The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1858-12-21

+ A STEAM CARRIAGE FOR COMMON ROADS-The
| New Haven Palladium, of Dec. Sd, has just.
made thorough examination of Colds new
steam carriage, which he has invented and now.
completed for use upon turnpikes, farms, Or
| wherever such a carriage may be needed for
draft or travel The Palladium says sit is in-l
deed new wonder-another marvel of the age.
Its size is six by sixteen feet, and its weight is
| two and half TONS" On q common turnpike it
can draw twenty tons with great facility. vt
has four wheels, the two in front are common
carriage wheels, except that their diameter is
much greater. These wheels are turned by q
small crank, and thus the whole thing is steered.
II may be turned completely about in a road Of
80 feet in width. The back or driving wheels
are covered with shoes, between each of which
are small grooves, so that the wheels can take
hold of the road and not slide upon soft or
icy tracks," +s-t,
The machine can be made of all sizes. The
Palladium savssthat they viii be brought into
common use in short time, and it thinks will
take the lead of all similar contrivances.
MuRDEREgs SENrENcED.--Jacobi, convicted
of the murder OF his wife at Pittsburgh, has
been sentenced to be hanged. Kelly, who
helped to kill Wiseman, has been sentenced to
eight years and nine months in the State Peni.
Tertiary.
VVuu Mu pHy, VINO kllltQ Ills UfOthcE lASt
July, at Gosport, Ind, has been found guilty |
of manslaughter, and sentenced to ten years in |
the Penitentiary. His cousin, as his accom-
plice, was also found guilty and sentenced to |
eight years.
Patrick Maher has been found guilty of the |
murder of Patrick Mcguire at Winona, Min, |
in November, and has been sentenced to be |
hanged on the 1l,h Of February next.
An enthusiastic believer was relating to a |
sceptic the spiritual performances to which he
could testify, and among other things said that
on certain occasion the spirit of his wife, who |
had been dead several years, returned to him, |
aud seating herself upon his knee, put her arm |
around him, and kissed him as much to his
qualification she used to when living. s'You
DO not mean to say" remarked the sceptic, |
THAT the spirit of your wife really embraced |
you and kissed you?" mo, not eraetly that"
session of the body of female medium, and
through her embraced and kissed me-" We
presume that believers are often as willingly |
deceived as this man was.
A man calling himself Brigham Young, Jr.,
has established himself in Ocean county, N. j.,
and called his place "New Utah." or Little |
Salt Lake" He has also induced three silly |
women to join him, as starting point in his
stock of wives.
SAMUEL j. FoRD, liquor dealer of Louis
vile, committed suicide by cutting his throat |
while in fit of insanity. He was an English
man about 40 years OF age,
4 YOUNG lady student OF Oberlin college, ABB |
bic Summers OF Livonia, n. T., was burned on
the night of the Sd inst, by the explosion of u
camphenc lamp in her room, and died in fifteen |
minutes. .s I
John SPELr, lad Of fifteen, while returning
from school at St. Louis, fell and the corner OF
his slate struck him IN the region of The heart,
causing instant death.
Santa Annals wife has lett him, and is now
the ''reigning belle" of Hayana.
A lady eighty years of age made the journey
overland from Illinois to California, via Salt
Lake, and reached Sacramento in good health.