Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1871-02-08
Sailing Round the Moon.
me Daiioon Voyage FROM Paris 10 Nor
way--An6ther Atsount.

Sailing Round the moon.
me naiioon Voyage from Paris 10 Nor
way--An6ther Atsount.
The london Times of recent date
contains the following thrilling nara.
tive. dated Chrisiiana, Dec. 5
On the 25th of November il was
reported by the telegraph that several
papers, including protocol in French,
together with some copies of the Ga
zette de France of the same date, had
been found on an island about a quar-
ter Of (Norwegian) mile from Man
dal, q seaport on the southermost ex'
trcmity Of Norway, and it was also
reported that a balloon had been seen
in the forenoon passing over the place
in q norlherly direction. The day
after (or 2bth) q telegram announced
that balloon had descended in the
afternoon Of the 25th, at q place or
town called None, TO be found on the
map of Norway six Norwegian miles
due west from Honefoss (or tho riil.
way station where the Indian COM
missioners separated the last day y
The balloon was found to contain six
1.-Two pigeons in good condition, three
mail bags, of which one Of them, con-
tanning principally newspapers, was
much torn ard part Of its contents
gone; one knapsack, military cap,
a revolver, some bottles of claret part.
ly emptied, one of water, and a surgi-
cal instrument, but no people. On
the 9Th another telegram arrived
from Koynsbcrg-the silver mines
three Norwegian miles west Of Dram
men, saying that two Frcnchmen,
the persons that had escaped from
balloon two days before, had appeared.
You may easily fancy these marvellous
occurrences created great wonder and
excitement. The tale is thus related
by the balloon passengers themselves.
They went up from Paris in the
balloon at liz, p. m, on the 24th OF
November, with the intention of going
south toward Tours. They passed the
Prussian lines at a height Of nearly
800 metres, but kept still rising in
order TO get into different current of
air. After the lapse of some time,
having again descended, they heard Il
noise as Of many locomotives, but soon
found out, 10 their utter dismay, that
they were drifting over the ocean.
They saw several ships, and enIeayor-
ed, by letting out long rope touching
the sea, to check the speed of the bal.
loon, and also hoping, possibly, TO get
help from some vessel if they, in their
sight, let themselves into the sea
but they soon found this attempt to
be fruitless, and they had to cut the
line and rise again. They now let
out a pigeon with message of thci.,
distress, but with no hope of being
saved About II o'clock they say
they seemed to perceive some fixed
outlines looking like land covered with
snow, but were not certain, and il soon
vanished in the fog and clouds. Fan.
cying again they heard the sea, they
pulled open one of the mail bags and
threw out some newspapers in order
to raise higher up, (thcso were the
GdSettes de France, found near Man
dab but couple of hours after, Tor
about three in the aftcrnoon) they felt
as il something touched the car of the
balloon, and on looking out they found
themselves moving over and skirting
the trees. At once they made up
their minds 10. try and escape, and
coming within n few meters of the
ground they let themselves out, and
tbanks to the deep snow, they were
not much injured, although one Of
them got his hand rather badly torn
Tired and exhausted both IN body
and mind, ore Of them tainted, and
mad to be carried by the other under
a fallen tree for shelter; the other
then roamed about, but tic dark soon
setting in, they remained here during
the night, and slept without any GOV.
ering except their rather thin clothes
The temperature was 50, (Reamur,)
or 200 Fahrenheit Next morning,
after light broke, they commenced
roaming about in the snow, not know
ing in the least where they were, but
supposed il TO be Iceland. At length
they found, to their joy, a dilapidated
house, in which they kindled a fire, ia
order, they said, to attract attention.
This succeeded, and some people fell
ing timber in the forest came and
brought them home, and, Of course,
cared for them as best they could,
but yet, not knowing the least of the
language, they remained utterly at a
loss as to where they we're.
At last one of them produced q
match box on which Christiana was
printed, aud this told them they were
in Norway. BY gesliculations they
explained who they were, how they
had come, and where they would go
TO, and soon tho clergyman and ono or
two others who could speak French,
came TO help, and after seeing them
properly clothed aud provided for,
sent them on in slcdges, first to Kon-
ysbcrg and then to Drammen, where
The occurrence was already known.
1t was all triumph, and about two
hundred Of the good people Of Dram.
men met the Parisians at the railway
station and brought them at once TO
the hotel, where everything was pro
pared to greet them. Next day they
came 20 Christiana, where, likewise,
number of people expected them, and
fetc was arranged for them in the
evening, attended by full 900 people
The extraordinary risk the balloon
passengers from Paris had made their
arrival here quite an event. Neither
Of the two had ever before made
journey in balloon, but one of them
had onco before been in captive
balloon.
The place where the Frenchmcn
alightcd was LidGild, a mountain
about five Norwegian miles south
west of Konysberg ION tho map
marked Sejord') The distance from
Paris to this place Is about $40 Eng.
lish miles, and the time Of the journey
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