The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-11-26

doee, assume airs OF superiority for accuracy in
such matters.-- Hartford Times
The largest wagon ever built on the Pacific
coast coast has recently been completed at Hamilton,
White Pine. and Is To be used for Transporting
ore from the South Aurora Mine 10 the Stanford
Mill. Here are some of the dimensions: ns:-The
spindles are inches in diameter, of the best
quality OF iron; tires, inches wide by Is inches
thick; spokes, inches thick; hubs, 10 inches in
diameter by 20 inches long; height of the hind
Wheels feet inches. The bed is capable of
holding $1,000 pounds of ore and the wagon is
estimated to bear up 10000 pounds over any or
dinary mountain road When first built, 30 500
pounds OF quartz were hauled on it from Gold
Hill to one of the mills about Dayton. The two
larger wheels weigh 1864 pounds each and the
entire rig upward OF 5000 pounds.
Among the many curious stories told about
the old trigate Constitution is the followiug:-
On board the Guerriere, when captured, was
Lieutenant, afterwards Admiral, Chads. Ill-luck
put him on board the Java when she was Grip
pied and sunk. Years afterwards, Lieutenant
Chads, having become n Captain or Admiral
found himself lying at anchor alongside of his
old enemy, in the harbor of Toulon, Commodore
Patterson in command By some great over
sight in firing salute the guns of the Constitu-
tion were left shotted. and the missiles were
sent wildly among the peaceful shipping-among
others, reaching the English flagship, and killing
several. Tradition says that Admiral Chad5
rushed on deck, and rather impetuously re-
Marked =. that old ship, l believe she will
never stop firing at mel"
The Grand Haven (Mich.) Union describes
an apparently bottomless marsh, across which
the Detroit and Milwaukee Railroad passes on a
high trestle bridge. Several months ago the
hlllng up OF the marsh was commenced and
many teams were employed in carting in clay.
After bank several feet in depth had been
built across signs of sinking were discovered a
few rods from the west bank. A train of dirt
carts was put on, and the work of filling driven
~-Vously. The more sand was put on the
faster 1t sunk. They cut off the sinking bents,
and raised and blocked them up about four feet.
One mail train passed over safely, but the next
day that portion of the bridge had sunk about
Six feet, making grade altogether too steep
and too hazardous to be passed over. The sink
ing has not been less than 20 feet in all, and on
the upper (north) side n huge hillock has been
formed by the clayey, mucky soil, by the up
ward pressure of the soft mass below the hillock
being cracked and scanned in every direction.
When the bridge was built, piles were driven in
that soft soil to depth Of 66 feet. And yet the
surface is so hard that cattle roam all over it.
The singular attempt of the Indian convicte
| Horse Driver and Little Wolf to commit suicide
| at Omaha on the 18th instant have already been
announced by telegraph. The omaha Repubti-
| can gives the following description of this
| attempt:-"After dinner Horse Driver and Little
! Wolf secured stick apiece and proceeded to
| put an end to themselves as follows:-Little
Wolf fell into possession of the shortest stick
| round rod of hard wood, about SIX inches in
| length, sharpened somewhat at one end. This
| he drove, by the eXertiOn of much force, by
| pressing against the wall, about an inch and
quarter into his chest, between the ribs. 1t took
| good jerk on the part of Jailor Reese to pull
| the instrument OF destruction from the place
| where il was imbedded. Horse Driver whose
| stick was about foot and half in length
| thrust it down his throat until not a sign of il
| was to be seem The two. however, after they
| had thus 'stcked' themselves, could not refrain
| from natural groanings, and so their game:
were discovered Several doctors were sent for
one of whom pulled the stick from the stomach
| of Horse Driver. 1t is evident that both mer
have given themselves bad wounds, hnt it is no
thought either will produce death