Pennsylvania had nothing o say except that a surgeon's failures always cave a visible deformity while a physician an salt his failures six feet under the ground Very JUke Post anil Mail And now they are comparing Tilton to Lord in this respect only Do I dis- you said ray lady once sweetly answered His hip is not the only one who as a confidence mar ami a double charges him with cruelty to his daughters and a little six-year-old orphan boy and hints of darker charges of which he has information and which he may disclose in future Me speaks of foreclosures and at- piling in thick and fast on the properly aud though he himself keeps up a stout heart within his prison walls and fesses to believe that he will live to see Valcour devoted to the cause which brought the com- hither it is quite plain that the thing is The members on the island some time ago resolved that Elder Oren Shipman was a fraud and that lie had taken money from them under false pretences They have procured a warrant for his arrest and he dare not step a foot into New York state for fear of its being served upon him A Beautiful Law It is a general law of nature that by hoat hodies expand and in cooling they contract To this one exception in contra- distinction from all other substances expands or grows lighter as it cools to a certain point Hence we often wake up in the morning und find our pitchers broken after a night's freeze and great rocks and blocks of iron have been by the same power ture never does anything for mere her freaks are not freaks hof very act is foun- ded on a good purpose beneficence enters into the spirit of all her operations In this case the well being in myriads of living creatures was kept in view for if this law did not exist on our lakes and rivers when the water grows cold it would sink and the ice forming from the bottom would fili them thus destroying the life existing in them On other hand the water as it cools rises and the ico forms on he surface leaving a snug warm home for the creatures that inhabit the submarine world mistake in having a literary man for a Woman The Supreme Court of the United States has passed upon the question of woman's right to the ballot and remanded Hie matter to the States holding that each has the right und power to settle for itself whether the women within its borders shall or shall not vote than that to nationalize cement two sections quarters this will only IIP laughed ut with thp of No being true it may as well be said oil thf The Paris correspondent of the London write The newspaper reporters in Paris have risen in arms to defend the honor of their profession The event was brought about by a piece is being played in the theatre of Montmartre ind in which the French penny-a-liner was represented in a odious light Tho reporters forthwith consulted ind marched As soon as objectionable passages camp on for delivery the reporters rose in a body and protested The public took the part of the author and the actors and pitched battle Mied The curtain dropped and the police were for Hy this time a few heads had been broken aud the reporters then calmed down on thp understanding that the author would his piece in accordance with their wounded feelings A Incident In the days when flourished at linden the Prussian officers were ly forbidden to play One of them however dressed as a civilian ventured to place ten on a color The color came up twice and the officer about to take up the money when his eye fell upon the King of Prussia who watching the game with interest In his sight he officer did not to remove his Napoleons The play continued and the sunc color came up a third a fourth a fifth time ami francs were added to liis pile but the winner stood motionless erect as if on rade expecting the next instant to see all his innings wiped out King put an end to his suspense by and Buying in a kindly mood I to draw in your winnings and to be quick about it before 1 MRS FITCH'S DIAMONDS Tlie SUJI In the York reptile Washington March of the most curious pieces of legislation in congress during tho last session a resolution intended to be doubly in its effect regarding the wedding present ef a diamond necklace and from the Khedive of Egypt to al daughter The resolution as it u biw is as follows Resolution No Toint resolution authorizing Fitch engineer of the United Stales sent to mi vy accept of a wedding Mrs Minnie notice you hick cannot continue vomble fa A As as lias icon of o dailies it cannot be denied that tor spicy Burlington Daily K in the list For market reports telegraphic and general information it has no superior No use ing to Chicago for a daily the of everybody cnn be so better supplied by subscribing for THK The chant it thp mechanic wants it the farmer wants it and in fact no is complete without it Don't wait but cull at nt the post office have your mimes en- rolled among the thousand who arc now made by the receipt of this excellent paper My Maryland There was an execution in a Maryland town last week attended by the usual motley crowd of men women and children Just before the victim of the law was swung oft the Sheriff in charge mounted the scaffold and with exquisite of feeling remarked There is a good many little boys and girls hero and big must full buck he fence and let one come up around the gallows so as they can sec The big people took hint and tlie little ones availed themselves of the op- of crowding close to the gallows Chen the rope was adjusted and the ed criminal was strangled to death in the presence of the interested