The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1850-09-26
Murderous Assault ON a Girl.

Murderous Assault ON Girl.
On Thursday week the village Of
Thurlton, near Loddon, Norfolk, was
thrown into a state of excitement by the
news ofa murderous assault having been
committed on girl Of fourteen years Of
age, named Caroline Warner, who lived
with her father and mother, respecta-
BILE working people. A laborer, named
George Baldry, aged 35, had lodged
with them seven or eight years; he had
never shown any antipathy to the girl,
nor, as far as can be known, had he ev-
er taken any improper liberties with her.
On Thursday morning, about halfpast
6ye O'Clock, her parents, as usual, went
out to work, leaving her and their lcdg-
er in bed. He got up soon after, went
to her bedroom, and asked her it she was
not going to get up. She said, not yet.
He then put his left hand round her neck,
and with a blacksmith's hammer, which
he held in his right hand, struck the
poor child number Of severe blows on
the head; she warded off several blows
with her hand, which was much injured
in consequence. He struck her so often
that her skull was fractured; then he
took her out Of bed, and put her on the
brick. He soon after left her, changed
his clothes, and went away. The
screams Of the child were heard by her
aunt, who lives next door, and who went to
her assistance. Medical men were srnt
for, who, after doing all they could for
the unfortunate sufferer, sent her, on the
same day, to the hospital, where she
now lies in very precarious state, and
is not expected to live. On Thursday
evening her deposition was taken by Mr.
Day. clerk I'd the magistrate at Nor
wich, before j. II. Barnard, Esq. The
poor girl gave her answers in very in-
telligent manner. After her deposition
was taken, an operation was performed,
with the view of preserving her life
We believe that the perpetrator of this
murderous and unaccountable assault is
still at large. .-lWillmer & Smiths Eu-
rop. Times.
New INVENTIONS AND Discoveries IN
PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE TALBoTYPE-
Sir d. Brewster, in his inaugural ad-
dress, the other day, to the British AS
sociation at Edinburgh, said, need not
inform this meeting that the art oftaking
Photographic negative pictures upon pa
per was the invention of Mr.. Fox Tai
bot, a distinguished member of this as
sociation. The superiority ofthe Taibo-
type to the Daguerreotype is we'll known.
In the latter the pictures are reverted,
and incapable Of being multiplied, while
in the Talbotype there is no reversion.
and single negative will supply thou
sand copies, SO that books may now be
illustrated with pictures drawn by the
sun. The difficulty of procuring good
paper for the negative is so great, that
a better material has been eagerly
sought for; and NJ. Niepce, an accom-
plished officer in the French service has
successfully substituted for paper film
of albumcn, or The white of an egg,
spread upon glass. This new process
has been brought to such perfection that
these Talbotypes were universally re-
garded as the finest that had yet been
executed. Another process, in which
gelatine is substituted for albumen, has
been invented, and successfully prac-
tised. Mr.. Edmuned Benquerel has
has succeeded in transferring to Da-
guerreotype plate the prismatic spec
trum, with al! its brilliant color; and
also, though in an inferior degree, the
colors of the landscape. These col
ors, however, are vary fugaceous; vet,
though ne method Of fixing them has yet
been discovered, we cannot doubt that
the difficulty will be surmounted, and
that we shall yet behold all the colors Of
the natural world transferred by their
own rays to surfaces both Of silver and
paper. But the most important factsin
photography is the singular acceleration
of the process discovered by M. Niepoe,
which enables him to take the picture OF
a landscape Illuminated by diffused light,
in a single second, or at most in two SEC
onds. BY this process he obtained a
picture Uftf1e sun on albumen so instan-
taneonsly, as to confirm the remarka-
BILE discovery previously made by NJ.
Arago, by means of silver plate, tha,
rays which proceed from the central
parts Of the suns disc have higher pho
togenic action than those which issue
from its margin.
AGIGANTIc CHiMNEY.-Thousands of
people, residing within ten or dozen
miles of this city, have observed, for
a few weeks past, the gradual rising Of
an immense chimney from among
group of smaller ones, at the New Eng
land Glass Company's Factory, at East
Cambridge. The work has now reached
its contemplated altitude, and is undoubt-
cdly the loftiest structure of the kind in
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