Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-09-27


consultation, they determined to assist the
youngsters, which they did successfully The
glr Is said 10 be seven years, and the boy
three years of age.
The LOST BALLooNIsT- The Balloon Yalre
Torn OUt-Hoao the .fGronaut Fell. I'VE
change our heading today Lost is fearful
word to say of one who but now was in our
midst in the high tide of life, strong, bold,
full of hope, with troops of friends about him.
"Lost it sounds like the wailing of the
wind in the tops of the pines % All hope of
ever finding poor Thurston alive is blotted
out, and we can only bemoan him as lost.
Mr.. Bannister, his companion, returned
this afternoon, and can bring only the worst
tidings. The balloon he identified, and sent
the silk OF which it was composed to this city
last night. He himself remained to search for
his friend. Today he comes back despairing
ly.
He states that the balloon valve on which
Thurstou sat IS torn out from the silk of the
balloon three quarters of the way around, in-
dicating unerringly that the weight of the un-
fortunate man was too great for the strength
OF the sides, and that the silk gave way, when
he must have dropped off. His only remain
ing chance would be to cling to the smooth
material of which the balloon was made, and
he could not have sustained himself in that
manner. When this occurred we can only
conjecture, but that ii must have been with.
in an hour after he started, seems highIy
probable. The balloon was seen for nearly
two hours with glass, but it must be re-
membered that this great body, full sixty feet
high, was only the size of a mans hand.
when thus visible, and it would be utterly
irpEapossible to see The fated man if he had
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tive that he must have fell before reaching
Canada at all.
The stories so plentiful that a man was seen
in the balloon as it came down near Baptste
Creek, he wholly discredits, as we have. from
the first. lie has investigated these rumors
pretty thoroughly, and puts no faith in them
whatever. Detroit Tribune, Sept. %.
The PATENT OFFICE REPORT for 1857 com
| plete, embraces three octave volumes, one of
which is devoted to illustrations of the ma
chimes which are described in the other two
volumes. The report is a history oil the pro-
| gress of mechanical improvement. There is
no other publication which shows so precise
| " the intellectual activity which is expended
each year in the useful arts, or the extsnt
and variety of the Improvements perfected.
The number OF applications for patents last
| year was four thousand, seven hundred and
eighty one, out of which nearly three thousand
were granted. BY far the greatest number
was for works OF utility, articles of mere lux :
ury having but little attention bestowed upon
them. France has the greatest annual num-
Der of patents Of any country in the world,
and much larger proportion of inventors to
population. Last year that Government
granted six thousand, one hundred and eigh-
ty-seven patentv--the population being thirty
five millions. The United States hold the
second rank, two thousand. nine hundred
and ten patents having been granted, in a
population OF twenty. three millions. Great
Britain granted two thousand, one hundred
and hlteen--populaIion twenty-seyen mil.
lions. Austria has only five HUNDRED and
twenty. population thirty.six millions.
Russia fourteen--population sixty-nIn mil
lions. In the United States there is stricter
examination in applications for patents than
in any, other country, so that the number OF
applications would more nearly represent the
proper number Of mechanical inventions for
comparison with the nations OF Europe.
RUMoRnD TROUBLE AT THE BRIomToN BANK.
Rumors have been floating through the
streets this forenoon OF large defalcation on
the part of the Cashier OF the Brighton Bank,
Mr.. Robert N, Woodwcrth, whose resigna,
ton Of that Office we published yesterday
The rurnors in the street vary in their esti-
mates of the delalcation from $40 900 to $50,
600, but we have good reason to believe that
they will fall far below the smallest sum
named An investigation is now being made
by the directors. The bank is amply secured
against loss by the bondsmen Of Mr.. Wood.
worth, and by his private property, which has
been made over TO the bank to protect it from
loss. He has been led into his present diff
Guilty by engaging in real estate and Other
speculations. Boston journal, Fan.