Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-01-12
From Paris to Norway in Balloon.

M. A. lie Mayout describes in lie
Courier de pEurope the very remarka-
BILE recent voyage of two French gen.
tlemen, Messrs. Roller and Bezier, in
a balloon from Paris to the neighbor-
hood of Christiana, in Norway. They
assembled from Paris at III o'clock at
night, with bag full of letters and dis
patches directed to various parts of
France, England, etc, but at O'Clock
a. m. were surprised to find that they
were sailing rapidly over the sea. AS
the balloon gradually descended they
sighted, or rather were sighted, by n
vessel, which proved to be German, and
fred some shots at the balloon, howev-
er, without effect They let fall their
bag of letters and dispatches, which was
picked up by the ship and posted on
reaching port, and some of which
reached their destination in damp and
moldy condition. Relieved of this
weight, the balloon again assembled, and
was lost for some hours III clouds and
mists, but about p. m. the same day
the aeronauts deserted the tops of some
pine trees, and soon after effected their
descent in the midst of bleak and
barren wood, of the locality OF which
they were in entire ignorance. Having
made their way through bushes and
underwood, they fortunately discovered
the walls of an unroofed hovel, and in
side it the remains OF some potatoes.
These they were only too glad to eat,
being half dead with cold and hunger,
and they slept within the roohess walls
for some 20 hours before they felt
strong enough to pursue their journey.
Getting under way once more, they
found some villagers, to whom
they made known by signs, and
by drowning balloon on paper, the
strange route by which they had come
thither. The natives sent for the vii
lage pastor and for another person who
could speak little French, when they
were told that they were in Norway.
The visitors were most kindly and hos
pitably treated as persons who had lit
orally come down from the skies, and
they were forwarded, together with
their balloon and apparatus, on sledges
to Christiania, distance of 100 leagues
On reaching the capital their presence
created the greatest sensation; fetes
were improvised in their honor; moth
ers held up their children to see the
Frenchmen who had came down from
the clouds, and the people raised loud
cries of France forever" They gave
some tangible proofs Of their sym
pothy for France by raising sub
scription on behalf of the wounded
French, which in three or four days
reached some "a, 600 francs. The aero
nauts, adds Nj. lie Maout, gave their
balloon to the University of Christia-
MIA, where it is exhibiting, the proceeds
of the exhibition being destined to be
given to the sick and wounded. Messrs.
Roller and Bezier, who are both young
men, under 80, and married, reached
London few days afterward by the
North Star, and have gone back by way
of st. Malo to Tours, and the south of
France, which appears to have been
their original destination, though in
reaching higher altitude the wind
blew them 700 leagues in an entirely
opposite direction from Paris. Their
exploit, says M. lie Maont, has been
already celebrated in verse by the
greatest living Norwegian poet, M.
Jonas Lie.
The case of Hatch VS.. Coddington
was decided in the United States Dis
trict Court Thursday, before Judge
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