Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-01-05

An INVOLUNTARY VISIT TO NoRw AVA
French paper, lie Courriere de Europe, gives a
detailed account of the "trip of the balloon which
drifted over TO Norway, as announced some
weeks ago in our cable dispatches;
1.-TWO gentlemen, NIessrs. Roller and Beziere,
assembled from Paris at a quarter to twelve at
night, with bag full Of letters and dispatches
addressed 10 various parts of France England,
&C., but at A. NJ. were surprised to find that
they were Ealing rapidly over The sea. As the
| balloon gradually descendel they sighted or
rather were sighted by vessel, which proved
to be German, and fired some shots at the
| balloon, happily, however, without effect They
let fall their bag of letters and dispatches, which
were pickedup by the ship and posted on reaching
port, and some of which reached their destination
in damp and mouldy condition.
Relieved of this weight, the balloon again as
cended, and was lost for some hours in clouds
and mists; but about p. NJ, the same day, the
eronauts 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 I'M
rooted howell and inside were 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
twenty hours before they felt strong enough to
pursue tlltlT JOuTuGNs NCllluG uUueT way once
more, they found some villagers, TO whom they
made known by signs and by drawing balloon
on paper, the strange route by which they had
come thther.
The natives sent for the village pastor and for
another person who could speak a little French,
when they were told that they were in Norway.
The visitors were most kindly and Hospitality
treated as persons who had literally come down
from the skies, and they were forwarded, to-
gether with their balloon and apparatus, on
sledges TO Christiania, a distance of one hun
dred leagues. On reaching the capital the pres
ence of these yoyagers created the greatest SEN
sation; feteS were improvised in their Shonor
mothers held up their children to see the brave
| Frenchmen who had come down from the clouds
and the people raised loud cries of France for
| ever. They did even more than this, for they
gave some tangible proofs of their sympathy for
| France by raising subscription in behalf oil the
| wounded French, which in three or four DAYS
| reached some twenty-fouT thousand francs The
aeronauts gave their balloon TO the university
| Of Christiania, where it is being exhibited, the
| proceeds OF the exhibition being intended TO be
| given TO the sick and wounded. BlesSrs. Roller
| and Beziere, who are both young men under
| thirty, and married, reached London few days
| afterwards by the North Star, and have gone
! back by way of St. Mao to Tours and the south
| of France which appears TO have been their
| original destination, though on reaching high
| er altitude the wind blew them seven hundred
leagues in an entirely opposite direction from
/ Paris s."