New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-08-31
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in the Rolls Court last week, the facts of which
were very peculiar and interesting. Mr. and
Mrs. Underwood, Of Bumstead, in Essex, made
their wills on the 4th of October, 1858, in con-
temptation Of going to Australia, by which they
made o disposition of their property for the
benefit Of the survivor Of them. Mr. Under
woods will left his property to his wife for life,
provided she survived him, then to his children,
and in case of his wife dying before him, or none
Of his children. attaining twenty years, Tor,
if daughter, marrying,) then he left the whole
of the property mentioned in his will absolutely
to his friend Mr. Wing, Of Bond street. Mrs
Underwood's will was to the effect that she left
the property over which she had the power Of
disposition to her husband, provided he sur
yiyed her, and in case he died before her, then
she left it to Mr. Wing absolutely. Both Mr..
and Mrs. Underwood appointed Mr. Wing their
executor.
On the 10Th Of October, 1858, Mr.. and Mrs.
Underwood and their three children went on
board the unfortunate ship Dalhousie, which
on the nineteenth of the same month, was
wrecked off Beachy Head, and every one on
board persisted except sailor of the name of
Joseph Reed From the evidence of this sailor,
it appeared that when the ship struck, Mr.
Underwood and his wife and two of their three
children were standing on the deck, clasped in
each others arms, when huge wave suddenly
were standing, and swept them all four off to-
gether into the sea, and none of them were seen
TO rise afterward. The other child did not seem
to have been with her father and mother at this
time, and was seen some short time after by the
sailor Reed, under the circumstances described
in his evidence, He said:
81 saw Catharine Underwood after her father,
mother and two brothers went down. Captain
Butterworth sang out to me: For Gods sake,
1alrl o11 bad oy.Ic wan fey
lady struggling in the water; that young lady
was Miss Underwood With the assistance of
another seaman, who was afterwards drowned,
| got her out of the water, and dashed her to a.
spar, which was afterwards cut away from the
sinking vessel and when it was cut away Miss
! Underwood was alive
Under these circumstances, the plaintiff con-
tended that Miss Underwood having survived
her father and mother, even for short time,
| became their next of kin, and that Mr.. and Mrs.
| Underwood having persisted simultaneously, no
fact of survivorship could be established by viz
tue of which Mr.. Wing could claim the property
| left to him contingently on survivorship under
| both the will of Mr.. and Mrs. Underwood. On
| the part of the plaintiff, the evidence of Mr..
| Wootton, surgeon of the Fitzroy Square. and of
Dr. Hancock, of Clearinghouse Hospital, had
been taken, in which they gave it as their opin-
| ion that the death of Mr.. and Mrs Underwood
was caused simultaneously by asphyxia, from
| being submerged in the sea. and that there was
no survivorship at all While on the part Of the
| defendant the evidence of DR.. Taylor and DR.
Brunton was produced, from which it appeared
| these gentlemen were of opinion upon the evil
dence that had been given by Reed, that Mr.
| Underwood, being strong man and good
swimmer, would naturally not go down as soon
as Mrs Underwood, and that, therefore, in all
probability, he survived her.
The Master of the Roll after hearing counsel
| on both sides, said he was of opinion that the
death of Mr.. and Mrs. Underwood was stimuli
| taneous, and that there never was any survi-
Worship, the consequence of which would be that
| the gift over to Mr.. Wing contingent on the
same, never took effect As to Miss Catharine
| Underwood, the daughter, he considered the
| evidence of Joseph Reed incontestible, and it
4 bore upon the face of it the most touching evil
| dence Of truth Too much praise, in fact, could
| not be bestowed on that brave man for his con-
duct all through the transaction and the way
1 in which he had given his evidence entitled
| whatever he said to be received with the highest
| would be that the plaintiff, as next of kin and
personal representative of Miss Catharine Under
| wood, would take the property in question,
! [London paper.
| THE BUSINESS OF MAKING GLocKs.-The New
York Tribune gives the following interest
ing statistics in regard to the clock business
genesally; f
We saw on Saturday the latest piece Of
Yankee clock ingenuity; a clock for the Japan
and Chinese markets, that measures time as the
hours are counted in China and Japan, the
! hands making a diurnal revolution within
twelve Chinese hours. The characters upon
the dial plate are Chinese. The inside circle
sunset and midnight. The next circle exhibits
the odd and even hours; the even hours are de-
signed by bold figure, and the odd hours by
smaller ones. The dial there had the common
minute marks, and at the extreme outside was
the Chinese numerals, running from one tc
J twelve. This clock was invented by Mr.. S. N
Botsford, of this city
!, In connection with the above article, we will
look at the probable results to arise from til,
introduction of this clock into the two markets
Our recent treaty with Japan has opened three
of her cities to our commerce. and it is not idea
, to suppose that through the introduction o
American clocks q considerable trade will
spring up, and through policy like that pur
sued by England, open more ports or reduce thu
duties.
Through the influence of the Hon. Chaunce,
Jerome (now Mayor of New Haven) the British
government have reduced the duty upon Ameri
can clocks from 20 to 10 per cent, and all clock
! shipped to England for re-shipment to the Brit
ish colonies, dependencies or possessions i,
British bottoms, are subject to nomina
storage duty in the Government ware. house.
England formerly purchased her cheap clock
of Garman manufacturers, mostly made il
/ Scharwzwaltz, but since the introduction of tn
+ American clock, their beauty and cheapnes
has nearly annihilated the trade with Germany
! About one fourth of the clocks made in the Uni
ted States find market in England for HON
# consumption and shipping. The following sta
tistics. will show the amour. of capital EN-
), ployed, the number of hands, and the quantit
of clocks made in each year.
Bristol, Connecticut has IA factories, EN-
ploys 440 hand, using 1884 900 in capital, pro
: ducing 201 900 finished clocks
/ Plymouth, Connecticut, has three factorie.
Il employs It's hands, using $4,000 in capita
;. and producing 10000 clocks
- Litchfeld Connecticut, employs 80 hands
Il capital $50 900 dollars; produce, 5000 clock
Ansonia has two factories employs 40 hand
v using 1882, 900 capital, and producing 10000
!, clocks.
g Southington has two factories, employs 4
u hands, using $4,000 capital, producing IA ,0C
ID clocks.
Winsted has one factory, employs 40 hand
"a using $4,000 capital, producing 10000 clock
New Haven has three factories, employs &C
10 hands, using $258,000 capital, producing 374