Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1857-07-15

WRITING M~ACHINE.-iAn ingenious piece of
mechanism designed to enable a person to
record his thoughts or observation while
travel;no in the cars, in a crowd, or in any
Mace where ordinary writing apparatus can
he used. has been invented bv Mr.. Ben
iam;n Liyermore, of Hartland, VT. The
naner on which the writing or rather print
mo for It resembles the telegraphic system
Of nrinting-is impressed, is coiled around
two cylinders, which revolve as the lines are
eompIeted, and the letters are worked by a
set Of KEYS. No ink is required ; the letters
being colored by a prepared blue paper,
against which the writing paper is pressed
at each movement of the keys. The machine
works with great accuracy and much facility,
and is verv eampact, not exceeding four
inches in length by about two and a half in
width. I can easily be carried in a side
pocket. and can be used without taking it
from the pocket. By it a blind person might
be learned to write. Altogether 1t IS one OF
the most ingenious affairs we ever examined.
Boston Journal.
A DOUBLE MURDER IN FRANKLIN County.
The recent EXAMPLE of the execution of Wor-
rel. at the county seat of Franklin county,
Missouri. of which several thousand persons
were the witnesses, does not seem to have
had the effect Of lettering men from the COM
mission of murder in that county. On Mon
day week, Mr.. Patrick Gallaher, a highly
esteemed citizen of the county, was shot, and
probably killed, bysa Iaf named Blackwell.
| Gallaher was the .3wnersof a millin Franklin
county, and some words had passed between
the parties. Gallaher was unarmed. Black
well went to Wangler's store and procured
two pistols and a shot gun-the last loaded
with buck-shot.
With these arms he returned to the mill,
in company with his son, where he found
Gallahsr, aud a young man named Kearney.
Gallaher was shot with the gun, the most of
the load striking him in the hip and the legs,
and one of the buckshot in the body, passing
just above the liver. As Gallaher fell, kear-
ny ran up to support him, and he was woun-
ded by a shot fired by a son of Blackwell !;
after which the latter fred at and killed him
also. The murderers escaped, although great
excitement was produced in the county, and
the male population turned out in pursuit of
them. They are said to have taken the d.
~rection of St. Louis. One letter says that
Gallaher was notdead, butmortally wounded;
another, that he was killed.
On Monday afternoon, while two smal}
boys were playing on the top of a hogshead of
whiskey, standing in front of a store on Front
street, another boy came along and put a
lighted fire cracker into the bungho}e to
l brighten the other two lads, supposing the
: hogshead was empty. The whiskey igniting,
r a. terrific explosion took place, blowing one
t of the boys half way across the street, and
r sending the other up perpendicularly a dis
l lance of eight or ten feet. He fell into the
9 burning liquid and was badly burnt. The
4 stave and hoops were forced to a considera
g BILE distance, and a number of men, womeI
and children, sitting or standing on the door
s steps in the vicinity, made narrow escapes
9 from being struck by the flying pieces.
New York Exchange.
THE SEA SERPENT CAUGHT AT LAsT.-Th
Fort Elizabeth (Cape Colony Mercury re
lates that the sea serpent has actually beel
!. captured in Alboa Bay, by Crapper, the pro
prietor Of the Sunday Island Ferry, assiste
by Mr.. Newcome. 1t was thrown ashor
= near Cape Padrona, and supposed by tn
= colored people who found it to be an immens
fish. It proved, however, to be "a creatur
! with a long serpent like body, about eight
or ninety feet in length, with an erormou
head, possessing the properties of the rentil
ar species, a mouth furnished with a formidabl
,e row Of serrated teeth on both jaws, which
,e when closed, dove tailed one into another
Of The animal was dead, and decompositio
re was already going on. The head was el
off and placed in a wagon, which could scare
ne ly contain it, and taken to a neighborin
IN house, where it now remains
A western editor and his wife were wal
&c ing out in the bright moonlight one eyenin
The wife was of an exceedingly poetic
"A nature, and said to her mate, Notice til
10 moon-how bright, how calm, how beau.
80 full" Couldn't think Of noticing it
returned the editor, "for anything less TIL
the usual rates-a dollar and fifty cents
twelve lines"
in Obedience and Disobedience.
10 Honor thy father and thy mother, tn
thy days may be long upon the land, " W
AIN one Of the commandments that was Civ
or- amid the thunders and lightnings Of Mt.
mai, and awful indeed were the penalti
attached to it's violation; but to him W
rendered his parents due honor, or in 9th
oar words, strict obedience, was given the pro-
Use that his days should be " long upon t
land"
Obedience is the first lessonwhich the Oh
RS has to learn, and the parents who exact it
the the years Of infancy, will have the satisfi
ton of knowing that their children are IL
ce. way which they win not part from VII
zen they are old, for the obedient boy ~invariat
yer makes a faithful usband and a good c
7ay zen. Show US a disobedient, froward you
rk, and we will showyou a perverse, wicked m
nee Show US a youth who delights to honor a
md obey his parents, and we will show yol
we'd man of the purest interity, an ornamen
re- society. and a blessing to the world and
ind does not require the inspiration of a proph
IRE, either, to make such a prediction.