The Sun.
London, England, 1862-11-07 00:00:00

SCENE IN A RAILWAY CARRIAGE.

As the down train of the Waterford and Limerick
Railway was passing between Tipperary and Cahir
on Monday evening, it was brought to a standstill
—the screams of two young females, piercingly
loud, and their efforts to fling themselves out of
a second class carriage, caused this sudden stoppage.
The guard, Patrick Fitzgerald, hastened to the side
of the train, where the terrified young creatures
were seen with their bodies protruding from the
open window. The doors at that side of the train
were all locked, and the shrieks of the two young
girls, who belong to a respectable class in life, were
most painful. Earnestly they demanded to be re-
moved from that to another carriage, and they clung
around the neck of the guard, whose protection they
sought, and who describes the scene and the mo-
ment as being of a most trying character. From it
very unconnected tale it appeared that a young
man, " respectably dressed," and one of four male
passengers who occupied seats, in the carriage in.
which the girls were, had taken from his pocket
suddenly a bottle, and had thrown its contents in
their faces. Though thickly veiled the fluid fell on
their cheeks, which began to smart them, and al-
most instantaneously they felt "a numbed sensa-
tion" and a feeling as if of unconsciousness creeping
over them. The windows of the carriage had pre-
viously been closed by the man who had acted in so
rude and mysterious a manner. Their " respect-
ably-dressed" assailant handed the bottle he had
used to the guard; but incautiously Mr. Fitzgerald
threw it away. By gentle persuasion the young
women were induced to re-enter the train, under
charge of Mrs. Whiteside, wife of the station-m.4B'
ter at Clonmel, who states that ere they arrived at
Cahir the girls seemed to pass from the paroxysm
of terror into another. In Cahir suca was their
enfeebled state that both left the train, and re-
mained there under the medical care of Dr.
Stokes. The bottle-holder was detained in Cahir
for the night, under the surveillance of the con-
stabulary, and next day was brought before Denis
O'Brien, Esq., J.P. One of the young females,
who had her passage paid to New Zealand,
recovering, was permitted to proceed by the
night mail to the steamer at Waterford,
The other remained to confront the eccused. The
court assembled, and the sworn depositions were
read in presence of a large force of police, under
Mr. Fosberry, sub-inspector, the medical gentlemen,
and others, and the magistrate required the pro-
duction of the bottle to have the contents analysed.
The guard and head constable were despatched to
search for the missing phial, which was fortunately
discovered, and found to contain eau de Cologne !
The accused was allowed to return to Waterford 0.
wiser if not a seder man.—Clonmel Chronicle.

LIGH7ING OF MINES.

It is well known that, chiefly in consequence of
the negligence or imprudence of miners, Sir IL
Davy's lamp is by no means a secure protection
against the explosion of fire-damp. To obviate this
danger, MM. A. Dumas and Benoit have recently
proposed an apparatus of theirs to the Academy of
Sciences. This apparatus consists of—l. An ele-
ment of a voltaic pile. 2. A Ruhmkorff's coil, and
a glass tube of those blown by M. Geissler. The
light produced is cold, or rather does not heat the ,
tube in which it is produced; gas or fire-damp osa
obtain no access to it, since it is perfectly insulated
it is quite as durable as the lamp, and it emits no
nauseous or injurious effluvia. It may be lighted or
ill last at least 12
extinguished at will. Its action w
hours at a time without any diminution of light, or
any necessity of trimming it; all the workman has. to
do is to shake the charcoal pencil by means of a. rod
adapted to the apparatus. It will afford light even
where other lights go out. The greatest difficulty
the inventors had to contend with was, the regulat-
ing the size and weight of the apparatus so as not
to be inconvenient ; they have succeeded, however,
in reducing it to such a size as to enable the miner
dtoimceanrry sionits.aboTuhtewaii3tphii
chi
wahiebhagthoisf
amppoadreartautse
may receive are numerous. Coal •
mines, of tour se,
are the first to present themselves to the mind; but
fire-damp is not fi
con neu to these only ; it exists
also in salt mines,
andin those of bituminous schist.
It may be usefully
employed in gas-works when
pipes require repairing ; in sewers, to examine and
purify them; in manufactories of lueifer-matches,
distilleries, arsenals or powder magazines; on board
ship in boisterous weather, and in time of war for
reconnoitring parties during the night.

WRECK OF THE FLYING MIST.—A telegram was
received in Glasgow on Wednesday announcing that the
Flying Mist, which loft the Clyde on the stb of June last,
for Otago, New Zealand, was lost at Bluff Bay, within a
short distance of her destination. The ill-fated vessel was
chartered by Messrs. Cree, Skinner, and Co., to carry out 0,
fleck of Leicester sheep, together with a general cargo, and
with 800 sheep, were saved trora
when she left the Clyde she had on board 1,760 sheep, be-
sides 18 passengers, principally shepherds. It appears that
tthhee crewwrekca.ndip,htte3sFenbgienrsg Mist, a vessel of 1,184 tons, was',
built in 1856 at Midford, and belonged to Messrs, 0, B.
clue and Co., of Boston, Vrtited States.