Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-07-09
From Our Regular Correspondent
Our European Letter.
LONDON, Eng. June IL. !

Il - SSSeAoAVn
have ventured to promulgate the opinion
which have long held regardiug electric
ity. The electric current Is without doub
the great hidden power of the universe
and at present we are only Just on III,
5orderland of the discoveries to which
further knowledge of this mysterious pow
er will give rise. This theory has receive,
unexpected confirmation from some ex
periments which have been conducted dur
ing the present week at Sermaize-le les
Bains, in the department of the Marine
Under The direction of various well know
French officials, it has been sati, ftctoril,
demonstrated by the inventor, NJ. Felix
that electricity can be used us a motiv,
power. The motion was conveyed from
the battery to drum, and thence BY ,
coil of wire TO one of Messrs. Howard !
subsoil plows, which was worked, TO ,
depth of eight inches, steadily, and com
pletcly TO the satisfaction of all present
| am indebted for this information to
brother journalist of whose trip you wer,
informed some few weeks ago, and who
has just returned from the continent
What wonderful field is here opened tc
trade and manufacture, l need hardly
explain to those of my readers who ar,
familiar with the thousand uses to which
steam power is now applied. If the new
motory power can be applied to drive :
>team-plow, it naturally follows that i
will serve to drive every other kind O
machinery. In fact, the experiments in
the Marine simply mean the revolutioniz.
ing of all our present ideas, and there i,
no longer doubt that electricity may b,
utilized for all kinds of industrial Dur
poses. A powerful electrical machine may
he constr ucted, and the power conveye,
| by wire TO different manufactures at ,
moderate cost to those using it. Like
many other clever inventions, this one will
depend for success to some extent on the
prime cost at which power Can be supplied
but there is every probability of the new
motor being ultimately produced at :
far smaller expenditure than steam, ant
with none of its dangers. Just now there
seems n temporary lull in the application
of electricity to lighting purposes, so thai
The new discovery comes upon us as /
pleasant impetus towards further investi
cations in that direction. Tie public is $,
! anxious to see the present monopoly of the
gas brigands broken down, that it is a lit
tie impatient ut the delays which beset ali
new experiments. Patience and science
will, however, overcome all these Difficult
ties if supported by suffi ;ient caDtal
There is large fortune awaiting the luck,
individual, whether he be American O.
English. who first solves satisfactorily tn,
problem of supplying cheap power am
light or force by II simple wire leading
from great central electric generator.
The proposed international regatta b,
our Canadian friends ut Toronto next Au
gust or September is looked forward t.
with great expectations. Added none
10 the tune of G2.0O) is talked of, and ;,
big Prize is to be- offered for champion
hip race for professional scullers. w,
shall soon learn whether the project is
anything more than mere gas" and
the basis turus out to be a sound one SOM
If our good men might do worse ,ha,
journey across the pond to try their luck
If Hanlan wins on Monday, the Canucks
in common with their republican neigh
hors, will be cock.a-hoop with i,y, and
here will probably be no end of invita-
Ions to representatives of this effete oil,
country to come out and be chawed II,
But all transatlantic scullers are no.
HUMANS by long chaks. and | fancy tn
visit would prove pecuniarly profitable t
some of our good men if they could h,
induced to accept the Offer. But beyond
his there are prospects of foreign trav,
still farther afield. A grand information
Il regetta " has already been arranged TO
come OFT at Sydney on the 9th of Novem
6er-the prince of Wales birlhday-when
The exhibition will be in full swing, and
the whole metropolis of New South Wal, s
en- tete. Local rowing magnates are put
Ting forth earnest endeavors to get goo,
representative entries both from England
md America. The prize list shows plent,
pf inducements alike for amateur anc
professional oarsmen. The big thing
IN international scullers' race. open to tn,
world. for championship and 93OO, wit
tlOO for the second. Amateurs nre catery,
for in the offer of Zoo in prizes for al
international four-oared race, open t,
bona fds members of any recognize
rowing clubs, university or otherwise
throughout the world. The sculling priz
added to the heavy stakes which would
course be put down, ought 10 repay even
journey of sixteen thousand miles.
The position of our Italian opera mana
gers Is not one to be envied this season
Scarcely has the spell of ill.luck at He
najesty's Theatre been lifted than it is tb,
turn of Covent Garden tmpresaris to sui
fer. Madame Patti has been ndisposed
ind has not sung for ten days. VIVA
effect this must have on the prosperity OF
the house there is no occasion to say. |
Is more than ever apparent that the fash
'onable public are mere slaves to tn,
p''"'a donnts and conspicuous exampl.
OF this was afforded on last Saturday ii
Her Majesty's. The opera was ." lie Nozz
Di Figaro" with Il good cast. NIdlle. Van
zandt playing Cherabino for the first time
She enacted the party very pleasingly.
and gave general satisfaction. But a NOR,
wretched spectacle than that presented BY
the house could scarcely be imagined. Or
Monday, on the contrary, it was quite full
for Madame Gerster was announced to
play Gilla in Rigolette." The perform
.ncc was one of exceptional excellenc,
all round, and the audience waxed omit,
enthusiastic. There can be but litt,
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