spectators the cess requiring just I minutes The scene afforded a fine illustration of the irds of civilization and decency iu that region and the extra touches of brutality are explained by the fact that the criminal to be a negro fences Chronicle The amount of money expended in lie United States in the construction and re- pair of fences ia immense and when it is con- that the expenditure is in a great measure uncalled for it seems terribly ful In the most portions of continental Europe fences are entirely un- known and their want is never felt Thomas W Fitch neer of the States navy be and is by authorized to accept of a wedding present of jewelry sent to Ins wife Minnie by Khedive of Egypt as of hit Approved February 17 1875 above resolution does not exempt the present from duty but merely authorizes her husband who is an iu the United States service to accept it The question arises What luis he to do with if It was sent to his wife After this became law it found that the was still entitled to the duty and was exactly what the resolution was intended to avoid but the were The words free of duty were gested after the word but several Senators it was unnecessary When the defect was known another tion was offered and it would have passed but Sherman went to the capital and tested against it as a rigmarole of foolishness He said he did not want any resolution passed making the diamonds free of duty The ter assumes a rather funny shape because from first to last bungling seems to lowed the present Iu the first place it should have been sent direct to tbe Turkish minister through our Slate department Then it would have been free of duty It was sent in care the Turkish but some officious custom house officer opened the for exhibition notifying him Engineer Fitch has not the money to spare to pay such an enormous amount of duty as is required and his wife would not be apt to wear the necklace under any circumstances Gen Sherman is not a wealthy man and support such extravagance If they pay the duty on the necklace and take it home they would be at the expense of employing two watchmen one for the day and the other for the night and their sleep would be broken for fear that their watchmen might walk off with the gems If they were put in the posit company vault they could only serve as an advertisement for the and an invitation to thieves and might as well be the earth where they were first dis- covered The present is now in custody of the col- lector of the port of York where it will no doubt remain till next winter when thing will be done about it It is suggested in view of the hopes fears misgivings of the matter that Mr Fitch will do with it as did with his white it On the li th of February two days before the above resolution passed the secretary of the treasury addressed a letter to Senator Morrill in reply to a from him stating that the resolution would not exempt the diamonds from duty aud yet the Senate failed to amend it There were precedents merable and only one carried with it the ex- emption duly and timl did so in express terms These diamonds have been subject to so much talk and inspection that almost their ex- act value is ascertained Their value is not an has been asserted or anything like it They are worth to gold the duty on them is about as manufactured jewelry at per cent ad valorem or more than a year's salary for Sherman and a salary for Mr Kitch Are Mt The Iowa Press Association by its dent and Secretary is now industriously engaged in advertising thp editorial fraternity of the State dead by a notice that they are looking over the Shite for the most de- sir ible town or in to hold the next annual meeting to occur in May or June next They me now to receive and consider oilers from any body corporate Muscatine Keokuk Waterloo and all other enterprising cities are offered opportunity to be thoroughly advertised by the combined Iowa press That is whatever body corporate will make the highest and best bid in the of banquets free rides railroad pushes and free lodging will be the most find get its reward in being thoroughly by the combined Iowa press had not supposed that the annual meeting of the Iowa Association was held for the purpose of thoroughly tising any town but for the mutual ment of ils Hut as the president and secretary now take pains to announce the object and invite bids there are many who believe they have just as good ft right to pay bus fare and hotel bills as other folks and have no anxiety at present to ad- vertise mj town but their own that will pre- fer to remain at home rather than it through at some body expense It is time the editor of should credit by holding these annual ing for calm st and consid era ion of the duties and responsibilities of profession anJ elevation of the lanl ot journalism in HIP State Circulars like WP to inviting fiom my body and pledging thorough a compensation do not elevate it very much A Iowa iK A gentleman of Dexter sends the following incident illustrative of the extreme length of thp trial favorite breeding sow of mine disappeared in the early part of last winter but reappeared on Saturday February 27 The supposition is that she was under a slack of straw that was made on December 28 and She is in a rather dilapidated condition her general appearance resembling that of a disappointed just after election and voice like music forced from a cracked kettle Two Children In the Flames Md March 30 The residence of N It Birds near this place burned last night Two children perished in the flames p I 1 1
