The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-08-30

pistol and fired, the ball striking ELEPHANT
n the right breast, inhicting a wound
which terminated his life in a short
lime. ScroggSat once started to Oak Hills,
Dut was soon overtaken by a party of four
men, who wanted to arrest him. Scroggs re-
fused to submit to arrest, and fired on the
party, the ball striking John Croft, a
respectable farmer, in the left breast, kill
him instantly. Scroggs then went to the
Peace, and surrendered himself. This morn
ing at half past eight a mob of men went to
Waddelrs house, where Scroggs was con-
fined, took him out among the hills, and
hanged him.
The Wonders of the Telephone-Some
New Developments.
Boston Herald
In a former number of the Herald
we have described the apparatus now
used in Providence for lighting and
extinguishing the street lights. Its
novelty consists in the combination of
compressed air, for performing the me-
chanical part of the operation, with an
electric current for lighting the gas. The
system has been in operation something
more than a year, and has resulted in a
very great saving of expense, in the care
and lighting of the two hundred and
twenty lanterns to which it has been APP
piled, over the old system of hand light
ing. The connection of the lanterns
with a central Office is made through
about ten miles of copper wire, which is
inclosed in iron pipes, laid about
eighteen inches below the surface, and
all of them are ignited or extin-
guished in less then half a minute, by the
turn up or down of a single lever. Since
the introduction of this system into Prov
idence some further useful discoveries
have been made, by adapting the electric
wires for lighting to general Geographic
purposes: more especially for Geographic
fire alarm and police signals, by means
of which communication may be made,
by any policeman on duty, with every
police office and engine-house with which
the wires are connected, by the use of a
simple hand instrument, not larger than
a common door key, upon the wire at any
lamp-post which, for the time being,
becomes a Geographic station. If police
man wishes to give notice of a fire or a
burglary he has only to go to the near
est lamp-post, apply his "key," and by
the use of the ordinary Geographic sig
mails the information is at once con-
veyed. But, through this key the police
man can receive no message back, and
can not even know that his information
has been received at the point or points
to which he designed to forward it. This
can only be done through the use by him
of a regular Geographic instrument, the
connection of the wires with it in the
regular way, and the knowledge of a
trained operator. Within the past ten
days, however, experiments made at
Providence with the wires of the pneu-
matic-electric system for lighting and
extinguishing the gas used for street
lights in that city, have demonstrated
in the clearest and most convincing man,
ner that the newly discovered principle
of the telephone may be applied to this
system of electric work and commune
cation with most extraordinary results.
By the use of the telephone in connec.
ton with the perfectly insulated under.
ground wires of. the Providence lamp,
lighting system, it has been discovered
that the human voice can be employed
with great advantage yer the arbitrary
Geographic signals used for communi.
eating intelligence from n part of the
city to all other parts; and that cleo
trical instruments and skilled operators
may be entirely dispensed with for in
Simultaneous communication wherever
the wires extend. .
1t is not at all necessary that a police.
man, or other officer of the city entitled
to use the wires, shall know anything OF
biography in order to maintain a con.
slant communication with officials in
every part of it. If a policeman, he goes
out upon his beat with telephone in his
pocket; there is, we will say, a little
door provided in the lamp-post, of which
every officer hasa key; he opens the door.
connects the telephone with the wire in
side, by the simple process of turning q
screw, applies his mouth to the instru'
ment, and first having shouted to attract
attention, he talks in an ordinary tone
of voice. With the speed of lightning
his words reach the Office to which hi.
conversation is directed, and by placing
his ear to the cupor mouth-piece through
which he has Just spoken, he receives al
once an ineligible answer so clear an6
distinct that ever if separated by miles
of distance chow many miles is not yer
ascertained) he can tell by its tones, il
there are a number of persons present al
the other end, just who it is hat give.
the response to his message. By this same
operation every police officer and every
engine-house can receive the same verba
message in the same instant, and the
officers may converse from station to sta
ton and from engine-house to engine
house, and with policeman IN duty, witt
equal facility through these gas lighting
tubes and wires and all the mistakes anc
confusion in transmitting from the re
mote points of a city to different office!
are avoided. 1t is simplya matter of com
mon speech from any point upon one o.
these wires to any other or to its end
wherever it may be, provided the little
telephone is properly attached in the sim
pie manner described; for these insu
lated wires laid in the iron pipes art
always in the same condition, and theil
uniform operation is always assured
Over what length of space these CONVEX
sations can be carried on can only b.
known by further experiments.