Mower County transcript., 1869-12-30
AN ELOPEMENT.
A Young Girl Steals d, 900 from Hez
Father, and El0pes with her Loves
-They are Arrested. +

him On Monday morning last she took
81 900 of her fathers money, and in COM
pany with her lover left for Toledo. They
stopped at some place between this city
aud La Porte Monday night, where the girl
purchased several silk dress patterns and
other goods for herself, and suit OF
clothes for her suitor. On arriving in this
city, the truants went to the Oliver House,
where they registered as man and wife,
but the girls uncle and Barney Mahon
soon made their appearance and the two
were taken back to Indiana to be dealt
with rs may seem best by the aggrieved.
parties. -..l ;..r, ...,.. ;l-,s ..4...f,.s., .
The two had not been married, and did
not seem to be in any hurry to have the
ceremony performed. During the two
days which they had spent in travelling
to this city. they had managed to get lid
Of about s400 OF the s., 600 taken from the
old gentleman. ...5. :.
Running Street Cars with Tanks Of
Compressed Air. 49,, ...,,,,,
A company organized in New Orleans to
utilize several inventions which Mr.. Wha-
ley has devised for the application of con-
densed air as motive power for cars on
city railroads, is soon about to bring tho
design to tes@. s.-.. - ,s.9 .,-,.,ts.i,-
In company with parties interested in
the improvement, we visited the foundry
CT Captain F. Roberts, at the corner of Ju-
liza street and the levee, where the appa-
ratus is being constructed. Captain Rob-
erts explained the plan of the apparatus.
The idea is that each car shall have two
cylinders, or tanks, to contain the fresh
air, which ia to be used a. . motor. These
cylinders ore to be on the top of the cars,
and are to be charged at the depot. by, an
engine worked with steam. Metallic cyl
inders were first tried, but they were found
to be too heavy, and the difficulty of the
company has been to find lighter mate-
rial, available for the purpose Paper cyl
inders have been determined upon, and
Captain Rogers is engaged in making four,
to be used on the cars, two on each. They
are made of strong sheets of paper, lemin-
ated to thickness sufficient to bear the
great pressure required to contain the air
condensed into steam. The several lamina
are adhered with glue, and the paper fab
ric is strengthened with an envelope of COR
dage. In connection with these cylinders
there is to be an engine, ior which > special
patent has been taken out, and which is
otherwise valuable in it's applicability to
| steam machinery, to receive the condensed
air and rotate the wheels ofthe car. -
One Of the cylinders was finished. It has
been subjected to trial of 800 pounds to
the square inch, and had not yielded.
Threethundred pounds to the square inch,
he observed. would suffice as motor. He
had. with a platform Car, experimented on
street railroad with far less power than
that, and the experiment resulted satisfac-
torily. He used two old iron cylinders,
weighing sixteen hundred pounds, which
leaked through the riveting, and there
were twenty y-eight persons on the car.
Starting with but ninety pounds of pres
sure to the square inch, and with the
weight of cylinders and men mentioned,
he made three miles and . half in seven
minutes and fifteen seconds. And as to
curves, when the motor was reduced to
fifteen pounds, to use Captain Roberts cwn
words, he went around the street corner
'.as smoothly as ball would roll on bill
lard table. 2 .2"ss@a: ssss
Dividing the whole expenses of the city
! railroad companies, of New Orleans, accord
ing to the number of cars used by each,
the lowest current outlay of any of the
companies is from 50 to So, so per car each
day, and the highest from 50 to $40 The
greater part Of theseexpenses arc incurred
in the wearing out Of mules, feeding mules,
nVe OF which are required 1Or e0cn car, ana
paying hands in the stables. The other sx.
penses consistof the salaries of oficersan
the wages of drivers, which are but . small
mod!cnm of the sum total If those pos
sessing the patent charge half a dollar .
Car for the royalty the expenses of no COM
pany will average over So per day car.
Therefore, take as an example the City
Railroad Company, the capital stock of
which is 81, ,OO0, 600, and which runs ITO
cars, there will be with that company q
saving of Sc car every day, total of
5000 day, and for q year. S24l ,2GO, or "a
per cent upon the capital stock.
This is giving the Pneumatic company
royalty OF S1S2.5O year on each car. It
is computed that there are 10000 cars in
use on street railroads in the cities and
towns of the United States. If the appa-
ratus proves available, and the right OF us
ing it is sought by all, the patentees will
have an annual income of 81, $50. 900. >*
A NEW APPARATUS for saving the ship
wrecked has been invented in Germany.
The North German Correspondent de-