Connecticut western news., 1872-12-20
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SALISBURY. CONN. Friday Morning, Dec. 20, 1872
TELEGRAPH AND NEWSPAPER.

The natural and inevitable combination between these two leading news agents is constantly developing new won d-rs. Within few days there has heel completed an overland line which COR meets Melbourne, Australia, with the great net work of news, carrying wires that no" extend nearly three-fourths of the way around the globe. These wires traverse nearly all civilized lands, pass beneath oceans, seas and rivers, until it is now pos sible to place San Francisco in direct ,lecl- trical communication with Melbourne.
 Nearly thirty years ago, when Morse had achieved his wonderful triumph between Washington and Baltimore, Yankee school boy, in western Massachusetts, was. one day, on the occasion of a school exam ination, Illustrating tue working of the tel egraph. Said he: 'Imaglne striped snake long enough to reach from here tc Boston, with his head in Boston and his tail here. Tread on his tail, and he would instantly dart out his head in Boston,"
  stretched from San Francisco to M,E bourne, ever charged To it's full capacity with a mysterious and subtle fluid, so amaz ingly sensitive that when surcharged bat tery of its kind is brought in connection in San Francisco, and the accumulated sur plus attempts to take possession, an elastic pulsation reaches in moment to Mel bourne!
 Ingenious men have utilized these tiny pulsatious by passing them through deli cate instruments, which tick off their dura ,iobs, the variations of which are readily formed into letters, and so into words ant sentences. In every considerable towl wherever these wires extend, the delicat, instruments are placed, and in ali live towns newspaper office is at hand. Here we find nimbi> ingcrs putting togethe words and sentences faster than the tele- graph can tick them off and near b, stands the ponderous press waiting to du- pllcate the grand results of all these combi nations, in some cases at the rate of theus- auQS III au OOuT.
 On the fifth day of last month genera election for President took place through out our wide spread country. It was i'm possible to count the votes until late hou that night, yet the next morning the resul was generally known throughout the large portion of the country, and before the da, had closed the news had been disseminatet in nearly every civilized land on the face O the earth!
 Verify, '' We live in an age of wonders. Over six thousand newspapers in our lant are sufficient attestation of the lndispen sible utility of the press as news and com mercial agent. No intelligent man at thi day, whether commercial man, a farme or mechanic, would think it possible to ge along without newspapers, as it is utterly impossible to transact business in their ab sence without a certain loss. The marine at sea without Q compass, would not be il more helpless condition By the aid O the telegraph, tue press is now enabled !t spread important news all over the land, al it were, simultaneously. The press ant telegraph go hand in hand, and will be for ever inseparable. How about the office fo this village, connecting with the wire tha now passes through here? How long Oh how long! must we wait.