The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1875-04-20 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

FRIGHTFUL BALLOON ACCIDENT IN FRANCE. MM. Croce-Spinelli and Sive have been suffocated in the Zenith balloon at 8,000 metres from the earth. The ascent took place at half-past eleven on Thursday, the balloon rising at a rapid rate. At one o'clock the three aeronauts fainted at the rarity of the atmosphere. They had taken with them bags of oxygen to inhale them when they had reached a greater height than 5,500 metres. But It does not appear that they made use of them. M. CroceSpinelli was the first to recover. He at once opened the escape valve of the balloon, and descending, with what appeared to him bewildering rapidity, he cast out an apparatus for experimenting on carbonic acid, which weighed about ninety pounds. This caused the Zenith again to rush aloft with greater swiftness than ever. M. Sivel oerevnyeinl e,hveis, freeyes. wforsixte presumably ent, ant e e f n fell recovered astaete. momenta before his death. It is thought that hail he been the first to recover, he would have shown more skill and preeence of mind than M. Croce-Spinelli. M. Tissandier, another of the party, on coining to, was hurriedly inforuied of what had happened. lie then fainted again. At 6,1100 metres from the earth his senses returned. He found the balloon descending and his companions dead. Their faces were quite black, and their mouths tilled with blood. A curious fact is that the sole survivor of the catastrophe, M. Giviton Timandier, was, to all appearance, a weaker man than the two martyrs to science. M. Gaston Tissandier, the survivor of the fatal balloon ascent, states that at seven thousand metres they threw out seventy -live kilogrammes of ballast. The balloon rose, and he swooned. Afterwards, as the Zenith was (sat descending, he threw out more ballast? and saw Croce throw out the oxygen bottle. A subscription is being raised for the families of the dammed.  The new Swedish Minstry will he constitued on  _ Tu-e;:ial. A lay. was on Friday elected is guardian for Kensington, London. It is stated that the Queen will shortly hold a grand reveiw at Aldershot. A contract for the purchase of 10,1aX1 horses, to be delivered at the end of June, has been concluded on behalf of France, at the horse fair of Netolitx, in Behemia. The Princess of Wales, accompanied by the Duchess of Sunderland, attended Messer.. Moody and Sankey's Bible reading services, in her Majesty's Opera House, on Thursday afternoon. It is understood that the Bishop of Rochester is willing to be the new Bishop of St. Albans, still retaining his seat is the House. The new see will be formed from a portion of that of Itochester. Mr. Albert Grant has, it is said, requested the Board of Works to allow him to defray the expenses of a military band to play in Leicester-square, every Saturday afternoon during the summer month'. About 170 persons, comprising 10 families, sailed from Liverpool on Thursday for Canada, in the Allan steamer Polynesian. They are principlly from the agricultural &Arleta of Hampshire and liWcolnshire. A petition from the Prussian Boman Catholic bishops and clergy, asking the Emperor to veto the new Act regarding them, is replied to by Prince Bismarck with characteristic firmness. The Bishop of St. Asap has consented to consecrate the new church at Denbigh, provided two eminent ecclesiastical lawyers, one to lie selected by himself, and the other by the parish committee, declare the reredos to be  A number of Messrs. Moody and Sankey's •• workers' hue gone into the Eutend of London, and brought out the very poorest from the alleys. To the they gave • tea party, and the experiment is to be repeated for several successive Sundays. A shipwright named George Blampied, formerly an Inmate of • lunatic asylum, is in custody at Chatham, charged with murdering another ahipwright named James Cut, in Chatham Dockyard, on. Friday afternoon, by striking him with an adze. The great " pm-rifts question" at Glasgow has been at 164 settled, the i:oard. of supervis.ion. having decided that  -olZaTtd-Zili-oTiiie;;;;;PSl7-fejl;;;.rian-ted-ii7uSiTii Indian meal in preparing porridge, as being wholesome and nutritious when mixed with oatmeal. Red Lodge Reformatory, Bristol, is chiefly under the Influence of Miss Carpenter, daughter of the late Dr. L Carpenter, an eminent Unitarian Divine, one of the highest clams of ministers in that small but powerful body. She is also the sister of the Dr. Carpenter, wellknown in the literary and scientific world, and registrar of the London University, of which Hr. Lowe is parliamentary member. Miss Carpenter is well-known for her Indian exertiona, and a few years so was introduced by ptj Stafford Nortlicote, then Indian Secretary, to the N•... 0, who honoured her by the personal gift of the Holland, BriatoL Errs's