The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1858-05-04
u We hear that High Constable Endsley
was arrested and fined yesterday, for riding
upon the pavement.

"A SUMNER TRIP.-The Montreal Ocean Steam.
ship Company advertise q passage in one Of
their FIRST class Liverpool steamships from Chi
eago to liverpool over the Grand Trunk Rail.
road Of Canada, for from eighty to one hundred
dollars FIRST class, and in third class forty two
dollars These ships have beaten every line Of
vessels crossing the Atlantic IS may be seen by
reference to the tables for 1857, taken from the
N. Y. Herald, published in their advertisement
in another column. The accommodations of
this line are acknowledged to be surpassed by
none, whilst it forms in connection with the
Grand Trunk Railroad Of Canada the most plea
SAINT route for either pleasure seekers or bust
ness men, giving as it does an opportunity Of
viewing the most magnificent scenery in the
North American continent. To emigrants it is
the most desirable from its avoiding the many
mpositions to which e are sorry to say they
are subject in New York and other Of our East
ern ports. The Grand Trunk Railroad forms.
by its connections with the Great Western aud
Michigan Central Railroads, the best and most
direct route from Boston and other Eastern
points to Chicago and the West generally ; it
commends itself to the travelling public by its
punctuslity, certainty of making connections,
and completeness ofits arrangements generally,
amongst which We must not omit to mention
that baggage is checked through from Chicago.
How much better for our pleasure seekers to
take trip by this line to Quebec or Boston and
from Quebec by the NJ o. S. Co.'S ships to Eu-
rope, viewing rs they can, the grandest and
most romantic scenery Of the old and the new
worlds, with no mores if at SO great An expense.
than in vain pursuit after pleasure at our fash
ionable watering places.-Chicago Daily Demo-
crat.
Old shells I'm Scbastopol Blowing Up.
Correspondence Of the Boston Transcript.
Sebastopol, March /, 1858.
The bombshells strewR about the city during
the siege are still doing the work Of death. No
less than eight deaths, think, have been caused
by explosions Of these missiles since my arrival,
hardly q year since. Only few days ago, two
seamen belonging TO the English steamer Bey-
rout, came on shore near our shipyard, ana Tor
few minutes were conversng with Mr.. Gowen
They then started for walk to the Redan
quite near our residence, and on reaching the
breastwork, one of them picked up an unexplo-
ded decorating shell, intending to keep it as
relic, but finding it rather heavy, threw it down,
when it instantly exploded, and killed him, al
most severing the head from the body. and
completely cutting off his right leg. The re
mains were brought to our yard, whence they
we're buried. His companion escaped with q
slight scratch upon the lip. On the following
day two Russians were killed in similar man
ner, while picking out the stopper OF she'll
The lock BY which the concussion ignited the
powder of the shell is curious affair,-being a
small equlateral cross. with capsule at each
point, and four little hammers held by human
hair. A sudden jar breaks the hair, causing
the hammer to strike the cap which explodes.
After the shells are charged, the locks are in
closed in a copper tube and inserted within the
hole Of the shell, upon which plug is placed
The shells, thus prepared, are placed in box o.
the size Of an ordinary chronometer box, which
for safety, must be handled "this side up, with
| care"